Recording Engineers
Level One Engineers: $20/hour
Vicente Joaquin
Vicente Joaquin
Vicente has been a passionate musician all of his life. He went to school for 5-years to study music and music production. He has recorded, mixed, played and produced a few songwriters during his career as a musician. His favourite types of music to record are blues, pop and singer-songwriter.
Samples of Work
Fabricio Osores
Fabricio Osores
Music is Fabricio’s passion and carries his laptop everywhere so that he can work on becoming a better producer whenever he finds free time. He specializes in R&B, hip hop, classic rock and pop music. Fab is excited about the opportunity to work with female vocalists.
Samples of Work
Level Two Engineers: $30/hour
Eric Leigh
Eric Leigh
Eric Leigh is a freelance audio engineer and live sound technician based out of Guelph, Ontario. He is an alumni and current employee of the Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology in London, Ontario, where he teaches and administers practical exams for various aspects of music production, audio for visual media, and live sound. At the end of his one year contract with the school, he plans on moving back to Guelph to continue pursuing his career in everything related to audio.
Samples of Work
- Autumn Leaves – Guelph Youth Jazz Ensemble
- Passenger’s Side – John Muirhead
- Zombie (Cameron Fleury Cover) – The Cranberries
Frank Jannetta
Frank Jannetta
Frank loves working with musicians to help them deliver high quality music. A graduate of Fanshawe College’s Music Industry Arts program, Frank is always eager to learn better techniques and tricks to making music sound better. He love working with pop, punk, grunge and rock artists.
Frank has worked with the following bands:
- Roughhousing – Centipedes and Hurt – This Oakville takes their influences from bands such as Modern Baseball.
- Midnight Son – Another Round – This is a pop punk music band Frank is a member of. Each person in the band is responsible for producing ,recording, mix and mastering 1 song from their EP. Frank recorded bass and vocals in this song, then mixed and mastered it.
Samples of Work
You can find these tracks and more of Frank’s work at https://soundcloud.com/frankjannetta
Level Three Engineers: $40/hour
Jake Janzen
Jake Janzen
Jake has a passion for music. Not only does he like discovering new music, but his passion also lies in being part of the process of bringing new music and the artists’ vision to life. He sees recording and mixing as a sonic canvas where layers of sound are blended together to create a sonic painting.
Jake has been recording and mixing music for over 30 years. He started recording his own bands on 2 track cassette tapes, then to 4 track tapes and then to the digital medium just as it was getting started. He was always experimenting and learning. 20 years ago he started recording bands like The Remnants, Well Charged, Smurk and other local artists.
In 2010, he enhanced a partnership with band mate Phil Clancy and recording artist Josh Gabriel offering premium services. During this time he recorded and mixed many bands such as The Baudelaires (Reggae/Ska), Eclectic Vinyl Orchestra (Swing/Jazz), Demonihil (Death Metal), Pauly and the Blowbots (Punk), Berkuhrhogg (Rock), Other Moons (Soul), DISMAJ (Avant-garde) and more. He further enhances the recording process, combining live studio recording with multi-camera live video.
Jake’s strength is understanding and adapting to the style and workflow of the artists in the studio. Keeping the artists’ preferences in mind, Jake works to make the artists feel comfortable and bring out the best in their performances. It’s the combination of these performances and technically capturing great recordings that make a great final product.
Tobin James Stewart
Tobin James Stewart
Tobin was born and raised in Guelph, Canada and studied New Media (B.F.A.) at Ryerson University in Toronto.
He moved to Berlin in 2008, and while there he focused on producing his own compositions under the name Carpet of Horses
In 2014, he left Berlin for a tiny village in the East German countryside called Bergsdorf, where he enjoyed a fruitful period producing music in The Ballroom – an early 20th-century dance hall he converted into a one-of-a-kind recording space.
He then moved to the north of Italy, outside of Venice, in a small town called Castelfranco Veneto. From there he ran a studio called Starland.
Back in Guelph since 2018, he is available to engineer and produce records or to compose original pieces of music for various projects.
Em Damaschin
Em Damaschin
Em is an experienced freelance recording and mixing engineer and new transplant from Toronto to the Guelph area. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music’s Berklee Online music technology program, a former intern for producer/engineer Chris Perry during the recording of the Courage My Love album For Now at Pocket Sound in 2011, a former mobile recording volunteer at the campus radio station at Oakville’s Sheridan College (SheridanLife Radio), a former FoH/monitor job shadower at Toronto’s Silver Dollar Room in 2015, and now a specialist in working with new local bands that are new to the recording studio experience.
Em feels comfortable working with bands and musicians in any genre especially punk, alternative, and indie rock bands. They also have experience assisting with and recording anything from solo rappers to metal bands and classical string quartets.
Em aspires to work with and elevate voices that are otherwise marginalized in the music industry, and especially in building a safe and inclusive musical community here in Guelph.
Samples of Work
- I Feel Sorry – Sex in the Deathbed (digital single – recording, production, mixing)
- Third Eye From the Left – Visions From Behind Closed Eyes (digital EP – production, recording, mixing, mastering)
- Bonnie Trash – Shades of You – Coming Soon!
Level Four Engineers: $50/hour
Thomas Althouse
Tom Althouse
Tom supports Indie artist and partners with them to present their music in the best possible sound. He has provided live sound and recorded special musical events in the area as well. These include John Mann’s Elora concert, Kevin Briet concerts, David Francey Concerts and more.
Samples of Work
You can play a compilation of samples here.
Jeffery George Carter
Jeff Carter
Jeff Carter is a producer, engineer, and musician with decades of recording experience. A graduate of the Recording Arts Program of Canada, Jeff has operated a commercial studio environment of his own for years, and worked as a house engineer/producer/writer for a long list of clients, as well as working for years as a recording specialist for both Long and McQuade and Sherwood Music.
An accomplished pianist and synthesizer guru, Jeff has scored music for many commercials, games, and short films, and performed live for years with an electronic trio, Puncturevine.
Jeff is most well-know for his work as the producer, engineer and studio keyboard player for Canadian pop icons, Spoons. Together with Spoons, Jeff has guided the band through the release of two full-length albums, Static in Transmission and New Day New World, along with three EP’s, including three popular remixes of Spoons classics: “Romantic Traffic – Traffic Jam” and the wild electro-dub mix, “Nova Heart – Singularity”, which is still performed live at the end of most Spoons live shows.
Jeff is Currently scoring orchestral arrangements for his upcoming steam-punk novel entitled “hroud”, and beginning a new electro-jazz-oriented project with singer/bass player Sandy Horne.
Samples of Work
Spoons albums Jeff has produced and engineered can be found here and here.