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"Still Inspired", by David Levy, Apple.com

 

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

Jeff Worrell’s Tools of the Trade

Studio Hardware

  • Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5
  • 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

  • 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