Steven Rarick, Owner / Managing Engineer

Steve started his sound engineering career in High School setting up PA equipment for football games. While studying Physics at San Diego State University, he also played the bass and sang in various local music groups. Since he was usually the only one with any technical knowledge or experience with sound systems, it became his responsibility to deal with the audio equipment. After graduate classes in Analog & Digital Signal Instrumentation and Acoustics, Steve decided to start his own business. He had already been providing sound systems for a few friends and other clients so it was an easy decision to formalize the arrangement and Sound Engineering Services was born. The first few years were spent providing live sound reinforcement for local customers. Eventually, opportunities to work with artists like Bill Acosta, and Bobby Caldwell started to occur. In 1997, Steve realized there was no one providing affordable location recording in the San Diego area. After a year of planning, advice gathering, and construction of a new audio truck, Sound Engineering Services introduced its remote recording service. Since then, Steve has had the pleasure of working with some of the most talented artists in the world.

 

Phil Rockhold, Recording / Mastering Engineer

Phil and Steve met in the early 90's while they were helping Randy Fuelle with the construction of Hit Single Recording Services. They worked together on many projects at Hit Single and Phil also started helping out on some sound reinforcement gigs for Sound Engineering Services. Since then he has become one of the best mastering engineers in the area.