Lockjaw

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Background

"Lockjaw" was an instrumental song created in 2008 by Mike Shinoda exclusively for Digidesign while reviewing their ProTools 8 software.[1]

Mike Shinoda wrote on his blog: "They let me borrow the new Protools 8, I made them a song, did and interview for their site, and spoke at their booth at NAMM."[2]

On December 10, 2008, a video of Mike working on the song was posted in his blog. During the video, Rob Bourdon can be seen recording drums for the song.

After watching the video, a lot of fans started to ask Mike to release the song, so he gave it to LPU members[3] as an early Christmas gift on December 12, 2008.

On December 4, 2009, Mike wrote on his blog:

"I don’t rant often, but this particular note deserves it. I’ll write this while the studio computer is restarting. Here’s the deal. I hope you guys at Digidesign are reading.

ProTools is friggin crashing…every time I zoom in too far.

What?

I can’t zoom?

The engineers and I have tried to hunt down the root of this problem (online) for a month. We haven’t come up with anything. We then called the Digidesign artist relations team, who have told us 3 times “OK, give us a time when you guys will be in the studio, and we’ll call you.” They flake. Every time. Ethan (our engineer) asked if we could call them. “No, because we need a tech on the phone…” And so on.

To be fair, I know these guys are busy actually fixing this bug…but this is industry-standard software. Your average ProTools rig is about $30-50,000.00. I want to be able to, um…zoom. I hear that Logic and Cubase both zoom in. Even Garage Band zooms in, and that came free with my computer.

And after I did lockjaw and helped them promote PT8…and the NAMM appearance…and tell everyone how awesome their stuff is, maybe they could at least give a fella a call back."[4]

Versions

Note: Only the date of the very first release of each version is listed.

Title Album Length Recorded Released Notes
Lockjaw 2:29 December 2008 December 12, 2008
  • Created by Mike while reviewing ProTools 8 for DigiDesign.
  • Rob recorded drums for the song.
  • Released as an early Christmas gift for LPU members on December 12, 2008.

Personnel

  • Mike Shinoda
  • Rob Bourdon

References