Ryan Hewitt (record producer)

Ryan Hewitt
Birth nameRyan Hewitt
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Websitewww.ryanhewitt.com

Ryan Hewitt is an American music producer, engineer and mixer known for his work with the Lumineers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Avett Brothers, the Chicks, Third Eye Blind, Jamie Cullum, John Frusciante and the Turnpike Troubadours. Hewitt is a Grammy Award winner having received the accolade for mixing and engineering Red Hot Chili Peppers' ninth studio album Stadium Arcadium.[citation needed] The album received seven Grammy nominations and won in the categories of Best Rock Album and Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package. He is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee.[1][2][3]

Education and career

Hewitt grew up working with his father David Hewitt, a recording engineer. He went on to study at Tufts University in Boston, MA where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. After establishing a rapport with Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante, he went on to mix and engineer eight solo albums for Frusciante.[4][5][6]

Hewitt moved from Los Angeles to Nashville in 2015 where he currently resides. Hewitt is based at the House of Blues Studios in Berry Hill, where he mixed the Lumineers' album Cleopatra as well as A Long Way from Your Heart by the Turnpike Troubadors. He is currently represented exclusively by GPS management.[7][8][9]

Selected discography

Artist Year Album Producer Engineer Mixer
Red Hot Chili Peppers 2022 Return of the Dream Canteen checkY checkY
Unlimited Love checkY checkY
Brett Eldredge 2020 Sunday Drive checkY
Molly Tuttle 2019 When You're Ready checkY
American Aquarium 2018 Things Change checkY
Bronze Radio Return Forthcoming Album checkY
Vance Joy "I'm with You" checkY
Turnpike Troubadours 2017 A Long Way from Your Heart checkY checkY checkY
PEACE Kindness is the New Rock and Roll checkY checkY checkY
The Chicks MMXVI in Concert checkY
Christian Lopez Red Arrow checkY checkY
Bat for Lashes 2016 The Bride checkY
Cody Jinks I'm Not the Devil checkY checkY
The Lumineers Cleopatra checkY checkY
Dan Mangan Forthcoming Album checkY checkY
The Railers "11:59 (Central Standard Time)" checkY checkY
Anti-Flag 2015 American Spring checkY
The Avett Brothers Live Volume 4 checkY
The Black Lillies Hard to Please checkY checkY checkY
Third Eye Blind Dopamine checkY
Whitey Morgan 2014 Sonic Ranch checkY checkY checkY
needtobreathe Rivers in the Wasteland checkY
Angus & Julia Stone Angus & Julia Stone checkY checkY
Dan Wilson Love Without Fear checkY
The Avett Brothers 2013 Magpie and the Dandelion checkY checkY
Harry Connick Jr. Every Man Should Know checkY
Matchbox Twenty 2012 North checkY
Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan 2011 One Too Many Mornings checkY checkY
Tom Morello & the Nightwatchman World Wide Rebel Songs checkY
Sum 41 Screaming Bloody Murder checkY
Tom Morello & the Nightwatchman Union Town checkY
Flogging Molly Speed of Darkness checkY checkY checkY
Johnny Cash 2010 American VI: Ain't No Grave checkY
Flogging Molly Live at the Greek Theatre checkY
The Avett Brothers Live Volume 3 checkY
Jamie Cullum 2009 The Pursuit checkY checkY
Brandi Carlile Give Up the Ghost checkY
Red Hot Chili Peppers 2006 Stadium Arcadium checkY checkY

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