Shane Thompson

ording studio with him to make a song. Unfamiliar with the music industry or how the recording process worked, Shane accompanied his friend to nearby Jackson, MS for his first session. It was in that session that Shane fell in love with making music. He continued recording after that session, often recording cover songs and perfecting his craft. Shane decided it was time to release his first album and invited his music friends to join him on the collaboration. He plastered the city in promotional flyers, including over 300 at his local Walmart, where he was working. Shane soon realized the cost of being an artist and developed a plan to cut costs. He was paying $60/hour to record, and at a $10/hour job he understood how many hours he’d need to work to have enough for a decent recording budget. He knew that in order to cut his biggest he’d need to learn to engineer himself. Once Shane made the decision to learn how to record himself, he went all in. Buying a laptop, microphones, speakers, and other equipment and software, he began recording in his room. Initially he struggled to get his quality to emulate what he was able to achieve in the major recording studios but he kept at it. Recording himself and his friends, eventually people started offering to pay him. Soon after, Shane moved out of his parents’ house and into a trailer with his friends becoming an in-house engineer for their music. In 2017, Shane was still working full time as a landscaper when he made the decision to venture out on his own, again to escape the trouble his friends were getting into and to better focus on his music. Shane’s father, who owned a local gym and worked as an architect, introduced him to the local Chamber of Commerce who helped him find a 250 sq. foot space in a local city to officially start his own studio. Shane operated in that space until 2019 when noise complaints from other businesses forced him to find a new space. He’d learned to save his earnings from the studio and was able to move into a bigger space in Pearl, MS, where he currently operates S.A.T.