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DIGIZINE Features
Find out how these top producers, engineers, sound designers and mixers use Digidesign’s Pro
Tools to produce hit records. Click on any image
below to get the full version of each Digizine feature story. (All stories by Steph Jorgl)
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The Black Eyed Peas
Producer/songwriter for the Black Eyed Peas Will.I.Am’s intensely discerning ears, taste, and skill for blending the best of diverse musical genres into hip-hop were tuned solely by listening to music. Now he does all his songwriting in Pro Tools. Read more.
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Hip-Hop
Royale
“Pro Tools is perfect for someone like Missy Elliott, because she tends to
write about five or six songs on the same track,” says
engineer/mixer/producer Jimmy Douglass, an industry icon who regularly works with
Missy Elliott, Jay-Z, Timbaland, Lil’ Kim, and other platinum-level hip-hop
acts. Read more.
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From OutKast to Elton John
Matt Still is a versatile engineer who works on everything from rap and R&B
records to musicals. His credits include playing on two OutKast records and engineering tracks for OutKast’s
award-winning Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. In 2004, Still worked with Elton John
on his new record, released in November 2004. Read more.
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Working
with The Mars Volta
Andrew Scheps engineers and mixes for the
greats of rock and roll. In addition to the Mars Volta, he’s worked with
Iggy Pop, the Rolling Stones, Audioslave, Johnny Cash, and The Red Hot Chili
Peppers. He has also worked on film and television scores. Scheps is a Digidesign
diehard with four Pro Tools|HD Accel cards under his belt. Read more.
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South Park Sound
For Comedy Central’s South
Park, the ideas for episodes don’t usually get fully developed
until the week of the show. And unlike like most television shows, at South Park, each episode is cut and finished by
the morning it first airs. In fact, the voiceovers are done the night prior to
broadcast. Read more.
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Pro Tools “With Teeth”
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross talk about how they sold the SSL and moved inside the box — using a Control|24 — while recording Nine Inch Nails’ “With Teeth.” Read more.
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Pro Tools Makes Things Less “Complicated”
“I think it’s really cool
to be able to edit tracks on the bullet train in Japan,” says Avril Lavigne’s engineer, guitarist, and
co-songwriter Evan Taubenfeld. “That’s why I use my Mbox a lot. I can just plug in and go.” The band regularly tours with three Pro Tools rigs. Read more.
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Mixing the Beastie Boys
Rap mixing icon Supa Engineer Duro does most of his work out of Right Track
Studios in Manhattan. But in 2004, he got a call from the Beastie Boys asking him
to mix their new release, To the 5 Boroughs, at their private studio. The entire
record was written, recorded, arranged, engineered and mixed in Pro Tools|HD. Read more.
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Capturing
Bonnaroo
Armed with a crew of 50, and 11 Pro Tools workstations,
Third Wave Productions’ Hank Neuberger and Terry Fryer multi-tracked 65 acts
including Danger Mouse, My Morning Jacket, Yo La Tengo, The X-ecutioners, Damien
Rice, Dave Matthews and Calexico playing on six stages over just three days. Read more.
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Skywalker Sound’s Sparling
Kent Sparling is a sound designer and film
mixer who works on feature films. Recently, he mixed sound for Sophia Coppola’s Lost in Translation
and The Virgin Suicides. When it comes to tweaking the sonic realm, Sparling relies on Pro Tools, a Digi 002, NI’s Kontakt and a bunch of old synths, samplers and outboard processors. Read more.
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