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John Jaszcz. The man whose mixing abilities graced no less than four nominated songs at this past year's Grammy Awards. The man behind Kirk Franklin's critically acclaimed Hero. John Jaszcz: He who is graceful enough to grant EQ a candid interview wherein he speaks of cutting vocal tracks, confesses to a preoccupation with plug-ins, and much, much more.
This month we're focusing on vocal recording. So, if you don't mind me asking, what's your signal chain when you're tracking vocals?
John Jaszcz: I usually use a Martech through a Summit. You can color the sound by using a Neve, or a Telefunken, or something like that, but with a Martech . . . you can put up four different microphones to do a shoot out and you can really hear the difference. You hear exactly what you're getting on each microphone. If you're going through a V72 or something, you hear the coloration of the Telefunken before you hear the sound of the microphone. So that's why I usually use the Martech. I discovered it in '97 or '98, and I've been with it ever since then.
So on the mix end of things, are you using the board compressors,...