Zenphony builds tools that help producers, engineers, and composers hear more clearly, decide faster, and trust the mix in front of them.
A mix companion that sits in your DAW, reads the signal in real time, and tells you what's happening in the spectrum: plain English, with the dB and kHz to back it up.
Open real analysis‑style cards inside an interactive plugin preview. Browse mix, mastering, production, and broadcast feedback the way it appears inside Listen Buddy.
Listen Buddy reads the same four signals a great engineer does: tonal balance, dynamics, stereo image, translation. It surfaces them as plain‑language insight, with the dB and kHz values right next to the words.
Punchy mix overall. The low end has nice weight on the kick and 808, and the vocal sits forward without getting harsh. Air on the cymbals could use a small bump around 12 kHz, and the bus compressor could be backed off ~1 dB during the chorus.
Listen Buddy isn't one voice — it's four. Two who live on your laptop and never leave the room. Two who live in the cloud with deeper memory and a wider library. Pick the buddy that fits the work, or let the plugin pick for you.
The patient one. Wide ears, warm read.
Velvet is the buddy you crack open at 2am when the mix is mostly there and you just need someone calm to confirm it. Tonal balance, low‑end weight, vocal sit. Won't argue, won't oversell. Default for Mix and Master modes.
The bright one. Quick draw, sharp ear.
Amarillo flags problems. Sibilance at 6k, a 380 Hz resonance you stopped hearing two hours ago, a kick that's clipping your bus. Fast, blunt, useful. The buddy you bring to the polish pass.
The opinionated one. Holds a position.
Rosso has heard a lot of records. When you ask whether the bridge is working, Rosso names the reference, points to the bar, and tells you what would change. Push back and Rosso pushes back. Best for mastering, A/B, and arrangement notes.
The studious one. Reads the spec sheet.
Verde knows the standards. Spotify −14 LUFS, Apple Music, Netflix −27, ATSC A/85, EBU R128. Verde checks your mix against the destination and tells you exactly where it's out — true peak, integrated loudness, dialnorm, the works. Best for delivery and broadcast.
Six listening modes calibrated to the work in front of you. Ten broadcast and streaming standards you can measure against. A reference library that knows the records that already translate. And a conversation that remembers what it just heard.
A spectral read across the full range, weighted to genre and reference. See where the low‑mids are crowded, where the air is missing, and what to nudge. In dB, not adjectives.
Integrated LUFS, true peak, and crest factor, calibrated against streaming targets. The pearl meter shows compression character at a glance, not just a number.
Phase, correlation, and width over time. Catches the moment a chorus pulls left, or a synth pad collapses to mono on a phone speaker, before your reference listener does.
Sibilance on a soloed vocal. A resonant peak around 380 Hz. Inter‑sample peaks above 0 dBTP. Listen Buddy flags them with a frequency and a suggested move.
Drop in a track that already translates. Listen Buddy maps its tonal curve, dynamics, and stereo profile onto yours, and tells you the gap. Not "close enough", but "−1.4 dB low‑shelf at 80".
Ask a question, like "is the vocal too forward in the bridge?", and Listen Buddy answers from what it heard, not from a generic style guide. It's a conversation, with frequencies.
The Listen Buddy chat is a resource to go to when you have questions about mixing techniques, your DAW, and your plugins. It’s also your sounding board. Pull on a thread from your last analysis. Ask the “what if” question. Whether you need a creative spark or a technical sanity check, Listen Buddy is always around to talk it through.
The same mix sounds different through a film mixer's ears than through a pop engineer's. Listen Buddy switches its weighting (targets, references, language) to match what you're actually doing.
Every paid plan ships with all six listening modes and unlimited Listen Buddy chat — the free tier gets a generous monthly ceiling. You're paying for analysis minutes: the cloud‑side compute that powers deeper insight and reference matching..
Zenphony Audio was founded in 2025 by two musicians, producers, engineers, and composers who love every part of the craft. We track, write, mix, score, and master, and we build the tools we wished we had at 2 a.m. when the work is close and the room has gone quiet.
Built calm, by people who live in sessions. No flashy meters, no interruptions, no breaking the moment when an idea finally lands. Just steady ears for the long stretch.
We work in pop, R&B, film, and everything that bleeds between them. Tracking, production, mix, score, master. The tools we ship reflect that range, because the work does.
One thing, finished, before we start the next. Listen Buddy is the first, shaped in real sessions over real records. The next one is already taking shape in the room.
Drop Listen Buddy on the bus, hit Analyze, and read the impression that comes back. If it tells you something you didn't know, keep it.