Shea Thompson

I first met Shea in the summer of 2016 when he applied for a job as Studio manager for Sonic-Rocket. Shea is an extremely gifted musician, an incredible engineer, and a superb singer/songwriter in his own right. Shea plays many instruments and only ended up on keyboards for the Brilliant Deductions because we talked him into it, but can also shred on the gee-tar and can be found tearing it up with some sexy vocals.

Shea started working on music when he was about 10 years old, jumping into his first Digital Audio Workstation, Fruity Loops (before the cereal brand sued the company over the trademark and they officially renamed themselves FL Studio). Officially, his father assisted him in recording his first album when he was 9 (it was an hour-long relaxation tape). Ever since then, he has had a rather serious addiction to recording audio, mixing audio, and producing music for artists as well as himself. He has worked closely with his father, Dr Jeffrey Thompson, who is a successful musician himself; having produced over 100 albums for relaxation and musical therapy. He runs his own sound therapy clinic in Carlsbad, CA seeing patients who travel all over the world for his state-of-the-art methods he has pioneered himself.

Shea actually began on the piano when he was 8 years old, and trained classically until the age of 16 where he finally stepped away from his lessons and picked up a guitar. Things changed for him after that… He received his first microphone and recording interface when he was 13 and began to record his own songs (rather than crafting them purely with midi and samples in FL Studio), and started diving into the world of microphones. Over the next decade he would spend an unhealthy amount of time each day writing music, recording music, and producing music to earn his mastery over its ways… all the while honing his skills on his newly found instrument; the guitar. It’s only been a recent resurgence of inspiration that he has reconnected with his roots in piano, and boy has he dove right back into it.

Shea has worked at a number of recording studios including Spooky Cat, Pinstripe Studios, CNR, and Soapbox Multimedia. He is the recording engineer for the Brilliant Deductions and is responsible in no small part for our fine recordings. He’s held positions such as Assistant Engineer, Director of Sound, and Chief Engineer at more than one studio. You’ll be hard pressed to find another engineer who cares more about your music and how to make it sound the best it can be.
When not in the studio, Shea enjoys hiking, drinking coffee, photography, writing music, and studying his craft. In all honesty, when Shea isn’t at the studio working… he’s at home working on something else!