Tom Kvålsvoll

Mastering / sound engineer and musician.

Prefers to utilize tools from Merging (Pyramix),TC electronic, Manley labs, Steinberg (Nuendo)

Spent several years playing some guitar and doing some vocals in metal bands such as DHG/Dødheimsgard, Nocturnal Breed and Paradigma.
Main focus from 2008 is mastering and related studio activity.

Mastering engineer at Strype Audio since 1996.


Some artists / bands I've mastered etc.:

Jazz, contemporary, folk: Arkady Shilkloper, Arne Kollandsrud, Bayashi, Crimetime Orchestra, Inga Juuso Group, Jono el Grande, Karl Seglem, Ping, Sid Savant, Star of Ash, Stig Rennestraum: Orange 

Metal related: 1349, Adrenaline, Aenaon, Aeternus, Angstkrieg (also mix), Arch Nemesis, Archon, Arcturus, Arstidir Lifsins, Audiopain, Aura Noir, Bloodscorn, Code, Conquest of Steel, Darkthrone, Dead Man's Hand, Decrepit Spectre, Demonizer, DHG, Dimension F3H, Dimmu Borgir, Diskord, Drottnar, Dunderbeist, Emancer, Emperor, Enthral, Esoteric, Execration, Folge dem Wind, Frantic Bleep, Funeral, Hardingrock, Hat, Haust, Ihsahn, Infernö, In Lingua Mortua, Insense, In Vain, Keep of Kalessin, Klabautamann, Koldbrann, Kolokol, The Kovenant, Lamented Souls, Legiones, Ljå, Limbonic Art, Macabre, Madder Mortem, Mayhem (old live stuff), Mindgrinder, Mobilize, Mongo Ninja, Myrkskog, Naer Mataron, Nekromantheon, Nettlecarrier, Nidingr, Ninth Circle, Nocturnal Breed, Obliteration, Orgone (also mix), Pantheon I, The Prophecy, Pryapisme, Quiritatio, Sanity Shed, Sarkom, Scum, Sjodogg, Svartahrid, Svartediket, Svölk, Trollfest, Taake, Universe 217, V:28 (also remix), Valborg, Vreid, Windir, Winds, Wynjara, Zyklon, Årabrot

Rock related: Angora Static, Animals Like You, Atone, Beyond Dawn, Beyond the Fences, Black Snakes, Bökanövsky, The Brat Pack, Brimstone, Bronco Busters, The Cheaters, Cocktail Slippers, Common Cause, The Curves, Datsun, Dog Age, Eastwood, Evergary, Freeshine, Gerilja, Gluecifer, Grayceon, Gustu, Helldorado, Honcho, Igelkott, Island, I Was a King, Jeroan Drive, JR Ewing, Kaospilot, Kite, Lasse & the Dirtydogs, Lydia Laska, Lukas Kasha, Molly Flanders, Moon Pedro, The Melena Summer Sessions, Nude Pube Banglers, The Mormones, Pulp Vixen, Street Legal, The Beautiful People, The Launderettes, Lukestar, Royal Rooster, Racer Age, River to Aintry, Rumble in Rhodos, Sassy Kraimspri, Seven, Sigh & Explode, Successful Sinners, Tenderleaves, The Spectacle, This Thing Called Dying, Silverdrop, Suma, Thee Mono Sapiens, The First Cut, Thule, Tumbleweed, Turboneger (live), Virus, The Jessica Fletchers, Elias Jung, Woburn House

Blues, Pop, Rock'n'roll, acoustic, country: Atle Bystrøm, Bellman, Bjøro Håland, De Musikalske Dvergene, Erlend Ropstad, Elisabeth Yndestad, Frode Stenseng, Ghetto Cats, Grand Cafe, Hotter than Georgia Asphalt, Håvard Lothe, Blues Run the Game, Boardman / Ashworth, Cecilie Jørstad, Demonas, Don Juan Dracula, Draumir, Elster, Flunk, Folk og Røvere, Grand Island, Haugesund Popensemble, Jan Tore Lauritsen, Jens Carelius, Josefin Winther, The Loch Ness Mouse, Le Corbeau, Little Andrew, Los Plantronics, Maria Helen Adolfsen, Maika, Matpackers, Ola Bremnes, Remi Lurud, Smalltown Ramblers, Tim Scott, Syracus, Tuna Laguna, The Unmist, Unni Wilhelmsen, Vanguards, Øyvind Gravdal Band

Electronic / art pop: Mortiis, Thelma and Clyde, Terje Winther, When, x.lover, Zweizz

Classical: Camilla Wicks, Synne Skouen (mix), Øyvind Åse performs works by Alf Hurum, Markus Paus

Rap, r&b, hip / house: 5 Star Entertainment, A-Lee & Cam'Leon, Amazone, Don Martin, Jaa9 & OnklP, Maylay Sparks, MasterX, Smoky

samplers: Bylarm, EMA, Frozen country, Hacate, Jazzforum, Zoomtour, Øya festivalen

Documentary: Geirmund Tangvik Simonsen (ballet), Ingebjørg Olavsdatter, Norsk novellekunst

For children: Barnas Supershow III, Jubalong, Tweens, Uhu