Digital Fish Phones SpitFish

The Digital Fish Phones SpitFish can be for mono or stereo vocal tracks. This free VST has the tools needed to get those “S” sounds or “SHH” sounds out of the vocal mix and it does it very good for it to be a free plug in. The interface is very small with only a , Tune Knob, Sense Knob, Depth Knob, and listen, bypass, stereo buttons. Most of all the stuff that Digital Fish Phones has made is awesome and they try to keep all of the VST’s free. I haven’t seen manual for SpitFish and I don’t think they have come out with one, but they do have an actual help button on the VST dashboard so if you need help you can click on it. I think it will take you to a help page on their website. Setting up this VST was simple and quick, it installs in only a few seconds and it is extremely low on your CPU.


SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

I run the SpitFish on my MacBook Pro 2.66 Hhz i7 Dual Core 4GB laptop. I have not been using the SpitFish long and I really don’t use it that much. It was free so I downloaded it. I have other paid plug ins that can do exactly what The SpitFish can do and they are a little more in depth. But if you can afford to have the paid VST’s that can handle vocal tracks , I say it is a easy decision that you must go download the SpitFish right away. You will love how well it can take those sounds out of your vocals and clean up your mix.


OVERALL OPINION

SpitFish is very easy to use and to install, there is nothing to it. I wish that tit was a little more in depth though with more options to it. I would use it a lot more if it was more in depth. Since it cant compete with some of my Waves plug ins, it will just have to sit on my computer and never get used. But for free, you really cant beat what it can do. It is a must have for someone who can’t afford those expensive plug ins.

The Digital Fish Phones SpitFish is a free de-essing plug-in that is free and available for both Mac and Windows operating systems. You can get it as a VST plug-in for both platforms as well as an Audio Units plug-in for Mac. You can download the full bundle of plug-ins that this is a part of, known as the 'Fish Fillets,' along with a plethora of other free goodies. It's an easy process and shouldn't take more than a few minutes to download and install it. It's also an easy plug-in to use, only with a few different parameters to be aware of. There are parameters for depth, sense, and tune, the latter of which gives you three different frequencies to choose from. If you understand the purpose of a de-esser and how it fits into things, you should be able to get a good grasp on how to use this plug-in rather quickly. I don't believe there's a manual for any of these Digital Fish Phones plug-ins.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

I'm not running the Digital Fish Phones SpitFish plug-in anymore, but when I was it was as a VST plug-in for Windows on my old Hewlett Packard Pavilion dv8000 lap top. It had a 3.0 Ghz processor and 2 GB of RAM, which was enough for me to run plug-ins smoothly in Cubase SX 2.0 and 3. This wasn't the quickest system but it was still able to run this. I haven't used it on any other system, although I guess I could use the Fxpansion wrapper in Pro Tools on my current system, but I don't really have a need for it anymore...

OVERALL OPINION

The Digital Fish Phones SpitFish plug-in is one definitely worth checking out if you're at all interested in a FREE de-essing plug-in in VST/AU format. It's not the best sounding de-esser but still will get the job done, especially in home studio situations. If I didn't already have a few top quality de-essers I'd probably get it again, but for me it's really not necessary anymore. It does the job for getting the unwanted sibilance out of vocals as the parameters given are enough to make it happen. I'd encourage those interested with compatible systems to go ahead and give it try for yourself along with the other Digital Fish Phone free plug-ins...