Jane Lee Hooker Session Notes

La Jeca of JLH

Thanks to Will for putting together a great, short video depicting the Multi Track class, Jane Lee Hooker and Producer Noel Ford in action. The sound is via the camera mic, but I think it conveys the energy in the room, if not the brute-force-decibels. Check it out below.

Although the video’s just about 3 minutes, we were in MARS 10 hours. 

Editing is a wonderful thing.

No, not an easy session. But I think the recording came out well. Attaboys to Engineer Mauricio and Second, Dan, who hung in there throughout the technical adversities and long hours.

Thanks, too, to Jane Lee Hooker and Noel Ford for providing inspirational music and impeccable taste, respectively. And for being so damn patient. Superb band. Masterful Producer.

I want to clarify a technical problem we had getting an analog insert to work on GT 2 DI. If you remember, during the basic, we needed distortion on GT2 DI, because that guitar did not have the Reamper/amp rig in the ISO. Guitarists hate that clean, DI sound. Therefore we planned to insert the Tube Pac compressor and overdrive it to get distortion harmonics while tracking the basic so the musician could have an acceptable tone and feel appropriate for the style of music. (The insert would then be discarded after the basic and the DI used as a Reamp source.)

However, we never got the insert to function and abandoned it.

To understand why, look at your patch bay charts. You will see that though we have two 192 interfaces, there are 32 inputs (16 per interface) and 16 outputs (8 per interface.) Since an insert requires both an input and a corresponding output, we can only have a total of 8 feasible inserts per 192, a total of 16. That’s 1-8 on 192 #1 and 1-8 on 192 #2. To add confusion, the patch bay legends show both 192s having consecutive numbers, 1-16, for outs. However, you should mentally note that they are really 192 #1 1-8, and 192 #2, 1-8. Still a total of sixteen.

In PT, the inserts are shown as A 1,2,/B 1,2 …etc..

I hope that clears things up.

I have placed student versions of The Break Evens/Quan Group and Jane Lee Hooker in the “Student Sessions For Mixing” folder on the desktop. Do not go into my folder and or open the original sessions. Open the session you wish from the “Student Sessions For Mixing” folder and immediately make a SAVE AS into your own folder. Your folder is (or will be) located in the Sound Drive, Spring 2012 folder. If you are confused about this, clarify on Weds.

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