A Brief History
Sweetwater Productions began as a recording studio in the late 1970’s with Chuck Surack as founder and engineer. Chuck did recordings on a 4-track reel-to-reel deck out of his home or out of his VW bus. As word spread of Chuck’s abilities, the studio grew to a full time venture around 1983 with the studio formerly located on Getz Road.
Chuck’s studio grew quickly to 8-tracks,
16-tracks, and 24-tracks and he began to add other staff members
and in 1987, Sweetwater built a brand new studio on Bass Road.
During this time, Chuck also began to see the need for a place to
buy recording equipment where the customer could ask questions
and get knowledgeable answers at a reasonable price.
That’s how Sweetwater’s retail division started.
Our retail division has now grown to become a world leader
in music technology and recording equipment.
With the studio and retail divisions outgrowing the facilities quickly, Sweetwater built a new building on Bass Road and then added on to that building several times in just a few short years. In just over 25 years, Sweetwater has now grown to a world class production facility and retail center which employs a staff of around 225 in a building that is nearly 60,000 square feet and growing and changing constantly.
Today, Sweetwater has 3 comfortable, extremely well-equipped studios ready to enhance your creativity on your next project. Each studio is equipped with Digidesign’s ProTools|HD Accel digital recording and editing systems and much more!
