Joey Sturgis

Joey Sturgis (born January 3, 1985) is an American record producer and owner of The Foundation Recording Studio in Connersville, Indiana. Sturgis started recording in 2004 including producing the Asking Alexandria single "The Final Episode" which has gone on to earn an RIAA certified Gold Record. He also received RIAA-certified Gold Records for Asking Alexandria's "Not the American Average", "Moving On" and Of Mice & Men's "Second and Sebring". He has recorded over 100 albums in his career, and was known for doing a majority of the workload by himself in his early years, including engineering, mixing, mastering, and production.

Sturgis is also the founder and president of Joey Sturgis Tones, which are his own line of audio recording plugins. In 2015, he co-founded URM Academy, an online school for rock and metal mixing and production. He also co-founded Drumforge, a drum software program, and Riffhard, which is an online school for guitarists. He also started the Joey Sturgis Forum Podcast, which is now known as the URM Podcast.

Production discography

Studio albums 2000s Album Released Artist CreditPatterns of a Horizon The Devil Wears Prada Engineer, mixing, producerDear Love: A Beautiful Discord The Devil Wears Prada Engineer, mixing, producer Why Are We So Dead? Kiss the Gunner Audio production Before Their Eyes Before Their Eyes Audio engineer, audio production Against the Rest Never Again Audio engineer, engineer, mastering, mixing Dear Brothers Death Virginia Mastering, mixing The Arcanum Order At the Throne of Judgment Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer Plagues The Devil Wears Prada Audio engineer, audio production, engineer, mastering, mixing, producer Aun Aprendo Every Bridge Burned Mastering, mixing, producer Changes For the Fallen Dreams Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer Unbreakable MyChildren MyBride Audio production, orchestra production, piano programming, producer Blessed Be Our Ever After Burden of a Day Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer Armada on Mercury Kingston Falls Audio engineer, audio production, composer, mastering, mixing, producer At Dagger's Drawn Sea of Treachery Engineer, keyboards, mastering, mixing, producer Can't Fight Robots Take It Back! Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer The Dawn of My Death Before Their Eyes Audio production, mastering, mixing, producer Someday Came Suddenly Attack Attack! Audio engineer, audio production, drum programming, engineer, guitar, mastering, mixing, orchestra production, producer, sound effects Kingdom of Might Woe of Tyrants Audio engineer, audio production, composer, engineer, guest artist, mastering, producer Depravity A Plea for Purging Engineer, guest artist, mastering, mixing, producer, programming, vocals DepthsOceano Engineer, keyboards, mastering, mixing, producer, programming With Roots Above and Branches Below The Devil Wears Prada Audio engineer, audio production, engineer, mastering, mixing, producer Apologies Are for the Weak Miss May I Audio production, composer, engineer, mastering, mixing, producerGuardians The Crimson Armada Audio engineer, audio production, engineer, guest artist, mixing, producer, programming, remastering, sound effects, vocals A Constant North Rosaline ProducerRelentless For the Fallen Dreams Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer We All Have Demons The Color Morale Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer Stand Up and Scream Asking Alexandria Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer To Plant a Seed We Came as Romans Engineer, keyboards, mastering, mixing, producer, programming

2010s Album Released Artist CreditUntouchable Before Their Eyes Composer, engineer, instrumentation, mastering, mixing, producer Of Mice & Men Of Mice & Men Mastering, mixing, producer Inspired by the Threat of Failure Us, From Outside Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer To Our Forefathers I Am Abomination Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer Recover Confide Engineer, mastering, mixing, producerAttack Attack! Attack Attack! Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer Monument Miss May I Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer No Secret Revealed Affiance Mastering Speaker of the Dead Emmure Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer The End of the World Party I See Stars Mastering My Devil in Your Eyes The Color Morale Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer, vocals Truth Is... Ten After Two Mastering Reckless & Relentless Asking Alexandria Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer Great Faith in Fools The Air I Breathe Mastering, mixing The Flood Of Mice & Men Mastering, mixing, producer Dead Throne The Devil Wears Prada Keyboards, synthesizer producer Understanding What We've Grown to Be We Came as Romans Engineer, keyboards, mastering, mixing, producer, programming Digital Renegade I See Stars Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer Redemption Before Their Eyes Mastering Slave to the Game Emmure Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer The Future Again A Hero A Fake Mastering, mixing, producer Polarities Everyone Dies in Utah Mastering Death Is the Only Mortal The Acacia Strain Mastering Pardon My French Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer Two-Faced Charade Famous Last Words Foley artists, keyboard engineer, keyboards, mastering, mixing, percussion, percussion engineer, producer About That Life Attila Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer, programming, sound design, vocal editing, vocal producer Yours To Take These Hearts Mastering From Death to Destiny Asking Alexandria Engineer, producer, programming, sound design, vocal engineer, vocal producer Hollow Bodies Blessthefall Producer Tomorrow We Die Alive Born of Osiris Mastering, mixing Collapse Dangerkids Mastering, mixing What It Means to Be Defeated Dayseeker Mastering New Demons I See Stars Producer Faceless Buried in Verona Producer, engineer, mixing, mastering, vocalsEternal Enemies Emmure Producer The Resistance: Rise of The Runaways Crown the Empire Mastering Exotype Exotype Producer, engineer, mixing, masteringBeating a Dead Horse Jarrod Alonge Mastering Metanoia For All Eternity MasteringConquer Divide Conquer Divide Producer FearlessRichy NixMixing Deathless Miss May I ProducerTo Those Left Behind Blessthefall Producer The Devil Blue Stahli Mixing, producer The Young Souls Myka Relocate Producer The Black Asking Alexandria Producer

EPs Album Released Artist CreditThis Is Your Way Out Emarosa Composer, engineer, lyricist, mastering, mixing, producer Beyond the Unknown From the Shallows Audio production The Second Coming Eli ProducerFace The Day Callahan ProducerDon't Even Say A Word Run into The Shadows ProducerDreams We Came As Romans ProducerJaw Dropper I Am Abomination ProducerDigital Spaces Let's Get It Audio production, engineer, mastering, mixing, producer Now That We're Waiting Settle The Sky Engineer, mastering, mixing Zombie The Devil Wears Prada Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer The March Ahead The March Ahead ProducerThis Is Just The Beginning… Through Arteries ProducerProceedings Tides Will Turn Mastering

Compilations Album Released Artist CreditPunk Goes Crunk Punk Goes... Engineer, producer Punk Goes Pop 2 Punk Goes... Engineer, producer Punk Goes Pop 3 Punk Goes... Engineer, mixing, producer Total Breakdown Various artists Engineer, keyboards, mastering, mixing, producer, programming The Filthiest Hits...So Far Borgore Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer Rise 200 Various artists Engineer

Remix Album Released Artist CreditStepped Up and Scratched Asking Alexandria Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer

Entrepreneurship

Joey Sturgis Tones Joey Sturgis Tones are audio plugins launched and created by Joey Sturgis. Sturgis began his journey with a background in computer science during high school combined with his ability to pick up any instrument he could get his hands on. This eventually became the catalyst for his passion in audio software creation. He programmed and designed his first plugin, "Gain Reduction" a compression plugin that was praised by producer Chris Lord-Alge at the NAMM Show in 2018. He has also released plugins in collaboration with Howard Benson, Rex Brown of Pantera, Misha Mansoor of Periphery, Jeff Loomis of Arch Enemy, Ben Bruce of Asking Alexandria, multi-platinum country producer Billy Decker and others. His plugins have been used on everything from metal, to country, to pop songs such as 10,000 hours by Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber. Unstoppable Recording Machine URM Academy is an online audio school created by Joey Sturgis, Joel Wanasek and Eyal Levi, which describes itself as "the world's best online music school for rock & metal producers". Through its program Nail The Mix, the platform offers monthly mixing sessions with professionally-recorded songs and livestream commentary from the producer who originally mixed them. The program has featured bands such as Lamb of God, Asking Alexandria, The Devil Wears Prada, Chelsea Grin, Born of Osiris, A Day to Remember, Opeth, Neck Deep, Papa Roach, Meshuggah, Periphery, Gojira, Spiritbox, Angels and Airwaves, Conquer Divide, Knocked Loose, Animals As Leaders etc. and producers such as Tom Lord-Alge, Andrew Wade, Tue Madsen, Devin Townsend, Logan Mader, Jens Bogren, Kane Churko, Machine, Daniel Braunstein, Dave Otero, Will Putney among others. The platform also offers a podcast, Q&As, lessons ("Fast Track") and, as part of its Enhanced subscription, "Mix Rescue", where students submit their own mixes to be critiqued and cleaned-up during a live broadcast. that provides drum sample libraries and audio plug-ins. The company has released libraries by Taylor Larson, Luke Holland, Daniel Bergstrand, Matt Greiner and others.

Riffhard

Riffhard is an online guitar school created by Monuments guitarist John Browne, in partnership with URM Academy, and co-owned by Eyal Levi and Joel Wanasek, mainly dedicated to rhythm guitar.

Other projects

He also started the Joey Sturgis Forums Podcast, now known as the URM Podcast, which was said to "cover a range of music industry topics such as marketing, touring, mixing and producing"

Sturgis has been an active member of The Recording Academy since 2017, advocating for improving the rock and metal categories and encouraging more people to participate.

Mentorship

Over the years, prior to starting URM Academy, Sturgis mentored a handful of up-and-coming producers who eventually gained notoriety, such as Nick Sampson, Nick Scott, Nick Matzkows, Landon Tewers, Johnny Franck and Caleb Shomo of Beartooth. He also mentored two-time Grammy-Nominated Tyler Smyth in his early days. Smyth started the band DangerKids and is now known for his work with I Prevail and Falling in Reverse.