#20 - Katy Perry, Frank Ocean, and Engineer Andrew Wuepper

In this week's episode of Pensado's Place, Dave and Herb host one of Dave's past assistants, engineer Andrew Wuepper! Andrew has worked with such artists as Katy Perry, Usher, and mixed Frank Ocean's latest hit "Novacane". Dave and Andrew discuss engineering and mixing techniques that Andrew has used on his latest work, and take live viewer questions in "The Corner Office". Andrew dishes on his favorite plug-ins and hardware in "The Batter's Box", and in this week's "Into The Lair", Dave explains some of his compression techniques in the box!

See Andrew Wuepper's credits here: http://albumcredits.com/Profile/1018603

Check out Frank Ocean's blog here: http://frankocean.tumblr.com/

Category:

• Entertainment
• Learning & Education
• Science & Tech

Starring:

• Dave Pensado
• Herb Trawick
• Andrew Wuepper
• Drew Adams

Directed by:

• Will Thompson

Produced by:

• Will Thompson

Tags:

• Odd Future
• Frank Ocean
• Dave Pensado
• Audio Engineering
• Plug-ins
• Andrew Wuepper

[AlexNiedt]

Just because you get used to something, that doesn't mean it's an improvement.

[AlexNiedt]

The loudness wars still have a negative effect on the sound quality of many records. I could go on and on listing records that would sound more open and impactful if they weren't pushed so hard, Gardner or not. I don't think it's an issue of it being universally accepted as sounding good, but universally accepted as a necessary practice to compete. Even top engineers make sacrifices for loudness; sculpting into its corner, making decisions based on how to get it louder, but not always better.

[Seany06]

Does anyone know the name of the Zaho track he is working on in the ITL?

[Anotherblackseason]

PS, regarding the loudness wars. Since I am a, uh hmm, older listener I have to say the problem with the loudness thing is ear fatigue. I can't listen to more than 4 or 5 songs on many new records before I have to turn it off. I'm not the only one who has noticed this and some say it has contributed to the decline of record sales.

[Anotherblackseason]

I couldn't help but wonder with all the compression being used if you aren't taking away the Mastering Engineers duty and essentially giving them less to work with. I use parallel compression when needed not as a rule of thumb. Just curious. Great show as always.

[GuitarMan3292]

NO HD!!!????



[starboy2013]

Three and a half mintues escape from the horrors of this world!!!, serious how many people write and produce a song with that in mind??? I would like to hear those songs....:-)

[OrganicAudioRecordrs]

people get "used" to low-res crap MP3's as well...

[girlylisax18]

hi, check out my jb unseen videoo i put for my channeI

[uberschaller]

funny Dave, I'm a chauffeur(when I'm not behind a mac) and I drive brats around, and they all love the loud hip hop station. As an aspiring producer, sometimes the songs on these stations actually catch my ear and I find myself jamming out like a high school kid. This song caught me just like it did you, I couldn't believe how slick the mix was. Wiz was the same way.

[M4XM4RT1N]

the dream wrote it, not tricky

[starboy2013]

Dave you keep useing the L2, the L3 Ultra sounds more stero and less 2 dimensional, seriously check it out.