Rock and Roll Candyland - Sweetwater Sound

The coolest music store on the planet is in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Sweetwater Sound is 180,000 square feet of nothing but music.

Driving into the parking lot of Sweetwater you get the feeling you're entering the parking lot of a shopping mall. In fact, you are. But the entire mall is Sweetwater. Beginning with ample parking, you will find a spacious mall-like atmosphere complete with a restaurant, The Downbeat Diner, and a game area where all the coin mechanisms are disabled so you can play for free.

Sweetwater carries everything you need to record music, or play it live. Sweetwater specializes in recording equipment, being one of the biggest Avid Pro Tools dealers in the world. Sweetwater provides sales and service to some of the world best know recording studios and recording artists.

The Sweetwater Music Academy is staffed with accredited music teachers in piano, voice, drums, bass and guitar. Sweetwater even offers classes in digital recording, and a service department that is second to none.

You have to see Sweetwater's 250 seat Performance Theater. It is set up to record live concerts in high def video and equipped for live audio recording. Couple that with a very cool Lares audio enhancing system, by Lexicon, that has to be heard to be believed!

Sweetwater has three fully functioning Russ Berger designed recording studios with an experienced team of creative, singers, songwriters, arrangers, producers, and engineers who produce singer songwriter projects, and write jingles for radio and TV. This gives the Sweetwater retail Sales Engineers the edge over other music stores in that the Sweetwater Studio Team uses the same gear that Sweetwater sells. This real world experience helps the Sweetwater Sales Engineer give good solid advice on what each person needs to make the most of out of their rig.

Sweetwater Sales Engineers are the best trained audio sales professionals in the world! Most have four year degrees in music technology plus rigorous training at Sweetwater University.

Sweetwater features guitars by Fender, Gibson, Martin, Wechter, Taylor, Ovation, Takemine, and more. Amps from Marshall, Ampeg, Roland, Fender, Mesa Boogie, Hartke, along with Fender, Lakland, Tobias, Peavey and Ibanez basses. Mics from Blue, Mojave, Shure, and AKG. What do you need to make your music? Sweetwater has it. Sweetwater is located just off Interstate 69, on US 30 West, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. You gotta see it to believe it!