![]() ![]() Maitland and his daughter recorded a Christmas album together this year. One of those talented musicians is Maitland’s 10-year-old daughter, Laura. “There is an insane amount of really cool and talented people around here.” “The music community in Collingwood and Thornbury, Meaford and Wasaga Beach is amazing,” he said. He has worked on a couple albums with Collingwood Live & Original, and, most recently, he worked with Shipyard Kitchen Party to record a song in the Collingwood Public Library.įor him, the music scene in South Georgian Bay has a lot of potential. ![]() Maitland has collaborated with artists of all genres, and continuously works with various companies around the community. I know that first hand - it’s why I started recording my own stuff.” “It takes a lot for people to trust you with their art. “It’s one of the things I love about recording and production, you get to help people mold these ideas that they have,” he said. He bounces ideas off other producers, bandmates and friends, but for the most part, it’s up to Maitland to pull it all together. Maitland said mixing and mastering can involve a lot of back and forth with artists, so he likes to do so from the comfort of his own home - sometimes working late into the night when he is inspired. “The studio itself is off the grid, so when we are out there we are focused on creating,” he said. He kept his home studio as well, where he prefers to do most of his mixing and mastering after the recording sessions are complete. Maitland opened the studio space in Thornbury with its high ceilings, instruments, and recording equipment. When they got home, he continued recording music for both himself and his friends, and in 2014 he finally decided to open it up to the public. “That experience was just so fun and awesome that I wanted to keep doing it,” he said. Maitland said it was the unofficial start of Red Room. They pulled together their best music, and spent the week writing and recording an album on solar power. In 2012, Maitland and his band built a solar cabin in Northern Ontario on a section of land that was boat access only. “But I started learning more about recording and the real details behind it, and I got hooked. “Up until that point I was just messing around,” said Maitland. Maitland began taking courses and investing money into a larger variety of equipment, developing a makeshift home studio in his basement - which was painted red at the time. A technical guy, he started recording his band’s music with any equipment he had available.Įventually, life and career took over, but he found himself itching to dive back into music, even deeper this time. Maitland has been playing in various bands since high school. “It’s an honour when somebody trusts you to turn their music into something and I always try to make sure that I am doing alright by them. “I really like the process of working with people on their dream and on their various projects,” Maitland said. He does it all at the Red Room, his recording studio in Thornbury that specializes in the recording, mixing and production of blues, rock, funk, hip hop and any genre where “vibe” is a critical factor. ![]() When he is not home jamming with his family, he is helping artists, both locally and around the world, develop their sound and create their dream records. The Collingwood-based resource engineer moonlights as a musician and producer. Music has always been - and will always be - a part of Josh Maitland’s life. ![]()
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