Warren Huart: Advice From A Multi-Platinum Producer With 196,000 YouTube Subscribers

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the Six Figure Home Studio Podcast, Episode 28

You're listening to the Six Figure Home Studio Podcast. The number one resource for running a profitable home recording studio.

Chris Graham (0:20)

Welcome to the 6 Figure Home Studio Podcast. My name is Chris Graham, and today we have an awesome interview with Mr. Warren Huart.

Warren is an impressive dude for many reasons. One, he's got a great British accent. Two, he is an extremely successful producer, audio mix engineer. He's worked on a ton of records that you've heard on the radio. I guarantee it.

The other thing that sets Warren apart is not only is he super successful out in the real world, but he also is a YouTube superstar as far as audio engineers go. He's got 196,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel, Produce Like a Pro.

He's been on just about everybody's show because he's an interesting dude. So stay tuned. Check out the Knowledge Bombs he's going to drop on us. And by and large, Warren had a huge part in the birth of this podcast originally. Back in the summer, Brian and I got to hang out with him at Summer NAMM, and we had a conversation with him and a bunch of other guys over at Lyd Shaw's place talking about what it means and what it takes to do audio for a living. And that conversation was so fun. It was a big reason that I said yes to co-hosting this podcast.

So stay tuned for today's interview with Warren Huart.

Brian Hood (1:35)

Warren, thank you so much for coming on the 6 Figure Hum Studio podcast today. I know our listeners are going to get a lot out of this because you have a very wide breadth of knowledge between a long career of both producing and then also a long career of teaching people how to produce.

Warren Huart (1:48)

But I'm only 22

Brian Hood (1:49)

Only 22 You've been doing this for 20 years. You've been doing this since you're two years old.

Since you've done this for such a long time, I'd love to kind of start out. What you consider was a big pivotal point early in your career that led to your, what I would consider your success in producing.

Warren Huart (2:04)

For me, the moment when I first heard Amazing Rock and Roll is the reason why I do music.

I was eight years old and my dad, for Christmas, bought me A Night at the Opera by Queen. My dad is a huge, sorry, was a huge classical and jazz buff.

All we heard in the house was classical music. So for him to buy me this rock album, I was eight. And I put on the headphones and I listened to it. I listened to Side One for a couple of weeks, turned it over, listened to Side Two. I was obsessed. And all I can remember is that exhilaration, that feeling, all my hairs. And in fact, remembering it now, you're on Skype, you can see it. All my hairs will stand on end.

There's two answers to the question. So the first answer to the question, and the reason why I like telling this story is because I hope that it can help people get back to this moment.

Because I do music, because every time I work with a new artist or an established artist or whatever the heck it is, I want to reproduce that feeling. I want to make music. I want to find something in it that gives me shivers. And every single day of my life, that's what I'm trying to do. I'm chasing, and I always say I'm a musical junkie. I really am a musical junkie. And that's my high, my high. I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs. I drink too much coffee, but my biggest vice is just that feeling, that immense feeling of like passion and hair standing on the back of my head. So even though that's not the technical answer to your question, I still think it's a big part of why I do this. So that is the biggest thing for me. The next thing I think, probably on an American stage, it was probably working with The Fray, because I got a lot of credits before The Fray, produced a lot of bands, I engineered, mixed a lot of independent albums. A little bit, The Thrills, I did the second Thrills album, Let's Bottle Bohemia, with Dave Sardi. I did the second Hot Hot Heat record. I had done some stuff with Wolfmother before they got signed. I did all these different things that were higher profile. I had maybe mixed a track or two that you had heard. But the thing about The Fray was, for me, what made it such a big deal is I was there on the get-go.