Today, please enjoy track eight from fourteen Ostracon live, rough mixes. As I have been saying, if you’d like to hear more from this collection please comment, share, retweet, or like. Thanks!
Fourteen Live Mixes from Ostracon: Track 8
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Fourteen Live Mixes from Ostracon: Track 7
We are now up to track seven from fourteen Ostracon live, rough mixes. If you’d like to hear more from this collection please comment, share, retweet, or like. Thanks!
This is the Opposite of a Suicide Note
Here’s a quick change of pace. The drummer that you have been hearing in the last six entries is, of course, Graham O’Brien who is also responsible for remixing the Guante track This is the Opposite of a Suicide Note. As well as being an excellent drummer, Graham is a seasoned producer who has recently teamed up with Adam Krinsky to form Bellows Studios in St. Paul, Minnesota where he produced, mixed, and mastered this remix. These are the same studios where Ostracon is working on our second album.
Coloring Time at the Deepwinter Bonfire
Recently I participated in a performance with a collective of musicians called Coloring Time. The show took place on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at the History Theatre in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota and was sponsored by McNally Smith School of Music. Performers include: Crescent Moon (Kill the Vultures), Kristoff Krane, Chastity Brown, Aby Wolf, Peter Pisano (Peterwolfcrier), Joe Horton (No Bird Sing), Michelle Kinney and Melissa Mathews (Mississippi Peace), Chris Thomson, Bobby Mullrennan (No Bird Sing), Casey O’Brien (Face Candy), John Keston (Ostracon, DKO), Graham O’Brien (Mississippi Peace, No Bird Sing), and many others. This video is from the last six minutes of the performance. Apparently there’s much more to come. If it’s as lovely as this segment I will share it here when it shows up. Enjoy!
Mendota Springs Sparkling Water Can Being Opened
Hi, my name is Graham O’Brien and I’m a drummer, audio engineer, and composer living in St. Paul, MN. I play in some really fun bands around town (including Keston & Westdal!) and specialize in drumming and writing for sequenced music. And having gotten a recording degree, I do some work recording and mixing radio commercials at Marketing Architects ad agency in Mineeapolis. I also am building a drum recording studio in my basement that’s coming along really well and I’ll be posting plenty of really cool stuff from there. Now, for my first post to Audio Cookbook.
This is a short but pristine recording of me opening a can of Mendota Springs Sparkling Water (Lemon flavor). I recorded it at the radio production studio I work at, and the recording chain is amazing. First we tuned and sound-proofed the recording booth down to -32dB of isolation. Here’s the recording chain:
Neumann U87a (cardiod pattern, hi pass off)> Great River Electronics MP-2NV Mercenary Edition Class A Mic Pre > Langevin Electro/Optical Compressor/limiter > Pro Tools HD via 192 i/o interface
This recording was done at 44.1Khz, 16bit. The only processing I used is the Massey L2007 Limiter to make it louder: mendota-springs-can-loud
