It finds the ess,
so you don't have to.Automatic De-Esser
Most de-essers make you sweep a band until you hit the harsh spot. Silk listens to the voice, tracks where the sibilance actually is — moment to moment — and rides a tight, dynamic notch on that exact frequency. Watch the marker lock onto every "sss". No sweeping, no guesswork.
Watch it chase the sibilance
This is the real plug-in UI, running live. Grey is the input, the amber marker is the frequency Silk has detected right now, and the cyan curve is the result — notched exactly on the ess. Raise Amount and watch it work only when the sibilance actually spikes.
Insert and raise one knob
Insert
Drop Silk on the vocal, dialogue or voiceover that's spitting on its esses. No sidechain, no routing.
It learns the voice
Silk learns the voice's resting brightness and tracks the sibilant frequency for you across the full range — the marker shows exactly where.
Raise Amount
Turn it up until the esses sit back. Flip Listen to hear only what's being removed and dial it in with confidence.
Detection you can see
Automatic frequency detection
Silk finds the sibilant centroid every frame and rides the reduction on that exact frequency — it moves with the voice, so it's right on "s" and on "sh" alike.
Learns the voiceprint
A slow baseline learns each voice's resting brightness, so Silk reacts only to the sibilant peaks that rise above it — never to steady air or cymbals.
Listen mode
Solo exactly what's being removed — just the ess — so you can catch too little or too much in a second, and never dull the vocal.
Two shaping sliders
Focus narrows the notch for surgical work or widens it for gentle smoothing; Speed sets how fast it follows the sibilance. Everything else is automatic — no modes to pick, no threshold to set.
Stereo-linked, phase-clean
Left and right are reduced identically at the detected frequency, so the stereo image never wanders and transients stay intact.
VST3 · AU
Runs in every major DAW on macOS, Windows and Linux, with latency reported to the host. No account, no dongle, no nag screens.
Ten de-essing profiles
Pick the source; Silk sets the amount, depth, speed, focus and detection mode. It still finds the exact frequency for you.
Specs
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