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KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
From Cassette Decks to Platinum Discs
Join multi-platinum producer, mixer, and educator Warren Huart for his AES 2025 keynote, From Cassette Decks to Platinum Discs. In this deeply personal and inspiring talk, Warren shares his journey from a pink-walled bedroom in rural Hampshire to working with legendary artists like Aerosmith, James Blunt, The Fray, and Ace Frehley. With warmth, humour, and hard-earned wisdom, he reflects on the lessons that shaped his path, from DIY overdubs on battered cassette decks to founding the global educational platform Produce Like A Pro. This is a story of perseverance, creativity, and what it really takes to make a life in music.
About Warren Huart
Warren Huart is a Los Angeles-based British music producer, Grammy-nominated mixer, and TEC Award-winning educator who has played a fundamental role in the creation of platinum-selling and Billboard-topping albums. He is the founder of Produce Like A Pro, and through his educational platforms—including Pro Mix Academy, Lancaster Audio, and Rate My Mix—he empowers musicians, producers, and audio professionals to build lasting careers in music.
Warren’s credits span hundreds of albums with artists who’ve gone on to sell millions and earn billions of streams. He has worked professionally in the music industry since the age of 16, toured internationally, played major festivals like Reading and River Rave, and produced music for everyone from emerging talent to chart-topping acts. After relocating to Los Angeles, he became a staff producer on The X Factor USA, crafting weekly performances for national television and helping develop artists from the ground up.
With over 20 years of experience in record production, engineering, mixing, and songwriting, Warren is known for his strong work ethic, positive attitude, and deep respect for the artist’s vision. He has co-owned one of Hollywood’s first multi-purpose rehearsal and recording studios, consulted for leading audio brands, and built custom studio spaces from scratch. Many of his long-term collaborators have become close friends, and his work continues to shape how artists and engineers collaborate and thrive in the studio today.
Across YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, and Threads, Warren now reaches an audience of over 1.2 million creators, helping them turn passion into visibility and skill into success. Whether working with major labels or mentoring the next generation of producers, his mission remains the same: to make music that matters and to support those who create it.
HEYSER LECTURE
Make Audio Great Always: Using Science for Consistent Quality
Our scientific knowledge of what makes loudspeakers, headphones and small listening rooms sound great comes from well-controlled double-blind listening tests. Science has identified which products listeners prefer and the objective measurements that best predict their sound quality. This knowledge has led to improvements in the quality and consistency of audio products delivering enhanced listening experiences at lower prices.
However, much of the audio industry and related standards organizations ignore what the science has taught us and remain caught in audio’s “circle of confusion”. This talk will discuss the current best practices in subjective and objective measurements, where they fall short, and give examples of where they could be better applied to improve the quality and consistency of recorded and reproduced sound and make audio great always.
About Sean Olive
Sean Olive was born in Brockville, Ontario and received a music degree (University of Toronto) and master’s and Ph.D. degrees (McGill University) in sound recording. From 1985 to 1993 he was a research scientist in psychoacoustics at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada, working with Floyd Toole on research in the perception and measurement of microphones, loudspeakers and their interaction with room acoustics.
Sean joined Harman International in 1993 where he continued his sound quality research in loudspeakers, headphones, automotive audio and room acoustics reaching Harman’s highest technical level of Senior Fellow. Since May 2025, he has been an independent audio consultant. Sean is a Fellow and past President of the AES and has published over 55 research papers. He is a co-author in Floyd Toole’s 4th Edition of “Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers, Rooms and Headphones” to be released by Focal Press in November 2025.