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Was expecting a meme, got great advice

Can you imagine getting a mix back from Andy Wallace and not liking it?

Andy is so impressively well spoken. So diplomatic, but also assertive. Much can be learned by professionals in the industry about his approach to client dialogue and how he's able to navigate potentially difficult situations with poise. What a master!

"There's people that sort of want to control the mix too much without the proper skills and make suggestions that are definitely gonna be injuries to the mix", Lars Ulrich on the Justice album?

So many of my favourite albums were mixed by Andy. Such a great.

I only dig in my heals when I think things are going too far. Here is another suggestion from my 20 years plus of mixing and producing. AVOID giving clients "rough" mixes if you can. Then you are setting up a "demo love" situation. Once someone hears a rough mix hundreds of times (and you know they will) they are instantly biased.

I love the bird sounds in the background!

I fell out with my longest clients because they wanted me to master too loud after I’d been going too loud for a few mixes.. I even offered them to take a mix to a mastering house but no.. they wanted cheap and loud. When I drew the line I had to then walk away. That was the day I learned to please myself first. Communication is always key. Nice interview. First music based clip I’ve watched in a year after a pretty major thyroid breakdown. 🙌🏻

great interpersonal skills, the hidden talent of great mixers. Thank you! cheers

Andy Wallace sure looks like a lot of people.

Masterful as ever with Mr. Wallace, and great insight into the delicate operation of interacting with artists in the creative process.

The mark of a true professional is knowing that sometimes you can't make the client happy and that they should work with someone else. I've turned multiple potential clients away when it was clear that I wouldn't or couldn't do things the way they wanted. Yes, I'd like the money, but I also want to be satisfied with my work and for the client to like the results.

Thanks for the great advice Andy. This is a major reason I always require the rough mix with the files, to make sure I'm not losing any of the "magic" while improving the mix and taking it to the next level.

This guy is the machine that ran the music of my youth.

Man I really like Andy Wallace so much what a fantastic person

Love andy wallace, appeciate his honesty and insight!

I wish there were hours and hours of Andy Wallace videos. I wish I could listen to more of him talk about pretty much anything

Would love as much Andy as possible. His history is so beloved by many to where it'd be a disservice not to take his cliff notes

I've been in the room when Andy was offering to quit a mixing a record by saying "I am probably not the right guy to mix your record" The nonsense requests stopped in that moment.

I remember reading that "At The Drive In" hated the mix of "Relationship of command" and only listen to reference mix. I love the Andy Wallace mix. The "Freak show" mixing is also a "chef d'oeuvre" for me.

Trust that your client knows what they want. Make the changes they suggest and it'll sound better, worse or different. You have undo and multiple saved versions to fallback on. Try not to get into a discussion about why their idea won't work, just try it and listen.

mixing with clients who know nothing about mixing and they make suggestions is the worst, i have mixed songs to my satisfaction, then the client wanted changes, i made them, then they didnt like them and ended up using my original mix and they had to admit i knew what i was doing, after going back and forth for weeks...so painful.

Beautiful. Like a puzzle, there's always a way to reconcile everything, but definitely it'd be a different mix to suite it

Priceless advice from a legend.

The real question here is where was the bird cage hiding in his studio? Am I the only one or do you hear the chirping of birds in the background too? :D

Mr Wallace is the man of high colture and is a joy to learn from. He mixed a lot of heavy stuff, and his mixes are works of art. I am personally not a big fan of the heavy music, but at the same time you can't miss a compelling sound of Reign in Blood, Toxicity and Nevermind albums. This man knows his job, as they say!

That's the thing - shopping for good mixing engineers to mix your track is like browsing your food delivery apps. You gotta go with your guts to trust that person to do his/her job, hence why you need to know who you work with - not just because he/she is within your price range.

This guy is a wonder. He mixed the most of the music that I like, I found that out later. There were even situations where I would hear a song for the first time and I would instantly like the mix. I would go check who it is and there he is again.

The great Andy Wallace! He said it, I didn’t...

Might want to mention the man's name in the title or description. Or in the video. Just a thought.

Superb advice in the form of experience. Much appreciated.

Andy knows his stuff!

the obi-wan kenobi of music production..

This man is brilliant!

Client: Can we put a high pass on the master buss at 3k? Andy: ...

Thanks for this awesome video. Knowing that from time to time, even a legend like Andy Wallace gets such weird requests and can't please the clients with impossible requests show that there are limits to what artists can suggest. Obviously, with all his incredible experience, it is a lot easier for Mr. Wallace to know if something IS good or not for a mix than someone who starts doing mixing and/or mastering. At my level, which is light years away behind the level of Mr. Wallace, I can't tell if a request is possible or not so I'll always say "Yes absolutely! I can do it!" ( 😂 ) but that could bring me to taking days trying to make impossible things or do things the wrong way as it could be easier using a different approach. Experience is such an invaluable asset! Kindest Regards, have a great day and thanks to Mr. Wallace for taking of his very precious time, I know how much he must be busy on other stuff as well! 🎼🃏🎶🎵🙏😁🌠

This channel is right on. Good content!!

really needed this today lmao

Came here looking for tips & tricks and found gold

I tried to do this job but was unable to. I have the soul of a composer artist. in addition, I like to do everything myself and be only responsible to myself

please keep these comin

Great interview. Wow!

I would think very long and hard beforehand about what I would deign to suggest to Andy Wallace!

I know one of his client who disliking his mix because it’s sounds ‘too polished’ but then it became the greatest track of all time.. is.. Kurt Cobain 😆

Has to be communication. It goes both ways.

That's a guy I'd like to have a beer with.

Ahah One simply don`t tell Andy Wallace what is good for a mix! Just send the files and receive a masterpiece! Done!

What a legend.

Before I listen to a mix I already know the cow bell must be louder 😉

Who in the world would tell Andy Wallace that he is wrong? Lol

Yup , Andy is going to mix my next hit record lol

Awesome, just awesome

Andy: ....i have spoken....

so, Great advice.

(the) Andy Wallace mixing Avenged Sevenfold on MWTM are sick!!!

the thumbnail and title made this look like a joke video

LEGEND

I would love to have s month in a studio mixing with Andy learning stuff. I think the biggest issue for amateurs is the fact that the material they have to mix with is far inferior to the well produced recordings the pros have plus no SSL desk fatness.

I remember Andy from EARS in Jersey

Learn from the best

I have to wonder if the mysterious client was At The Drive In for Relationship of Command

I would love to know who wanted those reference mixes released?

Wonder if it was Jack? Both great men to me

Great advice but why is the audio clipping in a video like this 😟

epic thumbnail for this vid

Revisions, a process I know well.

A conductor once asked me to play something differently from the way I was playing it. I complied and he said, There, isn't that better? I replied, Well, it's different. I don't use the word "better".

so fist fights do occur now and then

It would be nice if you placed links to Andy's work, website or ways to reach / know more about him.

Thanks for the great tips!

some truth right there

Hahaha did Wallace admit he’s gotten into a fist fight about a mix?

Odd that the cameras “crossed the 180 degree line” here, he looks left in one shot and right in the other,.

How dare you question Andy Wallace????

Supposedly, Andy mixed Dinosaur Jr's "Where you been" and J hated it so he ended up having Agnello, who recorded it, go back and mix it over in 5 days, according to Agnello on "LIFERS" podcast. I loved SY's "dIRty", but haven't heard all his mixes. He's not perfect, nobody is. As big a fan as I am of Albini and almost every band he's recorded, he's failed on Slint's "Tweez" and Fugazi's "In on the killtaker", which they re-recorded w/ their previous producer and scrapped Albini's sessions. What's important is that he's had more incredible mixes than not. Again, nobody's perfect.

I'll never understand why clients insist on sabotaging all their hard work in the eleventh hour. I've had mixes which were clearly superior in every way rejected because they didn't match the crappy quality of the other songs on the album or they didn't sound as low fidelity as what they had done in their bedrooms. I've been forced to take the Bass down so low that it was practically non-existent because the client was near-deaf and couldn't hear any highs. I've had clients force me to do mixes with the Vocals too far out front because they insisted that their audience be focused on the lyric content. It got go a point where I even briefly retired.

Hi, doesn't that depend on which level you are performing? As a beginner, and earn about 20$ per mix, I wouldn't yet complain about their complaints? Because the best add, is pretty much the rumors from producers or artists? Or am I wrong?

Legend

I thought I was the only one...

If they didn't like this guys mix did he still demand payment... Right.

The comment about "establishing the mix" really intrigues me.

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what's a reference mix ?

Fun guy

He did the mix on foo fighters there is nothing left to lose by foo fighters.

I like the remix version better

1:35 YES! This stuff is just as bad. When someone say “I like it!” and nothing else when you *know* they have an opinion, that’s just as bad…

The George Carlin of music production.

Tbh I’d just trust him

ese es el bendito problema con los cantantes de mi pais, que se creen ingenieros de mezcla.

tfw u disagree w the mix revisions

Glad to hear I’m not the only one who says that in regards to the reference mix. If you like the ref so much, why did you hire me? Just get it mastered and be done. Here’s your refund, have a nice day

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He's a talker.

I find the closer the mix is to finished the more the band becomes experts in mixing and sonics. Singers are the absolute worst in my experience. In the end I just give up and make their changes, when it gets to that point mentally I've moved on to the next project.

Must be talking about Axel lol

Just do not understand this whole concept of sending a mix out to somebody to mix for you as opposed to being in the studio with an engineer the whole concept is foreign and weird when did this start where did this come from who the heck would do such a thing what kind of music producers do this.

Andy Wallace: "...It works out." Artists: "Andy Wallace had his way. And we were grateful."

He destroyed Test for Echo.