Few people are lucky enough to grow up in the music business. Ryan Hewitt had the fortune of being raised in and around recording studios from an early age; the perfect springboard for his career as an in-demand engineer/mixer for bands including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flogging Molly, the Avett Brothers and Chili Pepper [...]
Although anyone else would cite Hewitt's uncanny knack for getting the right sound, a consequence of his childhood immersion in the recording industry (son and heir apparent to the recording industry's legendary Dave Hewitt), and years of study and apprenticeship, the thirty-something engineer humbly shifted at least some of the credit for Float's amazing sonic [...]
Float was produced by the band with Ryan Hewitt, who also engineered the album at Grouse Lodge in County Westmeath, Ireland, and mixed it at The Pass in L.A. We tracked down Hewitt to ask a few questions about the making of Float. READ MORE
In just a few short years and at a relatively young age Ryan Hewitt has become one of L.A.'s first-call engineers in a notoriously competitive and dwindling market. The son of a well-known remote recording engineer, Dave Hewitt, Ryan's made records with The Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Alkaline Trio, Heavens, Blink-182 and Tom Petty. [...]
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 [...]
Setting up a studio in a house was an amazing opportunity to get some really natural sounding drum tracks,” states Ryan Hewitt, Blink’s engineer and one of the hottest new audio wizards on the scene. “We put everything together specifically to work the way we wanted, and wound up having a surprising amount of flexibility [...]
