Team DECiBEL | 04 Aug 2017 | 1.30GB

Andrew Scheps

Recording a Band #1

Her "Love & Hate"

1h12min - 4 parts

New "Recording a Band" series with Grammy award-winning producer and engineer Andrew

Scheps is now online!

Watch him track the song « Love & Hate » by the band Her at Monnow Valley Studio. Learn

more about arrangements, mic placement and overall recording workflow.

BIOGRAPHY

Andrew Scheps has an incredible career of achievements, which incorporates a credit

list featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers, Adele, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Michael Jackson,

Robbie Robertson, Justin Timberlake, Iggy Pop, U2, Jay-Z, and many more, as well as

several Grammy Awards.

Schep's work on the Red Hot Chili Pepper's album Stadium Arcadium in 2005 was a turning

point for his approach to engineering. He found the band's decision to record and mix

entirely in analogue so alluring that he fitted his Punkerpad West studio with two Neve

8068 desks to go with his wall of analogue outboard. Scheps continued to work like this

until the fall of 2013. Scheps was offered a project to mix, and because he was still

in France, he had the choice of passing on the work or working in the box. He opted for

the latter, and found what he initially regarded as a one-off, was much more attractive

than anticipated.

"Going back into the box wasn't a sonic decision, but I actually rediscovered that I

really like it. It's great to be able to work on three or four songs at the same time.

I have not gone back to working on the desk since then. While I miss some of the

visceral hands-on aspects of the console, there is a lot of creative freedom working

this way. It might seem like a drastic change, but it is only the tools that have

changed: remarkably my philosophy and sound have stayed the same".

This latest dramatic change in his working methods has allowed Scheps to redefine the

way he blends old-style and new working methods and technology. He continues to apply

this in his mixes, and also as an engineer and producer.