Consider a notch filter for sibilant "whistles"

[c0m3d1an]

Hi Jeff-

As a fellow gap-toother, I've noticed some minor and sometime strong sibilant "whistles" in your videos from time to time.

Was wondering if you'd ever considering the use of a notch filter to reduce the spikes?

I downloaded the audio from your latest video (at the time of writing this) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyE0_6N21h4 (My Smart Home Played me for a Fool) that adding a notch of 3468 with a Q of 7.0 seemed to be the best tradeoff to kill the sibilants without flattening the audio too bad. (Based on the sibilant in the "shun" of "documentation" at 2:32.

Something to consider as I'm sure you already do quite a bit of engineering to kill background hums and pops, etc.

[geerlingguy]

Indeed! I have the gift of being able to whistle through my teeth, not everyone is so lucky haha.

I'll take a look, and hopefully get this added to may audio workflow (wish it were easier to script in Final Cut Pro!).