Turning a home studio project into a production business, into a record label, into an acoustic treatment business, into something I am eternally grateful for.

I started this journey around 6 years ago when I discovered my love for songwriting. Not a drive to be famous but a love for creating a passionate art. As a teenager who didn’t really understand who he was or where he was going I found my self in a lot of places I didn’t want to be, with people I didn’t belong with. Constantly trying to be someone you are not is quite draining. Eventually I gave up with moulding to what I thought I should be when I went away to university to study and become a lawyer.

As one might assume my ambitions of being a lawyer quickly died as I discovered my inability to sit and read for hours on end. Instead I moved back in with my parents and thought of possible career options. As I narrowed it down nothing I looked through seemed as interesting as just trying out being a musician. There was a moment that clicked for me when I just knew this was the only thing I was going to do. Did I know how? Nope but it was going to happen.

As for the label, when I was starting writing and recording music I had no idea where or how to get my music on to streaming platforms. After months of trial and error I was able to get an ok grip on how things worked, I also figured other people may be having the same issues that I was having. From that started the original SGB Records. Slowly one by one I met some of my dearest friends through the years in the strangest places. I met Fiona Clancey while working at Canadian Tire while I was in high school. I met Maeron Sullivan at a show that I ended up filling in for a friend of mine at the Grawood in Halifax.

In 2023 I chose to take the Music Producion and Audio Engineering program at NSCC where I ended up meeting great friends of mine who encouraged me to continue to succeed. As more and more clients starting rolling in I eventually had to expand and beg my kind parents for a second room in our house. The happily agreed and supported and I was able to make my old bedroom a studio and turn part of the basement into my living area. When I was transferring into this new space one thing really stuck out to me. Acoustics.

Without having a bed to help dampen the sound the room was not well treated. So back to YouTube I went! Without finding and amazing solutions to the problem I decided to go rouge and attempt to design a type of acoustic treatment myself. After it was all said and done I had a repeatable product. A good friend of mine Richard Lloyed was in sort of the same situation and together we tackled the first batch for his current home studio.