About Lena
Lena Sutter is a sound engineer, equal parts artistic and technically precise. She is currently the manger of the recording studio at the Pablo Center at the Confluence in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, teaches Songwriting and Recording Arts at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and works as a Production Assistant for Bon Iver. In addition to the projects that come through her studio, she provides freelance mixing and mastering services. She’s worked across genres spanning folk to jazz to hardcore, and worked with local bands on their first EP on up to nationally touring artists. Scroll on down for more information, and samples of Lena’s work!
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Mixing prices start at $200/track
Mastering prices start at $100/track
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Lena studied from 2012-2017 at the University of Michigan, earning a B.S. in Sound Engineering and a B.S.E in Electrical Engineering. She taught workshops and classes on recording and captured countless student and faculty performances in the on-campus studios. Her electrical engineering studies focused on Digital Signal Processing, culminating in creating a digital vocoder and multi-effects box senior design project.
Lena has also taking several classes at the Chicago School of Guitar Making, earning certificates in set ups and repairs as well as guitar building.
In 2021, Lena received her Masters Degree from Berklee Online, where she studied under the tutelage of industry masters. She was able to refine her skills over the course of the program with feedback from brilliant folks like Dr. Susan Rodgers, Prince Charles Alexander, Richard Mendelson, and Jonathan Wyner. She completed the program with honors.
School
Work
While studying, Lena interned under Geoff Micheal at Big Sky Studio in Ann Arbor, working primarily on the national radio show, Acoustic Cafe . Through this, she had the opportunity to work with local acts, as well as national touring artists such as Kacey Musgraves and The Accidentals.
Lena started her post-college career at Shure Microphones, where she worked for Shure Inc. developing and tuning signal processing algorithms on products like the MV88+ and the MXA310, though much of her time there was spent working on the MV7. She was the lead DSP engineer on the project and responsible for the development of several key features, like the Auto Level Mode, that make this a next-gen microphone.
Now, Lena is the sole engineer at the new recording studio at the Pablo Center at the Confluence in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and teaches recording courses at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire while freelancing as a mix and mastering engineer.
I Am Not Sad - Them Coulee Boys (Mastering)
Projector - Computer Girl (Mixing)
onew4ylane - MUSA (Mastering)
In Between Places - Lucy Goose (Mastering)
I Can't Stay Long - Marauderville (Mixing and Mastering)
Bon Iver (Production Assistant, seen in this article)
VE1929 Vocoder (Developer)
WAMCon 2018 (Presenter)