Our Macleod Trail location opens local artists up to a no corner cut recording experience. Our 1 NRC panel treated studios coupled with our world class gear grants clients immediate access to a fine tuned professional recording. Our on site engineers offer industry grade mixes and radio ready masters. Our studio hosts a collection of some of the most sought after gear in the audio industry and is the only location in Calgary to offer the coveted SONY C800G microphone. We also deal in corporate, audiobook and non visual podcast recordings and are equipped to handle all things audio post process - including elimination of mouth clicks, harshness, sibilants and mud.

Our professionally tuned acoustics promise the perfect environment to showcase your art. Many big name artists refuse studio time if said location doesn’t carry gear such as the C800G and stereo BAE 1073, pieces we proudly offer. Great acoustics and world class signal chains colour your vocals and provide signals so clean they practically fall into a great mix. Our gear selection is so vast that you’d be hard pressed finding a chain that doesn’t compliment you the way Hollywood stars rely on, the customization is yours. We have multiple studios in house which sound different, both which are treated with 1 NRC rated panels. Our recording engineers can provide you with instant feedback and custom signal chains on the fly. Our mathematically positioned monitors (including the legendary NS10’s and Auratones) provides you with the most accurate picture your sound can possibly be displayed. You don’t need to confine yourself to a boxy sounding closet, cheap microphone, arduous recording process, spending 15k+ on a microphone, lack of signal customization, lack of processing power, inaccurate image. We believe your art deserves to be treated the same way the likes of Mike Dean treats his. So you can record at home if you’d like, but we believe a better question would be why would you want that?

Mixing and mastering engineers spend years honing their ear, which in turn brings your projects to mainstream requirements while staying faithful to your vision. A proper mix takes hours to execute, and as an artist you should have the option to allocate that stress to a professional and thereby spend more time excelling your craft. Full and diverse imaging options (multiple stereo monitors) as well as a properly treated environment is critical in achieving a Hollywood grade production. We’ve built our studio ground up to assure each of these requirements are masterfully checked. We use rare and time tested digital/analog gear (ex. UA 1176, Lexicon PCM 80) to achieve the same results that have brought legends into studios for decades.

Just as image processing requires color balance, audio requires frequency and gain (volume) balance. Simply put, every instrument/vocal in a track should be carefully considered and intentionally processed to fit cohesively with the rest of the audio information. We call this sonic real estate, and case in point is that every sound should have its own place. There are industry standard mixes by genre, therefor coupling that knowledge with trained audio engineers will guarantee your mix sounds pleasing on all speaker systems/environments.

If your track is a gift and the mix is its wrapping paper, the master is the bow you throw on top to complete the package. Mastering is the process of finalizing the mix in such a way that it’s overall loudness/tonal balance (sonic real estate) is consistent with industry standard and streaming platform requirements. If your project was adequately mixed but left without a master, it will sound much quieter/”flatter” than your favorite tracks when played side by side.

With years of experience, a perfectly treated environment, multiple monitoring options (subwoofers, Auratone 5C, HS8 Beyerdynamic 99DT Pro, etc.) , a wide array of digital/analog processing options to break creative limitations presented by minimal options, an up to date and intensive computing system which can handle the at times extremely stressing programs, and another equally as experienced friend/engineer to rely on as a fresh set of ears - of course you can. But you’re an artist, right? Let us take that weight off your shoulders.

Auto Tune automatically tunes. We got that. However, oftentimes relying on a program to dictate where your pitch should head results in an inhuman sound. That’s where we come in. Our on site engineers use Melodyne to manually tune every single word you record in such a way that nobody would know tuning was used at all. It may sound inauthentic, but you’d be hard pressed to discover even one radio ready production that goes without its use. The masters are cool with it. We can even fix rhythmic errors by independently shifting where words fall on beat. This process takes hours. Furthermore, we can tune instruments polyphonically that you’ve recorded and realized lately aren’t in tune. We got you.

Recording at home while the vacuum is on? We got you. Mic picking up traffic in your perfect take? We also got you. With machine learning technology and a suite of plugins tailored to removing irritating noise floors your microphone can’t avoid picking up, with some effort we can make your recording sound almost as if it was recorded in our studio!