By the time the recording studio closed in 2007, Oberg had become chief engineer and studio manager,[2] and had worked on records including Moby's Hotel (2005), Willie Nelson's Songbird (2006), and The Klezmatics' Wonder Wheel, for which he was awarded the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album for his work as engineer.

[3] During this period, Oberg also met Strokes' guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. who, in 2005, was working on his debut solo record.

[2] Following this early work with Hammond Jr., Oberg began recording sessions for The Strokes in January 2009 for what would become their 2011 album Angles.

The Strokes had already written and demoed these songs, and Oberg recorded them at Avatar Studios with producer Joe Chiccarelli co-engineering.

After a few months and eighteen songs, the band decided to rerecord a majority of the tracks exclusively with Oberg at Electric Lady and One Way studios.

His earliest production credits outside of his work with Hammond Jr. include the 2011 albums Different Times by Five O'Clock Heroes and Mirrors by U.S. Royalty.

[9] In 2014, Oberg produced albums for bands Walking Shapes, Loose Buttons, and Rathborne, the latter with Hammond Jr.