You might even be able to find a t.c. M5000 with MD2 in that price range and get a bunch of other great things besides frequency selective dynamics to play with. With MD2 you can disable the top and bottom band and just use the mid band, zeroed in wherrever you like - basically the same as a de-esser. Any old multiband mastering processor can be adapted in some way, though with many (like finalizer) you can't actually disable the extra bands, but can adjust thresholds so that they aren't in gain reduction.
