Andrew Scheps in Action: Mixing with the Scheps Parallel Particles Plugin 

So many people who haven't done anything of significance trying to feel superior by shooting down this plug-in. If you've learned anything about audio, the ONLY thing that matters is how it sounds. Not how you got there. If a mix made off presets and one knob plugs is better than yours, it's better.

I really appreciate how Andrew demystifies so much of the mixing/engineering experience! Rather than try to impress us with unattainable theoretical concepts he just makes it plain. Thank you Andrew!!!

I could watch this man talk all day, even if I understood every 3rd thing he said

Andrew Scheps, you just might be one of the most enjoyable and coolest engineers I've had the pleasure of watching give advice on audio engineering. You are well honed to the fact that sound and imagery is so perceptual, yet universally relevant, that regardless of how one may or may not try to intellectualize what we do, and the tools we use to achieve it; the result of said application is WHAT IT IS, regardless of the instrument we use to get there (however old, romantic, time consuming; or New and innovative it may be). You realize and demonstrate that what is most important is that the end result "effect" is indeed WHAT it IS and that it 'does' what it 'does!!' Watching you talk about what this plugin actually does, with the wonderful sidebar comments you include, makes me want to step away from the minutia of what we do as producer/engineers and enjoy conversation over a glass of VERY good wine, or libation of your choice, and have a great talk about life in general; realizing that life is much more enjoyable without pining over what tools we use to get to where we need to be at the end of the day. Amazing sound is what we live for, but there is much more life to live outside the minutia of chasing an illusive and magical fairy that promises the same result with a single approach within myriad of possibilities, via a single application. BUT, what's VERY cool about your presentation is that this plugin allows exactly that sort of flexibility!!! Mind you, I've had a very good glass of wine before posting this comment that you probably won't ever see. Ha! I commend you on a great demonstration of your 'Parallel Particles' plugin. It's definitely eye candy as well as ear candy, that seems to achieve exactly what you intend for it to achieve as a sound tool. Bravo!!

My favourite mixing engineer, love his "don't be a dick" philosophy and scheps 73 plguin. This looks like another great plugin to my arsenal of every mix tools !

If you're here to hear it on Vocals, start at 25:11

I like this! Multiple parallels in one operation, and the results are quite impressive. It did what you'd expect on drums, but I was especially impressed at what it did on bass, and vocals. Where I felt it truly shined, was on the whole mix. This was already a good mix, but it breathed life into it, and once you've heard it, you don't want to go back to the original. That was impressive.

Oh and I love seeing the CRUSHED waveform toward to end!!! Andrew is my mixing Hero!

Now this is “fly on the wall“ perfection. Thanks so much to Andrew Sheps and Waves for putting this together. I really appreciate the way you show how everything works and A/B in between processed and unprocessed. It feels natural, fluent and most of all insightful at a really good pace. I‘ve used the plug-in for a while now on basically everything and couldn’t be more satisfied with it. Watching this just makes me so happy to see the Master have so much fun with his creation and share it with everyone. Can‘t wait for the next Scheps plug-in ^^ pretty please :)

complicated doesn't mean better. I'm getting this.

I am really enjoying using this and the results after isolation of each component in the plugin to get best output in the mix, as suggested in this video, works well. Andrew is always sharing his knowledge and trade craft generously ... Peace.

People unironically saying that this plugin is for "zero-skill newbies" because it does many things with 1 knob (or 4, whatever) while using 1176s and LA-2As...

I love this plugin I put it on drum bus, synths, guitars, everything. And at the final mix bus.

Amazing feed of sound engineering data. Thank you Andrew, you are a new fave of mine

It looks like a space shuttle and he is the captain

this a really easy way to do parallel compression on a lot of tracks in very little time. I like it alot.

Can't wait to try this plug-in!

One of the BEST plugins ever.

Wow ! I've had this plug in for a year and never used it because I didn't understand it. I do now. It's about to become the external insert in Omni Channel. Beam me up Scotty ! Oh and Andrew, if you unfortunately pass away, can I have your ears ? 😬

Been using it since day one. Great. great stuff.

I love what this does sound-wise. As with any gear, it's how you adjust it. Adjusted with care, judiciousness (mostly)and requisite love, I think this is a great way to quickly sculpt rock/modern tones--for further refinement, perhaps. But I like this approach as a way to efficiently ballpark the types of tones Scheps is known for and then take it from there, if necessary (and of course it will be most of the time). The transient design inherent in this setup is really a terrific end-result of what is going on here under the hood.

thank you happy new years to you and yours

im sold im going to guy it now. thank you for your hard work.

I find this plugin is amazing on all sound sources. There's nothing clever about going through a convoluted / experienced ?process if there are other quicker ways to get to the real crux which is moulding sonics (preferably in the moment). Well done Andrew Scheps & Waves on this. ;). Another similar plugin to look out for is Waves' 'Infected Mushroom Pusher'

Oh! thats a great sounding plugin!

I love this plugin.. It is the best way to get ready for Mastering. : WOW... highly recommend this..

I have this plugin, I enjoy it. Please remember: this plugin and all the Scheps plugs I have used offer something- not that you will always want that - just like mandolin is not great on every song.. but damn is it good on the right song... The idea of parallel compression is kind of Scheps recipe and although I have only recently gone this route in some of my mixes, there is certainly some credibility here. Andrew is a talent - For those doubters, please take a sec and study parallel compression - and like most good things Moderation is the KEY. Andrew has some other videos on RU-vid that discuss using this technique only in choruses, and song endings, to add a boost that ads energy, and when the song ends, the listener should want to restart the song...(which is a good goal) - obviously what sounds good, sounds good... use your ears.. but I personally enjoy this plugin greatly - used correctly its a good weapon

This one really got me off guard, I wasn't a fan of these signature series plugins, but this one is AMAZING. So easy to make stuff pop out, works great on stems too!

CERN Partical Smasher?

Detailed, precise informations !

How the hell is he not freaking out about that small monitor??? :P

sounds great and looks like it could save you some good time over setting up 1000 buses for parallel compressing, just makes you curious what chains of compressors are actually being emulated.....but hey if it sounds good, does it really matter?

Love the song..

what the fuck...i know this plug-in looks dorky, but it actually sounds amazing. and i know saying that might make me the "noob" that it was marketed to, but i'm certainly not as good a mixer as scheps, and it definitely is helping me sound better. been trying to get my mixes to sound "louder" (clearer) without increasing LUFS (as per Spotify's attenuation algorithm), and this plugin is actually helping me get more of "everything" in my mixes. so grateful to ya scheps!

Love that plugin,bought it immediately when I tried the demo.I finish my mixes very fast with the help of SPP.Why should anyone loose time using different compressor plugins to mix their tracks,when with SPP you can do that in a blink of an eye.For me time is precious,so I rely on fast easy working plugins.

I love this!

Awesome Plugin!

Super cool plug in looks like the teserack from the avengers or a stargate. Andrew's a beast. Put this on my wishlist along wit the omni channel and the 73

Thanks team R2R

This could be good for a bit of sound design madness. Not sure i would use this as a mixing plugin. At first i thought the gui was too much, but after watching the vid i can understand his approach to this and respect him for that

fascinating, thank You!

Andrew rules! love this.. just bought it

of all the 20+ plugins I bought this holiday season this one is my favorite. go fucking check it boys, so worth my money 🤯

Killer Plug in. On the overall mix it's night and day.

A genius. Thanks for that...

I'm waiting for the "0 Knob" plugin series by Waves... ^^

I have this plugin and I enjoy using it. The geometry of the GUI is very well designed, but those many unaccurate sci-fi details are disturbing. It could somewhat simpler, without all these metallic, agressive rods. This precious demo by Andrew will sure help me tweaking better into this gem.

Nice. But how about a special Scheps plugin to bring back some dynamic range? :)

where can we get this track on VINYL???

Every plugin has its place. It’d be really dope if they opened up this multi band a little bit and allowed you to adjust the frequencies of each band. I really like using plug ins like this to add a little “color” to a mix. .....Ah just got to the sub breakdown. It has a little adjustment available. Ok 👌🏻

Ok I'm convinced take my money

I can load 800 serums and 20 of these scheps plugin and my cpu is overload I have a i9 16core with 64 gb ram How is this possible?

Well that's a new band in my playlist

The only Waves plugins I use daily are the classic ones like RenComp, RenEQ, Doubler, L1, L2, C4, PAZ Analyzer

Question so should this plug in be 1st or last in your chain of effect on channel

This is a really good song. JS

Hi Folks. I (mixing-amateur) own the Sheps omni Channel and was wondering, if it still makes sense to purchase/ use the parallel particles on top of that? Thanx!

Bottom Line: it works. Biggest problem for me is that these RU-vid Vids are WAY TOO QUIET to actually hear the differences. I had to crank my monitor output way beyond where I EVER go to hear these vids in my headphones and had much trepidation to go to 3-o'Clock on the headphone volume dial. Most everything I listen to is at 11 or 12 in the clock-version-speech of level setting. Boo on that one. Get your output levels up to pro level. So, Waves offered a special and I bought it like I did with the Butch Vig Vocals because I want my students to DE-construct what they hear in these simple knob configurations of the "signature sound" of whomever is behind it. AND it's a great tool for my "research the engineers" projects I make my students do throughout a semester. It used to be that they had to DIG DEEP to get info on studio engineering tips and tricks. Now, they can add researching a new plug in by X-Y-Z engineer/producer. This doesn't mean, by any stretch of the imagination, that they can be a Scheps, Vig, Maserati, Kramer, or Lord-Alge, et al. Remember, pro pals, it's about our EARS and understanding of myriad things (miking, acoustics, sources, gain structure, etc.) These Waves plugs are just a great part of digital learning these days. I thank these amazing engineer/mixer/producers for putting forth their ideas through WAVES PLUGS that focus on that known entity personal sonic sculpting. HUGE FAN! Just professional-ize the sound output of the vids!

I am putting it on about everything lol it makes almost anything sound better and its fast and easy

In my opinion, this plugin really helps on drums and bass part👍🏻. However, I think the demo that putting this plugin in the stereo bus destroy a bit of the whole mix and over compressing the mix. Even more, although the vocals are standing out after adding this plugin, the vocals become not glue into the music 😭

I JUST NEED TO KNOW THE SONG THATS AT 25:43

My favorite part was learning to automate air to turn on at certain parts.

Hello Andrew the other day I watched your Video on the Scheps 73 and you mention how you use the Scheps 73 on just about every Kick and snare track , to which I agreed. then I watched your video on the Parallel particels , and you put that on the Kick and it sounded awesome. which one of these plug-in would you prefure to use on say the Kick or the Snare or the Bass. by the way I bought the Scheps 73

can't wait for the day, where waves release a 'one button' hit maker

Youre just genius

I do love Parallel Particles. Thanks, Andrew. I just can't buy in to WAVES new subscription model. I feel "snookered", to use an archaic term. I'll use PP as long as it still works with the systems we have now. After that, it'll be back to less creative ways of compression.

Nice track

by the way, you probably don't remember but I wrote you a few days ago in reference to the Harrison Mixbus 32c which has a K 2 plug-ini on it, please just give it a try and offer your option in the DAW . I really think you'll Like it

Is this mix (released version) totally in the box?

Cool song

does this plugin work on any DAW that supports vst/au?

"Centre the bloom of that low frequency energy." Poetry like that tells me I need to speak to my Wife about the reassignment of our household budget.

Makes me appreciate drum replacement software..Like the plugin though..

cool song

When the plug in takes off and disappears, your song is done!

Whoever designed this GUI is a maniac, dude…it’s like someone crash landed event horizon into the large hadron collider and brought it to a rave. That’s some next level interfacing lol. I can see why it pissed certain engineers off. We’re corny people at the end of the day. Sounds great though 🤷‍♂️

Me here looking at the same reference monitor that I have, with a great music producer!

great tool great song,but i cant find the band anywhere,anyone?

sounds like if radiohead and muse had a baby

People hate on this plugin because it Isent clears what it’s doing. Yes it sounds good, but at a high professional level you want to know everything youre doing, especially when you want to make tweaks. An no professional likes “thickness” or “air” call it what it is. Is it a 60 boost? A 5k boost? I’m not hating on this but it’s clear this is for beginners. If you’re a pro an use this it’s fine, cuz you’re ears are probably trained good enough that you know what it’s doing for just a little bit of tweaks. But all these ppl in here complaining they don’t understand why this is not used in high end production shows the education. If you wanna learn, you should learn these tricks the real way so you have full control. But hey, this is just another producer comment that’s had to much coffee 🤷🏼‍♀️

people this tools are meant to make you work faster by getting your tracks on the ball park asap...they are not meant to be one knob ...go to mastering now. Same way a lot of people use Rvox to get a vocal track a little bit better is the same way another person would use any signature series plugin to make a piano sound better quickly. You still have to do some work on it. They are just tools.

love the plugin, please redo the gui, it's terrible

This is in the actual revolution of producing/engineering as more and more musicians are taking charge of the engineering aspect even if they don't know how to use processing. Among many new plugins like the signature series (see JJP video presenting his serie of plugins) I am wondering if those plugins will make products all sound alike. Waves is responding to a growing demand from unqualified users to make it easier for them. This is marketing. I guess everybody wants to add "punch", "magic" and "air" to their sound but how will this end up?

or you could eq the hair a bit maybe cut around 3cm. dude. The plugin kicks ass tho i love it!!!!

Andrew wouldn't it be wise to put a K2 plug-in on your sessions this way you'd be able to tell how your levels are to the Listener , by the way , I watch or read about your work and or suggestions everyday, and everyday I learn something new and for that I thank you

Andrew is world class... Watch the video where Fab tries to play his usual smart-ass and get busted. Fab can´t even touch Andrew... Go Scheps!

Hard to use when you're red-green color blind :(

This plugin and the Butch Vigs plugin visually look like they were designed for gamers

Man, practically all of his tracks are in the yellow. I get that with 32 bit this is fine. But it seems to me that this would have a negative effect on the plugins, that are all pretty much designed to operate at lower levels. At least in my experience. And according to the manuals. But hey, rule number one, if it sounds good, it is good.

I bet there is compression in Scheps clicks in his videos.

ya this plugin is good for those artists that like to see lights jingling instead of tuned ears, " ya i like the kick sound with more green light, even if it sound worst.. but looks good...dam "

subtitles in Portuguese , please !!

Wishing the subs had survived the RU-vid codec, not much below 120 is audible.

This plugin is not normal at all. Don't let the 4 knobs fool you. It seriously is a good plugin.

Very Muse like band

this is of not be turning to many knobs is only why you drive and have only treble whilst you have control over kenobi in a level quit but not red label furthermore a hung up on the other! I guess! Don't you think?

People here do not understand that to get the big results, you need the best recording equipment too, and most people do not have this, so plugins are almost the only way to get the big results now.

Don't hate the player hate the game!!

This is a really great Plug, but my CPU hates it!

Whatever next?