
simon austin | Songwriter & Producer


Ranked in the top 5% of Songwriters Worldwide and top 10% of Producers & Mixing Engineers (Muso.AI stats)
Simon Austin is a Songwriter and Producer/ Mixer based in Toronto, Canada who specializes in Rock, Pop and Indie music.
He began to write and record his own songs in 2009, and attended Seneca College for music production in 2015. He was the founding member of the band Incase We Crash whose songs have received millions of streams and charted on iTunes. He has been active in the world of songwriting and audio engineering for the last ten years, with his approach revolving around the tried-and-true motto that "the song comes first".
Since beginning his journey in the music industry he's amassed over 6,000,000 streams worldwide and received radio play across Canada and Australia on his credited works. He's also had the opportunity to work with Juno-nominated artists, and engineered live sessions for America's Got Talent.
He currently works out of Metrolab Recordings, a 1000sq ft professionally built facility in downtown Toronto near Dundas West Station. The studio is equipped with a spacious live room, vocal iso booth and dedicated control room, all to flexibly cater to an artist's music production needs.
Recent Works:
Indie/ Alternative:
Rock/ Pop Punk:
Pop/ Singer Songwriter
Engineered:

Interfaces, Preamps & Outboard:
API 3124+
Antelope Orion 32
Audient ASP880
Chandler TG2 Preamp
Daking Fet Compressor
Dbx 160A
Empirical Labs EL8X Distressor
Milennia Stereo Pre
Orban 672 EQ (x2)
Symetrix SE-400
Universal Audio 4-710d
Vintech 473
Software/ Monitoring
Neumann KH310's + KH750 Sub
Yamaha NS10's
Sonar Referenceworks
Pro Tools 2020
Steinberg WaveLab
+ Various Plugins from Waves, Fabfilter, Soundtoys, Steven Slate, oeksound and more.

Microphones:
AEA R84
AKG D112
Audio Technica AT4043 (x2)
Audio Technica AT4047
Coles 4038 (x2)
Lauten FC357
Neumann U87ai
Sennheiser 421 (x2)
Shure Beta 52 (x2)
Shure Beta 57
Shure Beta 58
Shure Beta 91
Shure Sm57 (x5)
Shure Sm7b (x3)

Instruments:
ELECTRIC GUITARS:
- Epiphone Les Paul 'Slash' w/ Evertune
- Epiphone Olympic 1967
- Epiphone ES-335 w/ Bigsby
- Fender MIM Telecaster w/ Evertune
- Fender Jaguar
- Fender P Bass MIJ
- Harmony Rocket
- Squier P Bass (w/ Seymour Duncan Pickups)
ACOUSTIC GUITARS:
- Gibson LG-2
- Yamaha Acoustic
- Fender Acoustic
AMPS:
- Ampeg 8x10" Cab
- Ampeg SVT Classic
- Fender Deluxe Reverb
- Marshall Plexi
- Marshall 4x12
- Orange Rockerverb
- Avatar 2x12
- Universal Audio Ox Box
DRUMS:
- 1950's George Way Bass Drum (28 x 8)
- 1930's Premiere Snare
- 1970's Ludwig Supraphonic Snare
- Yamaha Omar Hakim Signature Snare
- YC Custom Kit (22 x 16 x 13)
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