Another famous mixer that has done numerous jobs for big bands is Andy Sneap. Sneap has received a Swedish Grammy for his work on Opeth's Deliverance album, as well as US Grammy nominations for his work on Killswitch Engage's The End of Heartache, Megadeth's Endgame and Megadeth's Sudden Death. Other bands he's mixed include Arch Enemy, As I Lay Dying, Killswitch Engage, and Trivium.
Andy Sneap got his start by first doing live sound for bands and then wound up working with Colin Richardson. One of the big things i read in an interview with Andy Sneap on maelstrom.nu, is that he believes that even though having all these tool to be able to "cheat" your way around the recording process is nice to have, but at the end of the day if you can't play what you record, then there really isn't any point to recording it. He also talked about using triggers for just the kick drum with samples which was pretty interesting.
Out of all of Sneap's works, i think what he did on Trivium's Ascendancy is the best. It was one of the very first metal CD's i listened to and i remember thinking that the drums sounded amazing and i've never heard anything like it. One of Sneaps more recent projects, Megadeth's Endgame, has similar drum sounds.
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