The Producer’s Guide To Synthesizers & Sweeteners eBook

The Producer’s Guide To Synthesizers & Sweeteners eBook

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The Producer’s Guide to Synthesizers & Sweeteners is an in depth guide on how synthesizers & samples can improve your music production.

This eBook is included FREE in JST VIP! Click here to learn more.

As producers, the more eclectic our experiences, the more we’re able to bring to the table for the artists we work with. Learning new approaches and techniques to help realize the final production audio our artists are after is key to our success. Most producers with a musical background (musician producers) have a bit of a leg up on those without simply based on their ability to speak the language of the musicians they’re working with.

Regardless of your past musical experience, there’s plenty you can do to stand out from the rest of the production crowd using the two main elements we’re going to discuss here: synthesizers and samples. While these two elements will also benefit from a bit of musical proficiency (especially for those familiar with playing the piano), there’s a whole lot more to understand than music theory and dexterity.

This guide isn’t going to teach you how to play piano. We’re not even going to go into scales, notes, relative majors/minors or any other type of music theory. This guide is dedicated to the craft of building your productions up with synthesized & sampled sounds. It’s about how you can add impact and emotion to your productions in a way that no other instrument can. It’s about adding scale to your work and depth to your music.

With our roadmap as your guide, you should be able to pick up any modern synthesizer and immediately recognize the controls at your disposal. You should be able to not only speak intelligently about these tools, but you should be able to guide the discussions. You can always bring in somebody to play the parts you want in your song – this guide is about getting those parts to sound their best by controlling the virtual instrument or outboard synth; not letting them control you.

Finally, we’re going to dive into the world of using samples in your music. Whether you’re trying to use cinematic stingers like gunshots, explosions & sound effects or you’re trying to add atmosphere with ambient recordings, we’ll explain how those samples can integrate with your session in a musical, supportive way.

By the end of this guide, you should feel confident that you can get the sound you want every single time. You’ll have the ability to select what fits into a song quickly and efficiently, and you’ll look like an absolute production master to your clients and competition. And that all starts with making sure you know your role in the recording process…

What You'll Learn

How synthesizers and sweetners can fit into your workflow
How to use synths effectively in your arrangements
Learn types of synths and their roles in music production
The main elements of synthesizers and working with them
Getting creative with sample-based synthesis
Designing your own sounds and how to process them
Using sampled leads, cinematic samples, and more

Specifications

Instant Download
50+ Pages
7,000+ Words
PDF File Format

Toneforge™ Metal Starter Pack

$586.88 $179.00

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This is everything you need for creating and mixing insane guitar and bass tones in your metal audio productions.

Create bone-crushing bass tones with Bassforge™ Hellraiser and turn up the Clank! Forge your perfect guitar tone with Toneforge™ Misha Mansoor Advanced using 36 different tone stacks and built-in processing. Learn the art of artfully forging tones and become a master with Toneforge™ Bootcamp.

And if that's not enough, you'll get an entire year of audio production training from Joey Sturgis and pro mix critiques with JST VIP - all included!

Here's What You'll Get

Bassforge Hellraiser (Brutal bass tone solution with built-in mixing tools and all the clank you'll ever need)
Toneforge Misha Mansoor (The ultimate in tone control for guitars including an unmatched emulation of Horizon Devices Precision Drive)
Toneforge Misha Mansoor Advanced (Featuring back of amp for fine-tuned adjustments of bias, transformer, poweramp, and more)
Misha's Presets (11 presets created by Misha with everything from dreamy to punishing)
Toneforge Bootcamp Course (30+ videos of high-impact education)
Tonestep System (20+ videos, Complete Tone Mastery Course, 6 weeks of training)
The Expert's Guitar and Bass EQ Cheat Sheet (definitive EQ guide for mixing tones)
Joey's Ultimate Podfarm Vault (50+ tones from all of Joey's albums)
Toneforge Mastery Preset Library (TONS of Toneforge presets for insanely creative tones)
Tone Zone Community Access (100's of audio producers just like you collaborating together)
Pro Mix Critiques (Submit your mix and you'll get Joey's professional opinion on what's wrong, what's right, and what to do next with your mix to make it amazing)
JST Tutorials (Learn how to master the tools you love and get the most out of them)
JST VIP Live (Take a seat in the producer's chair to discover all kinds of new tactics, techniques, and more all while interacting with Joey live)
VIP Plugins (Access to our more adventurous plugins for VIP members only)
Member Only Discounts (The best of the best discounts on all things JST and JSD)
JST VIP Facebook Group (Our incredible community of elite audio producers who are focused and hungry)
Signature & Premium Tonepacks (Downloadable sets of premium and signature guitar or bass tones created by your favorite musicians, artists, producers, and engineers for use in units such as Line 6 Helix, Kemper, Axe FX, and more)

Crossgrade / Upgrade

Own one or more of these products? No problem! Click here to get custom pricing.

Requirements

Free iLok user account (Host deposit, iLok 2+, and iLok Cloud are supported)
iLok dongle is not required
Audio plugins require compatible DAW

Compatibility

Mac OSX 10.8+
Windows 7+ 32 or 64 bit

Supported DAWs

Cubase
Pro Tools
Logic
Reaper
Studio One
Ableton

Gain Reduction™️ 2

$199.00 $99.00

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Gain Reduction™️ 2

Gain Reduction™️ 2 is unmatched control of your vocals in one audio plugin.

More details, sounds, and demonstrations coming soon.

Features

Compression Modes - Choose between heavy or light compression to fit the style and genre you're working with
Warmth - Add tube saturation to heat up your vocals and unlock rich harmonics in your vocal sound
Clarity - Remove harsh unwanted frequencies from your vocals - automatically and dynamically detected
Breath - Intelligent control of breathing in between syllables all in a simple knob
Slay - Set the exact amount of compression you desire to achieve the perfect dynamic balance
Sibilance - Decide exactly how much "ess" you want in your signal with a single knob
Body - Control the exact amount of low-end and low-mids in your vocal with this setting
Air - Add air to your vocal and make it float on the mix with ease, just turn up the air and fly!
Mix - Balance the output of GR2 with your input signal at any level
Contextual Visualizer - See exactly what you're doing to the audio as you're changing it with detailed visual feedback

Includes

One single-user license
VST2, VST3, AAX, AU audio plugin formats
User manual

Requirements

Free iLok user account (Host deposit, dongle, and iLok Cloud are supported)
iLok dongle is not required
Audio plugin requires compatible DAW

Compatibility

Mac OSX 10.8+
Windows 7+ 32 or 64 bit

Supported DAWs

Cubase
Pro Tools
Logic
Reaper
Ableton
Studio One

Customer Reviews

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Bassforge™️ Rex Brown

$149.00 $139.00

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Bassforge™️ Rex Brown

Joey Sturgis Tones teams up with legendary bassist Rex Brown of Pantera to bring you his classic bass tones you’ve come to know and love with a JST twist. From rock and metal to southern rock and country - Bassforge™️ Rex Brown delivers a powerful force of tonal options to forge your bass tone with ease.

Bassforge™️ is a series of audio plugins designed to take any direct input bass signal all the way to fully mixed bass tone each with a unique all-in-one design. No other plugins necessary, Bassforge™️ is your complete bass guitar tone solution.

Video Demonstrations

Audio Examples

All audio performances are not performed by Rex Brown and are strictly for the purpose of demonstrating the tones possible by use of the plugin.

Features

Versatile Gain-Morphing Bass Amp with Dual Bank Instant Recall
Forge your tone with unique Drive, Contour, Thump, and Bark controls
Amp Bank controlled 7-Band EQ for dialing in the perfect frequency balance per bank
Custom Vintage Tube Pre-amp Pedal for maximum gain and distortion control
Robust Cab Room featuring PR40, U87, D112, and JST Sub Kick microphone models with Ampeg 8x10 Cab Model
First-ever JST Preset Manager for recalling or trading your favorite tones
Built-in Impulse Response loader for importing your own bass cab sounds
Powerful Chorus and Reverb Effect Pedals for expanding your bass sounds
5-Band Parametric EQ for maximum EQ shaping capabilities
Unique built-in Crossover / Compression mixer to separate and mix the low and high end separately or together

Includes

One single-user license
VST2, VST3, AAX, AU audio plugin formats
Stand-alone application
Incredible set of presets capturing a wide range of producer sourced tones as well as Rex's iconic bass sounds
User manual

Requirements

Free iLok user account (Host deposit, dongle, and iLok Cloud are supported)
iLok dongle is not required
Audio plugin requires compatible DAW
Stand-alone application requires compatible operating system

Compatibility

Mac OSX 10.8+
Windows 7+ 32 or 64 bit

Supported DAWs

Cubase
Pro Tools
Logic
Reaper
Studio One

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