Artist Reviews - Tone Empire

Tom Salta

Composer, Producer, Songwriter

Tom Salta is an American recording artist and soundtrack composer. He has composed soundtracks for many popular video game titles, including Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 1 & 2, Cold Fear, Red Steeland Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. Salta’s score for Red Steel received an award for “Best Original Score” in IGN’s Best of 2006 awards. Salta works in multimedia including film, television, advertising, and video games.

“Goliath is easy and intuitive to use but the flexibility it has makes it one of those go-to plugins that could have a use in every mix.”

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Sal Oliveri

Grammy Nominated Producer/ Songwriter

Raised in the shadows of Manhattan, Sal Oliveri developed a diverse musical background. His grandmother, an opera singer, and father, a golden-voiced “crooner”, set the bar high for Sal when it came to execution and musical taste. By age 4, Sal was riveted to pop radio and his upright piano. Before long, Sal was performing as musical director and keyboardist at Harlem’s famous “Cotton Club” and hitting the NJ/NY studio scene. Soon after, Sal relocated to Nashville where his musical efforts quickly earned him a #1 single he co-wrote and a Grammy Nomination for best Rock Album.

“I recently added Tone-Empire’s Goliath plugin to my workflow…and then retired 3 other plugins! It’s that good! Every source I ran thru Goliath came out better… punchier, thicker, more attitude… it’s a no-brainer-tone-machine!”

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Clarence Jey

Grammy and Emmy Nominated Composer/ Producer

Clarence Ranjith Jeyaretnam[1] better known as Clarence Jey is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter of Sri Lankan Tamil heritage who has had music chart on the US Billboard Hot 100, a Grammy-winning record and worked on various award-winning US television shows including an Emmy-nominated show.

“Tone-Empire’s Goliath is the best saturation plugin on the market! The controls make it an extremely detailed and flexible plugin and a great go-to Channel Strip for my work!”

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Eddie Wohl

Emmy Winning Producer / Composer / Keyboard Player / Mixer / Engineer

Eddie Wohl is a 5 time Emmy Award winner. Eddie Woul has produced at least 25 albums for various artists including Anthrax, Jesse Malin, Smile Empty Soul, Ill Nino and H2O. He has also produced recordings featuring Bruce Springsteen, Jakob Dylan, Roger Daltrey, Chino Moreno (Deftones), Jada Pinkett and Ryan Adams, as well as played keyboards and co-produce/write in a band with Brett Scallions (Fuel) and Sean Danielsen (Smile Empty Soul) called World Fire Brigade.

“Once you put this on, It already makes your mix better!”

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Youssef Guezoum

Film / TV & Game Composer, Power Rangers, Full Love ( JCVD ), CSI Miami

Based in Los Angeles, Youssef Guezoum (AKA) Joe is a film, television and video games music composer.Joe scored the feature movie Full Love written and directed by the action superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme. Shortly after the release of Full Love, Joe started underscoring and composing many theme songs with many award-winning producers for a plethora of television series, such as NFL-CBS Sport Paramount Pictures, Immediate Music, Universal Music, and Lion’s Gate to name a few.

Goliath brings a phenomenal sound and magic to my music. As a film composer, this plugin is a powerful tool to bring amazing tones to my scores.

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Saurabh kumar

Music producer/sound Engineer, India

A Graduate in Film Audiography from FTII (Pune), Saurabh Kumar is an Indian Composer, Producer, Sound designer, Mixing engineer and Educator. He has composed and produced music for a lot of TV commercials, Radio and Films as well. As an Educator he has been part of all the major Film Schools and Universities across India.

Came across one of the finest Analog style Tube EQ’s ( BlackQ ) by “Tone Empire” with sweet analog warmth and colour, extra saturation can be achieved via the drive knob as well. Put it on my mixbuss and the whole mix instantly transformed with a beautiful analog vibe. This would be my go to analog style eq’s from now onwards on every mix.