I Automated the Manual Vocal Cleanup
You're Already Doing by Hand
You gave up on de-essers and started doing it by hand—clip gain on every harsh S, every plosive, every breath. Twenty minutes per track. I built a plugin that does it in seconds.
Like it? Buy it. If not, it just stops working.
SoftVox
The vocal cleanup plugin that works the way you already work—just faster.
The reality.
Most engineers gave up on de-essers years ago. Instead, you zoom in and draw clip gain around every harsh S, every plosive, every breath. It's the only way to get surgical control over what stays and what goes.
The problem.
It takes forever. Twenty minutes per track, hunched over a waveform at 2AM, drawing volume curves by hand. The results sound great—but the process isn't sustainable when you have a dozen tracks to mix.
The fix.
SoftVox detects sibilants, plosives, and breaths individually—applies gain reduction with smooth crossfades—and leaves everything else untouched. Seconds instead of minutes.
Everything you do manually. None of the tedium.
Three Detection Modes
Sibilance. Hard consonants. Breath. Target what's actually harsh in your vocal—or hit "All" and let SoftVox find everything.
Per-Event Control
Every detection is editable. Adjust reduction amount, mute individual events, or fine-tune start and end boundaries down to the millisecond.
Multi-Select Editing
Click and drag to select dozens of events at once. Apply the same reduction, mute, or boundary adjustment to all of them instantly.
Transparent Crossfades
Configurable fade-in and fade-out on every reduction. No clicks, no artifacts, no pumping—just clean, invisible processing.
Why manual cleanup sounds better
Regular de-essers react to level. They clamp down whenever the signal gets bright—whether it's harsh or not.
When you do it by hand, you're listening. You hear the difference between a smooth S and a sharp one. You reduce only what needs reducing.
SoftVox listens the way you listen. Detects each problem event—sibilants, hard consonants, breaths—and gives you per-event control over reduction, timing, and crossfades.
You just don't have to find every problem by hand anymore.
Launch Pricing
$19
If you're spending 20+ minutes per vocal doing manual clip gain cleanup, this will change your workflow.
Pay once. Works on Mac—VST3, AU, Standalone.
Why so cheap? I need early users to tell me what to improve. You get a working plugin at a fraction of the cost, and I get real feedback from real sessions. Fair trade.