KLND Audio
All you have to do is listen.
Mixing
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Music Production
All you have to do is listen.
ABOUT KLND.
KLND LLC is a media and entertainment company based in NYC providing creative audio solutions. KLND efforts are focused on audio services such as: recording, mixing, mastering, production, composition, post-production, and podcast management. Any audio-related projects are welcome!
Kai Tsao is an artist, audio engineer with 800+ track discography, award winning film writer/producer, audio post-producer and sound designer for shorts and features, podcast editor and manager for over 600 hours of podcast content, magazine producer, and novelist.
Since launching KLND as a platform for creative projects in 2018, the GRAMMY U winning artist has amassed over 500 million listens on his work. He is also currently assisting engineer Alex Tumay at his studio in Manhattan.
[Photos by Kevin Zhang / Jett Yamada.]
Monitoring: Yamaha HS5, Yamaha HS8 Sub, Sennheiser HD 600, Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro x2, tc electronics Clarity M Stereo
Microphones: Neumann TLM 103, Shure SM58, SM7B, MV7, Lewitt 040 Match, MXL 2003A, Zoom H4n Pro
Interface: Universal Audio Apollo x8
Outboard Processing: SSL Fusion
MIDI Controllers: Arturia Keylab 61, Yamaha P-143b, Native Instruments M32, Native Instruments Maschine Mikro Mk3
Plugins: Fabfilter Pro Bundle, Antares Auto-Tune Pro, Plugin Alliance Mix + Master Bundle, Soundtoys 5 Complete, Baby Audio Complete, Slate All-Access, DMG Limitless, oeksound soothe2, Izotope RX8 Advanced & Ozone 9, Waves 11, Oxford Inflator, Arturia V Collection 9, XLN Audio, Portal, Spitfire Originals, Wavesfactory Spectre, Gold Clip, Melodyne 5, VocAlign, ReTrigger, SSL, and more.
DAWs: Ableton Live 12 Suite, Pro Tools 2024.
Primary System: M2 Mac Mini 2023. Mac OS Sonoma.
Secondary System: M2 MacBook Air 2023. Mac OS Sonoma.
Gear
Portfolio
Personal
Selected Credits
Epic - Sony / 21 Savage
88rising / Rich Brian, Rick Ross, Warren Hue, Offset, Souls of Mischief, De La Soul
Virgin - UMG / Telescreens
Republic - UMG / Kid Cudi
Fifty-One Forty-Nine / Thomas Rhett
Bayonet Records / Mei Semones
Independent / Sarah Kang, Bay Faction, Kinship, Max Morton, chiabiee, WHYTRI, Zzqc_Jessie, Htet, Uzuhan
