trillium house studio

professional recording studio in saint john

recording

Make use of top quality industry standard equipment and record the song you have always dreamed of.

production

We will help oversee the whole process of creating, from arranging to recording and coaching musicians to perform the piece the way you want it.

mastering

We will help balance all the elements of your stereo mix and optimize it to the highest of audio standards. Guarantee the best playback across all speakers and formats.

about

Trillium Studio is located on Wentworth Street in the heart of historic uptown Saint John, NB (#saint awesome) The neighborhood has great restaurants, coffee shops and bars in Canada's first incorporated City. Only 5 minutes from Rockwood Park, Canada's largest urban park. The studio (Formerly Shell Lane Studio in Prince Edward Island) was opened in 2006 by veteran recording engineer/producer Paul Milner. The studio was relocated to Saint John in December 2017. With a goal to create a relaxed and creative atmosphere in the heart of the beautiful and inspiring City Center.

Studio

Artists and the people surrounding their creative processes need to ensure that they are working in an enviroment that contains little to no stress, a place where technology doesn't interfere with the creative process. We're happy to help make this happen!
The main studio area features natural stone and brick with a stone drum / live room, 2 vocal / isolation booths, a lounge area that also doubles as a recording space and a control room with natural light and 10 foot ceilings. All rooms are acoustically isolated with tie lines linking them together.
Equipped to record digitally with Pro Tools or Digital Performer, Universal Audio Apollo converters and a complete UA plug ins package, we can also record and mix entirely analog using our MTA 980 console designed by Malcom Toft (Trident), quality microphones, outboard pre amps, compressors and analog effects. We can also merge the digital and analog worlds tracking into Pro Tools, providing analog warmth and digital convenience.


Hourly, Daily and Weekly rates are available or project by project for larger blocks of time. We make recordings for a living and work on projects in a wide range of budgets. We help you with consulting and planning constructing a budget that works all the way through song writing / sourcing material, Tracking, Overdubs, editing, mixing, mastering and putting the final pieces together, shopping, distribution, publishing and full production services starting at step one. Take a look around the site and drop us a line. Let's make some great music together...

If you need help finding an engineer, producer or musicians and arrangers we can also help you with that. We have access to the best musicians on the planet, all over the world, whether you are recording in Canada or Europe or the Middle East, we have been doing this long enough to know how to get it done right the first time.
Various plans are available.

Lounge

The second floor has 13 foot ceilings and hardwood floors throughout offering a wide variety of recording spaces with various combinations of reflective and non-reflective surfaces.

Equipment

Microphones
Outboard Equipment
Control Room

microphones

  • 1 X Neumann M 149 Dual Diaphram / Tube / 9 Patterns
  • 1 X Neumann SWA / S7 / KMA / Condenser
  • 1 X Neumann 1960's U87 Condenser
  • 2 X Neumann KM149 Condenser
  • 1 X Neumann TLM103 Condenser
  • 1 X Lawson L251/L47 Tube FET combo
  • 1 X Rode Classic / Valve Pre Amp / 9 Patterns / Dual pressure gradient
  • 1 X Rode NT1 / Condenser
  • 2 X Apex 215 Dual Ribbon Mic
  • 1 X AKG 414 B-TL ll / Condenser
  • 1 x Audio Technica AT4033a / Condenser
  • 2 X AKG C451 E Condenser + C1 Capsules
  • 1 x AKG D200 E / Dynamic
  • 2 X Sennheiser MD421-U-5 / Dynamic
  • 1 X Electro Voice N-43 / U.S Army Signal corp / Dynamic
  • 1 X EV MC500 / Dynamic
  • 1 X EV Blue Cardinal / Condenser
  • 1 x Audio Technica 831a / Elektret Condenser
  • 1 x Audio Technica 2020 / Condenser
  • 1 x Audio Technica ATM21 / Condenser
  • 1 X Shure 849 / Condenser
  • 1 X Shure Beta 52 / High output Dynamic
  • 1 X Shure SM58 / Dynamic
  • 3 X Shure SM57 / Dynamic
  • 2 X Shure SM98 / Unidirectional Condenser
  • 2 X Shure SM91 / Unidirectional Condenser
  • 2 X Samson CO2 / Supercardioid pencil Condenser

Outboard Equipment

  • 1 Universal Audio 2-610 tube mic preamp EQ stereo
  • 1 Universal Audio Apollo 16
  • 1 TL Audio EQ 2 Stereo Mic Pre Amp / Parametric Valve EQ
  • 1 TL Audio EQ 2 Stereo Mic Pre Amp / Parametric Valve EQ
  • 1 TL Audio Dual Valve Mic Pre Amp - Compressor
  • 1 Focusrite Platinum Voice Master Stereo Compressor / Limiter
  • 1 Focusrite Stereo Compressor / Limiter
  • 1 Joe Meek Stereo Compressor
  • 2 DBX Project 1 Compressor / Limiter / Gate 266
  • 1 Valley Dynamite 2 Stereo Compressor / Limiter / Gate
  • 2 Aphex Stereo Expander / Gate
  • 2 Ashly SC-50 Peak Limiter / Compressor1 Ashly SC-66A Stereo Parametric EQ
  • 2 DBX 263X De-Esser
  • 1 Aphex Aural Exiter Type B Stereo
  • 2 ATR-1 Autotune
  • 2 DBX 163X Compressor / Limiter
  • UAD Plugins Pultec, LA2A, 1176, Fairchild, Maximizer, Neve, Etc.
  • 1 Korg Kaos Pad Dynamic Effets Controler
  • 1 Bass Pod Amp Modeler

Reverbs & Effect Processors

  • 2 Lexicon Vortex Audio Morphing Processors
  • 2 Lexicon PCM 70 Digital Effects Processors
  • 1 Lexicon 300 Digital Effects System
  • 1 Eventide H3000 Ultra-harmonizer

Computers - Converters

  • Apollo 16 High Rez interface with realtime UAD processing

Control Room

  • Tannoy System 1200
  • Dynaudio Acoustics BM6
  • KRK self powered V6

Power Amps

  • OSC Audio 1400
  • BGW Systems 250D
  • Crown D150A

Headphones

  • Furmann HR6 Headphone mixing matrix supplying individual 6 channel mixing to Studio musicians
  • Koss
  • Fostex
  • JVC
  • AKG
  • SONY

Recorders

  • ProTools
  • DP8
  • Alesis HD24
  • HHb CDR-830
  • Sony DTC-1000,
  • Panasonic DAT SRV-3700
  • Tascam DA-30

Paul Milner

Multiple Award-Winning Music Producer Paul Milner (Juno, SOCAN #1, APCMA, ECMA, Covenant), whose projects have achieved sales of more than 25 million copies worldwide, has been involved in productions of more than 500 full-length album projects for independent artists and major labels that include: Columbia, EMI, Aquarius, Maple Music, Busted Flat, A&M, BMG, Atlantic, Attic, Virgin, ATCO, RCA and United Media.


Milner's accolade's include stints as a team player at studios, such as: Le Studio in Montreal, Canada (Keith Richards, Rush, Queensryche, Glass Tiger), Blue Wave Studios, Barbados (Eddy Grant, Miki Imai. Grry Rafferty, Happy Mondays) and other respected facilities including: The Hit Factory, Compass Point, House of Blues studios, O'Henry, CBC Studio 1, Cherry Beach, Vancouver Sound, The Clubhouse, Advision, Caribbean Sound Basin and many more facilities.


Client requests have seen him travel for work to: Denmark, USA, Trinidad, Israel, UK and many other International locations over the past 35 years. His eye and ears for detail and the carefully selected equipment, such as, the Neve. SSL and UAD and his MTA980 recording console previously owned by RadioHead add fuel to Paul's creative genius. His personable demeanor, panache and relationship building qualities are instantly recognized by those who work with him, which add substance to the end result of all of his projects.

Paul Milner and/or his team have worked with Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, Keith Richards, Rush, Queensryche, The Bee Gees, Norah Jones, Bruce Cockburn, Willie Nelson, The Judds, Eddy Grant, Bonnie Raitt, Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Great Big Sea, Billy Preston, Donna Summer, Cliff Richards, Tiffany, Leo Sayer, Joan Armatrading, Chris DeBurgh, Pete Townshend, Frank Zappa, Bonnie Tyler, Faith Hill, Bing Crosby, Maynard Ferguson, Henry Mancini, Wynona Judd, Kenny Chesney, Lorrie Morgan, Mark Knopfler, Etta James, Hank Williams Jr, Toby Keith, Conway Twitty, Ricky Van Shelton, Confederate Railroad, Reba McIntyre, Lyle Lovett, Sass Jordan, Anne Murray, Robert Palmer, Men Without Hats, Glass Tiger, I Mother Earth, The Headstones, Aldo Nova and many more...


Some of Paul's select awards include: 25 Gold & Platinum certifications. His "Juno Winning" recordings as engineer or producer include: Best R&B Recording, Best Solo Male Recording, Best Reggae Recording, Best Calypso Recording, Best New Artist and a "Juno Nomination" for Recording Engineer of the year for Keven Jordan's "No Sign Of Rain" (Columbia). Paul Milner also received a coveted SOCAN #1 award.


Since re-locating to eastern Canada he has continued his award-winning work where he has won the Gospel Instrumental Album of The Year (Covenant) and East Coast Music Awards that include: Best Bluegrass Recording, Best Pop Recording, Best Blues Recording, Best Solo Male Recording and dozens of ECMA nominations.