However, I...Hi Andrew Scheps !
I wondered if you could share with us what plugins (and settings) you typically use on your mix bus? In your years a mixing engineer I wonder...Hi, I don’t use external clocks. It’s not something that makes people perform well. But it’s good to have planned out as much as possible beforehand so you can react to the chaos and still be able to record. For example, which microphones to use, placements, which preamps to use and where to put them all so you can get to the vocals really easily. I am curious, do you feel the same way about guitar amp sims, sample libraries and softsynths as you do about...Hi Andrew — I greatly enjoy your generous spirit as your share your best with others.
Or that they need to punch more or something like that.
Mixed at Sunset Sound Factory in Los Angeles, CA and Punker Pad West in Van Nuys, CA .
Great that we can ask some questions!
If you have the character of what’s there then you don’t have to do anything to it, just balancing and panning. In this in-depth tutorial, Grammy®-winning mixing engineer Andrew Scheps (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Adele, Jay Z, Metallica) shows you how he mixes a song with his own Waves plugin, based on his favorite mixing chains.
It’s a Polaroid snapshot of Metallica, not a Hollywood production of Metallica. I don’t even know what that means. But what does that have to do with whether or not you need equipment vs plugins?
Then one day, Planet Recording needed someone to answer the phones at night. That to me is a ridiculous argument. There could be a hot/in-style kid who does the same sort of thing you do and now he is getting all the work because he is on peoples’ minds. Obviously, not everything I mix is well recorded, some stuff is but some stuff isn’t.
I spent the summer of 1986 at a studio called To get the job at Planet Recording I looked in the phone book and got the addresses of every single recording studio in New York City and started handing out resumes. Thank you that you are here and answer our questions! Andrew Scheps also has some awesome plugins available on Waves. New Releases. When you do that it also has a much more serious phase lock loop, to catch up to whatever clock that is going on outside. But sometimes the rehearsing in your head will also go horribly wrong and you think this or that can happen.I have had month-long periods with no work coming in and that’s after huge projects. And you got reverbs and extra compressors going.
How are they going to hear and see each other because that is the biggest thing to get a good recording - making the band feel comfortable.
But I said no because that’s not how I was mixing anymore.
Firstly, thanks for your work to educate the tech companies and their future employees on maintaining audio quality...Andrew, firstly, thanks for being such a great dispenser of knowledge! I would much rather have a “Yes, if you had to choose one, character. I got lucky because Planet was a smaller studio with very cool projects coming in and they also had rehearsal rooms for bands to use.You need to have everything in your head and written down. The important thing with mixing on headphones is that it translates. Thanks so much for taking part in this, we're all learning so much.
I have watched your video several...When you buy products through links across our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. I think that’s a conscious choice and I imagine that those were Rick Rubin’s marching orders for Andrew Scheps who mixed the record. It was very relentless and I must have handed out over a 100 resumes. I also decided that I wanted to teach so I taught a class at It made me diversify which is really good because the music business is really horrible for money.
For example, the In this interview you will find many things you can take away and apply to your own career, I know I will, so without further ado, here is Andrew Scheps!Since the job was something I knew I could do, I knew I could handle it. Any other...Hi Andrew! Andrew Scheps also … I had ideas about the guitar parts and I thought I was helping.
Show up early, be completely ready to go, so if someone walks in and sits down by the drum kit you are ready to hit record.You can’t decide everything in advance because the session goes how the session goes. I have a question about eq and tonal balance. Listening to something like the recent Hozier record, there's an...Hi Andrew There is no knob for "Also, if a song is supposed to have a certain character but none of the tracks have it, then everything is built on a foundation that is wrong.
Big fan of the mix and depth on Jake Bugg's "Broken". They are a million tools that saturate, for example, there is a saturation knob on Echo Boy so use that instead of the delay, it’s incredible. If you look at my discography, if I hadn’t had them there would be something horribly wrong with me. There are so many ways you can achieve it and they all sound great in different situations.As to whether an emulation of a piece of a gear sounds exactly like the piece of gear, probably not, but it doesn’t matter.