

Vocal with problems (home)
120 BPM
Switch while it plays — both versions stay in sync. Shortcut: B.
VocalRescue listens to your vocal and looks for specific faults instead of changing the whole sound. Five modules work at once: Resonance turns down ringing room and mic resonances — both constant and momentary ones, but only those that stay in place (formants and the melody are left alone); in our test a 430 Hz resonance dropped from +9.4 to +3.8 dB. Harshness softens piercing 2.5–4.5 kHz when the voice turns sharp, Sibilance is a de-esser that compares each S with the vowels and reduces it only as much as it really sticks out (S, SH or both), Rumble removes rumble up to 120 Hz (with low voices the cut moves lower so it doesn't touch them) plus P and B pops, and the optional Noise module gently lowers background noise without the underwater sound. The “body” of the voice, 150–350 Hz, is left untouched. Low Cut and High Cut can be dragged right on the display.
Intensity scales every module at once, Sensitivity decides how easily something counts as a problem, and each module has its own knob. The defaults (Intensity 60 %, Resonance 60 %, Harshness 50 %) are usable straight away on a typical take. Not sure where to start? Press LEARN and play 6 seconds of the vocal — VocalRescue measures the sibilance, resonances, harshness, the lowest note of the voice and the noise floor, sets the modules and shows what it found (Undo restores your previous settings). Level-matched Bypass gives you an honest before/after comparison, and Removed plays only what is being taken out.
The spectrum on the display shows what is being cut and where: problem areas highlighted in the module colours, labels of the detected frequencies and the noise floor, while the module panel shows which one is working and how much it reduces, with a history of the last seconds. Noise reduction is deliberately gentle (up to 16 dB): it makes a very noisy take clearer, but it will not turn it into a studio recording. 28 presets: untreated room vocal, bright condenser, rap and drill, dark melodic vocal, de-essing, podcast, backing vocals, ad-libs, phone recordings and home studio.
