ABOUT

Jeff Litman has been working as a songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and orchestrator in New York City since 2008. He’s released four albums of his own music: Postscript (2009), Outside  (2012), Primetime (2015), and Crowded Hour (2018). He has also performed, produced, and recorded with a wide swath of NYC-based talent from children’s music to metal to country, rock, and pop. 

“My favorite aspect of music-making, whether it be as part of a live band or in the studio, is working with the artist to craft a unique and effective arrangement for each song. Sometimes that involves synthesizers and drum machines, sometimes a more stripped-down acoustic treatment is called for. Sometimes a song needs a full orchestral arrangement, sometimes it just needs something a little weird. Finding the right outfit for a particular set of lyrics, melodies, and chords to wear and stand out in is, for me, the most satisfying of creative challenges.”

Services

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 DIscography

STUDIO

Gear

Microphones

Neumann U87
Avantone BV1 Tube Microphone
Michael Joly U87 Moded Rode NT1a
Cascade Fat Head Ribbon Microphone
Shure SM7b
Shure SM81 (pair)
MXL 603 (pair)
Shure SM57
Shure SM58
Audio Technica AT 2020

Preamps

Focusrite ISA 428 mkII (4 Channels)
Motu 1248 (4 Channels)
Big Knob Studio+ (2 Channels)
Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 (2 Channels)

Interfaces

Motu 1248
Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6
Big Knob Studio+

Outboard Compressors

Warm Audio WA76
Stam SA-2A

Monitors
Yamaha HS8s
Avantone Mixcube

Instruments

FSC Highline TL (Filtertron neck, Tele bridge, Bigsby)
Fender Thinline Tele Deluxe (Fralin Pickups)
Fender Strat (Fralin Pickups)
Fender Mustang PJ Bass (Fralin Pickups)
Schecter Pete Townsand Tele w/ P90 pickups
Schecter Electric 12-String Guitar

Gibson Blues King Acoustic
Taylor 412 CE Acoustic
Alvarez Artist (Nashville Tuned)
Tacoma Acoustic
Yamaha Nylon String Acoustic

Baldwin Acrosonic Upright Piano
Yamaha DX7
Akai MPK Mini
Akai MPK 249
M-Audio Semi Weighted 88 Key Midi Controller

Loar Mandolin
Yamaha Guitalele
Gretsch 1883 Ukulele
Mendini by Cecilio Bb Trumpet

Amps

Fender Vibro Champ
Fender Princeton Reverb
Reverned Hellhound 40/60
Gallien-Krueger MBS-III

Pedals/FX

Analogman Tubescreamer
Fulltone Full-Drive 2
Paul Cochrane Timmy Overdrive
Xotic SL Drive
Xotic EP Booster
Fulltone Fat Boost
Tech 21 Sans Amp GT2
Wampler Mini Ego Compressor
MXR Dyna Comp
Aphex Punch Factory Optical Compressor
Ibanez Analog Delay
Walrus ARP-87
Wampler Faux Spring Reverb
TC Electronic Hall of Fame Mini Reverb
Corona Chorus
Mooer Soul Shiver (Chorus, Vibrato, Rotary)
Boss Super Chorus CH-1
TC Electronic Vortex Mini Flanger
MXR Phase 95
Malekko Tremolo
Voodoo Lab Tremolo
Electro-Harmonix Octave Multiplexer
Line 6 M9
Crybaby Wah

Software/Plugins

Pro Tools 2019
Ableton Live 10
Native Instruments Komplete
UVI Vintage Vault
Izotope RX7
All the Soundtoys Plugs
Addictive Drums 2
Toontrack EZ Drummer
Toontrack Superior Drummer
Celemony Melodyne 4
Oeksound Soothe 2
Lots of plugs by Massey, Waves, McDSP, and a bunch of other stuff

video

for more, visit Jeff Litman on youtube.

Projects

Bird Streets

Andi Rae Healy

Bryan Dunn

Brooke Moriber

Suzi Shelton

Scott Stein

Joanie Leeds & the Nightlights

and more…

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