Johnny “ BigRig” Roper

Recording engineer, mixer, archivist and producer. Over 33 years in the music industry with Gold and Platinum sales awards.

John Roper is BigRig Recording. John is an audio veteran who has worked through the transition from analog to digital audio with Gold and Platinum records to show for his efforts. Early in his career John was working on tape with The Band (Jericho 1993) and helping to bring digital editing to the Apollo Theater in NYC. Later, artists ranging from O-Town to Joe to George Benson recorded on Roper’s PARIS system to deliver hit records.  Roper currently uses a custom Telefunken VMT recording and mixing system integrated with vintage mic preamps, tube mics and high-tech audio networking.

BigRig Recording provides the following services:

Studio Recording @

The Studio @ Powerstation Events

On Deck Sound Studio

Big Rig Utility Research Kitchen

Live recording and mixing

Big Rig Recording Truck - (Powered by Powerstation)

Big Rig MiniRig

Tour support, recording and archiving

FOH, MON and PD with gear and truck

The Mobile Truck – This is NOT a board tape! Or two mics in the back of the room… All lines run out to the truck where we can actually hear without the noise of the venue… We record 120 independent audio channels for mix-down at the studio. 

The Roll-in Rig – When the truck is simply not practical we have a solution! The essential parts of the mobile studio can be brought right to the stage – we use headphones at the gig and make the mixing decisions later as we take it back to the studio!

The Studio – In the studio you can fix a bad note or add percussion or horns – You’ll be amazed at what is possible!

The Mix – Studio mixing on a medley of vintage analog and modern digital gear… complete automation package and the latest plugins…Our summing engine is one of a kind – a custom digital mixing environment written by Bob Lentini! You have never heard anything like this!! 

The Archive – We provide concert archiving services that include multitrack recording of all microphone and console outputs for a same day reference, future mix and release, or just for the archive.