Mastering · Engineering

Alain Deroque

aka Joseph Lomer Alain Lalancette

real name Joseph Lomer Alain De Roque né Joseph Lomer Alain Lalancette

Alain Deroque is credited on 1,149 pressings across 670 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1970–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,149

Credits

670

Albums

6

Decades active

2,965

In collections

Biography

Canadian artist, musician, and engineer based in Montréal, Quebec. Born in Montréal in 1948, he started his career as a cutting engineer for London Records Of Canada (1967) Ltd. in 1967 and worked there in in that capacity until 1971. In 1971 he moved to Studio Triangle as a recording engineer and producer until 1977 when he joined Disques SNB Ltée. as a mastering and cutting engineer. In 1988 he stopped cutting and focused on mastering at SNB. He was manager of SNB from 2000 to 2004. In 2005 he joined Guy St-Onge's Pure Mastering in St-Calixte, Quebec as manager, where he remained until it closed in 2013. Retired from the music business since, he is now a painter although still occasionally helps out at Le Lab Mastering.
His "Aℓ" etch in runouts can be misinterpreted as "SL" or "sl" or "JC" or "JD".

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Credited work

1,149 releases · 670 albums · active 1970–2024

  • Mastering · 1,189
  • Engineering · 23
  • Performance · 11
  • Production · 10
  • Other credits · 1

Studios: Sigma Sound Studios, New York · Studio Main Gauche · Air Studios · Larrabee Sound Studios

Discography

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