Puremix Mentors | Andrew Scheps Talks to Awesome People Featuring Ken Scott

[@Electricowlworks]

Great interview! Thanks Ken and Andrew for sharing your time and insight. - chaz

[@PuremixAudioTutorials]

thanks for the kind words

[@themilksnatcher]

Omg!!! I was listening to Rudys In Love just before watching this! Iv always wondered where that was recorded and who recorded it!!!!! Thanks! Great great interview! KEN RULES!!!!

[@ramspencer5492]

Awesome interview! Always love listening to Andrew... And it was great to hear from Men Scott who just happened to work on some of the biggest and most influencal records of my adolescence! Super fun, thanks!

[@TheSpoonwood]

Billy C. "Spectrum"!... brilliant recording

[@AlOKaneMusic]

Watched this as it went out live and its one of the most fascinating, funny and brilliant interviews I've seen! Two great guys who have truly LIVED and who are absolute legends. Thanks for posting!

[@PuremixAudioTutorials]

pleasure

[@ORicardoNogueira]

Part Two must happen soon. Andrew is a excellent host and Ken has such a really inspiring way of telling stories. Great people. Thanks for that.

[@matthewotooleis]

I’ve spent most of the day rewatching Ken Scott interviews on YT- I love this dude!

[@jakajarc]

That was utterly enjoyable! Thank you both, and thank you pureMix!

[@craigsanderson4330]

Really enjoyed that, thanks pureMix, Ken is great I could listen to him and Andrew all day.

[@davidabair2280]

This is great! I love all those albums Ken mixed! Spectrum, Quadrant 4 OMG!!! Check that out and hold on to your seats! I believe we met in Montreal after a Supertramp concert. I'm a friend of Bob Siebenberg. Great interview by two of my heroes!

[@TheEarthBelow]

Loved this. Thank you Ken for all the incredible albums over the years. Would've loved to hear more about The Tubes recordings!

[@rogergamon]

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[@Charmoffalling]

I honestly can´t imagine a better man to do all these interviews than Andrew. Informed and interested. Humble in his pure curiosity. We have a saying here in Germany: Frag sie, solang sie da sind! So Mr. Scheps. If the whole musicmixingproducingthingy that you´re obviously wasting time with starts to bore you. Then move your telescope into the direction of conducting a documentary about the guys behind the desks. Someone HAS to do that. Scheps! Take over Smilingly greeting from The Friedensstadt (saw Al Schmitt before that. Just heartwarming)

[@Beatledave7]

Huge fan of Ken thank you thank you Andrew! Loved it! Loving your interviews!

[@hofmann61]

Go listen online to Radio Educacion. Its a mexican radiostation from mexican state. You can hear Mingus, followed by the Beatles, folklore, then Mozart. Amazing!

[@stephenpomeroy482]

Brilliant. Thank you Ken, Andrew and Puremix.

[@eugenemartone7023]

Always adored Kens work, one of the first engineers whose name I learned. Seems like such a great guy too. Great interview!

[@OG-il8ks]

1:32:57 Q&A begins. Some specific gear chat.

[@Algabatz]

Wow, this was fantastic. Thanks so much!

[@noiseinthebasement8139]

Awesome people, indeed! Thank you for this interview, Ken, Andrew, and pureMix!

[@rickyred001]

Thanks Andrew & Ken, great discussion and i love my trident A Range eq plug in !!!!

[@joevining2603]

This was fantastic! Such great information and insight. Thank you, both!

[@playsgibsons]

This is absolute solid gold.

[@stupendousmusic4190]

Ken Scott always gives a great honest forthright interview! Enjoyed it! He's another one of your guests that mentioned Glyn Johns (as did Al Schmitt and Bruce Botnick). Perhaps it's time to interview him! 🙏🏻

[@PuremixAudioTutorials]

good idea, who knows in the near future ;)

[@stupendousmusic4190]

@@PuremixAudioTutorials If the interview should happen, may I ask some of my questions? May I conduct part of the interview? 😜

[@stupendousmusic4190]

Thanks for another great on Andrew! No compression on the drums! YES!!! Someone else mentioned Glyn Johns again. PLEASE get him on here.

[@PuremixAudioTutorials]

great idea! Andrew will be having a show every week from now on!

[@stupendousmusic4190]

@@PuremixAudioTutorials When do you go live next. I'm primarily in Tokyo, so I want to be ready.

[@PuremixAudioTutorials]

@@stupendousmusic4190 next monday! and of course available on replay !

[@stupendousmusic4190]

@@PuremixAudioTutorials What time?

[@MikeHeebz]

Much Love to Ken Scott for standing up for the FEELS of Music! Thanks for sharing, going to have to check the catalog. Thanks Guys! =)

[@PuremixAudioTutorials]

Our pleasure! thank you for the kind words Mike

[@jazzkuramatto]

Fantastic interview with some great stories from Ken and Andrew is a natural host!

[@Ziquix]

I was so inspired by this talk today. I bought the Kehew & Ryan book "Recording the Beatles" that Andrew mentions when it was first published back in... 2007?... and I've been enthralled with "Historical recording practices" stuff ever since. I flew all the way to London from the US to attend a lecture inside Abbey Road studio 2 by those guys back in spring of 2012, and I got to see and learn about a lot of that old equipment first hand. That being said, I remember they had 3 pianos set up in the same place that the studio records indicated they recorded the final piano chord of "A Day in the Life" and they had people go up and play that chord and sustain it... you wouldn't believe how much "just like the album" that chord sounded in that room, and that was live, not through any microphones or desks. So part of it, like they're saying, is in the players' hands, in the instruments, and in the room itself. Without the same source material, no amount of equipment or plugins or know-how are gonna get you there. Anyway, Andrew was talking about "just go and play with this old stuff and limit yourself to 4 tracks and see what happens." I've had exactly this thought in the back of my head for a long, long time, and I think it would be great fun to take a Beatles record and try to recreate all the tracks on it "virtually" limiting myself to only gear or studio tricks they would have had at their disposal at the time... not to make a cover album per se, but to be as Andrew put it "a student of recording history" because I totally agree with him that not only is that stuff really important to know, those kind of limitations actually enhance a person's creativity. I was working on a project recently where the vocalist was wanting different sounds on the doubles and harmonies (and I was limited in my microphone choices), so I tried the trick where the Beatles would track vocals at different speeds to give them different timbres using Logic's built-in Speed controls to bump the entire track up or down a semi-tone while tracking, and the results were absolutely fantastic! Sometimes, the solutions to problems we face every day were solved when our parents were kids, but if we don't learn about how engineers then overcame those problems, we're reinventing the wheel in a lot of ways.

[@boogie2266]

100% agree... I was at "Inside Abbey Road" twice and the first time (2013) I was extremely lucky because I could play the "famous chord" with others and met Ken Scott who was in the audience too! What a nice guy...I'm currently reading his book.

[@homeone4054]

@@boogie2266 I was there in 2012 or 13 as well. Fantastic day.

[@matthewotooleis]

Dude where did you get that book? I’ve been on their waiting list for about five years. They keep saying they are going to republish it but it never happens. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Ziquix]

@@matthewotooleis Ordered it online the day it was announced, I think 2006. I had just gotten my first job and was right out of college... bought it with one of my first paychecks, if I remember correctly! So I've had it since it was first published. I do hope they reprint it. It's full of some very valuable, very interesting stuff. And it's funny, when I got it in 2006 it was like a neat novelty, like oh this is fun to learn about but when am I ever going to use this equipment? But now, I can actually use the RS124 and the Fairchilds and all the toys that they talk about, because there are such great models now. I almost feel like as technology improves, the recording methods and equipment they so meticulously detailed actually become MORE valuable.

[@matthewotooleis]

@@Ziquix that’s excellent mate! I remember reading a review about it in SOS when it first came out I wasn’t such a Beatles/Abbey Road nut in those days and £100 seemed like a lot of money for a book! In the virtual/digital world we are now living in it seems like a real bargain now. If you haven’t already read them I would also recommend ‘The Great British Recording Studios’ and Leiwisholm’s ‘Beatles Complete Recording Sessions’. Listening to Beatles records is like listening to a history of record making. If the Kinks had recorded at Abbey Road with George Martin producing- the Beatles would have been given a run for their money!

[@bullfunkstudios3856]

Awesome interview thanks for this Pure Mix you guys rock!

[@ivofechner8039]

Man, we need that Ken Scott Inner Voice Plugin!

[@MusiclyricsByECDaleyC]

Great stuff, so many amazing insights!

[@TripWamsley]

Love this so much!

[@anthonyhume-ring810]

Godlike!!!

[@gavmurray7398]

Awesome interview. Great top hear someone of that stature call out tay tay for taking the better deal over the ideals.

[@peterbrandt7911]

Thanks alot again. The ending bit is sadly true. And it is worth now. When we released our first two albums in 1996 and 1999, there was at least some some support by some media. Now its social media only, if you have no major deal and sufficient success. And the thing going "viral" are rather about stupid shit, than the music itsself.

[@chalehouseproductions8592]

Thank you everyone... Ken did the tape op Stephen W Tayler start whilst you worked at Trident?

[@cosmicdrifter287]

This channel is an awesome find!

[@PuremixAudioTutorials]

That's great!!! thank you very much for the kind words ! make sure to subscribe

[@cosmicdrifter287]

I had a great evening watching this very great interview.Thank you.

[@FriendGaugeShotgun]

Syd Barrett stories!!! PLEASEEEEEEE

[@jg3o-band]

Such fun, many tidbits to mull over, particularly the "no compression" on the drums. It just seems so anti-intuitive. Will need to give it a shot!

[@AntKneeLeafEllipse]

Honestly man, gimme the gig where I can do 3 sets, 6 days a week! It sounds like a dream, but those gigs don't exist in my part of the world.

[@FloydPink23]

Amazing interview!

[@PuremixAudioTutorials]

Thanks for the kind words Sir !

[@its_teace]

Yo why did i just find out about Missing Persons?? Fucking rad.

[@TheSpoonwood]

Aladdin Sane ....the best Bowie album

[@hazelwray5307]

"1994/dodo" - 1984 (George Orwell).

[@imslicc]

Where can I find the spotify playlists? thanks

[@PuremixAudioTutorials]

Here : perspiration: open.spotify.com/playlist/1O5Ll4os8R4HnKBS8ITmwf?si=IQJcuMKqSv67ZBAmwVVGRw inspiration open.spotify.com/playlist/0O8vOsWa7DvYMO82XJumvq?si=bGyuWZ6oTeGOX11OUu_Rlw

[@johnwilmer2551]

Spring session M

[@adhd1878]

Bro, you should have listened to the 192 kHz master of Crime Of The Century before suggesting he could skip it.

[@francamour1084]

LOL "Abbey Rhodes"

[@hofmann61]

Sorry, there are plenty of bands that would play 3 sets per night for a long time. Those gigs dont exist anymore today!!!

[@PuremixAudioTutorials]

unfortunately!

[@EtcEtcAndEtc]

16.40 - ok boomers.... As if there's the opportunity to play 6 gigs a week in the same venues in one town. Absolutely ridiculous - the opportunity is not there any more, at all.