De-esser recommendations?

[kinger]

Hullo all! I'm looking for a cheap hardware de-esser (rackmount preferred) and am wondering if anyone can recommend anything. If not, maybe someone can recommend a good plastic surgeon in the Lunenburg area who could make me less spitty...

[tateeskew]

i like the dbx 263x. it's easy to use and does the job. i like using it to tame hi-hats as well. those hard hitting, sloshy hi-hat players.

[joel hamilton]

orban 536.

[vsr600]

i like the dbx 263x. it's easy to use and does the job. i like using it to tame hi-hats as well. those hard hitting, sloshy hi-hat players.

I second the 263x, it's a great little de-esser and harshness tamer. It also works as a pretty cool soft knee dbx compressor in broadband mode...

[kinger]

Thanks for the replys! It looks like the trick now will be to find one of those two as eBay is coming up dry...

[@?,*???&?]

dbx 902 is/was an industry standard.

I must say though, as far as plugins go, any digital de-esser seems to work way better than those analog outboard counter-parts. Same holds true for noise gates.

[Doublehelix]

dbx 902 is/was an industry standard.

I must say though, as far as plugins go, any digital de-esser seems to work way better than those analog outboard counter-parts. Same holds true for noise gates.

I have to respectfully disagree on the De-Essers. Gates, I am with you since we can do look-ahead, but I have never been able to get a software de-esser to work as well as the DBX units. I have the Waves D-Esser, the Waves Renaissance de-esser the SPL De-esser, the Spitfish de-esser, and now the one that comes with Samplitude, and none of them seem to work as transparently or as easily as my hardware unit.

Obviously, YMMV.

[joel hamilton]

Multiple units works better than one unit for me.

Like the waves de-ess or the RenDeess into an orban 536 or a sidechained something or other.

The waves thing is good, the 902 is good, the 536 is good, the 263... but together, any two can be perfect.

I dont like any one thing to have to work too hard for de-essing. de-essers are not something I need character from, so a couple in line will let me get the sss's under control without making a track lose its sparkle...