Ott House Audio

07/20/2023

07/12/2023

07/05/2023

When our pals at Day's Edge Productions & come calling, we know it’s going to be an amazing project, and that was certainly the case for their new PBS series Human Footprint.

In this fast-paced, engaging & thought-provoking six-part series, join biologist and host Shane Campbell-Staton and explore the global impact of Earth’s most ingenious, destructive, and adaptable species. Earth has never experienced anything like us: a single species dominating and transforming the planet. Shane travels the globe to explore our Human Footprint and to discover how the things we do reveal who we truly are.

The first episode Strangers In Paradise takes a look at how invasive species are reshaping the world’s ecosystems, but who’s really to blame? In this episode, Shane wrestles a python, hunts Hawaiian pigs, and gets sucker-punched by a carp to answer the question: in the Age of Humans, how does our species decide what belongs?

Ep 1 Strangers in Paradise drops TONIGHT @9/8C, with new episodes every Wednesday or check it out on the PBS app. We’re really proud of the show and it was such a pleasure to collaborate with such an all-star team! Robbie Carman DC Color Joey D'anna, and lead mixer Rick Rush

To learn more about the show check out: https://www.pbs.org/show/human-footprint/

06/28/2023

The International African American Museum opened its doors for the first time of many yesterday! OHA was able to work in Charleston, SC on two permanent exhibits for this incredible museum. Cheryl took the mixing lead on the “Atlantic Worlds” exhibit, which includes a 30-foot video screen featuring a short film that explores the historical connections between the Black Atlantic World, Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Jeremy Guyre was the lead mixer for the “TransAtlantic” exhibit, which involves a walkthrough composed of eight large video screens to take visitors on an immersive journey through hundreds of years of history, from African roots through international diaspora scenes and traditions. We had an awesome time collaborating with Cortina Productions, Inc. on this project, and are so happy to have been able to contribute to a project that tells such important and necessary stories of history.
For more information and to buy tickets: https://iaamuseum.org/

06/13/2023

"A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings" recently had its world premiere at the 2023 JxJ DC Jewish Film and Music Festival, where it was awarded “Best In Show”.

This week, "A Pocketful of Miracles" will have its European debut on June 14th at the Berlin Jewish Film Festival.

This fascinating documentary, directed by Berlin-born Aviva Kempner, chronicles her mother and uncle's emotional stories and experiences through World War II. Through their captivating Shoah Foundation testimonies from 1997 and family archives, the documentary tells both siblings’ harrowing true story of surviving the Holocaust and their emotional reunion.

Ott House Audio was proud to help tell this triumphant story with sound.

Read more about the film here:
https://www.pickingupthepiecesfilm.org/about-the-film/

06/09/2023

OHA is thrilled to share that we are sponsoring DC DOX, a new film festival that celebrates non-fiction storytelling by showcasing an impressive collection of 60 new documentaries. The festival is happening next week from June 15th-18th, and we can't wait to screen these incredible films. We are so grateful that we are able to support the power of storytelling. Hope to see you there!
For more info & to get passes: https://buff.ly/3qrxRYw

05/17/2023

🚨Air Date Alert🚨

The first episode of Human Footprint, "Strangers in Paradise" is set to air on July 5th at 9 p.m. ET on PBS! We are having an awesome time working on this project with Day's Edge Productions and DC Color to create this incredible six-part docuseries. It will be exploring the different ways in which humans are impacting our planet, and we don't want you to miss out! Be sure to tune in!

04/12/2023

We’re looking for a photographer to take photos of our new studio & our team. The photographer should be creative & edgy while also being reasonably priced. We want fun & funky, not corporate! If you’ve got a recommendation for someone local-ish to DC, we’d love to hear it!

03/31/2023

Well Deserved David Rochkind and Ground Media. Love our Collaboration. Great Mix by Rick Rush.

🏆 Best Metro DC: goes to AMOR directed by David Rochkind (Ground Media).

03/30/2023

Check out the video of Cheryl speaking on the "Office Hours Global" Podcast yesterday. They discussed the current state of spatial audio, favorite plugins, & key tools for immersive mixing. It's all great, but if you're looking to hear from Cheryl skip ahead to the 1 hour mark!

Join the conversation daily: Go to https://officehours.global/schedule to sign up.Senior Mixer and founder of Ott House Audio, Cheryl Ottenritter, joins us t...

02/09/2023

Hiring: Remote Part-Time Assistant
We’re looking for a great administrative person to help us manage our large creative projects and stay organized. Our clients include Google, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Audible, TVOne and many more.
20 hours a week sometime between approximately 9a-6p EST, 5 days a week with flexibility to work around your schedule. The ideal candidate has excellent email communication skills, is detail oriented, has some knowledge of tv post production and can thrive in a fast paced environment.
Freelance hourly rate of $18-25/hr based on experience. Starting ASAP.
Apply Here: https://oha.typeform.com/AdminApply

10/25/2022

Awesome film. Congrats Into Nature Films. Thanks for entrusting us with your sound. A great job by Rick Rush and team.

One of our recent projects, ’Where Birds Can Be Birds’, is an official selection for the 38th annual Festival International du Film Ornithologique Ménigoute in France.

We are thrilled to attend the screening next Saturday, October 29, in France!

This unique festival attracts 40,000 people over six days for art, film, nature, and forums.

Barbara Howard, President of the Friends of the Tampa Bay National Wildlife Refuges and Executive Producer, says in the film, "There’s not many places that are left in the Tampa Bay area that can take care of these birds. The beaches have their condos. Egmont Key is a great place as well as the Pinellas Refuge and Passage Key for the birds to go where they can just be themselves.”
Kim Heise Ott House Audio

https://www-menigoute--festival-org.translate.goog/films-en-competition-2022.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

08/24/2022

Getting ready for Dolby panel on and . Come on by and listen in on how spatial audio can elevate your story. 3:45p Lonestar c1/c2

07/11/2022

OHA always celebrates 7/11 day! Don't forget to grab your free slurpee!

06/22/2022

06/22/2022

In the shadow of metropolitan Tampa-St Petersburg, Egmont Key, Passage Key, and Pinellas Refuges dazzle us with white sandy beaches, spectacular nesting bird...

06/22/2022

The correct Answer for “Guess That Sound” was “Having a beer on the beach!” Congratulations to the Winner Michael Kammes who will be sent a $25 Starbucks Gift Card! Shout out to all the people who got it right: Lisa Laden, Lawrence J. Duke II,

06/06/2022

It's D Day! On this day, in 1944, the U.S. Army invaded the beaches of Normandy during WWII. OHA did the sound design and mix for the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front in Richmond, CA. It's a national historical park that honors the efforts and sacrifices of American civilians on the WWII home front. This exhibit was wonderfully directed by Nina Gilden Seavey and produced by Signature Productions, and was also one of the first museum projects that Ott House Audio worked on!

To learn more: https://www.nps.gov/rori/index.htm

Explore and honor the efforts and sacrifices of American civilians on the World War II home front. Find out how they lived, worked and got along. Many faces, many stories, many truths weave a complex tapestry of myths and realities from this time of opportunity and loss.

05/28/2022

What's your guess? Guess right & you could win a prize!
👍 Shells dropping in a bucket
❤️ Boat hooking up at a dock
😆 Having a beer on the beach
😡 Rain hitting the ocean

We'll be raffling a Starbucks gift card to one lucky (& correct) guesser! Put your guess, or the emoji next to it, in the comments!👇👇👇

05/25/2022

OHA's Rick Rush recently mixed "I Never Had Dreams of My Son," a short documentary about a Ukrainian father searching for his son after he went missing.
Check it out on The New Yorker's YouTube channel here:
https://buff.ly/3wSAdiy
Our hearts go out to all the people in Ukraine at this time💙💛

04/27/2022

FilmFest DC is happening now with more than a week worth of fantastic films including Imagining The Indian “Imagining the Indian” playing Friday at 6pm. If you’r’e looking for a thought provoking documentary that sounds great, check it out! Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHyqdqwUGng

04/26/2022

May 18th - Save the day for this awesome 1-hour wildlife special on the Smithsonian Channel narrated by Gloria Estefan, sound design & mix by Ott House Audio, Color by DC Color

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has a new 1-hour wildlife special coming to

on May 18: MIAMI WILD, narrated by ! (Co-Production with
) …We shot this film over the entirety of the lockdown and we’re so excited to see this film "in the wild!"

04/21/2022

If you’re interested in a demo of Resolve Fairlight’s audio post features check out this video. Cheryl Ottenritter, CAS, MPSE was one of the “Audio Industry Expert” Panelists!

In this recorded webinar and interactive Q&A session, a panel of leading sound professionals discuss trends across editorial, re-recording mixing, dialog, so...

02/23/2022

Ott House Audio was thrilled to mix four immersive films for Harry Potter: The Exhibition. The exhibit made its debut to the public on February 18th at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, and has has already sold over 150,000 tickets! Ott House mixed the Hogwarts Castle and the Great Hall environments, as well as the Pensieve and Page to Screen. The exhibit makes visitors feel as though they are fully immersed in Hogwarts with projection mapping, 3D animation, and interactive experiences. Part of the fun for guests is casting spells, playing Quidditch, making potions, and taking endless photos.
To buy tickets: https://www.harrypotterexhibition.com

11/04/2021

- Chasing Classic Cars premiered in 2008 and has since aired around 200 episodes for the Motor Trend Channel on the Discovery Network. The television documentary follows car restoration expert Wayne Carini as he travels the world in search of the most exotic cars.

Chasing Classic Cars Official Site. Watch Full Episodes, Get Behind the Scenes, Meet the Cast, and much more. Stream Chasing Classic Cars FREE with Your TV Subscription!

10/29/2021

That Friday Feeling😁 We love our studio pups!!

10/28/2021

to when we worked on "Laws Of The Lizard," a project exploring how the common lizard has defied expectations and adapted to ever-changing ecosystems. The film was awarded "Best Documentary Film" at the International Wildlife Film Festival in 2018.
Watch through https://buff.ly/3jLeDqP

10/25/2021

Street Reporter tells the incredible story of Sheila White, a 58 year old woman who dreams about becoming a photojournalist and escaping homelessness. It's premiering this week and we couldn't be more excited! We had an amazing time working on this project with Laura Hinson. Click the link to find out where to watch: https://www.streetreporterfilm.com/events

10/08/2021

The new 'City of Ghosts' Supernatural Drama Podcast premiers October 12th on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon Music, Pandora and Stitcher. Our very own Rick Rush sound designed and mixed this project!! Read the article below for more information!

Brigette Lundy-Paine and Golshifteh Farahani have joined cast of “City of Ghosts,” a supernatural neo-noir fiction podcast set in New York City. In “City of Ghosts,” Lundy-P…

07/08/2021

Hilarious! Love the honesty!

Yeah, it's the same room I record in and the same me - we've both come a loooong way. You should appreciate where you are and what you've done...but knowing there is always something you can do to improve/learn is how you continue to progress. Keep on pushing

04/16/2021

A new season of Air Warriors is airing now on the Smithsonian channel and streaming on Paramount+ Check out one of our favorite episodes, Hawker Hurricane, airing April 19th at 12:00 pm! It's about the aircraft that helped stop the tide of the Axis in Europe, Africa, and Asia.

02/25/2021

Did you know that Regé-Jean Page from the hit Netflix show Bridgerton, was set on studying to become a sound engineer before deciding on acting? Who knew?! You can read more about the star here: https://www.distractify.com/p/rege-jean-page-parents

02/22/2021

Don't you love when things just work? This Dynamic EQ removed the annoyingly bright snare drum from a music track just for us.

02/19/2021

New speakers have passed the sniff test!

02/17/2021

We had a great time mixing Reclaiming History: Our Native Daughters! This documentary is a magical exploration of Black American women's powerful stories and song. Tune in to see this incredible journey of resilience and hear the amazing Smithsonian Folkways Recordings album featuring Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, Amythyst Kiah, and Allison Russel.

02/11/2021

We love Atmos and we want you to love it as much as we do! So in honor of Valentines Day, we're offering 10% off our hourly mix rate on projects mixed in Atmos, for this whole month! This is a great chance to try immersive audio mixed in Atmos! Email us to schedule your project & take advantage of this promotion available for work scheduled in February and completed anytime between now and the end of the year.

02/08/2021

Check out the opening clip from the film project, "Mermaids Against Plastic" that we mixed! It's a Spanish film by two incredible filmmakers that displays how far the plastic pollution problem goes in the Mexican Caribbean. It recently won the Changing Planet Short Form Award at the 2020 Jackson Wild Media Awards and Best Overall New Mexico Short at the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival. You can watch it here: https://otthouseaudio.com/work #/mermaids-against-plastic/

02/04/2021

So stoked to finally be setting up our new speakers!

01/28/2021

Very excited that the film we mixed for the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge visitor center recently released! Want some peaceful natural beauty in your day - you can watch it here: ADD LINK TO OUR WEBSITE
https://otthouseaudio.com/work #/izembek-national-refuge/

01/25/2021

The new AVID S1's are integrated & awesome!