Recording Studio

BGC Recording Studio & Beat Lab

Work with experienced engineers to record a song, make a beat, complete a mixed tape or learn about audio engineering.

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Our studio

The INC Sound Studio is a fully functional production and recording studio. Our program gives youth a chance to explore the exciting world of music production first hand. Whether it’s recording your first song, completing your next mixed tape, learning about audio engineering, or making your first beat, youth work alongside one of our experienced engineers to make their goals a reality.

Sing

Record

Make beats

Learn engineering

Our latest tracks

Staff bios

Neil Whitford

Neil Whitford is the Recording Studio Education Manager at BGC St. Alban's Club.

Neil is a guitarist and music producer from Toronto, Canada. Neil has performed and toured with national and international acts including Renforshort, Rykka, Chloe Charles, Candice Sand, Jordana Talsky. He has dozens writing and recording credits as a guitarist in genres spanning folk, pop, electronic and rock music. As a producer, he is constantly working on new projects. Annie Sumi’s release In The Unknown in 2017 reached the number two position in the college radio charts for folk and roots. Patience by Georgian Bay and With Blindfolds On by Chloe Charles were both nominated for the Polaris Prize in 2016. Neil holds a diploma in Music from Grant MacEwan University and his BA in Music Performance from University of Toronto, and is always active in the Toronto music community.

Adam Prus

Adam Prus is a music producer, musician, and engineer who specializes in hip-hop production. His production style finds the perfect blend of old-school sample chopping techniques with modern aesthetics. Adam is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University's RTA Media Production Program where he specialized in audio production. In addition to producing, Adam loves to play the drums and incorporate his natural rhythm into his beat making process.

Denise De'ion

Denise De’ion is a Juno Award winning Producer/Artist/Songwriter. Most recently, she produced on Haviah Mighty’s Juno winning album "Stock Exchange" (2022). If you had to put a traditional label on her music you may call it an R&B, pop, Caribbean, hip hop medley but in actuality it’s a vibe all on its own. Some of her accomplishments include the Bacardi Music Liberates Music Campaign in 2021. Selected along with two other females, Denise was granted the opportunity to work with and be mentored by Boi 1da and release the NFT single “Juice” available on streaming platforms. Her music has also been placed in commercials for Bulleit Whiskey and heard on shows like Netflix’s Ginny and Georgia and Kim’s Convenience. Her EP “A Peace of My Soul” is slated for a release in spring of 2023.

Marlin Tusha

Marlin Tusha is a music producer based in Toronto. He was taught piano at an early age and began his own musical journey experimenting with electronic sounds in his teens. In the last 8 years, he has produced music for local and internationally established Hip-Hop/R&B artists such as Desiire, Kota The Friend, and Akiine, and has released music on various electronic labels focusing his musical style in downtempo, IDM, breakbeat, and techno. Marlin’s main inspiration to music production comes from using drum machines and synthesizers to create textured rhythmic beats, glitches, and hyper melodies. In the last 2 years, he has taken that inspiration and developed a label where he releases his own music and showcases other established Toronto-based electronic artists such as Emissive, Jacinth, and Hybrid.92.

Studio availability

Mondays-Fridays

2:30-4:30pm (Young adults 18+)

5:00-9:00pm (Youth 13+)

Sign up is required, space is limited.

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Location

843 Palmerston Avenue
Toronto (Bathurst/Dupont)

Contact


Reach out to Neil Whitford by email or dm on instagram.



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