It’s been four years. A lot can happen in four years. You can graduate from any decent university in four years. You can get ready for the Olympics or run for president. Or you can write an ambitious, new double-CD set called Stadium Arcadium, the first in four years — which is what engineers Ryan Hewitt and Andrew Scheps got the nod to mix when they were called in to cook up the new Rick Rubin-helmed Red Hot Chili Peppers record at his Hollywood Hills mansion. So EQ caught up with Hewitt and Scheps at The Pass studio in Burbank to discuss Anthony Kiedis’ vocal trickery, the saddest note, and their work on Stadium. READ MORE