Recording & Multimedia Studio · St. John's, Newfoundland
Records made from the roots up.
Produced, arranged, mixed, mastered, and given a face — Jim Fidler's studio, one project at a time, since 1991.
A record isn't assembled. It's grown — part by part, until it sounds like it always existed.
What happens
in the cellar
Everything from the first conversation to the finished, manufactured product — sound and vision, under one roof.
Consultation
Talk the project through before a note is recorded — scope, sound, timeline, and budget.
Production
Full production from first idea to finished master, at home across folk, Celtic, world, and roots.
Arrangement
Parts, instrumentation, and structure — built out by a multi-instrumentalist who plays most of them.
Mixing
Every element balanced into one clear, warm whole that holds together on any speaker.
Mastering
The final polish, prepared and delivered for CD, streaming, and vinyl.
Multimedia & Video
Animated music videos and visual work, concept through finish — including the animated Downtown Girl.
Graphic Design
Album art, layout, and packaging designed to match the record inside it.
Manufacturing
Physical CDs and packaging, coordinated and delivered to your door.
The Roots Cellar
A fully equipped recording room where more than three decades of records have been made — for Jim's own catalogue and for artists across many genres.
It's built for one thing: getting a project to sound the way it should, with the patience and attention to detail that takes. Technical craft in service of the song, never the other way around.
- Established
- 1991
- Location
- Newfoundland
- Disciplines
- Sound & Vision
- Releases produced
- 30 years' worth
- Led by
- Jim Fidler ↗
The production
ledger
A working archive of records produced, arranged, mixed, and mastered at The Roots Cellar.
From the cellar
The best of three celebrated albums — Gypsy, Friendly Fire, and Midnight Rover — remastered and gathered into one double-disc collection, with the new animated video for “Downtown Girl.”
Visit the store ↗“Downtown Girl” — the animated video
05 — Start something
Bring us the song.
A record, a single, a video, or all of it. Tell us where it's headed and we'll take it from there.