Authentic Creativity: Award Winning Songwriting, Production, Mix Engineering

Tiny Island Studios is the creative home of Will Carpenter: an award-winning songwriter, producer, mix engineer, multi-instrumentalist, and the creative force behind indie rock duo Ships Have Sailed. Originally from New England, Will is based in Los Angeles where he has spent over 10 years in the music industry having worked with songwriters / producers such as RedOne (Lady Gaga, U2, The Band Perry) and Wally Gagel (Family of the Year, Miley Cyrus, Best Coast).  Will loves to collaborate and frequently works with other artists as a writer, producer and mix engineer as well as working on his own projects.

Will has always believed that true creativity arises when those creating have a comfortable space to open up and be vulnerable with each other - as humans, our minds and everything inside them (thoughts, experiences and emotions) are like little islands: largely inaccessible until we choose to invite someone in. Once we decide to let someone in to truly understand us, and to make an attempt to truly understand them, we open ourselves up to a profoundly authentic creative experience, and our islands begin to grow.

Tiny Island Studios is meant to be a safe harbor for creative souls to unite and create. Built behind Will’s home and nestled into a hill in a quiet neighborhood, the structure itself is unassuming, but stepping inside will reveal a cozy and comfortable, yet fully functional creative space where all aspects of the creative process - from songwriting, composition, recording, production to mixing - are all fully at your fingertips.

With a selection of outboard inputs made up of Class A product lines from UAD, SSL, Manley, Neumann, AKG, Sebatron, Royer and more, Tiny Island Studios affords the flexibility to record live drums, pristine, intimate vocals or acoustic guitar and everything in between - capturing the organic sound naturally and converting it to its digital form flawlessly for the ultimate level of flexibility.

In addition to accolades for songwriting and production, Will has seen significant success in the world of Film, TV and Advertising, landing placements in a variety of indie films, documentaries and TV shows such as Grey’s Anatomy (ABC), Heartland (CBC), BULL (CBS) as well as several ad campaigns.