13 Facts About Joey Sturgis

Joey Sturgis was born on January 3,1985 and is an American record producer and owner of The Foundation Recording Studio in Connersville, Indiana.

Joey Sturgis 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.

Joey Sturgis co-founded Drumforge, a drum software program, and Riffhard, which is an online school for guitarists.

Joey Sturgis started the Joey Sturgis Forum Podcast, which is known as the URM Podcast.

Joey Sturgis Tones are audio plugins launched and created by Joey Sturgis.

Joey 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.

Joey Sturgis 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.

Joey Sturgis has 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.

Joey Sturgis's plugins have been used on everything from metal, to country, to pop songs such as 10,000 hours by Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber.

Joey Sturgis has released libraries by Taylor Larson, Luke Holland, Daniel Bergstrand, Matt Greiner and others.

Joey Sturgis 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".

Joey 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.

Joey Sturgis mentored two-time Grammy-Nominated Tyler Smyth in his early days.