Jerry / Johnson
Programmer and drum tech. Los Angeles based, working worldwide — live and in the studio.
I’m the person artists call when the show simply has to work.
For years I’ve been programming the rigs, prepping the kits and holding the technical world together so the music can happen — MainStage show files, patches, triggering, tuning and session prep. The part of the job nobody sees is the part I care most about.
Leading with programming isn’t a change of career. It’s the honest description of what the work has become: modern shows run on files and systems, and someone has to build them so they never fail. The drum teching underneath is what trained the ear that makes the programming good.
228 verified credits, 468 collaborators, and a Tour Link “Top Dog” award for Drum Tech of the Year. But the thing I’d rather be known for is that production managers sleep better when I’m on the crew.
— Jerry Johnson
What I bring
Two disciplines that reinforce each other — and one standard across both.
Programming
MainStage rigs, patches and show files — built clean, documented, and run bulletproof night after night.
Drum teching
Tuning, maintenance, kit builds and triggering for tour and studio, at the highest level.
Session & pre-production prep
Rooms and kits ready before the artist walks in, so the first take is a usable one.
A calm crew
Thirty years of tour buses has taught me the technical problem is rarely the hard part. People are. I’m easy to have around.
Let’s make your next show
sound exactly right.
Tours, one-offs, studio sessions and programming. Seven-day minimum on all engagements.
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