One of my earliest memories of really enjoying music is listening to my brothers Green Day’s Dookie on his CD player. I was around 4 or maybe 5 years old. I listened to Basket Case, When I Come Around and Welcome To Paradise enough to break the CD. This album was fun, focused and endlessly catchy. Green Day and other “punk” bands like Blink 182 and Weezer found immense success during the 90s, and with…
This is one of my favourite times of year, where everyone puts their prices down to the floor, and the studio can get the best upgrades for the lowest price! This last month there have been three new pieces of hardware come into Okzygen, all in the pursuit of the perfect recordings. First off is the largest piece, the ART Digital MPA II. This unit completes the main recording setup here, adding two preamps to…
Oglob – A close personal friend of mine whom helped me get Okzygen Studios to where it is today – has entrusted me with mastering a majority of his music over the last year or two. One of the most recent projects that have hit the public airwaves is a song called “We Don’t Go There”. This song has floated around for a few years now slowly being developed into the aggressive dirty electronic song…
This may not be something new exactly, but it’s something I haven’t posted about yet. We did this recording a few months back with a very bright sounding 12 string Taylor acoustic. The strings were on their backwards (at least to Rob and I), which we think helped it have this very mystical, airy sound. The song is pretty much improvised at the time, and the recording, mix, edit and syncing were all done in…