OLLO Behind the scene

Recording with headphones
One thing that help me a lot is the precise listening excperience of the room acoustic and reverb, so I use this level in order to have an absolute reference when I come back to my studio for mixing. So I can compare reverb, spatiality, phase problems between mics, etc, during the recording process and the mixing.
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Silence: the sound of possibility
Throughout my work as a sound engineer and as a musician, a key concept that I always use and keep in mind, from both the technical and musical point of view is that of CONTRAST. Contrast of moods in a...
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FINDING CENTER WITH OLLO S4X REFERENCE HEADPHONES

It has been incredibly valuable to have the Ollo S4X Reference Headphones as part of my studio arsenal, especially during the pandemic, when I couldn't take my mix somewhere else to listen. Having them at hand gave me the tools to keep working and trust what I was hearing.

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MASTERING 55 WITH OLLO AUDIO

When I started to make 55, the album that I’m close to releasing, I was living in a caravan in the Outer Hebrides. My drummer and I were taking time out - him from session work and me from endless production of youngsters EPs - and our live room was a stone igloo by the Atlantic Ocean without a single straight line in its construction.

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