The Red Apples 'Wake Up in Love'

I just finished mixing a song for The Red Apples, an indie singer-songwriter duo from Santa Clara.

There was a lot of processing involved, as the engineer who recorded this project (Read: Not We-Verb staff) failed to use a pop filter. This caused several soft 'pops' and 'clicks' to infiltrate all of the lead and harmony vocal tracks. Kids, please, even if it's an embroidery hoop with some panty hose stretched over it, use a god damn pop filter when tracking vocals.

Alas, I resorted to my trusty Audio Suite in Pro Tools, I processed about 5 seconds of audio at a time with iZotope RX, an audio restoration program. For those of you interested in audio restoration and can't afford the sexily efficient CEDAR algorithms, I highly recommend RX. It allowed for a smooth removal of the offending sounds without leaving artifacts on the original vocal track.

So here is the Mp3 version of my mix for 'Wake Up in Love':






And to reiterate my very important point:

The Audio Cyclopedia by Howard M. Tremaine

Will and I were perusing a small thrift store in Los Gatos the other day, when we stumbled upon their small used books section. This is what we found, for $1.00:

This 1,703 page reference guide contains information, schematics and explanations of everything from equalizers, transformers and coils, vacuum tubes, pickups, magnetic recording, power supplies, and dissections of vintage microphones. Yes, everything that this blog is about.

We did a quick Amazon search and found that this book is fairly rare... prices ranging from $80-$300. A Gearslutz search revealed that nearly every audio book ever written references this holy grail of audio details.

That being said, we will be posting excerpts from this book as we undertake the task to preserve the priceless information it holds.

Expect that soon, we're still reeling from how much happiness one can obtain from the exchange of a single dollar.