Rick Beato interviews Andy Wallace

Started watching as I fell asleep last night, definitely anxious to catch it all. Between the Faith No More albums and A Perfect Circle’s 13th Step, he’s had his hands on some of my all time favorite albums. And while I don’t always dig the tones on the Avenged Sevenfold albums, I love how Andy mixes them, particularly the drums on the recent stuff, it sounds like you’re sitting 5ft from the kit.

Dude just lets the music do the heavy lifting in natural way.
 
RevDrucifer said:
Started watching as I fell asleep last night, definitely anxious to catch it all. Between the Faith No More albums and A Perfect Circle’s 13th Step, he’s had his hands on some of my all time favorite albums. And while I don’t always dig the tones on the Avenged Sevenfold albums, I love how Andy mixes them, particularly the drums on the recent stuff, it sounds like you’re sitting 5ft from the kit.

Dude just lets the music do the heavy lifting in natural way.
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i dont like avenged sevenfold at all, didnt know he did them though, i guess ill have to give a listen.
 
He also mixed Nirvana’s Nevermind, Korn’s first album, a lot of Slayer, and on and on. He always changes it up to fit the band. Thanks for posting, looking forward to watching this one.
 
He has, had his hands, in the music I listen to, more than any other studio guy/gal I can think of.
 
RaceU4her said:
i dont like avenged sevenfold at all, didnt know he did them though, i guess ill have to give a listen.
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I wish those dudes could restart their career without the makeup and shit. While I don’t dig everything they’ve done, only about 50%-70% of it, I respect the shit out of them for only doing what they want instead of writing the song hit single over and over again. Their last 2 albums are straight prog albums, to the point their losing OG fans along the way because they won’t keep recycling their material.

And the last two albums, not a single sample on them. Not the drums, not the orchestra shit, it’s all a human hitting a drum or people playing instruments. They were one of the first bigger bands to say “Fuck this brickwalling shit, we don’t put time into our albums just to destroy them”



And they don’t do anything they can’t pull off live without tracks, outside of the orchestra/synth parts. My biggest gripe with them is guitar and vocal tones, both can be quite thin sounding. Singer doesn’t like double tracking in the studio and he really lays into the nasal sound a lot, but the dude is stupidly consistent live and I’d hate to sing one of his sets.



They also put out these making-of type vids breaking down the songs more than I’ve ever seen a band give access to. It’s in vids like this you realize these guys don’t take themselves as serious as they do their music, but they’re all-in on this stuff, nothing they do is by-chance or the will of someone funding them-

 
RevDrucifer said:
I wish those dudes could restart their career without the makeup and shit. While I don’t dig everything they’ve done, only about 50%-70% of it, I respect the shit out of them for only doing what they want instead of writing the song hit single over and over again. Their last 2 albums are straight prog albums, to the point their losing OG fans along the way because they won’t keep recycling their material.

And the last two albums, not a single sample on them. Not the drums, not the orchestra shit, it’s all a human hitting a drum or people playing instruments. They were one of the first bigger bands to say “Fuck this brickwalling shit, we don’t put time into our albums just to destroy them”



And they don’t do anything they can’t pull off live without tracks, outside of the orchestra/synth parts. My biggest gripe with them is guitar and vocal tones, both can be quite thin sounding. Singer doesn’t like double tracking in the studio and he really lays into the nasal sound a lot, but the dude is stupidly consistent live and I’d hate to sing one of his sets.



They also put out these making-of type vids breaking down the songs more than I’ve ever seen a band give access to. It’s in vids like this you realize these guys don’t take themselves as serious as they do their music, but they’re all-in on this stuff, nothing they do is by-chance or the will of someone funding them-

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These guys are great! New band for me to check out. Thanks for posting this.
 
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