How to remove Plosive sounds in Adobe CS5

Question

Hi, I am singing into my dynamic mic using adobe cs5 and for some reason I cannot avoid the harsh plosive sounds being picked up by mic.
When I play it back it makes a huge "PUH" sound and really doesn't sound very nice.
Im sure a program like CS5 will allow me to remove these harsh plosive noises but I dont know how.
Please help
Thanks

Answer 1

Well, all the stuff about getting a recording without the plosives is well and good....but if all you have is the recording in post, then the FFT filter is a good tool to work with.Highlight the plosive (and only the plosive. Try to avoid the rest of the word) -- it will be pretty easy to see in the wave file. Go to the FFT filter in Effects Bring everything below 80Hz down to zero. Then draw a curve so that 100Hz and higher is at 100% and start playing with the curve to find the right amount of frequencies to take out.
I've found in my years of radio work, that cutting out frequencies below 100Hz and leaving the rest alone will work good enough about 60% of the time. There are some plosives that go up to 250Hz and higher...you really can't fix those to take them completely out, but you can make them better. Sometimes it helps to also reduce the amplitude some after you've applied the filter.
But, you'll find that people who pop will pop A LOT...and they always seem to be saying (or singing) things with a lot of P's. So it's always better to use pop filters, mic positionioning, vocal technique, and such during the recording. But I think you'll find that FFT filter will be your friend when all that other stuff isn't enough.
(BTW, I'm sure there's probably somethig you can do with the magic healing brush to accomplish this same thing, I just haven't futtzed with it enough to know how to do it there).
~Dave