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Cphonic launches!

Welcome! After one year of design, construction, testing, implementation, website design, and many mixing and mastering projects, Cphonic Online Mastering is now live (as well as this news-blog section).

So, who am I?

My name is Kevin McNoldy, and I’ve been producing, engineering, mixing, mastering, writing, and performing music for over two decades, since earning my degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston. I’ve built and operated successful recording studios in Los Angeles, Nashville, Florida, and Virginia (Crystalphonic, my last studio, was one of the biggest and most well-equipped ever built on the East Coast). Through the years, I’ve been lucky enough to have multi-platinum success in a wide variety of music genres. From rock/pop to folk/bluegrass to dance/electronic, I’ve worked with some of the most amazing musicians and artists in the industry, and I have the unique perspective of being involved with professional music from every aspect (as a songwriter during the creation stage, to a performer during the recording stage, to an engineer capturing that performance, to a mixing engineer shaping the ultimate sound, to a mastering engineer providing the finishing touches, to the design guy who wired up the entire facility to handle the recording, to the studio owner running the rooms, to the record label preparing the product for release, to a marketing company getting that album to the masses… I’ve been involved at every level for my entire career).

What is Cphonic?

Cphonic is my mixing and mastering studio located in Raleigh, NC, and it’s the culmination of all these experiences. It’s the most accurate room I’ve ever created, with deep behind-wall bass trapping, a massive amount of RealTraps fixtures on the inside walls for variable acoustics, a minimalist approach to the work area to minimize the acoustic footprint, the finest vintage and modern equipment to handle the sonics (including a beautiful one-inch 2-track ATR102 mastering tape machine), and the most transparent conversion and monitoring systems I’ve ever tested.

Why did I build this studio?

All of this effort and attention to detail was designed to provide you with the ultimate mixing and mastering for your music. You only have one chance to make an impression in today’s music world, and if your music doesn’t compete sonically with the best of Billboard’s Top 100, you’ll be passed by for something that sounds bigger and better to the end listener. Your music has only one path to the listener’s heart–through their ears–which is why the SOUND of your project is just as important as the songwriting itself.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions, and thanks for checking out the site!