Today we’d like to introduce you to Jeff Mount.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Jeff. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
I got involved with music at a very early age, about five or six years old. I was always trying to dissect mixes and figure out how the music was created. My father was a live sound engineer and used to install sound equipment at churches and other businesses so we always had a lot of old gear laying around, so I started experimenting.
Once I was able to get the sound to pass through the equipment I was on my way to making music sound the way I wanted. By age 17 I was playing multiple instruments and playing in bands, so inevitably I was able to record our music instead of going to an expensive recording studio. Over the next few years, I built a pretty nice home studio setup, recording many bands and artists while still working a full-time job. After a while I got an offer to come into a professional studio, named Goodnight Audio Dallas, to help produce a record with a band I would later record multiple albums with. It was my first time in a large studio so naturally, I felt a bit overwhelmed, but the owner offered me a job the very next day.
I worked there for about a year before deciding to leave and start my own business with a couple of guys that were close friends. We opened Sessionworks in mid-2007 after building our own 4500 square ft facility housing 3 full functioning studios. Since then we have produced many hit songs and multiple gold and platinum records including Dorrough’s “Ice Cream Paint Job” and Yella Beezy’s (That’s On Me (remix). After over 25 years of recording, I can’t imagine ever going back to a regular day job.
Has it been a smooth road?
It hasn’t always been easy, after about eight years of being in business, we had to relocate our business because the owner of the building sold the property. So we packed up our things and found a new building, bought it and rebuilt. We lost one of our business partners in a fatal car accident a year or so into being at the new location and it was very difficult to continue without him, but we persevered and kept pushing.
So, as you know, we’re impressed with Sessionworks – tell our readers more, for example what you’re most proud of as a company and what sets you apart from others.
Session works is a 4500 square foot recording facility. We have three separate studios within the building. Studio A is our largest room where we can record full bands live. Studios B and C are smaller rooms with voice-over booths. We specialize in recording, mixing, mastering, production and remastering in the analog and digital format. We have kept our prices easily affordable by anyone interested in making music because we are all musicians ourselves. I can’t think of a genre we haven’t worked with. One of our biggest selling points is that we don’t ever delete any files so at any given time an artist can feel safe that their music is safe and sound. What sets us apart from other studios is that we are extremely efficient and at the same time produce the highest possible quality so that you get a great product for a reasonable price.
Let’s touch on your thoughts about our city – what do you like the most and least?
The DFW metroplex has the best music scene I’ve personally ever been involved with. Great artists/musicians as well as some great venues and promoters.
I think that, as with any city, traffic is the biggest issue for me. (but that just gives me more time to listen to music lol)
Pricing:
- $50/hr or $400/10hrs
Contact Info:
- Address: 441 W Pipeline Rd
Hurst, TX 76053 - Website: www.sessionworksstudios.com
- Phone: 817-282-2321
- Email: sessionworks_studios@yahoo.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SessionworksStudios/
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