AUDIO EDITING FAVOURITES

WAVES C6 MULTIBAND COMPRESSOR

Use multiband compression to control specific frequency bands when you’re listening to your raw vocals. Do you need to fix harsh frequencies? More grit in the lower end of the vocalist’s range? You can do so much to tailor a single frequency band rather than a whole vocal track. This includes attack time, gain, release, the compression threshold, even sidechaining. When mixing hip-hop vocals, take control. The listener hangs on every word so it’s important to get it sounding right. For the highest level of control, use multiband compression.

WAVES SIBILANCE

Because rap is so much closer to the spoken word than singing, harsh sibilances and consonants come through a recorded vocal with much more prominence. The way to tackle those harsh esses and tees is with a de-esser. I swear by Sibilance by Waves as a highly refined control tool. It’s such a fine balance between keeping the sharpness of the vocal while taming high sibilance, because de-essers are essentially a kind of filter. But this one allows you to really zone in on the regions you want to control and set by how much.