Massive sound studio12/31/2023 ![]() Along with award winning engineer Michael Shepherd they continue to strive for the perfect balance of art and technology. With a vision to create a recording space to inspire artists to produce their best music, owners Fred Lavery and Gordie Sampson established Lakewind Sound Studios with a true purpose. John: Same as it’s always been – Monitoring and acoustic control.Lakewind is an award winning recording studio GIK: What equipment do you find is “most important” for today’s mastering engineer. Typical mastering makes up the bulk, but those “related” projects break up the monotony nicely. Sometimes they just want a flat transfer to digital from tape. Neat stuff sometimes when you get this record in that’s the last known remaining unopened copy and the master tapes were lost decades ago or what not. John: That’s most of it, sure – But editing and compiling for professional dance companies – especially ones that have tried to do it themselves with less than wonderful results – Vinyl transfers – I just started with that last year. GIK: So it’s not just putting CD’s together? Some of the cooler stuff I’ve worked on recently was on those aggressive indie labels that really believe in what they’re putting out – Stuff that a lot of the majors wouldn’t want to take a chance on. I’m seeing a trend here – Maybe the talent isn’t really getting younger but I’m just getting older… Lots of stuff from the smaller indie labels too – The larger labels seem to be stepping very carefully with the economy and the indies are going to take over if they don’t watch out. Young “kids” for lack of a better term – but very polished. This – let’s call it a “classic metal” project from New Zealand stands out for some reason – Sonic Altar – If you get a chance and you’re into straight-up, fast-driving, Harley riding rock, you’ll be hearing from them soon I’m sure. Lots of international work with the dollar flipped around also, which is great. Not your typical “school” orchestra – Several international tours, they’re actually performing at Orchestra Hall this summer. Other than that, name it – Rock, pop, classical, country, gospel – I’ve been working on spoken word projects from Paul Harvey, a constant stream of live tracking / mastering from the Schaumburg Youth Orchestra – What a great bunch of kids and a great program that Schaumburg put together. ![]() John: It’s coming up on dance show season, so a big increase in editing and compilation. GIK: So John what projects have you been working on lately? In 2009, GIK Acoustics sat down with John and asked him a few questions. A clientele from across the USA and several countries around the world trust their CD premastering to MASSIVE Mastering. The vision of former JEM Music Complex chief engineer John Scrip, MASSIVE Mastering provides artists an affordable, yet professional quality dedicated digital audio mastering alternative. MASSIVE Mastering bridges the wide gap between mastering suites that can cost hundreds of dollars per hour and project & demo recording studio mastering setups.
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