Warren Huart on What You Need to Successfully Mix with Headphones

Do you mix your tracks with headphones? Does Warren’s expertise influence the way you’ll approach your mixing? Sound off in the comments below, and be sure to swing by Sweetwater for all your studio and recording needs, including headphones, monitors, mixers, and more 👉 sweetwater.sjv.io/Studio-Recording

Thanks ever so much Mitch for having me on! Always amazing talking to you

I work mostly through headphones (in a home studio) and check my mix through speakers periodically. I then check my final mix through Apple Airpods every time because that's how I listen to music these days.

Have to mix in headphones 99% of the time now, because of my home studio, used to own big studios back in the day but now those days are gone, but, mixing in headphones took me some time to get used to, Purchased a pair of Blue cans from sweet water (until they fell apart) now use Beyers and recorded my Pandemic album full orchestral using only those, and now working on everything for publishers in UK and Paris, but, the secret I think is know your gear, know what every type of plugin does, how the compressors work, etc etc, and be willing to be creative not perfect, but again know the science of sound, (Waves NX is good, ) and reference, when I listen back a few years, I cringe at my mixes but now I think im getting happier lol.

Loving this episode. In my little basement studio, I mix on Kali LP 6s, and also a pair of Edirol MA-15D's. For headphones I love my Sennheirser HD 280 Pros. I'm on my second pair. 2 sets of studio monitors and a good set of 'phones. Works for me!

Warren is a huge gift to all of us. Here he is talking about mixing with headphones and also encouraging us to stop trying to be perfect and instead try to be entertaining and human. Love this guy.

Thank you thank you thank you!!! I’ve been trying to tell people that at a certain point some things are just “easy” for you because you’ve put in the time to really know what you’re doing.

I like how passionate Warren is in whatever he's talking about

Excellent interview and perspective on using headphones to mix. Mitch always draws out the best of the folks that he interviews. Warren has a wonderful way about him. So much experience :)

I've had some great headphones, from the 7506 to ATH-M50 to 280. No complaints but when I moved to Slate VSX it really was a game changer to be able to mix in the equivalent of a truly fantastic studio room. (Plus they emulate some great headphones.)

I've been mixing and mastering in headphones for the last 12 years and that too in very low end cans. The results have been initially not that great but now I've found a foothold in that realm with decent mixes and masters.

This was very helpful for me. Thanks.

I fell in love with my DT990 pros, they are super affordable and sound insanely good! I got some Adam TV5s too as monitors to switch too but I would recommend the Beyerdynamic DT990s (open back also changed the game for me)

Yup! FOCAL "Trio 6 Be 8 " are very welcomed in my Home Studio ( for it's size )

Another great interview from Mitch, perfect convo

What Warren says about reverb about 5 and a half minutes in. So true 👍👍👍

Great convo!

I track through Audio Technica m50x's and mix on Audeze mm500's, I use the Canopener 3 plugin for some Crossfeed or use the Crossfeed function on my Chord Mojo 2 DAC. dSoniq Realphones plugin works great as well.

I picked up some Tannoy Gold 7's from Sweetwater and i love them.

Great interview! Very informative! Thank you for this video!