{"id":1068,"date":"2014-09-03T19:31:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T19:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royerlabs.com\/audiovideo\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2016-04-23T22:04:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T22:04:31","slug":"ray-charles-and-norah-jones-with-billy-preston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royerlabs.com\/library\/ray-charles-and-norah-jones-with-billy-preston\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Charles and Norah Jones with Billy Preston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>B-3<\/strong> &#8211; R-122<br \/>\n<strong>Piano<\/strong> &#8211; SF-12<br \/>\n<strong>Electric Guitar<\/strong> &#8211; R-121<\/p>\n<p><strong>Engineers: Terry Howard, Al Schmitt (mix)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This extraordinary session was held in Ray Charles\u2019 Los Angeles studio  in November 2003. I was privileged to attend and was given permission to take photographs with a small pocket camera. The musicianship was incredible, with most parts of the song being done in one or two takes.<br \/>\n-John Jennings, Royer Labs<\/p>\n<p><strong>B-3:<\/strong> Billy Preston\u2019s Leslie cabinet was miked with two R-122\u2019s, one positioned on the top horn and one on the bottom. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Piano:<\/strong> An SF-12 was positioned inside Ray&#8217;s piano alongside a couple of condenser mics. The SF-12 was the main mic used in the final mix. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Electric Guitar:<\/strong> The electric guitar amp was miked with an SM-57 up close and an R-122 further back, blended in the mix. <\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #e62300;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/akKAf2uMdKw?list=UUXPBB4H_-57Mjw-QgFHpRmw\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1069\" src=\"https:\/\/royerlabs.com\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ray-norah.jpg\" alt=\"ray-norah\" width=\"635\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royerlabs.com\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ray-norah.jpg 635w, https:\/\/royerlabs.com\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ray-norah-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #e62300;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/akKAf2uMdKw?list=UUXPBB4H_-57Mjw-QgFHpRmw\" target=\"_blank\">Play video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B-3 &#8211; R-122 Piano &#8211; SF-12 Electric Guitar &#8211; R-121 Engineers: Terry Howard, Al Schmitt (mix) This extraordinary session was held in Ray Charles\u2019 Los Angeles studio in November 2003. I was privileged to attend and was given permission to take photographs with a small pocket camera. The musicianship was incredible, with most parts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,34,191,24,181,190,212,47,9,10,189,15,192,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-schmitt","category-b3","category-billy-preston","category-electric-guitar","category-electric-guitar-jazz","category-norah-jones","category-organ","category-piano","category-r-121","category-r-122","category-ray-charles","category-sf-12","category-terry-howard","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zDZe-he","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royerlabs.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royerlabs.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royerlabs.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royerlabs.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royerlabs.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/royerlabs.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/royerlabs.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royerlabs.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royerlabs.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royerlabs.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}