
Jett is a Boston-based sound engineer pursuing Music Production & Engineering studies with a minor in Acoustics & Electronics in Berklee College of Music.
Recipient of the 2012 Robin Coxe-Yeldham Women in Audio Award, Jett's experience in audio engineering dates back to 2005 when she merged her 2 passions--music & technology--by becoming a full-fledged sound engineer. Jett was taken under the wing of multi-awarded sound engineer, Robbie Grande, as an apprentice in the SFX Digital Sound Studios (Quezon CIty, Philippines) where she spent more than 4 years training & working full-time in the recording studios before attending Berklee to pursue formal sound engineering studies.
Since then, she has had the opportunity to work for various artists spanning across different genres (Seth Macfarlane, Javier Limon, Livingston Taylor, Philippine Madrigal Singers, Noel Cabangon, Bukas Palad, & the Aegis Band, among others)
Besides audio engineering, Jett is also an accomplished soprano who, as a member of the Ateneo Chamber Singers & Ateneo College Glee Club, has toured & performed in various countries spanning across Europe (Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Italy, & Netherlands), Asia ( (Japan, & Singapore) and the Americas.
She has also sung & engineered for various Philippine film scores and TV specials such as Mulawin: The Movie, Batanes, and Maging Akin Muli, among others.
Aside from her sound engineering studies in Berklee College of Music, Jett is currently busy with her duties as the choir director for the bi-weekly Boston Filipino masses held in Boston College / MIT. She also works part-time as a web & graphics designer for Berklee's Stan Getz Media Center & Library.
Jett looks forward to growing more as musician and audio engineer as she continues her studies in the Berklee College of Music. She continues to be grateful each day for this opportunity to grow, learn from and be inspired by Berklee’s distinguished professors, and fellow musicians in campus.
Finally finished working on Joseph Legaspi’s album. From recording in a concert hall in Indiana University (during the heat wave) to mixing back in Boston during the summer break, the whole project was a memorable, worthwhile learning experience. Salamat, Jolegs!
Here’s a sample of one of the songs we worked on.
“Sarung Banggi”
Traditional folk song from the Bicol region
Album: “Songs From Home: Arts Songs and Folk Songs from the Philippines”
Baritone - Joseph Legaspi (http://www.josephlegaspi.net)
Piano - James Hart
Arranged by - Joy T. Nilo
Recorded, mixed and mastered by - Jett Galindo
Recorded live at Indiana University, Bloomington
“Moving and Changing”
by Khalil Overton
an MP320 Music Production project
This is the result of a semester-long project for “MP320 Music Production” class. I’m grateful to have shared the experience with Khalil. Brilliant vocalist & songwriter!
Special thanks to HaYoung Chung for the lush orchestration work. And to everyone who got involved one way or another (assisting, critiques, epic morale boost), thank you!
Songwriting & Vocals - Khalil Overton
Piano - Kata Kozma
Acoustic guitar - Noah Lee
Elec/Upright bass - Jonathan Clifford Lee
Drums - Jared Pascale
Violins - Tanner Johnson
Viola & Cello - Naseem Khalil Alatrash
Flute - Hakyung Chung
Producer - Jett Galindo
Arranger - Hayoung Chung
Recording Engineer - Erik Mathias Schuster / Jett Galindo
Mix Engineer - Rudy Olivares / Jett Galindo
MP320 Professor - Mitchell Benoff
Bought an 8-channel audio snake & 2 new pairs of shoes during the 4th of July weekend sales. My day is made.
desperate times call for desperate measures. recording drum tracks at the practice rooms w/ the ever-reliable jared pascale. thank you jared!
these came in the mail today. after months of saving up. just in time for upcoming location recording projects. i’m in love
built a flashing LED circuit today for Microphone Theory & Design class. who knew soldering would feel therapeutic.
my take on Philippine tourism. slap an ipad sign while giving out ginataang mais to hungry musicians.
- Asian Student @ Berklee Food Festival, Nov. 19 2010
i hate the feeling you get when you jump into a petty self-deprecating conclusion about something and it haunts you throughout the rest of the day
keep it together, jett
my favorite song is “I Hate Myself For Loving You”. i’ve always liked it since i was a kid. and it’s still fun to sing. i should probably grab my dad’s LP’s and cassettes and start listening to more joan jett and the blackhearts again :)
i haven’t watched The Runaways yet. a bit ambivalent about watching it though, with kristen stewart playing her.
i was named after 80’s rock singer, joan jett. my parents wanted their kids’ names to start with the letter “j”, and joan jett was their favorite artist when i was born. the rest was history.
“pay some mind”, written by fellow mp&e geek sean woestehoff
i got dragged into singing backup vocals for a folk blues tune my friend has written for his songwriting class. since taking “history of music city” class last semester and doing my report on country music production in prod analysis class, i’ve been looking forward to getting involved with folk blues/rock here in berklee. not that my voice works for that genre. but there’s just something raw and organic about folk music that draws me to it. way awesome that i got dragged into recording backup for sean’s final songwriting project.
my soundalike project: “Basketcase” by Green Day
jorel’s singing the lead vocals, that’s me in the background. come to think of it, i’ve sung in 3 soundalike recordings this semester, all of them for male vocal tracks.
(…my voice is getting more and more schizo nowadays)
the drums are sequenced from MIDI by my partner, daniel, using Xpand. guitars were also tracked by daniel. i was in charge of the dirty work—editing, mixing, and mastering.
fun times
day 50: august 1 2010 | linggo
i saved more than 50% on groceries today. frugality FTWIN!
sigh. i’m really no songwriter. hah, don’t know when i’ll ever stop saying this but nevertheless, here goes my final harmony project. we have to write a song, and we’re given free reign on the song form and style. the important criteria is the harmonic progression, tensions and the subsequent analysis.
i ended up torturing myself by opting to do a tagalog a capella vocal arrangement. i’ve never arranged for voice before, although singing acapella pieces for most of my lifetime helped. and i figured i’d probably be the only one to submit an all-vocal recording. i’m not too confident with my filipino lyrics either, but the sound of filipino words in a classroom filled with foreign students is music to my ears… :)