How to make money in music (and get paid!) | FAQ Friday - Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro

➡️➡️We cover the following questions during this episode of FAQ Friday!

• How do you go about figuring out splits for publishing and do you usually pay the musician whatever the going rate is per song, pay to play? (0:49)
• Aside from experience, what’s can I do to develop a better producers ear? Currently, I often don’t hear the subtle differences some producers rave about. (4:44)
• If you’re a producer on an album, how do you set up the production to make sure everything is recorded, mixed and mastered and also released on time? (8:16)
• If you have two Mics on a guitar amp, is it preferable to blend those onto one track or should I pan them one mic left and the other right? (11:34)
• What are some of the reasons a producer might use one musician to record a reference track just to have another come in and record the exact parts over again, leaving the reference artist with no album credits? (13:04)
• How do you go with recording drums and bass together? (15:04)

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[Producelikeapro]

Have a question for next week’s FAQ Friday? Leave it below and I’ll include the best ones!

[gregkocis]

To anyone scrolling through these comments today, have a wonderful day & remember you are beautiful & worth it😊. Thanks for the great videos!

[devinunderwood]

Welcome back Warren. Get some rest...we need our live mixing sessions back ;p

[patrickcarroll]

I’m constantly captivated by your knowledge, Warren. Please continue to inspire. Thanks.

[TheSmokedKarma]

Welcome back Warren, have a great weekend, another great FAQ Friday.

[peterbrandt]

When I was in a band and two of us wrote everything, we simply agreed on a fifty-fifty share. Sometimes he wrote something on his own, sometimes I did. But we treated every song as if we had written them together. It worked great and we didn't have a single fight or argue.

[joeyshoelace]

Hey Warren, Love what you do!

How do you balance time working with current projects and trying to get the next gig without it effecting your current session?

[MarcBecker_Music]

Great FAQ Friday. Thank you, Warren. Will you demo your new traveler guitar you talked about in one of the TGU 360 live stream in one of your videos?

[johnnysparks]

As Always... it was Fun Warren... Thanks for inviting me... Great show Bra... and right off the top of yo Head..
That kinda says it all right...
peace out Bra.

[lunoustudios]

On the topic of the producers ear, check out Theta Music Trainer. It's a subscription ear training service with 50 ear training games. It's the first one like it I've found that has games like Warren mentioned; amplitude, effects, EQ, instrumentation etc rather than just those standard relative pitch/melodic dictation stuff.

[davidevans]

The main thing I have found about publishing, studio musicians improvising, co-writing, etc, is to know in advance what you're doing and make it known in advance to all concerned. Don't "worry about it later" because it can get very messy very fast particularly if that "later" involves success and money. If another can't agree with your rules in advance, get someone else. Most people do not realize how important this is until its too late.

[jurgenschuler]

These were very interesting questions and brilliant answers. Thanks!

[MartinLuxen]

Thank you Warren. Have a great team!
I've done double micing on a guitar cab, but if I want stereo, I just double, or use delay/reverb etc... whatever I want to achieve :).

[gavinjackguitar]

QUESTION! I have written many songs and have some good recordings of them. How do I go about selling these songs for other artists to perform and perhaps use them on their albums?

[kennykong]

Hey Warren, thank you for another awesome and informative video. Hope you get some rest. Got a question for you, I see that you always have multiple sets of monitors, what do you use to select them? I have been looking for a monitors switch but they are all so expensive. Do you have a recommendation for around $300-$600 range? I have two sets and most likely expend to 3 in the future. Thank you!

[apenasmarcosfelipe]

a lot of gold, as usual. Thank you so much!!!

[Music-vcmq]

Thank you very much Warren for dis great information...
THX A LOT LRN A LOT...

I always njoy and learn from your videos...
KIP IT UP...

[WutipongWongsakuldej]

Regarding the reference track question .... I know someone here that's a songwriter and do some 'guide vocal'. I don't know if there's such a thing in the US or anywhere else or not. Basically what she did is to sing the lead vocal track, which will be later replaced by the vocal track made with the artist. This is not necessary the song she wrote. The guide vocal track is to provide some guideline to the artist that will be recorded later.

The reason the guide vocal is used here is, the artist time can be expensive. If you've got these artist to do their own stuffs from the beginning, like figuring out how the melody goes or how to phrase and stuffs, you'd ended up spending too much on the artist and might not even get a decent vocal track on time.

Guide vocal is not necessary inferior to the artist's final vocal track. In fact, these vocalists are really talented. One problem we have in this area is artists need to look good in order to sustain popularity, so vocalists without looks may not be able to pay for their living if they only goes for their own works.

The guide vocalist I know also do chorus, which many artist here could not do that. So it's like hiring her for both guide vocal and chorus. She still ended up getting some credit as a chorus vocalist. She do some voice coaching for these artists as well.

[MrAndycarney]

Question for Warren when mixing: send instrument groups to a buss or to a VCA channel? What are the benefits / disadvantages of either?

[ianhodgson]

Hey Warren, another great informative FAQ Friday. I have a question. When mixing a track recently I had two lead instruments and tried panning them each just slightly opposite off center to bring them out, but evenly. I'm not sure it was a great success. Do you have any tips for bringing two instruments out when they are playing identical parts?