User Guide

Renaissance DeEsser / User Guide
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Quick Start and Basic Adjustments.
The DeEsser should be placed in the signal flow before the EQ and the primary vocal compressor.
Quick Start
The easiest and fastest way to get started is to select a preset from the Load menu in the WaveSystem Toolbar.
Choose the factory preset that best describes your need, then use the following steps to fine tune the processing.
1. Find the problematic frequency. To do this easily, click the Side Chain Listen button. This way, you
will hear only the sidechain signal.
2. Adjust the Freq control (frequency) so that you clearly hear the sibilance that you want to attenuate (typically
between 4 kHz and 7 kHz). Fine tune the frequency so that you hear as little of other parts of the signal as
possible.
3. Return to the Audio monitoring mode. Since the threshold is adaptive, you should already notice de-essing.
Even a Threshold of zero will provide moderate attenuation within the indicated attenuation range.
4. Lower the threshold to the point where you are satisfied with the sensitivity of the attenuation and the way it
sounds.
5. Adjust the Range control to adjust the amount of gain reduction.
We recommend that you save your settings as user presets. This lets you easily duplicate the settings later or to
move the settings to another session or host computer. Save user presets in the WaveSystem Toolbar at the top of
the plugin.