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The Good Room

The Good Room is an Audio and Music Production Studio in Winnipeg, MB Canada. With precisely tailored rooms to capture and enhance sound for the best emotional impact possible. Here in Winnipeg, boasting an average of 318 days of sunlight a year, with east and north facing windows, The Good Room invites the natural light into its creative spaces.

Home to musician, producer and mixing engineer Elessar Thiessen, after many years of working out of commercial studios, Elessar decided to design and build a studio he could call home. This is his happy place.

Learn more about Elessar Thiessen

All rooms are wired up for recording to suit any and all needs that might present themselves.

Low latency cameras and monitors are placed in every room to provide clear communication paths.

A small kitchenette is available with fridge, microwave, coffee and other amenities

  • A Control room designed and tuned, with custom made soffit mounted speaker monitors, to provide a ruler flat frequency response. This is necessary for precise listening, recording, mixing and mastering. If it sounds good in here, it’ll sound good everywhere.

    A collection of high end recording equipment at your disposal and sunlight overhead.

  • A live room with a cathedral ceiling, stretching from over 12’ tall, down to 10’. Controlled, yet still alive for tracking big drums, strings, choirs and anything else that needs a big room sound.

    A beautiful space to shoot a video. Lots of natural light.

  • A Medium sized isolation booth. Not quite dead, not quite live sounding. Acoustic guitars, tight “jazz” drums, upright bass. this room excels at highlighting the nuance of every instrument you put in it.

  • Well treated to expel any unwanted reflections. Cozy, yet spacious. From a soaring Vocal, to a quiet VoiceOver. Where all you want is what you get.

Available Services Include:

Recording, Producing, Editing, Mixing, Mastering, Composing, ADR, Audiobooks, Podcasts, Remote Recording, Live Music Videos, Video Set Location

Rates

Hourly: (min. 2 hrs) $75

Full Day: (8hrs) $500

Full Week: (5 days, 8 hr days) $2250

Prices do not include tax.

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Gear List

    • Yamaha G2 Grand Piano . 1982

    • Hammond L-101 with Leslie 760 Cabinet

    • Rhodes Mark II Stage Piano Seventy-Three

    • Donalda Cabinet Grand Upright Piano

    • Arturia Keylab 88 Note Mk II (Fatar weighted keys) Midi Keyboard

    • Silvertone . 644/649 . 1958

    • Gibson . J-45ADJ . 1964

    • Yamaha . G-170A Classical . 1973

    • Giannini . AWKS6 . 1975 (High Strung)

    • Takamine . EF-365SW . 1983

    • Duncan Africa . Dreadnought U2 Custom . 2000’s

    • Simon & Patrick . Parlor Natural . 2000’s

    • Taylor . 320E-Baritone . 2014

    • McNamee Guitars . Grand Concert Custom . 2015

    • Guild . 240E . 2021

    • Fender . Frankenstrat . Gibson neck . Filotron pickups . 6 way switch

    • Fender . American Deluxe Stratocaster . 2008

    • Fender . Telecaster Deluxe Nashville . 1999

    • G&L . Telecaster ASAT Classic . 2001

    • Gibson . Les Paul Standard . 2022

    • Jerry Jones . Electric Sitar . 1990

    • Johnson . Swamp Stomper Resonator . 2000’s

    • Fender . JP-Bass . 2021

    • Vox AC15

    • Fender ‘68 Princeton Reverb

    • Traynor YGL-1

    • Leslie 760

    • Wampler . Latitude Tremolo

    • Neunaber . Immerse Reverberator

    • Tech 21-NYC . SansAmp Bass Driver DI

    • Ohmless . Solana Overdrive

    • Diamond . Comp. Jr.

    • Mosfe .t Full Drive 2

    • Boss . DD-500 Delay

    • Dunlop . Mini Volume Pedal

    • Waves

    • Slate Digital

    • Soundtoys

    • Arturia

    • Plugin Alliance

    • Universal Audio

    • Fabfilter

    • Spitfire Audio

    • Izotope

    • Native Instruments

    • IK Multimedia

    • Audio Damage

    • Celemony

    • And so so many more…

    • Cosmic Percussion Congas . 9.5”, 10.5”

    • Djembes . 14”, 10”

    • Tamborines

    • Shakers

    • Many more

    • Custom Speakers:

      • SB ACOUSTICS SB17CRC35-4, 171mm (7in) CARBON FIBER CONE WOOFER 4 OHM,

      • Seas Prestige 27TBCD/GBDXT, 26mm (1in) Aluminum Magnesium DXT Dome Tweeter,

      • Scan-Speak Revelator 32W/4878T00, 320mm (12in) Paper Cone Subwoofer, with 75mm Voice Coil, 4ohm.

      • Hypex, FusionAmp FA123, 2x 125 Wrms + 100 Wrms Ncore Amplifier Module with DSP.

    • Audeze LCD-X Headphones (To Dial in the Subs) powered by a Little Labs Monotor

    • Yamaha NS-10m Studios, Powered by a Bryson4B with a Mono Yamaha HS8 Sub

    • Tannoy PBM-6.5s Powered by a Hafler P3000.

    • Behringer P16 Personal Headphone Mix System

    • RME Digiface USB Interface/TotalMix

    • Apogee Symphony I/O Mk I (16ch)

    • Ferrofish Pulse 16 (16ch)

    • MacBook Pro M1-Max

    • Logic Pro X

    • Pro Tools Studio

    • Nektar Panorama CS12

    • Rupert Neve Portico 5043 (2ch)

    • Urei LA-4

    • Allen Smart Research C2 (2ch)

    • API 550B (2ch)

    • Anthony DeMaria Labs Stereo Tube C/L 1500 (2ch)

    • Joe Meek SC2 (2ch)

    • Audioscape VComp+

    • Audioscape 76D

    • Pultec EQP-1A (By iTronix)) (2ch)

    • CBS Volumax

    • Drawmer 1960 (2ch)

    • Focusrite ISA430 MK II

    • T.C. Electronics Intonation (2ch)

    • DBX 160XT

    • DBX 163X (2ch)

    • DBX 166 (2ch)

    • Yamaha PM-430 EQ (8ch)

    • API 3124+ (4ch)

    • Drawmer 1960 (2ch)

    • Focusrite ISA430 MKII

    • Great River MP2NV (2ch)

    • Rupert Neve Portico 5012 (2ch)

    • SSL XLogic Alpha VHD Pre (4ch)

    • Yamaha PM-430 (8ch)

    • Advanced Audio CM12 (C12 Clone)

    • AKG C414 B-ULS x2

    • AKG C451 E x2

    • Electro-Voice 635A

    • Neumann FET 47

    • Neumann U87 Ai

    • Neumann KM184 x2

    • NoHype CRM-1 x2

    • Peluso P67 (U67 Clone) x2

    • Royer 121 x2

    • Sennheiser MD 421 Kompakt x2

    • Shure 7B

    • Shure 52A Beta

    • Shure 57 ×5

    • Shure 58 x2 (1 Beta)

    • 1970'‘s Ludwig Players 3 Ply . 24”, 12”, 13”, 16”

    • 2000’s Pearl Vision . 22”, 10”, 12”, 16”

    • 2000’s Peace Paragon . 22”, 10”, 12”, 14”

    • Tama Metalworks Snare . Stainless Steel . 14”x6.5”

    • Peace Paragon Snare . Wood Shell . 14”x6.5”

    • Yamaha Snare . Wood Shell . Air Sealed . 10”x5”