I spent 30 years studying, practicing and ultimately, teaching architecture. For the last 6 years, I've devoted myself to music. The most important thing I learned in architecture school about presenting my work was to never apologize or make excuses for it. Ever. Always make your best effort. Never present work that fails to communicate your ideas clearly. Always share what does with as many people as possible. Nothing is ever perfect. Dissatisfaction is part of being an artist. If you make excuses or apologize, you prejudice your audience, and rob them of the ability to evaluate it and form independent opinions of it. If you only release work you consider perfect, you'll never release anything. Strike a balance between the volume of your output and it's craft. and put it out there. Listen to criticism, but don't take it personally. Use criticism to improve your work. Disregard outright insults. They are not helpful.

Above all else, make it about the thoughts and emotions you are trying to elicit from or communicate to your audience. If you have something to say, someone will hear it. If it's something profound and beautiful, it will connect with them. If it's well crafted and universal, it will be timeless and important, regardless of it's popularity, because it will be an authentic product of  humanity.

This guy is so brilliant. I love how he gets away from the technical side of mixing and goes right into art.

I've been listening to Andrew Scheps' podcast for the last few months and he's become one of my favorite people in the industry. He's such a kind, generous, and wise human being. He really listens to what others say. And when he does offer his own opinion, it's always from a position of genuine humility.

"What Comes Out Of The Speakers, Stays Out Of The Speakers."

This isn't music or even art, it's philosophy. Brilliant.

I never would have imagined that I would see John Cage 433 played by Andrew Scheps!

This is pure gold, thanks for putting this out there!

He sounds like a real professor, natural speaker. So much value here

not everybody has money to subscribe in such expensive universities.. so thanks for posting this video ;)

Definitely not my first time listening to Andrew. Why do I keep watching his videos? ... he seems to always make so much sense, in an honest and candid way. And .... he’s a genius.

So incredibly informative. If you are an aspiring engineer you need to watch the entire thing. Andrew touches on things here that took me years to learn on my own

Probably one of the best mix lectures I've ever heard or needed. Succinct and inspiring. Excellent video, many thanks

Wow! What an uplifting, inspirational, insightful presentation. Impressive. Thank you Andrew Scheps :)

The amount of times I went to scroll down and hit the like button again.

Brilliant! Andrew is a great teacher, he explains things simply and concisely, and gives you real world examples. A true teacher of audio, instead of hiding secrets behind closed doors like others. you have to think about his techniques and approaches and apply them to your own workflow, but if you listen carefully, the answers are revealed

What an informative, laid back, funny lesson.  Just brilliant

Knowledge is power! He’s awesome

Andrew Scheps one of my favorite mix engineers-producers! This guy is awesome!

The audience is either asleep or afraid to laugh or express any emotion. Not great for artistic creativity. Let yourself go, kids. What will happen when you get older. Have fun. Don’t worry about what people think. Andrew is so good and even better at getting things across to others. Good video. Thanks

Such an amazingly pure, positive vibe coming from someone who loves what he does. So glad I happened upon this video.