The Room Behind the Records

A Grammy Album-of-the-Year string session — recorded in this room.

Not in Nashville. Not in Los Angeles. In Lakeland, Florida — at 113 S Florida Avenue, during a pandemic.

In 2020, producer Jack Antonoff needed a Central Florida tracking room for a string session. He reached out to Sound House. Violinist Bobby Hawk came in and played the parts. Those recordings went into Folklore — Taylor Swift’s record that won Album of the Year at the 63rd Grammy Awards in 2021.

Co-owner Jon Gautier held the engineering credit on Folklore. He also received a personal producer credit on Evermore, which was nominated for Album of the Year at the 64th Grammys the following year. Both credits are public record, verifiable through the Recording Academy.

The Grammy belongs to the people who made the record. But the room is here, at 113 S Florida Avenue. It hasn’t moved. And the session happened inside it.

The call that put Lakeland in the conversation

Jack Antonoff didn’t find Sound House through a listing. He called. That’s how a studio in downtown Lakeland ended up connected to a Grammy Album of the Year — not through a marketing campaign, not through industry connections the studio was born with. Through a room that was ready when the project needed it.

The coverage arrived because the work was documentable — named collaborators, named records, one address. See the awards & press page for the record.

The room at 113 S Florida Avenue

Sound House Studios sits at 113 S Florida Avenue in downtown Lakeland. The address has been the same since 2013. The space handles full-scale tracking sessions — live bands, strings, vocal production, overdubs. Mixing and mastering happen here too. Tracking to final master, one building, one conversation.

The Folklore session is the most cited session in the studio’s history. It isn’t the only one. Artists in development book time here. Independent producers bring their mixes through. Engineers on the roster bring their own clients in. See the rooms →

Track. Develop. Release.

Most studios offer a room and send you out when the session ends. Sound House runs the whole chain.

• Track here. Full-scale tracking sessions by the session, by the block, or for a full album run — mixing and mastering in-house, no vendor shuffle.
• Develop here. Artist development that pairs tracked material with in-house production and a release plan — artists leave with a body of work, not just a session file. See artist memberships.
• Release here. Label services and co-creation round out the room — distribution, licensing, and release strategy, within reach of where the record was made.

See the full credits →  ·  Meet the team →