For some engineers, mic selection and technique are still the ultimate de-esser. That said, tools to fight the fizz have never been better. De-essers have evolved beyond the early days of sidechain compression or ducking driven by fizzed signals hitting the detector - here we name seven of our favourite fricative fixers.
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