John Paul Peters

About

John Paul Peters is an award-winning music recording producer, sound engineer, mixer, musician, and studio owner from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. In 2020 he won the (BreakOut West) Western Canadian Music awards for Producer of the year and audio engineering. His client list would be aptly described as diverse. He has expanded his skills in a wide variety of genres over the past 20 years. His love of music and people, along with dedication to detail and genuine effort to achieve his client’s goals, has given him much success both in the Canadian music industry and beyond.

Peters works primarily out of Private Ear Recording (www.privateearrecording.com), a fully featured recording studio located in Winnipeg's historic Exchange District.

Starting in 2002, Peters' first production effort was the debut recording for Winnipeg’s own Comeback Kid, which went on to sell over 30 000 units. Since then he has worked on multi-award winning and nominated albums including The Waking Eyes (Holding On To Whatever It Is - 2009) WCMA Best Rock Recording and Mahogany Frog (Senna - 2012) WCMA Best Instrumental Recording. And this year Cancerbats (Psychic Jailbreak 2022) was JUNO Nominated for 2023 Metal/Hard music album of the year!

Some of his most recent Production Projects include: Hello Fiasco (2022 Find the Shoreline), Mise En Scene (Reality Bites EP 2023), Comeback Kid (Heavy Steps), Cancerbats (Psychic Jailbreak 2022 JUNO Nominated for 2023 Metal/Hard music album of the year) and Shay Wolfe (2023 EP Stay, includes 3 previously released singles)

Additional Production credits include: Propagandhi (Failed States and Victory Lap), Royal Canoe (Today We're Believers), JP Hoe (Mannequin), Crooked Brothers (Lawrence, Where's My Knife), The Kindred (formerly Today I Caught the Plague), Figure Four (Suffer the Loss), The Arkells (demos), Indicator Indicator (Self Titled), Latka (My Bright Heart), The Liptonians (Single), Electro Quarterstaff, Matt Epp, The Ripperz, A Textbook Tragedy, Evil Survives, Every New Day, Means, The  Noble Thiefs, Hope Atlantic, and many more. 

His engineering client list also includes: Hello Fiasco, Mise En Scene, The Small Glories, Cancer Bats, Leonard Sumner, Death Cassette, The Rules, Chai Folk Ensemble, The Bloodshots, The Great Steelhead, Eamon McGrath, Brothers Landreth, Ariel Posen, Paul Bergman, Greg Rekus, Gold Mountain, Ila Barker,  WSO with Maria Aragon, JP Hoe, The Rippers, Jayme Giesbrecht, Yes We Mystic, Trampoline, Electro Quarterstsaff, Micah Erenberg, The Lytics, Propagandhi (2012 and 2017), Alyx Knight, Crooked Brothers, Carly Dow, Royal Canoe, Adam Hanny and Co., Matt Epp, Tin Can Bandits, Indicator Indicator, Finn, Mobina Galore, Anthony Oaks, Begonia, Rayannah, Mariachi Ghost and many more.

Peters is a multi-instrumentalist skilled at violin, guitar, bass, keys, percussion, to name a few. He has numerous instrumental and vocal credits on albums he has produced. As a performing and recording artist, Peters has played with several groups including The Undecided and Officer Down. The Undecided was signed with Seattle-based Tooth and Nail Records, recorded two albums under the label, and toured extensively in Canada and the United States. Officer Down had several releases under Hamilton, Ontario-based Goodfellow Records.