Sturgis Archives

Why Should you Use an Expander on your DI

Brandon S Hire :A/D, Amp, analyzer, Audio, Compression, Compressor, concepts, Converters, daw, db, dbfs, DI, Digital, expander, expanders, expansion, facebook, Factory, floor, Gain, Gain Reduction, guitar, Guitars, HoRNet, I/O, Instrument, Joey, Joey Sturgis, Joey Sturgis Tones, JST, melda, MeldaProduction, Multi, noise, noise floor, Nomad, plugin, Plugins, Production, REAPER, Reduction, Signal To Noise Ratio, Sturgis, Track Utility February 28, 2017

MELDAPRODUCTION MMULTIANALYZER NOISE FLOOR ANALYSIS WITH EXPANDER ENGAGED In the first picture, you’ll see 4 colored bands on the analyzer. The red band is the noise floor of my interface, and it’s reading down around -110dbfs. The dark orange band at the very bottom is where the expander is pushing that noise floor to, down […]

Gear Reviews/ In The Studio/ Recording Techniques/ Software Reviews

Understanding Drum Sample Libraries

Brandon S Hire Addictive Drums 2, Audio, Ballou, beato, Channel, Compression, Custom, Cymbals, daw, demo, DRT, Drum, Drumagogg, Drumforge, drums, Effects, EQ, GUI, Instruments, Jay, Jigsaw, Joey, Kick, Kick 10, Kit, Kontakt, Kurt, Libraries, Library, Maas, making a Scene, Massey, MAutoAlign, melda, MeldaProduction, Midi, Mix, Mix Ready, Mono, Multi, Multichannel, Native, One Shot, Pack, plugin, Plugins, Processed, Producers, Production, Randy, Randy Staub, Raw, REAPER, rick, Room, Room Sound, Routing, Sample, Sampler, Samples, Slate Digital, Snare, Sound, Sound Radix, SSD4, SSD5, Staub, Stereo, Steven Slate Drums, Sturgis, Trigger, Unprocessed, wav, Workflow, XLN Audio, youtube February 24, 2017

Understanding Drum Sample Libraries From bedroom producers, to the top brass mixing engineers with multiple grammies, there are a lot of people who use drum samples in their mixes. Joey Sturgis is famous for using Kick 10 from Steven Slate Drums in many of his productions (although now Joey Sturgis has his own sample library […]

Hardware Reviews/ Recording Techniques/ Software Reviews

Do we really need more 1176 plugin models?

Brandon S Hire :1176, 1176 compressors, Analog, Andrew, Andrew Scheps, Audio, Audiophiles, Audioware, Bus, CLA-76, Comp76, Deluxe, Devil-Loc, Driver, facebook, Factory, Fattener, FET, FETpressor, FG-116, Gain, Gain Reduction, Home Recording, iOS, Joey, JST, Klevgr, Korvpressor, LA-2A, Modeling, Monster, Nomad, Optical, Opto, Overloud, plugin, Plugins, PSP, Puremix, Puremix.com, Recording Techniques, Reduction, Sausage, Scheps, Slate, Slate Digital, software reviews, Sound, Sound Toys, Steven Slate, Stillwell, Sturgis, The Rocket, Tones, Toys, Universal, Universal Audio, Urei, WA76, warm, Zac Brown Band February 15, 2017

Back in the day, we had hardware. Since then, we started using software. Over the years, we’ve become better and better at developing this software so that it fools the trained ear into thinking it’s hardware. We make it move, overload, have noise, and try to recreate the exact sonic imprint of the hardware. We’ve […]