Top 10 Things To Do Every Mix - Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro 

Hi Friend, I love being able to give you as much information as I can! As a working Producer, Engineer, Songwriter and Mixer I feel it is my duty to share with you what I do each and every day! Giving back is so important to me! Please download the cheat sheet bit.ly/2FtzVSP and let me know what you do on every mix!

To do: watch this everyday.

You are the Elvis of Mixing and Producing. Thank you mister.

I have now started taking notes. Because quite frankly I would be a fool not to take full advantage of this excellent education. Warren, I can't thank you enough.

I'm from Brazil and when I passed to understand English, followed your channel and other ones, I really growing my abilities! Thank you very much!

I have watched may videos on you tube and I must say I really like the way you come across and give a no nonsense approach.

This video helps so much, just because every song or audio edit feels like a different puzzle but knowing these aspects to watch out and do every time I mix really helps as a 1, 2, 3 instead of wondering where to get started!

Thank you!!! I’m a long time drummer, but recently got into DAW remixing some of our practice recordings. This short tutorial taught me more in a few minutes than I picked up in the last year!

Thank you Warren! A "Produce Like a Pro" video is like a classic movie, it's never outdated! Loving this one in January 2022.

Your videos really stand out as quality. Genuine, helpful, quality advice and learning opportunities. You can tell if a tutorial video is gonna be shite if it starts with the words: 'What is up guys its your boy...'

Unbelievably helpful ... I've been mixing stuff in my home setup for to many years to say, and looked at a myriad of YT stuff, but the way you describe prob's and solves is like a fresh breeze on a clammy day, ish. Many thanks for your help, priceless! ... (also taken on board Mr McKenzie's idea of starting with a sandwich ! ..so all good)

I love your communication style-totally works for me! This video in particular was one I needed for the mix I’m working on today! Wow what a difference (especially controlling the low end tips). Thank you!

Warren, I've been watching your videos for a long time, now. I love, how easy you make the diffcult stuff. Thank you for this! Ride on.

I've only just seen this, and tho I was aware of most of the topics, I found it helpful, and reassuring. I was a little surprised that two things weren't mentioned, that I believe most folks do, especially when receiving tracks not optimally recorded: pocketing, and vocal tuning. Sometimes a lot of time is spent on those two things. Thanks for your fab channel!

Been recording since 4 track in 1977, your video is full of great solid advice ! I learned all these things the hard way over time (pre internet ) The compression advice is the real gift .

An incredible generosity. Unbelievable amount of important information. You made me listen to what I love all my life in totally different perspective. Thank you for your talent, knowledge and experience! ... and the delivery is full of excitement and energy that comes from your heart. It's a pleasure to know, listen and watch you! Thank you!

Man. I've relied heavily on your production advice over the last year. You're a wealth of knowledge and you deliver it in such a clear upbeat manner. My mixes are getting better and better thanks to your help. Thanks so much!

Just wanted to take a moment out of my day to let you know that I appreciate your knowledge and your willingness to share it with us all. Thank you for making these invaluable videos, Warren! I have learned more from you than I would have at a school for mixing in my area..

This is a marvelous video Warren! I would direct anyone who is just getting started in the world of mixing to watch this video before any other, and to re-watch it frequently. As always, nice work.

Warren.....i love you. Always have the best insider experienced tips. Things that would take me a very long to figure out on my own through trial and error

Thank you for your insights. I’ve been dabbling with mixing / production for a little bit but I’m in much need of information like this. You present it well: clearly and interestingly. Thank you again!

Very helpful, not because it’s earlth shattering new info, but because it refocused me to the essentials. I may rewatch this before every mixing session. Thx👍

Warren, thanks so much!! You can certainly add "educator" to your long list of job titles! God bless you sir, for sharing your knowledge so generously and articulately.

Everyone says boost the kick at 100 Hz, but as I found out early on, do the opposite of what you hear. Some things you hear lead to the result, but others lead to the opposite. It's all extremely genre and era dependent. Compare and learn, compare and learn. Mixing is like treasure digging. Some things nobody talks about. You discover it by listening closely and analyzing the recordings. These mixing and mastering engineers are refined people, real geniuses, inventing their own plug-ins to achieve a certain effect, spending on hardware like on a house. Those who say mixing is not art, they don't know what art is. There are good mixes and breathtaking mixes, they differ maybe only 2%, but what happens in the 2% is real magic, experience and thinking outside the box. Thank you Warren, it feels good that you are there!

Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and these tips for the community Warren, all 10 of these are so foundational and you really explain them so clearly to make them easy to digest and understand. Much respect and gratitude!

Brilliant lesson. Thank you! When you mentioned about reverbs and delays that maybe you don’t realize them until they are turned off...It reminded me of Pink Floyd’s MONEY after the Guitar Solo. Brilliant.

Great video. I’m an architect who plays in a band with friends as a hobby an got into recording and mixing during the pandemic lockdowns. I really enjoy watching your videos and I always learn a lot. Thank you!!!

I've been coming across your videos for a while now, but this one drove me to subscribe! Best top 10 mixing. Applicable to all genres.

Hey Warren, bro you are the most generous person I know, giving away these immense pearls of knowledge. Just a suggestion though when you're done teaching, could you please play back the song or even part of it, so we gain a good understanding of what has really happened there. Just a suggestion, it would give us a before and after and a strong perspective. Thanks so much for all the wisdom bro. Muchos love and respect

Dude this has helped me a lot. Some things, like chaining multiple compressors in series, I would never think of coming from Live mixing and this has given me some new insights!

I’m a drum and bass producer and this was still very helpful for me. I think the process and workflow is so important, thank you for the vid.

This channel has changed my music for the better. I'm so glad I found it.

Once again, outta the ball park. Thank you for the reminder. I only have ProTools 8 but I'm dying to go back to my DAW and set up a template (Mainly for adding the trim plug-in). Thanks man, really appreciate the shared knowledge.

How is there anyone who thumbs down this information... thanks so much for this and educational thought process of mixing. Helps out a lot.

Hi Warren, so glad I revisited this video session, there is some truly fantastic fundamental info imparted, which when applied judiciously, creates a far superior listening experience for all concerned. I have this in a folder so it can be re-visited as and when required.

The amazing thing about all this is despite all the plug-ins available to us today, all the mad sounds we can create with software, a mix is fundamentally 'good' when three things are taken care of properly: EQ, volume and pan. Everything else is icing on the cake.

I did my education as an audio engineer 12 years ago and never checked many video tutorials, just tried a lot of things over time. This video is gold. I agree with everything he says, you really don't need more to get started and make your mixes sound professional if you never learned it. I wish I've had a video like this during my education. Keep up the great work.

A great tutorial covering a wide range of mixing stages which are key fundamentals to achieving a great sounding mix, thanks ever so much Warren for sharing your knowledge with us to encourage, support and help improve our knowledge.

I bookmarked this and am going to be coming back to it every time I produce. My goal is just to make decent sounding demos at home, but I still have so much to learn.

All my life of recording on and off since the early 80s. Bass has always been the biggest problem. I have just started going down the list of your advise videos and I think you have some more centered around bass/kick etc. Love what you do man, you seem like a totally good dude as well. Thanks for what you do.

Hi Warren. I hope YOU'RE doing marvelously well. I came to the tip of using multiple compressors on vocals. I immediately had questions pop in my mind... which you proceeded to answer! Yes, the attack and decay times differ between compressors. Now I can press play and watch the rest of this video. Then I will hunt down if you already have a video devoted to how to set vocal compressors. Cheers!

Over the last few weeks, you've become my favorite "go-to" music producer for these valuable tips on mixing/engineering. Excellent video !

I used your bass trick of splitting highs and lows. Changed my bass control immensely. Many thanks for all the knowledge.

Just found this channel, and I love it!! Great job!! Thank you!

Thanks for this Warren. Your video answered my questions in mind. I love the way you teach. I'm so lucky that I got already my lifetime membership in the Academy. You're the best! You rock

Nice to know I been doing all ten for a couple of decades. Automation is in fact the biggest fun part and makes the kids with their ear buds pay attention. Thanks and well done!!!

This is one of THE best videos on youtube, ever. Thank you, Warren!

Youre the father I always needed.

This is pure liquid gold. I feel like I should be paying for this. Top class teacher right here

Love it! Your philosophy of mixing is so aligned with my way of thinking it's scary! Gotta add a couple of things to this great list. Since I graduated from being a ProFools user to be a REAPER, I parallel effect almost everything. REAPER adds a wet/dry knob on every plugin, so it's just a matter of adjusting a knob instead of having to create a buss for every parallel effect. One of the only times I use a separate buss for that is with vocals because I'll use Airwindows' DeEss (by far the best De-esser ever) and completely get rid of all the sibilance so it sounds like a lisp. I'll run this through all the other FX that create sibilance where there is none (almost everything we do to vocals), then mix just enough of the dry signal in to get the natural sibilance back. This produces amazing results! And, I'd like to add to your width and interest methods. FabFilter Pro-MB's free floating side chain trigger makes it so easy to do things like have the area of the spectrum that the snare dominates trigger upward expansion and increased width with it's mid/side feature on a keyboard or guitar part so that every time the snare pops, there's a subtle shift that catches the ear. This can be dramatic with something like a pad, or subtle, but it's powerful. Oh! And I don't understand why people do things like EQ the kick to make room for the bass with a static EQ. This makes no sense to me. Unless I want to alter the sound of something, I only want the unmasking EQ bands to be dynamic and triggered by the thing that they are masking. I only want that part of the kick to duck when the bass is playing, for example. I guess if you're using just channel strips and Waves plugins, there aren't tools like Pro-MB and Pro-Q3 that make it so easy to do really creative things that tickle the ear. I so love the way you use layers and multiple types of plugins to achieve your goals. This is the approach that I love. People will laugh at how I like to do that, but I find it makes that subtle difference that people can't quite finger, but they love it. I've had NDA jobs where the whole rest of the project ended up with me to sweeten with that kind of secret sauce because my client's client had a strong preference for the stuff I did the way you're describing. I'm really excited that I'll have a break from those projects and can do some work on things I can actually share. NDA jobs are cool, but the downside is you can't use them to demo your ideas because they are officially and legally someone else's work.

Just found out this channel. I Love every minute and learn every second. Thank you so much

Fantastic. Thank you so much for this. Possibly - no, definitely - most important mixing video I've watched.

Another great video with lots of pointers..As a newbie in the industrie all these tips really help a lot

Learning to focus the low end was easily the biggest leap forward in my mixes. It's amazing how much more "credible" your mixes sound when the kick and the bass aren't churning around in a pool of muck. A tight kick and punchy bass really grab the subconscious and keep attention.

Clear, concise, constructive comments...all delivered with such a positive and gracious style. Warren, you’re a pro and a gentleman. How refreshing. I subscribed.

I've been mixing all morning, saw your vid pop up, and took a break to watch. I feel like a good pupil, I've been watching your videos for long enough that I saw this like a pop quiz checklist, and I passed. You're awesome Warren, as always, I am having a marvelous day.

Warren, again as always, an absolute pleasure and feverishly inspiring experience watching your video. Thank you!

I really cant thank you enough, you are doing such a great job, and sharing the best tips and tools in the best way. I feel blessed, everytime you have a new video out. I'm learning so much. Thank you so much sir.

"Create interest", the most important advice I could ever get, thanks Warren 👍

One of your best videos yet Warren! Aha moment for me on low end management. I've been trying to notch out specific frequencies for kick and snare but continue to struggle giving them good isolation. I noticed in this video you didn't notch out the bass, instead you high passed the bass around 60 hz to make a cross-over where the bass would start to become audible past the fundamental of the kick. It that how you typically do it?

Thank you Warren. A good recap with nuggets of new information. I'm a fan of the panning to create space. Just wanted to share another tip I use for a chorus. Increasing the BPM slightly in the chorus can give a sense of movement without the listener noticing, but will feel it. For example 120bpm try recording your chorus at 122/123bpm. Simple but effective.

The compression tip is really helpful. Thank you!

You are the University Of Miami Recording Engineering Program i was never able to attend. I have learned so much from you Warren. Your funny, smart and get to the point. And you share. Im just a crotchety old keyboardist now with a home studio, but when your playing on my giant monitor I feel like a kid in a classroom again. Seriously man, thanks for taking the time, and all of the effort and knowledge. Your a gentleman and a scholar, and I'm not using those terms in jest. Thanks mate.

Thank you so much for the well thought out and helpful video. You've given me hours and hours of things to work on and think about.

He he, back again, but this time downloading the cheat sheet. Hardly surprising you've just reached 300k subscribers, such a fantastic resource. It should reflect on your live mixing streams, too - you've got your work cut out trying to maintain the volume of interactivity in those, but I like just watching your mixing skills in progress and hearing the results, more than the chat. Fabulous content, though even for non-academy members like me

This is such good and greatly needed advice! Thank you so much for sharing all of this, Warren!

Hi Warren, aside from the undeniable mixing wisdom you constantly gift to us, I'm also amazed by this: I'm Italian, and English is my second language, yet I understand every single word you say! Where are you from? Where do people speak such a fine and clear English? Thanks again.

Only just discovered your channel and loving all the info you're dishing out. Thanks!

Thank You so much for your lot of helpful Tipps ! Many greetings from Germany

Warren, I can't tell you how much I appreciate your training. You talked about some things that I would have never considered. What you recommend makes complete sense according to physics (Low frequency overtones, noise cancellation ect..) Your practical recommendations have opened a whole new world for me. Thank you for openly sharing the things you have learned while mastering your art.

No, thank you! I feel like we're friends because I've been spending so much time with your videos. Thanks for the great lessons friend!!

Great tips and love the mixtape in the background!

VERY PROFESSIONAL,FANTASTIC EXPLANATION !!! THANK YOU!

Thanks for the reminders and new insights!

First time ever watching a Produce like a pro video and thinking "Hey,, I do all these things" Learned a ton from you over the years Warren thanks so much. Your 8 Track full pan pitch shifted vocal thickening trick is my favorite btw. Amazing what it does for harmonics and depth. Cheers and keep it up!!

Thank you Warren, this is so helpful and clear. I’ve been producing for 20 years but only recently started learning how to mix.

You're a gifted instructor Sir. Thank you.

Great info relayed in this. I’m a happy subscriber! Look forward to more vids!

excellent tutorial that makes sense and is presented clearly - great for beginners and experienced home studio people.

Warren your tutorials have turned me into a turff producer..especially vocal mixing n mastering..thanks much..a can't afford even to pay you but may God bless u abundantly.much love from Kenya nairobi

Hey Warren I love your videos they've been and still are a huge help in my development in music production. As someone who doesn't have a lot of spare time, and as someone who has a short attention span, these top ten and top five videos are awesome as they provide lots of great tips in a short concise video! Would be great if you put the top 10 and 5 videos in a playlist so I can send to peers looking for good videos on music production. Thank you so much for sharing the knowledge!

This is great info for us home recording musicians, thanks.

Warren!! You really pulled all the stops on this episode. This was a full on professional mix class! I always learn something or reminded by your lessons. I'm almost speechless. Almost, lol. Thank you very much!

Bless you Warren! Thank you so much!

Thank you ever so much for this marvellous video, Mr. Huart! I agree with virtually everything you said, although it seems numbers five and seven belong together.

Sir, this is gold. Thank you so much for this great breakdown and explanation. I wish you all the best!

Hey Warren, great stuff and thank you very much for sharing! Just wanted to mention something about the buses/groups that would be good for everybody to consider. I don't know if in PT it happens (normally and theoritically it should), but in cubase I am using, groups and buses need extra care because if you change the overall level of multiple instruments through the group/bus fader you actually change the relation between the instruments themselves with their own send effects like reverb and delay as well! This is because send effects go to their buses without passing through the group/bus channel. Therefore lowering the overall level of the group by let's say 6 db using the group fader will not decrease the send effects accordingly resulting in a difference in the levels of the effects and the dry instruments themselves! Even if you mute the bus/group channel you will still hear the return output of any send effects! Furthermore, any processing on the bus/group (compression EQ etc.) will not pass on the effects! A good solution for this one is to create a DCA (or VCA if you're analog) fader to control all the individual channel's volume instead of using the group bus fader :)

Warren! I’m gonna meet you one day on one of my future travels! Thanks so much for all the knowledge you share! Means a lot!

Hi Warren - Hope you're doing marvellously well. I really enjoy your videos and teaching style. Could you do a 'mixing through the centuries' series where you show how to emulate the sound of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s in your DAW and talk a bit about the gear used during each era?

Been usig this tips like crazy. Amazing results. Fantastic starting point and reference. Thank you Warren

Favourite video on this topic! Thank you.

Fantastic - gonna print this cheat sheet out too. I need to work on 5 and 6 mostly. The others I already knew or you've covered recently. Thanks again.

Warren, I’ve only been recording since June and ever since I discovered your videos at the beginning of October; my songs have grown and improved for the better because of your words of wisdom. I can’t thank you enough and hope one day you can hear something I’ve created and mixed. Happy New Year!!

Most of these techniques I had to find through trial and error or complete guesses, thank you for sharing this information in a way I could never have to anyone. Best audio engineering videos on RU-vid, and Hell I don't even hate the music that's being mixed. (I'm looking at you Pensado)

Amazing and great tips Warren- especially 're automation & muting 'unwanted' tracks!!!

hey man these were some really great ideas. i have one small bonus to add with series compressors: make sure they are different in their timing settings. if you put two identical-speed (attack/release) compressors in series, they inter-modulate.

So helpful. The best mixing channel hands down.

Thank you so much Warren. Your wisdom is greatly appreciated. Very thankful for your channel 🤛

Speaking of Reverb / delay / echo, I was reminded of the old CB radio. Going for long distance copies (CQ DX anyone LoL), a "Little" Echo / reverb went a very long way towards your voice being received clearly (radio5, tone 5) when received signal strength was very low or even not registering on the receivers needle. It seemed to wrap your voice in a protective bubble, which helped it "cut through" any interference. Too much reverb, and your voice would be garbled mush, no reverb at all, and your voice was inaudible. But a subtle amount worked wonders. Also learned to speak across the mic, not directly into it, gave a far more even signal, and lowered any distortion. I guess I learned quite a few things from that hobby, even started a hobbyist liking for electronics, repairing my own mics, and CB radios (not always successfully ), in a "bodge it and scarper" or "more luck than judgement" kind of way. ;0)

I know and practice all this stuff and I agree that automation is very important and very overlooked. It gives life to a track.