About

Recording near Sarnia Ontario between Brights Grove and Camlachie in a cozy setting next to Lake Huron. The Grove Productions establishes a comfortable and professional creative music and audio recording and editing environment with artists and businesses locally and internationally, making sure quality and communication are priorities. Owner and producer Mike McKyes believes this is crucial to cultivating the best possible music and audio production recordings for audiences and industries to identify with. The Grove Productions is flexible in price and is able to accommodate the needs of artists and clients utilizing over twenty years of professional experience, up to date technology, top quality studios and recording gear, on site isolation recording booth, 24 channel I/O and up to 256 tracks for overdubs/editing/mixing.  

GUIDANCE

Mike McKyes can help with recording, record production, planning and marketing, building a website, social media presence, digital distribution and physical manufacturing of CDs and vinyl, registering your music to collect royalties, guitar lessons and setups, guitar session playing specializing in rock, country, folk and blues styles. Mike, a graduate of the Music Industry Arts program at Fanshawe College in London Ontario, recipient of a Gold Record from Music Canada and owner/operator of The Grove Productions Recording near Sarnia Ontario has been involved in the music and audio industry for over twenty years as a recording and touring artist, record producer, mixing and mastering engineer, and artist development coordinator. Contact for a free consultation.

TOP QUALITY RECORDING

You will have access to some of the best facilities, recording and mixing equipment available on the market for music and audio production and be provided with competitive prices and the best service from the beginning of pre-production to a finished, mastered record ready for duplication. Contact for a free consultation.

INTERFACES & AMPS

Mac Pro 8 Core w Kingston SSD, Pro Tools 11HD with 64GB RAM

Universal Audio powered plugins

(2) Digidesign 192 with HD Native PCIe 24 i/o

Heritage Audio Monitoring System 2000

API 500v chassis with 2xOSA MP-1A, 2xCapi VP26, 2xBAE 312A, 1xBLA Auteur, API565 equalizer, 2xLindell Audio PEX-500 

BR312 API Quad Preamps

Black Lion Audio B12A Quad Preamp

Custom Neve style BR1290 Dual Preamps

Universal Audio Solo 610 Tube Preamp

Rupert Neve designed Focusrite ISA220 channel strip

8 x Focusrite Preamps for on site recording

Teletronix LA-2A Tube Leveling Amplifier

Custom SSL style Bus Compressor

Folcrom Passive Summing Box

Kemper Amp Profiler with 10 000 Profiles

Orban 622B Stereo EQ

Dolby 361A with CAT22 Mod

16 channel Avid Artist Mix Control Surface

Yamaha NS10 monitors, Avantone Mixcubes

Mackie HM-800 8-Channel Headphone Amplifier

Lots of great plugins and virtual instruments!

MICROPHONES

Neumann TLM 103

Peluso R14 Ribbon

Electro-Voice RE20

Rode NTK Tube w Peluso PK67 capsule, Mullard gold pin tube

Shure SM7B

(2) Little Blondie Omni Directional

3 x Sennheiser MD421

2 x AKG 214

2 x Shure SM 57

Sontronics STC-1 

Sennheiser E609

Shure Beta 52A

AKG C3000

AKG D440

60's Midland 

Sub Mic

Cloudlifter CL-1 Mic Pre

Vanguard V44S