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Ridgetop Recording Studio

Ridgetop Recording Studio is a recording studio located in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota.
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Ridgetop Recording Studio is an independent audio production service. Originally started by Jerry Sutton as a hobby business, Ridgetop Recording Studio provides audio recording and production services for musicians around the Black Hills area. With a musical background starting with drums, Jerry has written, recorded, and performed multiple instruments including drums, bass, piano, synth, and voca

ls. To listen to portfolio or learn more about process and rates, contact Jerry at:

[email protected]

12/29/2023

In the vocal booth with Lawren for his full length album

12/26/2023

Sometimes you gotta play along with the drummer while he records to get that extra tight groove. Proud to be a part of the drum tracking for the new Diaphane.

12/19/2023

Recording a mixtape with C-Critt Veda

12/14/2023

Recording Acoustic guitar for full length album with Tracy

12/11/2023

Recording drums with Edward Flammond for some new Diaphane tracks

12/08/2023

Working on a full length album in the control room with Lawren and the boys.

10/14/2023

New control room feels right

10/11/2023

Installing the glass between control room and drum room. Window for vocal booth is next!

09/23/2023

New studio space is coming along nicely. Excited to show everyone. Stay tuned.

08/30/2023

A new era. Stay tuned.

04/05/2023

Another pedal added to the studio collection.

03/30/2023

Recording drums with Edward Flammond for the new Diaphane

03/27/2023

Introducing our newest guitar to the studio collection: the Charvel pro-mod DK24. This is easily our most versatile guitar to date, tone for days

03/21/2023

Added a new eq pedal to our board

03/15/2023

Kyle playing along during drum tracking for a new project with Diaphane.

03/07/2023

02/24/2023

If you already have a mixing engineer that you like to work with but is located far away, we can help record your vocals and then send the tracks to them for mixdown.

01/17/2023

Recording a new single with Alexander Moen for This Island Earth

Address

2017 SD-44, Suite #52
Rapid City, SD
57703

Website

https://www.ridgetoprecordingstudio.com/

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Throwback to our drum recording session with Diaphane #drums #drumrecording #recordingstudio #recordingsession #meinlcymbals

Recording for a full length with Tracy

When the beat hits just right in the booth

Recording drums with @diaphane_official #recordingstudio #drums #warmaudio #empiricallabs #kemper #wamplerpedals #bosspedals

Recording drums for new record with @diaphane_official #recordingstudio #drums #drummer #sonordrums #remodrumheads #ludwigsnare #meinlcymbals

Our new website is here. Take a peak and listen to our updated portfolio while you're there. Thanks for looking 🎶🎧🎛 Www.ridgetoprecordingstudio.com

Big shout out to Von Varagon Society for their new release. You can celebrate with them tonight at The Cave Collective: Von Varagon Society EP Release Party w/ Modern Folklore + Siren and the Ivans

Big Announcement

studio update

When the mix makes you wanna move 🤩 Half way done mixing an EP for The Cody Blackbird Band, all the way from Phoenix, Arizona!

Wrapping up guitars for the Von Varagon Society EP.

Got an opportunity to demo a very unique piece of gear this weekend. Check out this sweet Eurorack module called "Beet Tweek" designed by Trevor Cash. There's a kickstarter running for another month if you'd like to support, dropping a link in the comments.

Double Deuce in the studio featuring on a track with Trapster

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Trichotomy Studio

Trichotomy Studio is a music recording studio founded by Jerry Sutton in the beautiful Black Hills of Rapid City, South Dakota. Specializing in the rock and metal genre, Trichotomy Studio provides audio tracking, mixing, and mastering for enthusiasts of any genre.

Trichotomy Studio has recorded with a variety of professional bands and producers to create industry quality studio and live releases. Dedicated to helping both veteran and aspiring artists alike, Trichotomy Studio provides the tools you need to bring your musical vision to life.

SERVICES:

Tracking/Engineering

Bring the band into the studio to record your music. The recordings space includes a sound-treated drum room that is used for most live takes. With natural wood floors, slanted ceilings up to 12’ tall, and wooden beams for acoustic diffusion, the live room has an optimized frequency response that also maintains a natural decay to bring out the best in your instrument’s overtones. With a growing collection of over 30 microphones, the opportunity to find your band’s unique sound has never been easier.

Mixing

This is where the sound of a record really starts to unfold. Whether you have tracked on your own or in a studio, a good mix can make or break your sound. Trichotomy Studio mixes using a multitude of professional digital and analog effects to achieve the best balance of warmth and clarity. The process involves listening to the mix through a variety of different headphones and speakers to ensure that your record will sound great through any kind of audio playback system.

TimeAligning

Whether you want to tighten up a few musical phrases or align every pick stroke to the drums, time aligning instruments to a metronome can have a profound impact on your listeners. By using industry standard slip-edit and stretch method techniques, a sloppy riff can turn into a performance of precision that will keep your listeners nodding their heads to the beat.

Pitch Correction

Pitch correction has become an undeniable standard for today’s professional recordings. Trichotomy Studio uses both Melodyne and Auto-Tune software to correct vocals. Pitch-correction is used as little as possible, and only where needed. This allows the vocal mix to maintain the unique characteristics of a musician’s voice, but without the cringe from being out of tune.

Re-Amping

Send your clean guitar/bass tracks recorded from a Direct-Input box and you'll receive recorded tones that will make your songs come alive. Between the Kemper Profiler and collection of various amps, cabs, impulse responses, and microphones, there is an entire playground of professional equipment to dial in the tone that will bring out your instruments’ full expressive potential.

Drum Sample Replacement

Trichotomy Studio has a collection of exclusive drum tones recorded in-house by a live drummer. These samples contain the natural and expressive sounds of a real drummer in a unique drum room. Unfortunately, not all bands have the opportunity to record in such an environment. If this is your case, then you might consider drum sample replacement. The studio uses professional gating software to sample replace both triggers and microphone tracks with a collection of samples that has taken years of fine-tuning to get the unique sounds that can’t be bought anywhere else. Drums to MIDI conversion included upon request.

Mastering

An often overlooked, but critical step. Trichotomy Studio has the capability to master it's own recordings as well as others using high quality mastering software. With a sound treated control room and calibrated monitors/subwoofers, the studio achieves a near-flat frequency response with minimal phase cancellation. Mastering services include equalization optimization, dynamics processing, dithering, noise removal/cancellation, and loudness maximization.

https://www.trichotomystudio.com/