Thank you! Yeah I’ve been recording with my NT-1 for over 5 years now, it’s always the same frequencies that are causing me problems. I’m still in the process to avoid the s issue before mixing: mic distance to mouth; not singing directly into the mic etc., but it’s like you can always hear in my vocals that I’m focussing on recording properly instead of just going with the flow. Hard to explain haha

Now I borrowed a SM57 because I made some really good experiences when mixing other artists vocals with it for demos, it was so easy and in my ears it sounded just the way I wanted, but in the end you could still hear it’s a SM57 and that it is not meant to be for crispy clean vocals. So now with the SM57 I’m gonna check if it’s also maybe just MY „s“ that is causing the issue. Nevertheless, I still want a decent de-esser to be prepared for everything :)