iZotope Sessions is a new series from our friends at iZotope designed to enable you to practice your music production skills using an artist's song. In this free video tutorial, watch, learn and practice your audio repair skills using iZotope RX to clean up the recording of singer-songwriter Will Dailey's song "Today Is Crushing Me." 

Download the vocal and guitar tracks so you can follow along with the tutorial.

Chapters In This Video Tutorial

0:42 - Use De-bleed to take out the guitar that’s bleeding into the vocal track
4:32 - Use De-plosive to reduce plosives (bursts of low-frequency energy) on Will’s vocals
6:54 - Use Mouth De-click to remove clicks and pops from Will’s vocals
9:09 - Use Breath Control to attenuate sharp intakes of air (breaths) from Will’s vocals
11:49 - Use Spectral De-ess to tame sibilance (strongly stressed consonants that produce a hissing sound) from Will’s vocals
14:38 - Use Spectral Repair to reduce room noise and guitar squeaks 

Finally, you can watch the repaired, mixed, and mastered music video of Will Dailey’s “Today Is Crushing Me”...