The Sound Lair is a professional digital audio recording studio located in West Knoxville, Tennessee, owned and operated by freelance producer / engineer Miah Lajeunesse. Founded in January of 2006, The Sound Lair has grown into its present form as a well-equipped, highly versatile production facility willing to produce nearly any genre of music. The studio has served the production needs of hundreds of bands and solo artists from all over the United States and Europe, completed productions for numerous record labels, and has made recordings that launched and sustained the professional music careers of many musicians.

The Sound Lair is comprised of a control room and a tracking room almost equal in size. The control room seats 5 artists plus engineer and is laid out in a command-center, cockpit-like configuration. The room's centerpiece is its Toft ATB-series 32-channel analog console and its enormous floating array of LCD displays, flanked by a pair of Adam Audio nearfield monitors. Racks of effects and dynamics processors glow near the studio's enviable arsenal of guitar amplifiers. Spanning the walls of the room are hangers of assorted acoustic and electric guitars and electric basses.

Ascend a flight of stairs to arrive in the tracking room. This room's layout can be configured numerous ways depending upon the signal source to be recorded, whether drums, percussion, acoustic instruments, woodwinds or brass. A remote display LCD monitor on an adjustable stand permits a performer to see the realtime track view of a live session (immensely useful to vocalists), which can also be used to display lyrics from the control room for visual feedback.

The Sound Lair's placement in Knoxville, TN makes it geographically central in the eastern US and reachable from many states within a day's drive. The studio's suburban setting means that for its visiting recording artists, there are many dining, lodging, and recreational amenities in the immediate area, as well as the attractions of downtown Knoxville, Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, and the Great Smoky Mountains national park.

Greetings... I am MiAH, the singular mind and force behind The Sound Lair. I discovered a passion for recording music in late 1997, devouring all the print and online information I could find to increase my knowledge on the subject while applying it to making my own recordings. For several years I recorded demos for my own bands and friends' local bands, honing my autodidactic skills at PC-based sound production. In January 2006 I resigned from the corporate workplace to launch The Sound Lair.

I quickly established The Sound Lair within its first couple of years by making the recordings that launched the careers of bands like Whitechapel, Aegaeon, Straight Line Stitch, and A Plea For Purging. I partnered with record labels all over the country, recording bands on their rosters while producing the music of hundreds of independent bands and solo artists via connections made when Myspace enjoyed the height of its popularity. The Sound Lair steadily grew into a highly reputable and regionally-recognized production facility. In coming years I will architect and construct a new Sound Lair to be relocated to picturesque acreage I own on the highest mountain peak in Rockford, TN, where I will fulfill a lifelong goal of offering vastly-expanded studio facilities in an environment that will feel like a resort retreat to even better serve my growing national clientele.

My production objectives center on capturing your musical intent and expression, then sculpting it into a clear form to represent you and your band so that you can share it with the world. My qualifications to do this are my deep understanding of music theory, my two-decade musical background of playing guitar and bass, a real-world-acquired knowledge of applied recording methods, fluency in modern recording and sound design techniques, and tens of thousands of hours of experience operating all aspects of my own studio built from the ground up. My own musical taste spans many genres, and therefore I've acquired an ambidextrous and well-rounded method of production by undertaking involvement in recording and mixing a wide variety of music genres. The Sound Lair is equipped with the gear and the ears to help you realize your sound, and I give attention to every single artist's production I untertake with the same level of detail and interest that I give to my own music. I welcome the opportunity to document your art and look forward to giving you a superlative production experience.