“It replaced three plugins on my vocal bus - I love it!ˮ: Meet Velvet, iZotope’s new smart vocal smoothing tool

iZotope Brings Velvet Above Ground

iZotope Velvet plug-in. Boston, MA (May 7, 2025)—iZotope has unveiled the latest entry in its Catalyst plug-in series: Velvet, a new de-esser plug-in that aims to hone in on specific attributes in specific spaces, allowing users to get surgical in their approaches to vocal shaping. Velvet splits audio into separate sibilance and tonal channels, thus allowing users to separately de-ess, de-click and reshape only certain parts of a vocal that need…

“It replaced three plugins on my vocal bus - I love it!ˮ: Meet Velvet, iZotope’s new smart vocal smoothing tool

As part of the affordable Catalyst series, Velvet aims to zap the bugs in your most vexatious vocals

iZotope launches Velvet de-esser effect plugin for smooth vocals

iZotope has announced the release of 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 installment in iZotope’s popular Catalyst series, alongside new [...] The post iZotope launches Velvet de-esser effect plugin for smooth vocals appeared firs…