Producer Bio – John Paul Peters
Contact:
634 Greene Avenue, Winnipeg, MB.
R2K 0M6
204.799.4471
John.peters@mts.net
www.johnpaulpeters.com
John Paul Peters was born on November 7th, 1976 in Lorrach Germany. He moved to Canada at the age of 5, and started music lessons shortly after. He took violin with the Suzuki program for seven years before picking up the instruments of rock and roll. John Paul started several bands in High School, namely The Undecided and Officer Down. The Undecided signed with Seattle-based Tooth and Nail records and recorded two albums for them, touring extensively in Canada and the United States.
John Paul always enjoyed his experiences in the studio and found the recording process to be both fulfilling and motivating. In 2002, he began an apprenticeship at Ground Zero recording in Oak Bank, completing several albums there before moving out on his on as a freelance engineer and producer. His first full length project was the debut recording for Winnipeg’s own “Comeback Kid”, which went on to sell over 30,000 units. The band soon became a mainstay of hardcore in North America and Europe. After moving on from Ground Zero, John Paul joined forces with Joe Riccardo and founded High North Records, a retreat studio located near Grand Beach, MB. Over the next four years John worked with many great up-and-coming bands and solo artists totaling well over 50 projects in genres ranging in diversity from metal to top 40 pop. Recently, he has produced and engineered records for The Waking Eyes, Baysix (UK), Swingset Champion and Textbook Tragedy (Vancouver), Means (Regina), Sons of York, Subcity Dwellers, Coda, Every New Day, The Barrymores, Katelyn Dawn, and Tele (Winnipeg). The Waking Eyes (Coalition/Warner) won “Best Independent Album” at the 2009 WCMA awards for their album “Holding On to Whatever it is”, produced, engineered, and mixed by John Paul Peters.
In collaboration with Neil Cameron (Private Ear Recording), John Paul has constructed a new 3000sf recording studio in downtown Winnipeg. The studio has retained the name “Private Ear Recording” in keeping with the name of Neil’s original studio. Private Ear Recording consists of two separate facilities which will be the new home for John’s production efforts, as well as a commercial studio. The rooms feature a Neotek Elite m2 console (40 frame), Protools/HD Accel, Radar/24, Ampex 2’, Studer A807, and a Yamaha Grand Piano, as well as outboard gear and microphones by API, Avalon, Neumann, Dynaudio, Urei, BSS, Focusrite, Joemeek, True Systems, Drawmer, Orange County, Rane, Furman, Dbx, Lexicon, TC electronic, Gotham Audio, Yamaha, Rode, Senneheiser, AKG, AEA, Sure, Oktava, Microtek Geffel, Audio Technica, and many more. The new site is now online at www.privateear.ca
