Lighthouse Mastering - Music and Media production

Back in business after summer, with several cool news coming up ahead.
Arranging and composing material for some yet unmentioned projects, mixing another (full length album), and now some mastering too🤓

Hit me up if you need any of my services during the fall 🙏☕️

Tracking AOR/Westcoast guitars today ☀️ 🌴
If you need guitars on your project, let me know 🙂

First task of 2024: a serious amount of rhythm guitar tracks. Wish me luck 😬

Mesa Boogie
Rupert Neve

Happy new year 🎉☕️
2023 was a great and exciting year in many ways. Having our first grandchild was a big deal, obviously, and the amazing little creature hanging out with Ellinor and our youngest (Jonathan) on the photo is called Moses 👶🏻.

My little business has been running over my expectations too, and it’s been great to see that (at least) three albums that I’ve been involved in making have been on the Swedish charts this year.

Narnia/Ghost Town (production/performance/song writing)

Martin Simson’s Destroyer of Death/Eternal Reign (production/mixing/performance/song writing)

Jerusalem/Stygn (keyboards/mixing)

The fact that those three albums are centered around the most important person ever, Jesus Christ, doesn’t make it less remarkable.

We had an amazing run across Latin America with Narnia/Rob Rock, and there’s a lot of things cooking in those camps + in the Jerusalem camp for 2024.

Please see song links in comments.☕️

While re-amping shouldn’t be considered being the exact same thing as tracking straight through a miced up guitar amp (some say it is - but it’s not) it’s probably the second best option after doing just that.

If you have recorded a good, clean D.I. signal in your home recording environment and want to send it through one of many legendary amplifiers, please get in touch. Please see current amp menu :)

After a week of audiobook production work, it’s time to crank it up a notch ;)

It seems like updating social media can be a challenge when you’re busy doing the actual work🙈
Aside of bringing the production of the latest full length album by NARNIA the BAND near completion + playing some live shows, here are some other good people I’ve had the pleasure to work with more or less recently.

Royal Hunt 🇩🇰
Sarayasign 🇸🇪
Martin Simson’s Destroyer of Death 🇺🇸
Jerusalem 🇸🇪
Rebecka Aavanen 🇦🇽
Albert Bell’s Sacro Sanctus 🇲🇹
Moltemyr 🇳🇴
…and more.

More clients are lining up for more or less long running projects, so… lots of gratitude from The Lighthouse ☕️🙂

I apologize for the social media silence here, but that means full album production.
NARNIA the BAND
Avid Pro Tools
Rupert Neve
Focusrite Pro

It’s been some interesting first few months here! Large and small recent projects in the studio include:

Avantasia/Jorn Lande 🇩🇪 🇳🇴 (Vocal engineering)
Jerusalem 🇸🇪 (Keyboard tracking)
Flames of Fire 🇸🇪 (Mastering)
Preterist 🇫🇮 (Guitar tracking)
Surfin the Orbit 🇸🇪 (Mastering)
Suedas 🇳🇴 (Mastering)

Looking forward to wrapping some of this + the year 2021 up soon and to move forward with new interesting projects and clients in 2022. Thank you all! 🙏 🎉

Rex Carroll (Whitecross, Fierce Heart) says:

“CJ is hands down one of the most gifted musicians in the world today. Amazing on the guitar, brilliant in the studio, and utterly fantastic mixes. Well worth the cost, at any price.”

Rob Rock (Impellitteri, M.A.R.S.) says:

”My experience with CJ has been fantastic! What a great talent!
I have worked with CJ in many situations over the years; as a songwriter, producer, touring guitarist and recording artist.
I recommend him so highly! A true professional and always a pleasure to work with! Definitely a master musician!”

Ulf Christiansson (Jerusalem) says:

I've known CJ Grimmark for some time now.
And in my opinion he is one of the most talented persons I know of in music. A great guitarplayer as well as keyboardplayer, songwriter and musicproducer.
He is also a very humble guy and easy to work with. We are very priviledged to have CJ in the band. It is not hard to give him credits for sure.

Gus G (Ozzy Osbourne, Firewind) says:

“I've always loved CJ's playing, from the first time I heard him in Narnia. But there's more to him than just being a great guitarist. He's an all around musician, songwriter & producer and everything I've heard from CJ has always been of the highest quality.”

Michael Sweet (Stryper, ex-Boston)

“I had the pleasure of touring with CJ in South America a few years back. I was blown away by his professionalism, his talent and his dedication. So much so that I reached out to him about working with me on my next solo/Metal album. As ideas have come in I’ve heard (and seen) the incredibly abilities CJ has as a writer, musician, engineer and producer. He’s a force to be reckoned with and an absolute gentleman in the process. One of the best!”

Jens Johansson (Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, Stratovarius, Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force) says:

“CJ is one of the most musical musicians I have ever met. He is quite technical as a player but with the right amount of emotion and fire in all the right places. Having lived that life, walked the walk and talked the talk, is of course a really unique thing to bring into a production role. Many producers (or mastering engineers) don't actually know how to play or have any experience writing and marketing music, and you can really hear that. It doesn't exactly hurt that he is very intelligent and has a heart of gold.”

Jørn Lande (JORN, Avantasia, Pentakill, Masterplan) says:

“My good friend CJ (at Lighthouse Mastering) is one of those rare people that live for the music in every way. He is a loyal and hardworking trooper that will always "walk the extra mile" to secure a great result!
This is a man of many talents, not only a musician and songwriter, but also a producer and studio engineer, as well as being a caring family man.
Calle is a great friend and colleague, and I warmly recommend his services for any collaboration, whether it's as a guitarist, recording engineer, producer, or to team up with for songwriting. CJ rocks!”

Mastering is about balance, cohesiveness and musical loudness, and will make your music translate to your listeners environment in the best possible way. It’s an art form that requires attention to detail and should be carried out using the best available monitoring systems only. Does your project require an enhancing touch of analog color, width and depth or simply maximum transparency?

With state of the art monitoring, digital precision tools for ultra high transparency and some of the best analog hardware units on the market, we’re dedicated to accommodate your specific needs and wishes.

Arranging strings using Eastwest “Hollywood strings”.

Disclaimer: No coffee was harmed during this stunt performance.

Assembling a 2 CD compilation album here today. Getting music recorded over decades to flow naturally can be a little challenging :)

Thank you all for following this new page!
I’ll try not to spam you TOO much but I’ll keep some updates coming ahead.

Some recent-ish projects in the studio have involved:

Martin Simson's DESTROYER OF DEATH along with Jorn Lande, Rob Rock and Anders Johansson.

Narnia

Jerusalem

Astrakhan

Modest Attraction

Avatarium

…More posts will follow ☕️🙂
/CJ

I’m excited to open the door to something that I’ve been preparing for a while now.
Please welcome to LIGHTHOUSE MASTERING.

It will promote all I do as far as music. From the actual musicianship to songwriting and production, with a main focus on my recently started Audio Mastering facility that’s been built up around state-of-the-art analog and digital equipment and monitoring system.

Lighthouse Mastering is certified for the Apple Digital Masters program.

Aside of the music and audio production/performance fields, I’m also offering translation services. (English to Swedish)

So, please spread the word, and stay tuned🙂

Lighthouse Mastering is an approved Apple Digital Masters mastering studio. (Formerly known as Mastered for iTunes)

Lighthouse Mastering - Music and Media production updated their website address.