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Apogee Users: Eric Jackson
Eric Jackson Talks to Pro Sound New About
the Trak2
Republished from Pro Sound
News
As a session guitar player, Eric Jackson says he has worked with everyone
from, “Babyface to Puffy, Ja Rule, you name it,” he states. And
while his work as a session instrumentalist is ongoing, it has also brought
him the opportunity to produce, primarily with British artists like Jud
Mahonney, a current production project that will see release in March.
Jackson says that much of his work is now done at
his home project studio, citing just-completed guitar work on four songs
of the 3LW (Three Little Women) project as an example. He gives his Apogee
Electronics Trak2 credit for making such work feasible. “We cut
the guitars over here,” he explains, “ because my whole Pro
Tools system sounds so good because of the Trak2. Sometimes they’ll
just bring the whole hard drive over; sometimes, someone will send a Pro
Tools CD in the mail. The thing I like about the Trak2, because I have
a small project studio, is that it sounds good, but it also interfaces
with everything.” In Jackson’s case,
the Trak2 has become his room’s master clock (“Because it has
the Apogee clock in it, it just makes Pro Tools sound better,” he
says), using Pro Tools and ADAT AMBus cards to interconnect with gear
that includes a pair of Yamaha 01V digital mixers.
"....my whole Pro Tools
system sounds so good because of the Trak2."
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” I didn’t have it
(his Trak2) for a couple of days, I thought I was going to die. I
won’t do anything without it.”
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- Eric Jackson -
Session Musician |
For acoustic instruments and vocals, an Oktava MK012 or a RODE NT2 (which
Jackson calls, “probably the most popular mic used in R&B project
studios) is typically plugged straight into the Trak2. For electric guitar
work, he may either plug though effects or directly into the Trak2, with
Amp Farm giving him cabinet tones in Pro Tools, when needed. For effect,
he’ll use the Trak2’s Soft Saturate function on guitars, with
the Soft Limit function called into play on vocals. “It all depends
on what the particular song calls for,” he explains.
When interviewed, Jackson was preparing to take his Trak2 out of the rack
and to London, as he had recently had to work without the unit – an
experience he doesn’t want to repeat. “I didn’t have it for
a couple of days,” he elaborated. “I thought I was going to die.
I won’t do anything without it.”
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Sound News, December 2001, p91 |
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