Andrew Scheps has been a hero of mine since I started mixing. He’s worked on everyone from Beyoncé to Metallica to Michael Jackson to The Red Hot Chili Peppers to Jay-Z to The Smashing Pumpkins to Green Day to Alanis Morissette to The Rolling Stones to several other legends. He’s nothing short of a genius. At music. At mixing. At technology. At philosophy.
So I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. If you want to hear an honest take about where music is at, how to break in, and what’s up with AI, Scheps is the guy to listen to.
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That compression topology. Think of the totality. The push and pull of the artistic and the technical. Pitch to formant and time. Absolutely worth it. Artifacts. A natural thing. It builds up. Like a flavor connection. Transitions between sections. Doing sonic changes. Raw emotions in a safe space. Behind delivering it to the speakers. A world that it lives in. Or several worlds that happen one after another. About serendipity. Find a reason for making. Make a decision. Try something. Learn stuff. By osmosis. Reacting to things. The emotion in a song. The sonics are cool. Actively listening. What it does. In that environment. It’s just balance. Getting as close as possible. Setting up a world. Feel passionate. Feel the way music does. Limiting sounds like something. Flexible and creative and multivariate. Just leave it. Zoom out. Through several different paths. Throughout a song. Into the same world. Assess the emotional. Internal dynamics. Some magic moments. That will happen. Whatever it is. A sort of hyperreality. Open for a while. Different audio going through. Heavier and heavier. Harmonic distortion. Unbelievably cool. All about the Ideas. It’s just moments. Play stuff. To feel. A viable path. Measurements in the renderer. 📏
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Edited by Rebecca Sansom
Set Design by Max Horwich
Podcast Produced by Beformer
