Jody Perpick is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 former musician and current Sound Engineer

Audio engineering

An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...

 for top selling artist Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations. He has also received 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written...

. He has worked as Adams' Tour Manager for many years.

Perpick was once a part of Bryan Adams' group during his early gigging days but quit to concentrate on the equipment for Adams as he achieved success. In the song "Summer of '69

Summer of '69

"Summer of '69" is a song recorded by Canadian recording artist Bryan Adams, from his fourth studio album, Reckless . The song was written by Adams and Jim Vallance, a long-time writing partner of Adams. "Summer of '69" was produced by Adams and Bob Clearmountain. It was released in June 1985 under...

", which has become one of Bryan Adams' most famous songs, the lyric "Jimmy quit, Jody got married" directly refers to Perpick. "Jimmy" refers to drummer Jim Wesley, who worked for Adams in his club gigging days (1979-1983), who quit the band because he and Bryan did not get along.

Sound equipment

Jody Perpick’s equipment for Adams' set feature an array of BSS processing modules, such as three DPR 402 dual comp limiter/de-essers, offering six channels, and two DPR 404 quad de-essers (offering eight), along with two DPR-901 II. Perpick is known to use an FPC-900 Varicurve Remote for Bryan and the band to walk longer distances during concert.

External links

• Technical equipment used by Perpick