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In Reply to: RE: Do Microphones "Hear" Like The Human Ear/Brain Does? posted by thetubeguy1954 on March 25, 2011 at 13:08:42
that said, sibilance on a recording may very well be due to the recording process. the electronics and recording medium may not be able to handle the intense energy there.
it would be interesting to hear a comparison of sibilants recorded via analog tape at differing speeds and digital media at differing sampling and bit rates.
sibilants are real enough in life and ACCURATE reproduction thereof would maintain reality. some styli cannot do the job physically and poorly aligned/setup phono systems will exaggerate this phenomenon.
...regards...tr
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In my experience it is the voices and to some extent their interaction with other instruments (cymbals for example) which are responsible for sibilance.
The recording equipment except microphones and their placement has very little to do with it.
With male voices it is easy to eq sibilance out but female voices are a LOT harder to eq due to their very limited bandwidth without changing the character of the voice.
If sibilance disappears when using different components on replay one or more of them alter the frequency response of the material replayed.
yes, it happens with cymbals but when a singer hits a hard S the systems have a hard time coping with it. hence, they have a device called a de-esser which someone else mentioned. the s may be overloading the electronics at the moment of recording and if it gets onto the recording, youre stuck with it.well recorded sibilants can cause a stylus to misbehave. many times its just not enough vtf but mis-alignment can also be the culprit.
it would be great to hear doug sax' comments on this subject.
...regards...tr
Edits: 04/18/11
Overloading has not got a lot to do with sibilance.
If a voice is prone to sibilance it is there regardless of recording levels. Careful microphone placement can help. A de-esser would/should be the last line of defence.
It is essentially a compressor which only compresses a very narrow frequency band.
You can use it during recording or later during mixing down to stereo.
Oddly Cymbals can make a voice sound more sibilant, it happened to my friends band and it was very annoying.
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