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The latest updates from JNP 📰
June 3, 2025
Behind a tiny white desk over the weekend while doing some live recording with the cats at JMI – Jazz Music Institute. They knocked over some parts for a ‘real instruments’ revamp of the Brisbane Lions club song. Watch this space!
May 21, 2025
No, it’s not 1990, 2010 or 2015 … it’s May 2025.
If you want your music to succeed – get an advertising company to relentlessly deliver it into people’s ears and you will still be topping charts decades later.
Good luck new artists!
April 28, 2025
Tone and vibe for days with the Wurli. Have enjoyed spending time with this guy – just the two of us.
April 7, 2025
Knocked over an acoustic pop track today for a solo artist remotely … huge sounds!
April 2, 2025
Ready for action – the Wurlitzer 200A. This thing makes me play in a completely unique way … I look for notes and phrasing I just don’t go for on other instruments!
March 31, 2025
One of the greatest analog synths around – the rack-mounted Roland Super Jupiter (MKS-80) is hooked up and ready for use.
It was an incredible challenge getting this beast to work … there was a lot wrong with it, but I persevered and I’m really proud of myself for diagnosing all the issues and solving them.
Get in touch if you need music made and we can use this gem!
March 26, 2025
Replaced the PSU inside the Yamaha KX88 keyboard this evening with the Mean Well PT-65C.
I absolutely love the feeling of the keys on this beast from the 80s and now it’ll last another 40 years. No modern weighted keyboard I’ve tried is anywhere near as good!
A huge thanks to @lixcreative for her superior dexterity and help getting it all installed. ❤️
March 4, 2025
Two kings of 80s synthesis – the Yamaha DX7 II FD and the Roland D50. I’m definitely more of a Roland synth cat, but the DX7 has been on some seriously iconic tunes! Both incredibly complex with infinite sound generation potential.
February 28, 2025
Hopefully replacing a couple of CEM3340 chips (all the way from Portugal) on the lower module board of this beast will bring it back to life. One of the great analog synths – the Roland Super Jupiter / MKS-80.
February 14, 2025
Vintage Roland synth resuscitation. Might have to special order some chips for this guy … but it will be worth it.
February 6, 2025
Confusion ensues when your client uses a photo of your own studio space as their background in the video collab session.
February 4, 2025
Kind of reggae jam thing from Tokyo 2023 with @geshige on bass and @toshi_kasuga on the kit. Can’t wait to catch these cool cats again.
February 2, 2025
Warwick and Wurli. The Warwick 5 string is a relatively new addition (a few years maybe) and is equal parts funky and heavy. The Wurli in the background is a newer one … it has a story that I’ll tell soon!
January 26, 2025
Complete overhaul of the circuits in the vintage Wurlitzer 200A. Will probably make a video with this very special unit once I’ve got it sorted. Glorious tones from one of the greatest electric pianos ever made.
January 13, 2025
The Sennheiser 441 – the best dynamic mic ever made … sounds good on … everything!
January 7, 2025
Finally solved a power supply issue in some of my preamps that caused them to turn off after a little while. Back into the rack with a new part and bigger heatsink!
December 25, 2024
Replacing some ICs in an old synth’s midi board … hopefully I can breathe some new life into it!
November 17, 2022
Making tunes this week for an artist from Paris. #ouioui
September 23, 2022
End of a huge week co-writing with a client for her pop album (Sia/Billie vibes) and mixing for some folks based in Nashville.
August 29, 2022
Wonder what this one does?
August 16, 2022
A couple of classics reimagined. #1176
July 25, 2022
Heart transplant – JNP now runs on a Mac Studio.
June 30, 2022
Acoustic with blue energy.
June 27, 2022
A special audience today with the new Fresh Prince – Anders. Uncle James will only ever play you the good tunes, little guy.
June 14, 2022
Ain’t no debate – both of them are great! #lespaul #stratocaster
June 10, 2022
Hey … Number 2 independent album in Australia – Karise Eden just keeps chalking up the Ws with ‘Into the Black’, which happens to rock pretty hard.
https://ditto.fm/intotheblack
June 4, 2022
I encourage anyone who is or has worked in the Australian music industry to complete this survey.
It will help give a more accurate picture of some of the working environments, expectations and situations workers have found themselves in, and be part of helping to improve things for everyone ✌🏻
June 1, 2022
Tubes and transformers keeping me warm!
May 27, 2022
A few of the cats from Winchester Revival after they finished up their latest single today. For good rock and roll times, catch one of their live shows.
May 17, 2022
Japanese made guitar, Australian made drums! 🤝
May 13, 2022
Release day for Karise Eden’s EP – a few hours in and it’s #18 in Australia on iTunes.. 🚀
Southern Rock with the power of a thousand fires 🔥
Produced, recorded, mixed, mastered here at JNP with Mark Henman on the kit, and me on the rest (but ahh …not the singing bit).
May 8, 2022
Throwback to 2016 – in Australian Guitar Magazine chatting to @peterzmedia
May 2, 2022
Dane from Winchester Revival just before smashing his part. Pensive, but knowing.
April 29, 2022
But is the mix done?
April 28, 2022
I built these Seventh Circle Audio preamps around 10 years ago – Neve, API, Melennia, Hardy style for some vibe and recently built their newer SSL9000 which is gloriously clean. Great tones!
April 22, 2022
End of another week – this one full of mixing. This week also marked another year since Prince left and it’s cool having a little version of him watching on and keeping my standards high!
April 20, 2022
Number 1 Independent Single in Australia ✌🏻
Karise Eden, Mark Henman – we did ok!
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