From Talking Heads to Production Whiz

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Paul Tingen

GEARING UP IN SAUSALITO

Computers and Peripherals
Apple Power Mac G5 with 4 GB of RAM through five Digidesign 192 interfaces for a total of 72 analog outputs and 64 inputs. Digidesign Sync and MIDI interfaces. Digidesign Expansion chassis with four HD process cards and two HD Accel cards. Video streaming through Canopus FW box to separate mounted monitor.

933 MHz Apple Power Mac G4 used for mixdown at 96 kHz.

Apple Mac 9600 running as a mix aux send/return to run older plug-ins (such as Lexiverb) with analog sends and digital returns to the mixing computer via sampling-rate conversion through AES/EBU.

Custom-built PC with an Aardvark Q10 interface.

Mac Software
Digidesign Pro Tools HD 7.2; McDSP plug-ins; MOTU Mach Five; Spectrasonics Stylus RMX, Atmosphere, and Trilogy; Waves Diamond, Platinum, and Surround bundles; and 5.1 plug-ins, including Digidesign Impact and Digidesign ReVibe.

PC Software
Native Instruments B4, Propellerhead Reason, Sony Acid, and Tascam GigaStudio 96. Sound library of Acid and Giga files.

Outboard Gear
Alan Smart stereo compressor (2), Cyclosonic Panner, dbx 120A Subharmonic Synthesizer, dbx 160x, Electro-Harmonix NY-2A compressor (2), Empirical Labs Distressor (4), Eventide H3000, Focusrite 3 stereo compressor, Neve 2254 stereo compressor, Roland Dimension D (2), SPL Transient Designer 9842, Thermionic Culture Phoenix, Thermionic Culture Vulture, UA Teletronix LA-2A (2), Urei 1176LN Peak Limiter (2), and Urei LA-4 (2).

Synthesizers and Modules
Clavia Nord Electro 2, Clavia Nord Lead, E-mu ESI-32, E-mu Proteus 1, E-mu XP, Korg Wavestation, Roland D-550, Sequential Circuits Prophet T8, Voce V3, Waldorf Microwave, Yamaha DX7, and Yamaha TX-816.

Microphones
AKG 414 (2), C451E (2), and D12 (2); EV RE18 (2) and RE20; Neumann KM86i (2), KM88i (2), TLM 103 (2), U67 (2), U87 (2), and U89i (2); Sennheiser 421 (4); and Shure SM57 (4), SM7B, and SM58.

Microphone Preamps
Daking (2), Focusrite (6), Grace (8), Neve 1073 (8), Neve 1084 (8), Telefunken V76 (4), and Upstate Audio (4).

System 1: Five Yamaha NS10 monitors powered by Hafler 200 power amps and a Meyer Sound subwoofer.

System 2: Blue Sky Audio surround system with five matched satellite speakers and Blue Sky subwoofer, controlled by Blue Sky's bass-management remote controller.

Mixing
Digidesign Pro Control Console with Edit Pack and 16 faders.

Three Dangerous Music Dangerous 2-Bus summing units (one full and two LT) for a surround analog spread of 48 channels.

Stereo mixes are sent back to the 96 kHz session from the 933 MHz Power Mac G4 and to an Alesis Masterlink ML-9600 at 16-bit, 44.1 kHz, passing through a Benchmark 8-channel A/D converter clocked from an Aardsync Master Sync Generator.

JERRY HARRISON: A DISCOGRAPHY

Kenny Wayne Shepherd, 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads (Reprise, 2007)

O.A.R., Stories of a Stranger (Lava, 2005)

Talking Heads, Brick (Rhino, 2005); remixed for 5.1 surround

Von Bondies, Pawn Shoppe Heart (Warner Brothers, 2004)

No Doubt, “New” from Return of Saturn (Interscope, 2000)

Stroke 9, Nasty Little Thoughts (Cherry/Universal, 1999)

Foo Fighters, “Walking After You” from The X-Files: The Album (Elektra, 1998)

Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Beautiful World (Warner Brothers, 1997)

The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, The Trouble Is (Warner Brothers, 1997)

Rusted Root, Remember (Fontana/Island, 1996)

The Verve Pipe, Villains (RCA, 1996)

Live, Throwing Copper (MCA, 1994)

Crash Test Dummies, And God Shuffled His Feet (Arista, 1993)

Poi Dog Pondering, Volo Volo (Sony, 1992); produced selected cuts

Live, Mental Jewelry (MCA, 1991)

Fine Young Cannibals, “Ever Fallen in Love” from The Raw and the Cooked (MCA, 1989)

BoDeans, Outside Looking In (Reprise, 1987)

It's Immaterial, Driving Away from Home (Virgin, 1986; import)

Violent Femmes, The Blind Leading the Naked (Warner Brothers, 1986)

(Produced by Jerry Harrison except where noted.)