Velvet Smooth De-Esser
iZotope's Velvet is a "smarter" de-esser plugin
8 May 2025
iZotope has launched Velvet: a smarter de-esser plugin that splits audio into sibilance and tonal channels to let you separately de-ess, de-click, and reshape only the parts of your vocal that need it. Designed to deliver effortlessly smooth and polished vocals, Velvet is the latest instalment in iZotopeʼs popular Catalyst series, alongside new plugins like Aurora and Plasma.
Unlike traditional de-essers that can often dull the overall character of a vocal, Velvetʼs dedicated sibilance and tonal channels allow for transparent and targeted processing of any problematic sounds, while also letting you lift and tame the tonal parts of your vocal that need preserving.
Key features of iZotope Velvet include:
Intelligent de-essing: Dynamically reduce harsh sibilance only where it’s needed, leaving the tonal quality untouched.
Sibilance learn: Velvet automatically identifies sibilant frequencies and sets up intelligent EQ nodes for immediate and effective de-essing.
Dynamic tone shaping: The Lift and Tame controls adaptively shape vocals toward a variety of high-quality target profiles, without affecting sibilance.
Intuitive de-click: Transparently eliminate distracting mouth sounds, pops, and clicks with a simple fader adjustment.
Channel soloing: Precisely adjust settings for both the sibilance and tonal channels, ensuring focused and accurate processing. Or use the delta button to hear exactly whatʼs being processed.
Pro presets: Get started quickly with 50 professionally designed presets.
About the Catalyst Series
The Catalyst Series is iZotopeʼs newest line of great-sounding, user-friendly and affordable plugins that are each designed to tackle a specific mixing problem, fast. Rather than the deep module-based channel strips that iZotope is known for, like Neutron and Ozone, youʼll get one powerful effect per plugin, with just the right number of parameters to achieve quick, creative, and clean results.
Learn more
Get all the details about Velvet at www.izotope.com.
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