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Jeff
Worrell:
A Journeyman’s Journey
From the day he and his brother found a “Meet the Beatles”
LP on a dusty road in Melbourne, Florida, guitarist-engineer-producer
Jeff Worrell has worn his love of music on his sleeve. His journey
has touched on every aspect of music-making — from filling
cramped roadhouses with dance riffs to rocking huge stadiums with
crystalline live sound to mentoring other musicians with his engineering,
production and technical skills.
Worrell
spent five years on the road as guitarist with Natalie Cole’s
soul band. He then leaped from the stage to front-of-house engineering,
sculpting sound for world tours by Fleetwood Mac, Dave Mason, Pat
Benatar and Neil Giraldo, Bread, Sheena Easton and the Edgar Winter
Band. It was Winter who inspired him to dive headfirst into Mac-based
recording when he co-engineered and co-mastered one of the first
all-digital CDs, Winter’s 1994 release “Not a Kid Anymore.”
“We’d
experimented with other platforms, but as soon as Edgar and I got
into the Mac environment it was, ‘Wow, this is so elegant,
so refined, so easy,’” recalls Jeff. “It was an
epiphany for me, because the interface was a no-brainer. It just
flowed. To this day, as it’s evolved, the Mac has remained
very intuitive and organic to me. I feel like I’m not dealing
with an inanimate object. It’s alive, it’s responsive,
it communicates.
“I
play guitar, bass, keyboards, program drums, sing, do background
vocals. So having everything in my hands is the best of all possible
worlds, with no limitations. You’re in command of getting
the entire job done, without spending big bucks on a studio. And
that’s why so many musicians are moving to Macs and the mobility
of PowerBooks. Anything and everything is ready to be worked on,
anywhere — on the bus, in the hotel room.
“For
me, and for the musicians I work with, that’s like handing
a kid the keys to the candy store.”
Jeff
Worrell Music Production
Stories in the Wood Studio
Burbank, CA
818-840-8507
jeffw9@charter.net

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Jeff Worrell’s Tools of the Trade
Studio Hardware
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Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5
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Dual 500MHz Power Mac G4
- Power
Mac 9600 with 700MHz G4 processor upgrade
- iMac
- Power
Mac 7300
- Digidesign
Pro Tools HD/2
- Apogee
Rosetta 800 AD/DA interface
- Apogee
Big Ben digital clock
- Neve
1073 mic pre module
- Studio
Technologies Mic PreEminence mic pre
- DBX
160X compressor
- Digidesign
001
- Tascam
DA-88 Digital Multitrack Recorder
- Tascam
IF-88AE Audio Interface
- Tascam
DA-30 DAT Recorder
Soundcraft Ghost studio console
- Dynaudio
BM15A powered reference monitors
- Yamaha
NS10 studio monitors
- Carvin
PM 6.5 studio monitors
- Sony
PS420 19-inch Trinitron displays
- Roland
200MKII MIDI controller keyboard
- Ensoniq
DP/4 Effects Processor
- Line
6 POD Pro XT
- Line
6 Bass POD Pro XT
- Line
6 POD
- Alesis
DM Pro Drum Machine
- Alesis
D5 Drum Machine
- Memorex
Dual Layer DVD burner
- Que
Fire CD burners
- Audio
Technica AT 4033, AT 4050 Studio condensor microphones
- Octava
MK-012 Studio condensor microphones
- Octava
MK-319 Studio Condensor Microphone
- Shure
SM57 dynamic microphone
Portable
Hardware
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1GHz PowerBook G4
- Digidesign
MBox
- M-Audio
Oxygen 8 keyboard
- NXT
flat panel speakers
- Mackie
VLZ Pro 1202
- Etymotic
Research ER-4 microPro earphones
Software
-
Logic Pro 7
- Soundtrack
Pro
- GarageBand
2
- iLife
- FileMaker
Pro
- Pro
Tools 7 HD
- Pro
Tools 7 LE
- Pro
Tools PlugIns: Waves Platinum, Massive Pak 4, Auto Tune TDM, Digidesign
HD Pack v6
- Reason
3
- CDXTRACT
- MasterWriter
- Adobe
Photoshop
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