Jim
Jacobsen, worked as a recording
engineer for over 25 years. He has produced
many
albums and CD's for many
local artists in the Baltimore / Washington area.
One
of these albums "Uptown" by Johnny
Seaton is in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
This
album featured the Tele legend
Danny Gatton.
Jim
played in several local bands
and in 1980 went on a USO tour with the band Fast Break.
He
also played for over 10 years in a
contemporary worship band in a large church in Silver Spring MD.
Jim
studied classical guitar and has
a degree in Music Education from Catholic University. He was a Band and
Orchestra Director in Montgomery County Maryland. He was also a
Remodeling Contractor and Home Inspector
in
Maryland and Washington DC.
He is currently building and modding microphones in his shop in Glenwood
Maryland.
"Electronics
has been my hobby and
passion since 1980. I have rebuilt, repaired and made custom guitar
amps. In 2003
I
turned My interest to microphones. I started because I
wanted to record with better microphones.The best vocal mic I
had at
that time was an AKG C414EB with a teflon capsule. I saw on the internet
that David Royer was modding
MXL
2001 mics. I sourced the parts and
attempted to build my first microphone. It took a while to get the mic
to work,
however
when I finally got it to work, I was hooked! I
experimented with different tubes, resistor values, and I read all
that I
could find on the internet and studied any schematic I could find.
I started to experiment with changing components in stock microphones
and found many changes that improved the sound of the microphone. I
rebuilt and modded any mic I could get my hands on."
JJ Audio - Making music better, one microphone
at a time.
