Reduce Sibilants in Microphone

[shadowmancer471]

I've noticed that whenever I say the letter S into the mic, it makes a sharp hiss noise, which I'm guessing is the cheap mic borking out on the letter
Is there any way to suppress sibilants going into the mic?

[haymaker]

http://www.digitalfishphones.com/main.php?item=2&subItem=5/

Simple de-esser in the package, and the compressor is very useable. Wavasaur supports VST offline processing, or use Reaper to hear it in realtime. And yeah, decent mic + preamp ftw.

Plenty more freebie VSTs out there ( if u don't already know that ) but you'll end up wasting days on end trying them all out. These are a great start.

Also pretty easy to make a DIY pop screen, worth doing for your plosives. eg

http://www.hometracked.com/2006/05/28/homemade-pop-filters/

[Hollow]

Yeah pop shields do most of the work.

[shadowmancer471]

Im using an integrated mic so Im unsure a pop-shield will be doable
Is there anyway to make spitfish work with mumble (VoIP program), and if so where do I put the .dll?

[haymaker]

Intergrated mic as in at the top of laptop screen....well, as a hackaround you might try clipping a piece of lightweight foam across the opening ( imagine the black stuff that you can get for wind noise ). I can see how a regular pop screen design would impede your screen vision. Are you completely against spending money on this issue?

Besides that, it might be possible that the data processing used by your VOIP provider is just really shitty...known to happen...you can check this by recording from your your mic into Wavasaur or w/e to a .wav file, and listening back on ( half decent ) headphones. If it sounds good, the problem is not your setup.

As far as realtime VST processing it's a fair bit of fooling around, I guess you'd have to find a way to route Reaper's or VSThost's http://www.hermannseib.com/english/vsthost.htm output to your VOIP proggy. You won't be able to even start that before installing ASIOforALL http://www.asio4all.com/. GL

[shadowmancer471]

Thanks for the advice all
The realtime processing seems like a bit of a nuisance so I'll just look into taping some light foam onto the microphone whenever I need to use it a lot
Cheers

[Hollow]

I'm glad someone else uses REAPER!
But yeah even the cheapest bottom of the barrel external mic would be better than intergrated.

[shadowmancer471]

I might just buy a webcam with a mic in it, Ive been meaning to get one for a while