Park Sound Studio is a spacious, producer-run recording studio located in the Lower Lonsdale area of North Vancouver, BC. Operated by 6x Western Canadian Music Award-nominated producer and engineer Andy Schichter, the studio is home to full-band tracking, overdubs, production, mixing, writing sessions, voice-over, and outside producer/engineer rentals.
Park Sound first opened in 2017, before moving in 2023 into the historic former Bakerstreet Studios and CREW Studios space. Andy Schichter and Dan Ponich took over the room together, revitalizing it for a new era while carrying forward decades of North Vancouver recording history. In 2026, Andy became the sole leaseholder and operator, beginning the next chapter for Park Sound as a creative home for artists, producers, and engineers in Vancouver and beyond.
The studio is easily accessible by car and transit, with the Seabus terminal only a 10-minute walk away. Surrounded by microbreweries, coffee shops, restaurants, and Lonsdale Quay, Park Sound offers the focus of a private recording studio with the energy and convenience of Lower Lonsdale just outside the door.
Tracking Rooms
Park Sound offers a spacious 20’ x 26’ live room, two separate isolation booths, a dedicated vocal booth, and a wired lounge that houses the studio’s restored upright piano and additional guitar amps. The layout offers clear sightlines between rooms, helping musicians stay connected while recording live off the floor or in more isolated setups.
The live room is well suited for big drum sounds, full-band tracking, strings, acoustic instruments, and creative production sessions. The isolation rooms provide tighter, more controlled spaces for vocals, amps, acoustic instruments, and overdubs, while the vocal booth offers a quiet, focused environment for lead vocals, voice-over, audiobooks, commercials, and podcasts.
Each recording room is equipped with microphone inputs, guitar connections, and speaker lines, allowing for flexible setups with multiple musicians, isolated amps, and custom headphone mixes.
Control Room
Park Sound’s control room is built around a modern Pro Tools workflow, high-quality Burl and Lynx conversion, Focal Trio11 Be monitoring, flexible routing, and a curated collection of analog outboard gear integrated into a Buso Audio desk.
The setup is designed to move quickly between tracking, overdubbing, editing, mixing, and outside rentals. The patchbay is organized for easy access to the studio’s preamps, EQs, compressors, effects, and headphone system, making it simple for guest producers and engineers to get comfortable quickly.
The control room includes a deep selection of analog gear from Neve, Vintech, Great River, Universal Audio, Empirical Labs, and more, alongside a musical collection of guitar pedals and creative tools for shaping sounds during recording and mixing.
Headphones
Each recording room is outfitted with Behringer P16-M personal mixers allowing musicians to control their own individual mixes. All stations are outfitted with comfortable pairs of Audio Technica ATH-M50 and Sennheiser HD 280 Pro’s.
Instruments
Park Sound is stocked with a musical collection of guitars, basses, drums, cymbals, snares, amps, pedals, and keys, including familiar studio staples and more characterful pieces. The studio also features a restored early 20th-century Neumeyer upright piano.
Monitoring
The control room is outfitted with Focal Trio11 Be monitors, offering full-range playback, detailed imaging, and a reliable listening environment for tracking, production, and mixing.
Hospitality
The studio includes a comfortable lounge and kitchen stocked with coffee, tea, sparkling water, and snacks, giving artists and guests a place to reset between takes. With an N64 in the lounge and plenty of space to relax, listen back, or step away from the control room, Park Sound is designed to feel comfortable for long creative days.