SHORT VERSION: Nightsound Studios provide a range of recording and production services to suit your budget and particular needs. They will tailor their amazing creativity to ensure that you get what you want. If you have an off-the-peg sound, which needs a simple recording package, you will leave happy and with change in your pocket. But their forte is combining the singular talent at their disposal to help nurture local musicians, and develop sounds and styles which may still be nascent in the mind of the creative artist. I know. At times, I have been both of these clients. LONG VERSION: In 2009, after allowing some tunes to bubble in my head for thirty years, I finally worked up the nerve to attempt to download them onto a demo CD. I approached Nightsound Studios and Chris Wimberley, having met Chris while he was supporting local musicians on our community radio, WCOM. He and his engineering team were professional, to-the-point, cost-effective, charming, helpful and attentive. They did precisely what I asked. Produced an eight song demo, to my precise specifications. I'm a prima donna. I get like that. Then Chris and his senior recording engineer sat me down, at their expense, not mine. And told me, bluntly but kindly, that they genuinely saw more potential in my music. And would like to help me discover the sounds they felt I continued to hide within me. For the next five years, they worked with me. 90% of the time they gave, the advice they shared, the nudging they engaged in, they gave pro bono. They very genuinely wanted me to discover myself. To get myself ready, before committing to the potential they saw in me. At one point, I was convinced I was ready. Chris was happy to take my money, but still he was not convinced. He suggested I form a band, to test my music with the public. Didn't want to. Play with a solo guitarist. Didn't want to. I can be stubborn. Cf. prima donna. Chris persisted. What about just dragging out the Casio workstation I used to compose, and letting rip with that? Hmm. Ok. For eighteen months, I performed. Loved it. Found out what the public liked. Developed a finished sound - still only in my head. It's a Casio. Not Taylor Swift's stadium band. And was ready to get back into the studio, to create a more commercial-sounding EP of six of my songs. Nightsound and I have been working on that these past seven months. We are halfway through. It has been an intense, but focused journey. It continues to be. There is no cookie-cutter approach. This is about coaxing a brand new sound out of a reluctant brain. Mine. But Nightsound and their wonderful team are up to the task. Dedicated. Professional. Patient. Quick-witted. Creative. Have there been moments of tension? Of course there have. I would expect nothing less. I didn't hire a building. I hired a team to challenge me. Have they been up to the challenge? Every day. If you want a team of professional producers and engineers to record a sound you have already clear through performance and recording elsewhere, Nightsound will provide you with the most attentive, cost-effective package in the Triangle area. If you are someone still growing, still developing, you will not find a better team on the East Coast to challenge, to nurture, to develop your talents. Always with you. Always supporting. Always conscious of the size of your pocket. Every professional endeavor seeking to support fellow creative artists is going to have the odd relationship that doesn't go quite the way the creative artist would like. That has not been the case with me. But grown-up creative artists (even the prima donna's among us, like me) recognize that creativity is a flavor. It is not like matching paint. If it don't work out, you move on. Then again, there are some who would not be satisfied if the Archangel Gabriel opened up a recording studio with Pharrell Williams and Paul McCartney. For them, I feel only sadness. Now, I return to finishing off the second part of my active project with the wonderful Nightsound team ... read more

Nightsound Studios - Recording & Rehearsal Studios Near Me - Carrboro, North Carolina

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Thoroughly enjoyable recording experience! We shared musical influences across the board and then some! Good investment read more

Professional recording services are readily available in any number of places, and in that sense, they're just like any other product. But you can BUY a product anywhere. What you CAN'T buy anywhere is a level of customer service that stands behind - and in front - of the product being sold. And this is precisely the point where Nightsound Studios has drawn a demarcation line which sets them apart. At the helm of Nightsound Studios is Chris Wimberley, whose record of consummate professionalism speaks very well for itself. Having known Chris for many years as a fellow recording artist, collaborative musician, and friend, I know his commitment to excellence in all he does, and the character that is his nature. You don't have to look far to see it. There is a cameraderie and family dynamic shared among the entire Nightsound team which makes clients and guests alike feel welcome and at-home from the first moment they pass through the doors. The quality of their work as producers and recording engineers can be heard on any album bearing the Nightsound insignia. These men and women are true artisans of their craft. In this industry, you will find many more financial opportunists than artist advocates - and therein lies Nightsound Studios' crown jewel. Their unified and unwavering commitment to promoting local music and musicians is something of which I have not seen the likes in nearly 20 years as a professional musician. You would be hard-pressed to find another recording studio that works so tirelessly for - and with such fierce loyalty to - the musicians who live and work in the community surrounding them. Every one of us who have had the good fortune of success as professional musicians and recording artists only became so, because someone gave us a chance. Nightsound Studios is making sure others get that chance. It doesn't take long to see how solidly they have bought into a simple principle that many never get: When you meet the music-makers where they are, and take care of them as the first order of business - the music has a way of taking care of itself. Nightsound Studios carries my sterling endorsement. If you have made the decision to hire them for your next project or album, please allow me to be the first to congratulate you and offer you my best wishes on the best-led recording journey one can find in Carrboro, North Carolina. I remain Sincerely yours, Christopher Anderson Reed, MM (ASCAP) Blue Jeans Studios Fuquay-Varina, NC read more

Nightsound Studios is a vital resource for musicians in the Triangle. Chris W. and the engineers on staff are extremely friendly, knowledgeable, and accommodating of any project, whether you're a new band trying out a studio for the first time, a seasoned pro looking to complete an album-length recording, or just someone who needs to track great-sounding drums/guitar/etc for a song or two. Hourly rates and costs are affordable and can be negotiated according to the size, scope, and intended budget of your project. Mixing and mastering are also available in-house. I've worked on a single, an EP, and two albums at Nightsound; each time, the end result was the best thing I'd done up to that point. The engineers listened to all my comments and concerns, and everyone made every effort to make sure I came away satisfied with the finished recordings. The atmosphere in the studio is relaxed and comfortable, which makes it easy to focus on getting your performance right. read more

I recorded an album at Nightsound a few years back and it was one of the best experiences of my life. Owner/Producer/Engineer, Chris Wimberley, was so great to collaborate with. He and all of the other engineers were professional, fun, and incredibly talented. They worked tirelessly on my songs and helped make a truly amazing finished product. I made some lifelong friends while creating something that I am so happy with. I haven't had a chance to work with Chief Engineer/Studio Manager Meghan Puryear yet, but I will be this year and I can't wait. If you're thinking about doing any kind of recording in the Triangle area, you should ABSOLUTELY go to Nightsound. Best place ever. read more

That one star review is just plain wrong. Insanely amazing place, wonderful people. Would recommend to any and all musicians

If zero stars were an option, I'd rate them at that... Chris Wimberley is the most incompetent, absent minded, most disrespectful engineer I have ever had the displeasure of working with... As a hard working local musician who plays three shows a week and has recorded two albums, I was referred to Nightsound and hesitantly went in to work with them. The issues: dates were rescheduled last minute, sessions were cut short almost every time, he was always coming in angry and putting a very bad and uncomfortable vibe in the air right before sessions, swearing and yelling at the studio musicians that were hired to work on the project like they were his slaves, and overall just being a know-it-all about everything involving my own music, even though I have been in the business much longer than him. He would argue with me about my own projects even though he was not hired as a producer, just as an engineer. He took it upon himself to add or remove things at his leisure, things that I paid good money for and spent much time working on in the studio. He also took the liberty of adding effects that I explicitly said I did not want. His idea of "mixing" was throwing a bunch of reverb on everything, compressing it, scooping the mids and panning it dead center... Everything sounded like a stereo system that was covered in pillows and then dropped under water. Chris Wimberley was only there a fraction of the time and all of his other employees (with the exception of one or two), as nice as they are, are equally as incompetent, not experienced and ARE NOT EVEN PEOPLE WHO PLAY MUSIC so therefore they don't even understand guitar tone or synth balance or any of the very simple things that you should know being in any kind of musical occupational setting. They would record the session and do some of the edits, then Chris Wimberely would come in and literally make us go backwards in progress the entire time he was there. The bottom line here- this is a recording studio that was opened by someone who does not know what they are doing. It was opened almost to make this guy feel cool, as he is a complete prima donna and as pretentious as they come, without the talent to back up that inflated ego. I will never, under any circumstances go here again, or even refer anyone here. If I were to overhear a complete stranger talk about recording a project here, I would stop what I was doing just to butt into the conversation and tell them why it's such a bad idea, and give them a copy of my "mixed" project. Don't go here, you *WILL* regret it. read more