Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or quality of being sibilant; also, a hissing sound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
sibilant : ahissing quality.
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Examples
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I’m mostly pro-stimulus myself, but I don’t think that extra bit of sibilance is going to persuade anyone.
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It is used to eliminate hiss (also called sibilance) from the signal.
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Controlling sibilance in the mix is by far the best place to do it as the de-esser will only affect the voice while de-essing during mastering necessitates compromising the brightness of the entire track.
Chris Castle: Recording Tips for the 'The Loudness Wars': An Interview With Mastering Great Bob Ludwig Part 2 Chris Castle 2012
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Controlling sibilance in the mix is by far the best place to do it as the de-esser will only affect the voice while de-essing during mastering necessitates compromising the brightness of the entire track.
Chris Castle: Recording Tips for the 'The Loudness Wars': An Interview With Mastering Great Bob Ludwig Part 2 Chris Castle 2012
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I found that I needed a “pop filter,” which cuts down on the plosive “p” sound and sibilance.
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These days where most big projects are being cut for vinyl it is even more important to control sibilance as it creates high amplitude, high frequency grooves that are beyond the ability of all but the best cartridges to reproduce and one gets a "spitting" sound on the sibilance.
Chris Castle: Recording Tips for the 'The Loudness Wars': An Interview With Mastering Great Bob Ludwig Part 2 Chris Castle 2012
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It is again a track with minimal background, but rhythmically intriguing with lovely, intentional sibilance.
Ravenna Michalsen: Listening To Matra Music Ravenna Michalsen 2011
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These days where most big projects are being cut for vinyl it is even more important to control sibilance as it creates high amplitude, high frequency grooves that are beyond the ability of all but the best cartridges to reproduce and one gets a "spitting" sound on the sibilance.
Chris Castle: Recording Tips for the 'The Loudness Wars': An Interview With Mastering Great Bob Ludwig Part 2 Chris Castle 2012
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Just the sibilance of scissors, snipping at her sanity.
Flyaway 2010
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As if elegized by long i's pillowed upon sibilance, "with a smile and silence, he died" — itself a kind of sylleptic slipped gear for "with a smile and in silence."
smeggo commented on the word sibilance
Shhhh! Can you hear the definition?
October 10, 2008