Professional Mixing in Stereo & Atmos: Grammy-Winning Mixer Andrew Scheps on Workflow, Impostor Syndrome & Industry Insights (Part 2)
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Description In this podcast episode Ashea is joined by Andrew Scheps, a three-time Grammy Award-winning mixer and producer, for Part 2 of their in-depth conversation about professional mixing in the era of immersive audio. Building on the discussions from Part 1, Andrew delves deeper into practical techniques for mixing in Atmos and spatial audio formats, with particular focus on the unique challenges of mixing for headphone playback, binaural rendering, and maintaining mix translation acros...
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