Just the way you rustle

My brand-new in-ear headphones made me discover something quite shocking while listening to the Goo Goo Dolls’ classic “Just The Way You Are“. There is a quite prominent rustling / crackling sound at the minute 00:12-00:13, right when John sings “…Know You…”. The distortion is also present in the 2001 remaster at the same time frame, and even more noticeable there.

Usually, when albums are remastered audio engineers tend to fix those mistakes. In this case, they clearly didn’t. This was likely a recording issue that was never addressed in post-production back in 1990. I’m sure John Armand Petri, the album’s producer, completely missed it. And so did the crew who worked on the 2001 remasters.

Anyhow, I just wanted to point this out. Are my ears playing tricks on me or is the hellish noise really there?

Truth Is A Whisper (Live from Warner Theater, July 9th, 2002) – From Diego

One of our readers, Diego, reached out to us with another great audio clip from his YouTube channel.

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You Know What I Mean (2025 Remaster)

A friend of mine who works in the music industry recently gave me access to professional tools used by real producers and audio engineers. Specifically, Ozone‘s latest version by IzoTope and its sister software RX. They also explained the basics to me before leaving me in the woods to fend for myself.

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Hey computer, revitalize this!

This is just a quick post about AI and how easy it was to colorize this 1993 promo picture with it. All done in a matter of seconds through my cell phone.

Click on each picture to enlarge it. Check out the details.

I’m planning to revitalize more of those old black-and-white photos whenever I got time. Work and life have been taking over for the past months, but I’ll get there. This is another small project of mine I’m adding to the list.

I can’t wait for AI to make improvements in the video revitalization department as well. I’m really curious to see how it would transform the “We Are the Normal” music video. I wanna see it colorized and in 4K!