MIssion Statement
We work to get the Best from your mix and get YOUR sound. We treat all projects as individuals – no cookie cutter “we do it this way” attitude.
Most studios can give you a tidy mix...
But you want more.
You want some Life in your mix. Energy. Uniqueness.
We work to get the Best from your mix and get YOUR sound. We treat all projects as individuals – no cookie cutter “we do it this way” attitude.
We come from a live background with many years experience so your mixes will always have that impact you want.
A classic approach with progressive ideas.
→ stand out & Make the wave, don’t ride it.
I'm John. Legends have to start somewhere. 😆
I have been chasing sound since I could reach a pot and a pan, singing, making up songs, turning every task into a rhythm section. At 9, my school principal offered guitar lessons, a diplomatic stroke that worked. By 11, I added bass, then wandered into concert jazz bands.
In school I played trombone, bass, and guitar, because restraint was not a core value. At 12, my friends and I formed our first band, The Beds, and I started making tapes and songs whenever I could.
At 22, I bought my first recorder, a Fostex 280, cassette based, four tracks, high tech at the time. I loved it, learned a ton, then committed the classic musician mistake and pawned it. It never came home. Meanwhile I was usually the sound person for my bands, at rehearsals and gigs, which led to working shows for local groups in pubs and clubs. This was in Winnipeg, a great scene. The gigs got bigger, the phone kept ringing, and I landed tech work for touring acts, everyone from Judas Priest to Jann Arden, more names available upon request. Twelve years of priceless schooling, learning sound from some of the best people in the world. Then I had a family, and that road life is not exactly family friendly, so I chose to end that chapter. No regrets, it was a blast, but you are never home long enough to make your own music or live your own life.
Work and family took the driver’s seat for a while. Music slipped a little. I built a small home studio and got back to it. The Session Room was born. Like any obsessive hobby, think guitars, hot rods, or gambling, it grew. I expanded the studio, spent more time learning, recorded my own band’s albums, and took on small projects for other artists. That pushed me to take it seriously. The Session Room became Asher Road Records.
Corporate life tried to crush the rest of the oxygen, so I decided I wanted to live fully in the music world and started planning how to make that real. We moved houses, said goodbye to the original Asher Road Records studio, then I built the new one, more than a third of the bottom floor of our home. Moving is a drag, life is busy, and that day job existed, so the build took time, about a year of steady work. Now the studio is finished, which, like any hot rod, never truly ends. There will always be something to add or improve, but it is fully working.
Today I run Asher Road Records to record, mix, and master, to build tracks, to edit audio for video, to help artists get their songs over the line. I lived the dream long enough to know it is built, not wished into being. Now I use that experience to help other people build theirs.