Interview with Paul Jackson Jr. Part1 "SP Compressor Demo"

Paul Jackson Jr. the legendary guitar player who has contributed his multi-faceted guitarisma to the biggest artists of pop,R&B, jazz and rock music: Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson (Thriller, Bad, History), Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight, Randy Crawford, Ramsey Lewis, Dave Koz, David Benoit, Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, Bobby Brown, Steely Dan etc.. just to name a few, came to our studio to show us his recent infatuation, SP Compressor. As his nick name from the American Idol, "Doc" represents, his explanation and demonstration of the compressor is so comprehensive and practical. But when it comes to demo playing of three songs from his recent albums "Still Small Voice" and "Lay It Back" , he totally smoked the studio with his incredible fluency & precision. These are amazing footage you must see!!
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7/14/2013
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[@pablic81]

Even when he plays alone (without a drummer backing up), he has such a great groove! His timing and his picking are extremely consistent.

[@chuckloeb4875]

Paul is the man!

[@clydebermingham121]

Chuck Loeb ... Miss You , CHUCK 🙏🏽.... Until We May All Meet Again ... In OUR FATHER’s HOUSE Up Yonder 🙏🏽

[@PeerHond69]

missing you chuck, see you in paradise

[@rebeccae9333]

Yo, I didn’t kno that Paul Jackson jr speaks Japanese! That’s pretty cool, u the man!👍🏼

[@tonymarinelli7304]

Excellent explination of dynamic range. Great player.

[@rtee4086]

Paul Jackson Jr also played on many of Luther Vandross's music, he's a top-quality musician.

[@chairmanJackie]

Paul is awesome!! One of my favorite guitar players!!

[@LeviGuitar]

Compression amounts operated by the toggle switch Low 7:04 Mid 7:15 High 7:28 The difference can be clearly noticed if you listen to the volume of the ghost notes, with high compression they're very present.

[@peterdvideos]

Best description of what a guitar compressor is and does. Thanks!

[@pharmerdavid1432]

I never heard of him before, but heard some of his playing - freaking beautiful sounds man!!

[@pn6719]

Such a great job describing compression to the layman!!

[@jeffreyfoster4260]

Paul thank you so much for this video

[@tylernorgart3647]

That 513 is absolutely gorgeous. Love the vid

[@dennisjohndreher7258]

Thanks for explaining compression so well.

[@bkkersey93]

I just found out he played on the Good Times episode Michael The Warlord!

[@MetaphysicalMusician]

Paul is A Beast

[@Gitfiddle]

The snappy bass attack coming out of that PRS sounds killer.

[@thehandseesall]

Trust Paul Jackson Jr to knock the SP Compressor demo out the park!

[@JohnLeMayIV]

This may be the best clean tone I have ever heard. Full stop. .

[@JesusOtinChannel]

Nice demo!

[@andremellao4882]

I've tried everything: cali76 cd, effecttrode PC2A, xotix sp, diamond, mad professor, dyna comp '76 reissue, etc, etc .. and the BEST of all is the VINTAGE '74 to '79 DYNA COMP with the Sensitivity at 10 o'clock !! It gives something Magical to your sound that no one can do !! But, if you "turn of ( down ) the internal switch N.3 ( high cut filter ) , put the Sustain Toggle Switch to LOW and the Blend Knob all the way to right ( CW ), you will get 95% close to Vintage Dyna Comp !! So, the SP is great with this settings !!

[@StopMoColorado]

Andre Mellao - Good to know, thanks for the tip!

[@SevenMacaw]

Are your other three dip switches just set to default? (Do you mean you just change it from *down,down,up,up* to down,down,down,up?) I'm on *down,down,down,down* (humbucker mode) for my ES-339, would that work as well or should I put dip#4 [pad] back up into it's default position to get the vintage Dyna Comp sound?

[@davidnorman4923]

George Benson Boz scaggs Lee Ritenour anita baker Chicago Michael Jackson David sanborn just a few of the artists Paul has played with! Great guitar player!

[@sergiolovatelli5318]

Great!

[@AudioAtmos]

I agree!!!

[@MattBlackParis]

Strong right hand with GB's picking

[@Bukowskithedog]

Does anyone know the ratios corresponding to the High-Mid-Low toggle switch? Thanks,

[@claudefox2882]

There is no One who plays it like PJJ. Love his groove.

[@MrBradHendrickson]

I learned a lot here, but I had to learn about their internal dip switches elsewhere

[@j_wah3084]

SOLD!

[@lxenz]

With all the respect to Paul J Jr

[@horstlippitsch]

Does anyone know which pick he uses? Dunlop JazzIII ?

[@evenseb7574]

Do you use compressor (the same?) for nylon strings guitar?

[@clydebermingham121]

I like the fact that the CP is small and compact ... can grab and go.... Acoustic or Electric guitar ...

[@michaelmode]

Genius

[@coffeewaldo]

Paul how about a SL demo.

[@boyan.guitar]

How does he set the inside trimmers? Can you get a chicken picking country/tele tone with the SP? Thanks in advance, long time xotic user and fan here, cheers from Boston

[@quewhymusic]

Is this the same compressor he used on the Daft Punk album?

[@davidwilkerson9942]

Uga uga

[@AudioAtmos]

I think you might be mistaking the "auto level control" on the camera (or some sort of other limiter/compressor device) for the Xotic compressor. I wish all the mfg. making demos would stop relying on the camera to do the audio level and mixing. It really hinders the ability to properly hear the true sound of whatever device is being demonstrated.

[@organjoe]

Paul is great, but what about the SP in a live band mix? I gave up compressors since it seemed to make it hard to cut through live.

[@Chilinoploopy]

I felt the same way. I was using compression all wrong. I feel it needs to be set just enough to notice what it's doing. Where you can feel it. If you can hear the compression or it's making you not cut live.. you're using to much. I tried and tried to like compressors but never could bond. Not until I tried the sp! Honestly changed my view on compression.

[@AdamManley7]

I recommend getting some kind of live boost or making the compressor increase volume during a solo, that’s gets them to cutting level because heavy compression tends to lower the overall volume a bit

[@megajames3000]

Omg he played on pyt? Wow

[@gingataff]

I maybe be wrong, but I think he played all the clean funky stuff on Thriller. And there's a lot of it!

[@romulus_]

@@gingataff steve lukather and david williams played on a lot of the songs.

[@watchalert1752]

ohayo gozaimasu i love you!!

[@brentwade9346]

Yes, but the squash feels a little more rubbery than a Dyna Comp.

[@TRLgoodvibesdotcom]

Genki deshyo

[@tonychen3368]

Oh my gosh, he knows how to speak Japanese! Wow, amazing! :)

[@StopMoColorado]

Tony Chen - Not sure how much he really knows (Japanese fan base? Japanese spouse?), but what he said is first-day stuff in Nihongo class, "Hi, I'm so-and-so. How are you doing?" (Watashi wa (name) desu. Anata wa genki desu ka?) But, yeah, I noticed that too, he does it a lot, so I figured he's got a good fan base in Japan, maybe self a relatively higher amount of artist models there...

[@JohnLeMayIV]

Why the Japanese?

[@ARTUROSIERRALOPEZ]

they pay much better

[@Eberponton]

[@shiraga0516]

なぜにいきなり日本語？

[@jun.guitar]

And we love it!!

[@user-kb8fe4vd4j]

Japan sucks

[@ag7404]

日本語上手！！！！

[@hagio528]

Oh you speak Japanese !? Konnichiwa

[@davidnorman4923]

PYT

[@jefreysiler]

RealityWeb get a clue- who on earth needs to be reminded of who produced some video, much less ON TOP of the face of the reason we’re watching this video in the first place.

[@joshmuz9018]

Dave chapelle alternate universe musical entity

[@juddaustin399]

I'm sorry - the ability to use a 9v battery does not qualify as a "very, very cool feature".

[@aviator_bryan]

When you consider how tiny the case is, being able roomies a battery IS a cool feature.

[@StopMoColorado]

Judd Austin - Not only that, but if something happens to your AC Adaptor (I've had it happen, more than once: my kids' rabbit chewed through one, and another just wore out and snapped off at the strain release, and they didn't include the times I've misplaced it), you'll be very happy to be able to run it off of batteries.

[@Gitfiddle]

I think it's pretty damn cool. That pedal is half the size of a standard Boss sized pedal and it still fits a battery. You must have a lot of room on your board.

[@JohnLeMayIV]

Agree. It is a very, very, very cool feature.

[@rezakhan8290]

It is always cool to have the option.