Archive Recordings

Archive Recordings Archive Recordings is dedicated to helping the artist feel comfortable while capturing the best tones possible and having fun in the process.
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Archive Recordings was established in 2007 by Wes Johnson. Founded on a love for music, Archive immediately became a safe haven for expression for many underground artists. Believing strongly in DIY ethics of punk, Wes made his goal of helping bands and songwriters materialize their dreams a reality by recording Fox Van Cleef, Lionelle, and The Alliance at the first location of Archive in downtown

Salt Lake City. Wes started playing guitar when he was 8 years old. By the age of 13, he was already rocking out with The Crashers, playing DV8, Kilby Court, and venues all around Utah. His interest in recording music led him to Spyhop Digital Media Arts where he was an apprentice from 2003-2006. In 2006, he also started doing live recordings. By 2007 Archive Recordings had hit the ground running, and Wes continued to cultivate his skills. In 2008 he travelled to Wire World Studios in Nashville where he had the opportunity to learn from the great Michael Wagner during a recording workshop. Wagner has worked with Motley Crew, Poison, Metallica, Alice Cooper, Megadeth, Ozzy Osbourne and so many more influential musicians. The following year Wes was featured in Slug Magazine back in Salt Lake. Archive Recordings moved the studio to South Salt Lake, and Wes headed out to Cotati, California where he interned at Prairie Sun Recording where he assisted Oz Fritz.(Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, The Ramones) He assisted, while Oz recorded Too Noisy Fish and Jack and the Bear. Upon returning to Salt Lake and Archive, Wes recorded metal band Cult Leader’s “Nothing for us Here”, which was released by Deathwish Records in 2014. New Noise featured Wes in an issue where he talked about the experience of recording with Cult Leader. He also recorded “I Was Just on my Way Out” by Sleeping Weather, an album released by Suburban Homes. Wes believes this is just the beginning of his life goal of helping bands capture their sound and ideas through amazing gear in a comfortable space with a great vibe.

Thank you all for such a great 2024, it was such a fun year full of adventures with sound. Very grateful to have been in...
12/27/2024

Thank you all for such a great 2024, it was such a fun year full of adventures with sound. Very grateful to have been involved with so many cool projects in many different roles from tracking, mixing, co-producing, mastering, etc.. Thank you all for trusting me with your music and vision.




















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Also thanks to , .music, and for bringing me on the road to mix them live, lot’s of fun shows this year.

Also would like to thank to my amazing band members in for having me involved with writing, recording, and performing with them, such a fun group to collaborate and be creative with. We released our record “Acheron” in September and have a bunch of cool upcoming announcements we are all excited to share for 2025.

Last but not least I want to thank all of my family and friends that I got spend time with on camping trips, vacations, golfing, fly fishing, snowboarding outings, parties, and any other fun activities, you all are the best!

-Wes

Been having fun the last few months with what I’ve been calling the “Tone Zone” even though it looks  messy it’s been co...
10/29/2024

Been having fun the last few months with what I’ve been calling the “Tone Zone” even though it looks messy it’s been convenient with the help of the undertoneaudio GB tracker, radial SGI’s, and a electricalaudio DI. It’s quick and easy to dial in some tones.

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11/11/2023

Lazy days n crazy Nights 🤘

Very proud of my friends in .music for making their vision a reality with this record and also very grateful that they t...
08/10/2023

Very proud of my friends in .music for making their vision a reality with this record and also very grateful that they trusted me with recording this record, extremely proud of how it turned out. pre-order link below. Rile “Pessimist” out October 27th, 2023 via Church Road Records! Preorder now and listen to the new single ‘Climb Out’

https://bfan.link/climb-out

Rile “Pessimist” out October 27th, 2023 via Church Road Records! Preorder now and listen to the new single ‘Climb Out’

https://bfan.link/climb-out

Recorded by Wesley Walter Johnson at Archive Recordings
Additional drum engineering by Chris Jensen
Mixed by Kurt Ballou
Mastered by Brad Boatright
Artwork by Aaron B Turner

Still have some availability for October/November. Please e-mail info@archiverecordings.com for info. We offer productio...
08/26/2022

Still have some availability for October/November. Please e-mail [email protected] for info. We offer production, recording, mixing, editing, re-amping, live show recording or just about any other audio service.

New Hectic Hobo record coming your way 11.11.22
08/22/2022

New Hectic Hobo record coming your way 11.11.22

Hello FB, it has been a long time since we posted on here. We are still kickin, making records and getting cool sounds w...
08/18/2022

Hello FB, it has been a long time since we posted on here. We are still kickin, making records and getting cool sounds with our vast instrument and microphone collection through this amazing vintage trident 80B console. Always feel free to e-mail us at [email protected] with any questions you may have.

My best buds in .music released the first song off their upcoming record, couldn’t be more proud of how the hard we work...
03/16/2022

My best buds in .music released the first song off their upcoming record, couldn’t be more proud of how the hard we worked on making this. Also it was mixed by Kurt Ballou at and mastered by Brad Boatright at

Offering a special October deal, two 8 hour weekdays with  for $666 dollars. This is great to to get that single produce...
09/20/2021

Offering a special October deal, two 8 hour weekdays with for $666 dollars. This is great to to get that single produced, recorded, and mixed. DM for more info.

We still have some open time this month, send us a message if you want to get crazy with some sounds.
04/05/2021

We still have some open time this month, send us a message if you want to get crazy with some sounds.

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405 N 400 W
North Salt Lake, UT
84054

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 8pm
Tuesday 9am - 8pm
Wednesday 9am - 8pm
Thursday 9am - 8pm
Friday 9am - 8pm
Saturday 9am - 8pm
Sunday 9am - 8pm

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