DE-PLOSIVE

Controls

• Sensitivity0 to 100% — How easily a burst counts as a plosive: the low band must jump above the high band and its own average by 12 dB at 0% down to 0 dB at 100% (6 dB at the default 50%).
• Frequency60 to 400 Hz — Crossover frequency (60 to 400 Hz): only the band below it is detected and turned down.
• Max Reduction0 to 30 dB — The most the low band is turned down during a plosive (0 to 30 dB).
• Release20 to 300 ms — How fast the low band comes back after the pop (20 to 300 ms).
• ListenOff / On — On outputs only what is being removed, to hear exactly what the detector catches.

Best uses

• Remove P and B pops from close-miked vocals
• Clean plosives from podcasts, voice-over and dialogue
• Tame thumps from handheld mics and stand bumps
• Fix pops after recording without a high-pass that thins the whole voice

Properties

Signal chain: Linkwitz-Riley 24 dB/oct crossover at Frequency (sums back flat) → detector on both channels: fast low- and high-band envelopes (1 ms / 30 ms) and a slow low-band average (200 ms); when the low band rises above both by more than the threshold it is cut by twice the excess, up to Max Reduction (1 ms attack, Release) → bands summed. Both bands run 5 ms late (look-ahead) so the onset is caught; that latency is reported for delay compensation. Only the low band is ever changed.

Formats

• JSFXJSFX for REAPER, with REAPER's own sliders
• GFXJSFX GFX for REAPER, with its own interface
• VST3VST3 for any DAW
• CLAPCLAP for any DAW

Factory presets

Gentle · Close Mic Vocal · Spoken Word · Aggressive · Male Vocal · Female Vocal · Handheld Podcast · Mic Bumps · Listen Check

In the FX chains and Rack presets

Podcast Ready · Pop Vocal

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