Stuart Stuart

Stuart Stuart is a Brisbane-based record producer, songwriter, mixer and mastering engineer. His recording studio is Analog Heart Records, and based in Brisbane, Australia.

He produced, mixed and mastered the debut album for Sheppard, including the global hit, "Geronimo". The band single Geronimo was a number 1 single in Australia, and a top ten hit in 16 countries. The single has been certified 6 times platinum (420,000 sales) in Australia and platinum (one million sales) in the US. Stuart also produced the Sheppard EP (2013), which has been certified as double platinum, and contains the hit "Let Me Down Easy". Sheppard have now sold more than 4 million singles and albums worldwide. The band has signed deals with Michael Chugg, Scooter Braun, Kobalt Music Group, Universal Music Group, Decca Records and the Mushroom Group.

Stuart's work also helped The Veronicas secure a multimillion-dollar deal with Warner US. He has credits on the second Veronicas album "Hook Me Up", and has worked with the twins on subsequent songs for soundtracks.

In 2007, Stuart worked with Brisbane band Small Mercies. Stuart co-wrote their ARIA-nominated single "Innocent" (which was featured in the TV show, Prison Break), and follow up single, "Sorry", and helped the band secure a record deal with Sony Music. Stuart has multiple writing credits on the Small Mercies album, Beautiful Hum.

As a songwriter and producer, Stuart has credits with artists as diverse as Dean Lewis, Brendan Maclean, Honlly Isaac (PNG), Fatman Scoop (US), Tkay Maidza, Joel Adams (singer), Massad (NZ), Luke Million, Marvin Priest, Tyrone Noonan (formerly of George (band)), Thom Crawford (Thundamentals), Sinead Burgess, The Counterfeit Umbrellas and Repeat Offender. Stuart produced the Jody Direen album, "Shake Up", which won the Tui Award for Best Country Album at the 2017 New Zealand Music Awards.

Music recorded at Analog Heart has been featured in shows such as The Voice, The Block (Australian TV series), Gossip Girl, Packed to the Rafters, Bondi Rescue, NCIS, Rock of Ages, The Giver, My Kitchen Rules, 800 Words, Married to Rock, a Subway ad campaign, a Tourism NZ ad campaign, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Offspring, Bad Girls Club, Teen Mom, Extreme Clutter and American Pickers.

Stuart was nominated for ARIA producer of the year in 2014. Sheppard were also nominated for 6 ARIA Awards at the 2014 ARIA Awards, including album of the year. The band won best group in the same year.

Stuart is active as an audio engineering educator, and has given lectures at Queensland University of Technology, School of Audio Engineering and Music Industry College, Brisbane. In 2015, he was a panellist on the "Producer Panel" at the annual BigSound conference. He is accredited as an iTunes mastering engineer, and has been interviewed in Audio Technology Magazine. He has also been featured in a YouTube series featuring pro users of audio software, Cubase.

Stuart is an accomplished guitarist and keyboard player, and plays all instruments on many of the songs he produces.