Arcade Studios is a state-of-the-art digital music production facility located beside Slice of Life in Niverville, and it’s accredited by Manitoba Film and Sound. Over the past 2 years, they’ve recorded an LP for the rock band Whiskey Talks and produced 13 singles. And that all happened while the facility was being built! Ambitious doesn’t seem to do them justice.
The team behind Arcade Studios is Evan St. Cyr, Gerry St. Cyr, and Marshall Krahn. Evan and Gerry had been recording music together for over 5 years on their own, but as they grew they sought the help and expertise of Krahn, a long-time friend, producer, and graduate of Mid Ocean School of Media Arts. Krahn also interned at a private studio in Los Angeles. He instantly became an asset to the father/son team.
Shortly thereafter, they produced local artist Jordan St. Cyr’s first solo LP, “Anchors.” “We are still, to this day, proud of that album,” says Evan. “It brought Jordan a lot of success.”
Soon the team set their sights even bigger, looking for a new location that would better suit their growing needs and aspirations. That’s when Arcade Studios was founded.
The studio is beautifully designed and is much larger than it looks from the outside. Inside one finds an array of custom woodwork, from a 20-by-20-foot feature wall to handcrafted workstations, windows, doors, and flooring. The studio houses a large piano and drum room on the main floor and two vocal/guitar booths on the second floor, alongside a control room. All the rooms have large plexiglass windows so it feels like one big open space.
“We’ve put a lot of thought into creating a comfortable and creative environment, but that is only the start,” says Krahn “We are after the highest quality of recording and production, so we have also fully equipped the studio with industry-standard gear.”
At the heart of the studio is the Avid HDX system, running on supercharged Apple MacPro computers. Arcade also boasts an arsenal of top-of-the-line plugins, sample libraries, and a mic locker full of top-end microphones like Neumann, Akg, Royer, and Mojave.
This exclusive studio has no desire to be an open house to just any artist. They’re looking for people as passionate about music as they are. Their goal is simple: to be a part of making great music.
“That’s been the goal since we sought this thing out,” says Gerry St. Cyr, “to work with the best, learn, and get better.”
They’ve been working hard for a long time and have no plans on stopping. “We’d love nothing more than to build a team around us,” says Evan. “We strive for quality at Arcade, and we believe in the hard-working artists, and getting them the results they deserve.”
