And I’ve got two engineers plus me, so we’ve got three people who are attacking the song at all times. So I took everything else that was audio, and put it into Cubase and recreated the entire record from scratch.

Or I’d have to reload the instrument and figure out which setting I used and how did I turn that knob, and I couldn’t remember. I was actually working on a project when all this happened so we recorded everything and we got to the point where we were doing keyboards and everytime I tried to open a session it would crash, or certain keyboard parts would get deleted or wouldn’t work.

I just took the loss, and went back to Cubase. And I had a decent system, I bought an HD3, with a crazy Mac. As much as I needed to try to figure it out, it was crashing, it wouldn’t work, it was slow. At the end of it I realized this wasn’t going to work for me. I bought Pro Tools at one point when I thought I was going to be working with a bunch of people that used it…So I got it, learned it, and used it for like three months. And then downstairs is the main tracking room where we do guitars, bass and vocals, and the band lives down there. We’ve got the whole setup in the basement, and a setup upstairs where I do all my mixing and post-production. We have a bunch of land - it’s very private. We’ve got a log cabin out in the country. Sturgis behind the board at Pearl Sound Studio, where he often tracks drums for his projects In the following interview, Sturgis talks about his studio, his unusual but effective production and mastering techniques and the plug-ins he creates. “I’m basically breaking down the entire process.” I’m going to be sitting in a studio and I’m going to be telling you from start to finish, how I approach the song, how to record the guitars, how to edit them, how to work with the artist, and how to mix it, ” says Sturgis. “You’re going to have cameras on me for two days, eight hours a day.

On Wednesday February 4 th and Thursday Feburary 5 th, Sturgis will be the focus of a free recording workshop, “Studio Pass: Joey Sturgis, ” which can be viewed live on from 2PM to 9PM EST. The multi-talented Sturgis is also a plug-in designer, and whose company, Joey Sturgis Tones, puts out a compressor called Gain Reduction that Sturgis created based on his own mixing experience – and uses on all his productions - as well as numerous other production plug-ins.

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