

Certain tongue shapes, space in the front teeth, shape of the palette, or just a learned way of speaking can produce overly sibilant delivery.

Sibilance comes from an exaggeration of sound that projects from the roof of the mouth. This article will be about taming sibilance – and the pros and cons and trickery of each mechanism for doing so. Imagine recording the following phrases and you'll get an idea of how sibilance occurs. The issue with taming sibilance is that it lives right in the presence and “shiny” range of the vocals – that nice top end down to about 2-3k. Nothing screams “unseated vocal” like a bunch of “s”s and “t”s that hop right out of the mix.
