Studio 1on1 Quick: Tip DeEssers and 'other' uses for them

In this Quick Tip I'll show you what DeEssers are meant to do and what other things they're useful on.
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Transcription:
"Hi Everyone,
this is Yvo at Studio One on One.
In this quick tip want to talk to you about DeEssers.
If you don't know what a DeEsser is:
It is a processor that is specifically designed to reduce the volume of sibilance and as you can see there is a DeEsser on my voice.
And it lowering the sibilance. Now I'll turn it off and you'll hear the difference. You can tune these. There's this frequency control and you can say either I want a narrow band of frequencies to control it or everything above a certain frequency. A DeEsser is meant to be used on a vocal. But of course, we're in the studio here. We don't really care much what things are made for. We like to put things on stuff they were never made for. And one of these things I like to do, is putting a DeEsser on an acoustic guitar. It's not something I do all the time but if you happen to have an acoustic guitar that has a lot of string squeaks . That that "oui" sound. Sometime's that's nice and sometimes it's super annoying and sometimes it's even louder than the music itself, which makes it incredibly distracting.
I got a little guitar recording here and i'm going to turn this DeEsser off. Oh you can hear, especially that last one is horrible. Okay let's see if we can do something with this. Well that's doing a lot already. You have this monitor section here. We're monitoring the audio no, what you can do is monitor the 'side chain" and what the side chain is, it's the signal that's going into this device that it's actually listening to. It is reacting to this signal. As you will hear it's only a part of the sound, it is a filtered signal. You can either use it on a 'band pass' which this icon shows here, or you can do everything above a certain frequency.
So, as we go down... it'll start to react more, but it will start to react on a few notes as well. A few attacks, and we don't want that because when we do that it's going to be diminishing the beauty of the sound and we don't want that. So let's see if we can find a setting where it doesn't do that. So let's listen to the audio there and I'll show you what I mean by you don't want it to grab the attacks of the normal notes. See, if I pull this down here it will overreact on that note. If I turn it off you'll hear that note will sound more lively now because it's not being affected. That note, that's beautiful that last note. And if I turn this on..
It still sounds okay, but it's losing a little something and we don't to affect... We don't want anything to happen to the beauty of the music, we just want to get rid of those squeals. So I mean... A little something there. Okay, now it's not doing anything there. Let's listen to the whole clip, with and without. I made a setting earlier, that worked a bit better. I'm going to open that one up. See, you see it;s grabbing none of the notes and only the squeals. That works really well. So here we go without. And here with... So you get none of that harshness, you still have the intimacy of it. It's not an ugly sound but when it's overpowering the music, it's annoying. And I'll show you what this does for instance, if you follow it up with a reverb. That squeal is going to trigger the reverb. It's going to be accentuated by it. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but we don't want it to be overpowering. Alright. Without the DeEsser (going into the reverb). It's quite pretty but still that last one.. that's horrible. Okay now with the DeEsser on. I hope you agree it's nicer. So this is a different way of using a DeEsser. You can use them on all kinds of stuff that has overexcited high frequencies. Even on a mix that has a high-hat that's poking out, for instance. Okay, I hope this quick tip has been helpful to you and I'll see you later! Bye bye.
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