How to edit vocal waveforms to overcome sibilance and plosives

I know there are some tricks to dealing with sibilance and plosives (there's a great article on this on EQ's website <http://www.eqmag.com/article/vocal-cords-removing/jan-08/33059>, but one thing I can't quite figure out is how to edit a waveform through GB. So far, I've not been able to do much other than slightly trim a bit of the beginning of the waveform, but I invariably cut too much off at the top of the "esses" so that it sounds like a "ts", which is not what I am going for at all.
Any technical help on how to edit waveforms through GB? Or is this an impossible dream? I have both a Blue Snowball USB mic and an Audio-Technica M4000S, and my mic budget is already tapped out after getting a Line 6 USB interface (TonePort GX) and the mic adapters I needed to plug my mic into the interface. I also have a pop filter, which could help but I can't quite get the vocal presence I need if I sing from four inches away so it's basically no good regardless of which mic I use.

The editing of the waveform is a good way to fix sibilance at times, but it's really hard to do in GB because the way the wave is rendered in the track. You can zoom in really close and try to do it using the volume automation, but the way the waveform is rendered in the editing window is much better, you can zoom in and find the point where the plosive is happening, but the problem is that you can't set the volume points in the editing window, you can only do that in the track. What you might want to try is editing the vocal track that needs fixing, by itself in an audio editor like Audacity(you can get it for free here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/features )using the volume envelope in the sections where the plosives occur. Then drag that file back into your Garageband project. It's similar to riding the fader on a mix, a technique for adjusting the vocal to minimize popping in a recording. Of course it's always better to avoid them in the first place, and I usually position my pop filter as close as possible to the mic, maybe 1/2" away, and sing right up close to the pop filter, when I want a close-up vocal. But if you use an external editor with Garageband, you can fix tracks that have some popping you need to get out.

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