Welcome to Sound Design Music Studio
For over 30 years, we’ve worked with singers, song writers, bands and orchestras recording, mixing & mastering their music.
Studio Recording Equipment
Acoustically-treated Rooms with Select Hardware and Software
It’s a powerful combination that ensures your performance is recorded in the finest detail and fidelity with virtually unlimited options for editing and enhancing. Our recording studio is also equipped with recording rigs to capture live performances from solo artists to full orchestras.
Virtual Instruments
A Wide Range of Instruments at Your Service
Our virtual instrument library provides direct access to hundreds of instruments. They also offer additional benefits in fidelity, functionality and flexibility. After recording, you can change your sound, edit your dynamics and expression or even fix a wrong note – not that you’d ever need to!
Instruments for Your Use
Keyboards, Drums, Guitar, and Bass
We’re pretty sure you’ll want to play your own instrument, but we’d be holding out on you if we didn’t tell you about the advantages of using ours. Play them as they are, or explore their increased functionality with our workstation setup and virtual instrument library.
Sound Processing Tools
The Warmth of Analog and the Clarity of Digital- Yes, we can do both!
Sound Design’s sound processing tools provide endless possibilities for customizing your recorded material. We have over 200 high-end plugins to create top-quality mixes and master recordings – just the way you like ’em.
Testimonials
What a Few Clients Have Said About Sound Design Music Studio
Laureen Flynn Smith
When I first met John LeVasseur, I was an aspiring songwriter with lyrics and melodies dancing in my head but little studio experience. His extensive engineering and production expertise, as well as his patient and engaging personality, led to marathon studio sessions, a long-term education and an enduring friendship. I quickly found a home in the studio as my first few songs came to life transferring what was in my head and heart to professional mixes of layered instrumentation and harmonies.
Now, as the Founder of the Flynn Smith Collective, a large collection of creatives from LA to Nashville and a professional songwriter with artist cuts in Pop, Country, Christian, Americana, Indie and Bluegrass, I'm so grateful for those early days learning from my dear incredibly talented friend John. Every time, I land a song on the billboard charts or a tv song placement, I am sure to reflect on how my journey began and how much I appreciate John's part in my career.
I highly recommend John to any artists or songwriters looking into record. His technical skills and continued knowledge of the cutting edge changes in the industry continue to amaze me. No matter the genre or the project, John's 30 years of experience is sure to elevate your music to a place you never imagined it could go.
Laureen Smith
Founder of the Flynn Smith Collective
Owner of Laureen Flynn Smith Publishing/Songwriter
Laureenflynnsmith.com
American Music Theatre
For more than a decade, we’ve trusted John exclusively with the live recording and mastering of our stage productions, in addition to special technical audio projects that require creative solutions. John’s meticulous approach, seamless integration, and thorough understanding of our desired end-goals all combine to make John an easy choice, each and every time.
Brandon Martin
Director of Operations
American Music Theatre
Odin Rathnam
I had the pleasure of working with John on a recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in 2008. John was painstaking in every phase of the project, from initial planning to editing and final mixing of the recording. He was acutely aware of what the group and I were looking for in terms of the artistic “feel” of the recording and in details of balance, sound quality and a “live” sense to the finished project. I highly recommend him!
Odin Rathnam
American Violinist and former concertmaster,
Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra
Seasons
We began working with John back in in 2010. Three Years and Three Albums later, John’s Sound Design is still the de facto home for our band when it comes to recording. John’s recording know-how is unquestioned, whether it is mike placement or software editing. John’s studio is truly a great stress-free environment to craft a musical project!