OK Recording Studios

10/31/2025

The STROMO (.band) EP is shaping up to be something we are extremely proud of. It gives me great joy anytime I get to use tiny amps on a record. They do something no EQ or Filter can add to a production.

We somehow don’t have any pictures of Ben ()recording vocals.

The amazing Jordan () from Gray Monitor () laid down some awesome vocals for us, elevating the songs even more.

Thanks as always to Hayley O’Brien () for all of her help, especially with providing some great Synthesizers for the record! As well as fixing my poor effort on the dry erase board 🤣

📸 Karen Zukowski ()

10/27/2025

In early production conversation Ben () mentioned the desire to record both of his beloved Fender Super Reverb Amps together. This sparked an idea to me where we could use our Shotgun isolated splitter from to record through both amps panning them hard Left & Right. We also setup an M/S pattern room mic reinforcing the stereo pattern while also retaining the mono energy and low end. It sounded so much better than I imagined! And saved time as it gave us the result of a layered sounding guitar with just a single take.

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10/20/2025

Great weekend with .band. We’ve been working on production notes a for a few weeks now and finally hearing it pay off has been amazing. Everything is sounding amazing so far, and we’re trying some new recording techniques on the Guitar tracks that have been mind blowing to say the least!

Our assistant engineer was busy this weekend so I had to handle the white board myself 🫠

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07/30/2025

Had a great time at last week hanging with the guys in .band

At the end of the night Ben and I got into a discussion of his love for Fender Super Reverb Amps. Being that he has 2 and spoke of his desire to record them both simultaneously reminded me of a cool recording trick, this is where you take two matching speaker cabinets (in this case would be combo amps) and face them towards each other. Wire one of the cabs (or combo’s) out of phase. Then place a microphone with figure 8 polar pattern in-between the 2 cabs (combo’s) facing each speaker. The result is a super cool sound as the speakers pushing/pulling away from each other.

Other thing I remembered was the amazing Fender Super Six Reverb Amp I found with Tom Anderer which he used as a bass amp on some of the & albums.

05/25/2025

And thats a wrap for tracking! kicked ass with some really cool creative layers. did a fantastic job steering the ship producing a great final result. Next step is mixing and mastering! 🤌🏻

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05/24/2025

Our own at the Helm for

This track is sounding great so far! We bands that love pedals!

05/24/2025

Been working with this Legend since 2013 when I produced the album Elders Rasp. He’s one of my all@time favorite vocals to work with. Our long time signal chain has been an SM7B into one of our Quad Eight MM-61 channels, which came from the legendary MoTown LA Studios.

Will has also inspired to start doing gutteral vocals.

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05/19/2025

I first started working with back in 2005 while producing the album Two Way Mirror.

We have made many many albums together since.

For this album we recorded all of the guitars before the bass. This is a technique I first learned about from Bob Mould of Husker Dü.

This allows to get great guitar layer, and when it’s time to finally record bass, you can tweak the tone until it cuts through the wall of guitars perfectly.

A lot of times I’ve found when recording the bass first, the guitars can start to cause the bass to require a lot of processing in the mix to allow it to compete.

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05/10/2025

Always fantastic working with when recording guitars. I believe he’s going for world record for most dive bombs ever recorded on a single recording for the new album.

With this setup we used the new Radial Shotgun running a Sweet EVH Head is Red channel through a Mesa 2x12 3/4 open back and our Ampeg VH-150 into the Orange 2x12. Both running simultaneously.

Have to shout out for introducing me the chart system while tracking.

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05/09/2025

Been having a blast working with on the new album. absolutely killed it on the drum tracks, it’s always such a please to work with drummers with his immense abilities of timing and dynamic range.

We ended up using our Yamaha Recording Custom kit with a Ludwig Supraphonic snare.

First time using the Tune-Bot drum tuner on the Tom’s, highly recommend!

📸 Karen Zukowski

03/29/2025

03/04/2025

For years now I’ve somehow wound up with bands dinner breaks lining up to when it’s time to setup guitar amps. I love this process as I send the band to enjoy a nice dinner break while I hang back and put together a great guitar rig for when they return. I find it saves time and the mental wear on the guitarist having to play a lot while we’re getting tones. When they return from dinner, they are well rested and then hearing the amp tones gets them excited to jump back in!

This rig myself and our assistant engineer setup comprises of a Vintage Orange OR120 Head through an Orange 2x12 Cab and with the use of our new ShotGun splitter we also tied in EVH Head through our Mesa 2x12 3/4 Open Back 2x12 Cab.

In the end, we used the Darth Vader Red channel!