Soundstripe Hires J.R. McNeely as Mix Engineer
Nashville, TN, July 10, 2019 – J.R. McNeely, a Grammy-winning engineer and producer with nearly three decades of experience, has joined tech-enabled production music startup Soundstripe as Mix Engineer. In this role, McNeely will ensure that Soundstripe’s library of original content for sync remains at the highest level of quality.
Created by an in-house team of composers, mix engineers, songwriters, producers, and other music industry professionals, the Soundstripe catalog is available to filmmakers, YouTubers, advertisers, and anyone creating video content via a unique subscription model that gives them unlimited, royalty-free usage for a monthly or annual fee. This has led to over 2 million “micro- licenses” being issued for tens of thousands of customers in over 130 countries since Soundstripe’s inception in 2016. With an avid and loyal creator community, Soundstripe has seen triple digit year-over-year growth for the past three years.
“J.R. is a fantastic addition to our music team, bringing a wealth of knowledge and creativity that is sure to take our original content to the next level,” said Micah Sannan, Co-Founder and Co- CEO of Soundstripe. “With him as our Mix Engineer, we know that our music library will always sound incredible, ensuring that our users will never need to compromise on the soundtrack to their videos.”
“I’m excited for this new creative adventure with Soundstripe, where I’ve been given the opportunity to help create music for fellow creatives,” said McNeely. “They’ve put together an incredible team that is striving for excellence, and I believe they are achieving it. I’m humbled and honored to add my perspective and expertise to the mix.”
Based in Nashville, McNeely has been a professional audio mixer and engineer for over 28 years. During that time, he has worked on over 300 albums, including three Grammy-winning albums: Unseen Power and Double Take by Petra and Solo by DC Talk. He also received a personal Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Album – Non-Classical for Owsley’s self- titled album and worked on an additional four albums that receiving Grammy nominations: Momentum by Toby Mac, God Fixation by Petra, Lay It Down by Jennifer Knapp, and Lift by Audio Adrenaline. McNeely has mixed or engineered albums or singles for prominent artists such as Underoath, Relient K, Anberlin, MxPx, Thousand Foot Krutch, Francesca Battistelli, Starflyer 59, J.J. Cale, Owsley, David Bazan and his band Lo Tom, Jeremy Camp, TobyMac, Rich Mullins and A Ragamuffin Band, Dead Letter Circus, Mandisa, DC Talk, Restless Heart, Audio Adrenaline, The Choir, Buddy & Julie Miller, Randy Stonehill, Aaron Sprinkle, Kevin Max, John Elefante, The Prayer Chain, Petra, Third Day, Judson Spence, Emery, Demon Hunter, Acceptance, and many more.
Soundstripe recently closed its $4 million Series A financing, which was led by Vocap Investment Partners, a leading venture capital firm focused on Series A stage technology companies. The investment has allowed Soundstripe to continue expanding its presence in the production music space while investing further in its original content, expanding its product offerings, and enhancing its enterprise solution to its growing list of marquee clients.
For more information on Soundstripe, visit soundstripe.com.
About Soundstripe Soundstripe is one of the industry’s fastest growing providers of unlimited, royalty-free music for video, driven by a unique subscription model that lets video producers pay a fee for usage of the music in Soundstripe’s catalog. That music is created by a team of composers, mix engineers, songwriters, producers, and other music industry professionals employed by the company to ensure that all tracks are of the highest quality. Licenses cover all uses and remain in effect should a video producer choose to cancel their membership or let it expire. This approach has led to over 2 million licenses being issued for tens of thousands of customers in over 130 countries since Soundstripe’s inception in 2016. The company is based in Nashville and has been named one of the city’s Top 10 startup cultures. For more information, visit soundstripe.com.
Soundstripe Media Contacts Laurie Jakobsen, Jaybird Communications — [email protected], 646.484.6764 Bill Greenwood, Jaybird Communications — [email protected], 609.221.2374