Live Sound
PA design, mixing and on-site engineering for events of every scale across the GTA.
- Community festivals and cultural days
- Corporate events and galas
- Live music and concert mixing
- System design and on-site crew
Oakville, Ontario · Serving the Greater Toronto Area
Sound that moves communities.
Sound Maven is a full-service sound engineering and recording studio. We run live sound for community, corporate and cultural events, produce, mix and master records in our studio, and build the audio plugins we use on our own sessions.
What we do
Two worlds of sound. One obsessive standard.
From outdoor stages to treated studios, we bring the same precision, care and creative ear to every project.
Studio Production
A treated room and a premium signal chain, from first demo to finished master.
- Music production and beat-making
- Session and vocal recording
- Editing, comping and tuning
- Mixing and mastering
Plugin Suite
Mixing and mastering processors built from our studio chain: clean by default, warm when you ask.
- EQ, dynamics and saturation
- Limiting, loudness and metering
- Reverb, delay and imaging
- VST3 and AU on macOS
Virtual Instruments
Instruments recorded and voiced through the same chain we mix with.
- Built alongside the plugin suite
- Designed for every major DAW
Live sound
From community stages to corporate ballrooms.
We design, deploy and operate sound systems that disappear into the experience, so the audience only feels the moment. A 200-person cultural day gets the same rigour as a festival main stage.
- System design and deployment
- Line arrays, fills, monitors and RF coordination tailored to your venue.
- FOH and monitor engineers
- Experienced engineers on every channel, every show.
- Full production support
- Backline, comms, stage management and technical direction.
Studio
Where songs become records.
Our Oakville studio is a calm, focused space for artists who care about the details. We work at the pace of the song, whether that is a single vocal comp or a full album.
- Music production
- From a blank page to a finished arrangement, built around your vision.
- Session and vocal recording
- Premium microphones and preamps in a room tuned for voice and instruments.
- Mixing and mastering
- Mixes and masters that translate to every system.
Tools we built
The Sound Maven plugin suite.
Twenty-five processors sharing one console: a live analyzer on every plugin, measured gain reduction on every dynamics tool, and clean, uncoloured processing as the baseline. Learn more about our tools
Community
Free workshops, twice a year. For everyone.
Twice a year we open our doors to youth and members of the public for hands-on workshops in sound engineering, music production and live sound. No experience required, just curiosity.
The next generation of engineers, producers and artists in the GTA should have access to the tools and mentorship that shape careers. These workshops are how we give back.
- 2×per year
- $0always free
- Allages welcome
- GTAyouth and public
Get in touch
Let's make something worth listening to.
Tell us about your event, session or project. We reply within one business day.
- Location
- Oakville, Ontario. Serving Toronto, Mississauga, Burlington, Hamilton and beyond.
- info@soundmaven.ca
- Studio hours
- Monday to Saturday, 10 am to 10 pm, by appointment.