The History of Sound Logic !

After working and becoming somewhat successful in the music business for 4 or 5 years, I decided that it was time to open my own studio!   With a $20,000 loan I rented a very krapy building next to the food kitchen in downtown Saint Joseph MO

For the first year I only recorded bands.   I didn't have much income and the gear was not the best, but we were doing a lot of work!   The console was a soundtracks solo logic (with automation!)   I did have a focusrite red 7 and a AKG 414.    I think that every track I recorded, got run through those two pieces of equipment!   At the time I could not afford A-Dats, so I had to rent them from a local engineer.   Every hour that I put on the adat I had to pay him $5.00!    Needless to say, I was always bouncing tracks down and doing everything that I could to keep mixes under 16 tracks!

After a year of demo recording I decided it was time to get some better toys and really make this fly!  I had built up enough equity and professional presence that I was able to get a decent loan and purchase a beautiful "row" house in downtown Saint Joseph.   I I spent the next 5 months converting it into a studio.  We started out with a tascam M3700 console, and the outboard gear list started to grow

                                                                Sound Logic Recording in Saint Joseph MO

The new building meant that I had to have a new clientele.   Over the next 5 years, Sound Logic turned into a large corporate studio producing jingles, albums, post production and on hold messages.   We became very successful in the jingle market, and produced over 200 songs that were sold as "production music"  

In late 2002 My family and I decided to move home to Indiana and take over another corporation.  Sound Logic of MO went to Phil Vandel.  Phil was the chief jingle writer for Sound Logic of MO, and lead singer of the NCAA country artist of the year, The Dixie Catalics.   I was going to get out of the business for a while!   I still had a few contracts that had to be fuffilled so  we built a large studio in the basement of our home in West Lafayette Indiana.   for 1 year, I only did a few projects.  Mostly mixing for labels.    One day, I got introduced to Scott Rottler.   Scott was a Nashville engineer working with a local band that I was friends with.  He walked into my basement, and fell to the floor!    "what da hell do you have that beautiful Neve sitting down here for?"    He spent the next year convincing me that we needed to build a large studio!   After lots of planning, refinancing, and paying for lots of ulcer medication, we built Sound Logic LLC,  The largest studio in a cornfield!

Sound Logic as a home studio in West Lafayette Indiana:

For the most part we planned, constructed, wired and built the new Sound Logic LLC ourselves.  It has been one of the biggest challenges of my life and I am very proud of how everything has turned out!

Jeff Anderson

                                            Jeff Anderson and Scott Rottler,    Sound Logic LLC opening, 2006.

We also founded Visual Logic productions as well as  Digital Logic.  Our row house had turned into a 4 room facility producing some very cool things!  Over the years our gear list grew tremendously!   We went through quite a few consoles, tascam, neotek, status 18R, Sound Workshop, then a 1600 lb Otari Series 54 with flying faders!