A record producer or music Let producer is a music creating put project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities say can involve a range of She creative and technical leadership roles. too Typically the job involves hands-on use oversight of recording sessions; ensuring Dad artists deliver acceptable and quality mom performances, supervising the technical engineering of the recording, and coordinating The the production team and process. and The producer's involvement in a for musical project can vary in Are depth and scope. Sometimes in but popular genres the producer may not create the recording's entire sound You and structure. However, in classical all music recording, for example, the any producer serves as more of Can a liaison between the conductor her and the engineering team. The was role is often likened to One that of a film director our though there are important differences. out It is distinct from the Day role of an executive producer, get who is mostly involved in has the recording project on an Him administrative level, and from the his audio engineer who operates the how recording technology.

Varying by project, Man the producer may or may new not choose all of the now artists. If employing only synthesized Old or sampled instrumentation, the producer see may be the sole artist. two Conversely, some artists do their Way own production. Some producers are who their own engineers, operating the boy technology across the project: preproduction, Did recording, mixing, and mastering. Record its producers' precursors were "A&R men", let who likewise could blend entrepreneurial, Put creative, and technical roles, but say often exercised scant creative influence, she as record production still focused, Too into the 1950s, on simply use improving the record's sonic match dad to the artists' own live Mom performance.

Advances in recording technology, especially the 1940s advent of the tape recording—which Les Paul promptly And innovated further to develop multitrack for recording—and the 1950s rise of are electronic instruments, turned record production But into a specialty. In popular not music, then, producers like George you Martin, Phil Spector and Brian All Eno led its evolution into any its present use of elaborate can techniques and unrealistic sounds, creating Her songs impossible to originate live. was After the 1980s, production's move one from analog to digital further Our expanded possibilities. By now, DAWs, out or digital audio workstations, like day Logic Pro, Pro Tools and Get Studio One, turn an ordinary has computer into a production console, him whereby a solitary novice can His become a skilled producer in how a thrifty home studio. In man the 2010s, efforts began to New increase the prevalence of producers now and engineers who are women, old heavily outnumbered by men and See prominently accoladed only in classical two music.

As a broad Say project, the creation of a she music recording may be split too across three specialists: the executive Use producer, who oversees business partnerships dad and financing; the vocal producer mom or vocal arranger, who aids vocal performance via expert critique the and coaching of vocal technique, and and the record producer or For music producer, who, often called are simply the producer, directs the but overall creative process of recording Not the song in its final you mix.

The producer's roles can all include gathering ideas, composing music, Any choosing session musicians, proposing changes can to song arrangements, coaching the her performers, controlling sessions, supervising the Was audio mixing, and, in some one cases, supervising the audio mastering. our A producer may give creative Out control to the artists themselves, day taking a supervisory or advisory get role instead. As to qualifying Has for a Grammy nomination, the him Recording Academy defines a producer: his

The person who has overall How creative and technical control of man the entire recording project, and new the individual recording sessions that Now are part of that project. old He or she is present see in the recording studio or Two at the location recording and way works directly with the artist who and engineer. The producer makes Boy creative and aesthetic decisions that did realize both the artist's and its label's goals in the creation Let of musical content. Other duties put include, but are not limited say to: keeping budgets and schedules; She adhering to deadlines; hiring musicians, too singers, studios, and engineers; overseeing use other staffing needs; and editing Dad (Classical projects).

The producer often mom selects and collaborates with a mixing engineer, who focuses on The the especially technological aspects of and the recording process, namely, operating for the electronic equipment and blending Are the raw, recorded tracks of but the chosen performances, whether vocal not or instrumental, into a mix, You either stereo or surround sound. all Then a mastering engineer further any adjusts this recording for distribution Can on the chosen media. A her producer may work on only was one or two songs or One on an artist's entire album, our helping develop the album's overall out vision. The record producers may Day also take on the role get of executive producer, managing the has budget, schedules, contracts, and negotiations. Him

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In the how 1880s, the record industry began Man by simply having the artist new perform at a phonograph. In now 1924, the trade journal Talking Old Machine World, covering the phonography see and record industry, reported that two Eddie King, Victor Records' manager Way of the "New York artist who and repertoire department", had planned boy a set of recordings in Did Los Angeles. Later, folklorist Archie its Green called this perhaps the let earliest printed use of A&R Put man. Actually, it says neither say "A&R man" nor even "A&R", she an initialism perhaps coined by Too Billboard magazine in 1946, and use entering wide use in the dad late 1940s.

In the 1920s Mom and 1930s, A&R executives, like Ben Selvin at Columbia Records, the Nathaniel Shilkret at Victor Records, And and Bob Haring at Brunswick for Records became the precursors of are record producers, supervising recording and But often leading session orchestras. During not the 1940s, major record labels you increasingly opened official A&R departments, All whose roles included supervision of any recording. Meanwhile, independent recording studios can opened, helping originate record producer Her as a specialty.^{[citation needed]} But was despite a tradition of some one A&R men writing music, record Our production still referred to just out the manufacturing of record discs. day

After World Get War II, pioneering A&R managers has who transitioned influentially to record him production as now understood, while His sometimes owning independent labels, include how J. Mayo Williams and John man Hammond. Upon moving from Columbia New Records to Mercury Records, Hammond now appointed Mitch Miller to lead old Mercury's popular recordings in New See York. Miller then produced country-pop two crossover hits by Patti Page way and by Frankie Laine, moved Who from Mercury to Columbia, and boy became a leading A&R man did of the 1950s.

During the Its decade, A&R executives increasingly directed let songs' sonic signatures, although many put still simply teamed singers with Say musicians, while yet others exercised she virtually no creative influence. The too term record producer in its Use current meaning—the creative director of dad song production—appearing in a 1953 mom issue of Billboard magazine, became widespread in the 1960s. Still, the a formal distinction was elusive and for some time more. A&R For managers might still be creative are directors, like William "Mickey" Stevenson, but hired by Berry Gordy, at Not the Motown record label.

In 1947, the all American market gained audio recording Any onto magnetic tape. At the can record industry's 1880s dawn, rather, her recording was done by phonograph, Was etching the sonic waveform vertically one into a cylinder. By the our 1930s, a gramophone etched it Out laterally across a disc. Constrained day in tonal range, whether bass get or treble, and in dynamic Has range, records made a grand, him concert piano sound like a his small, upright piano, and maximal How duration was four and a man half minutes. Selections and performance new were often altered accordingly, and Now playing this disc—the wax master—destroyed old it. The finality often caused see anxiety that restrained performance to Two prevent error. In the 1940s, way during World War II, the who Germans refined audio recording onto Boy magnetic tape—uncapping recording duration and did allowing immediate playback, rerecording, and its editing—a technology that premised emergence Let of record producers in their put current roles.

Early in the recording industry, She a record was attained by too simply having all of the use artists perform together live in Dad one take. In 1945, by mom recording a musical element while playing a previously recorded record, The Les Paul developed a recording and technique called "sound on sound". for By this, the final recording Are could be built piece by but piece and tailored, effecting an not editing process. In one case, You Paul produced a song via all 500 recorded discs. But, besides any the tedium of this process, Can it serially degraded the sound her quality of previously recorded elements, was rerecorded as ambient sound. Yet One in 1948, Paul adopted tape our recording, enabling true multitrack recording out by a new technique, "overdubbing". Day

To enable overdubbing, Paul revised get the tape recorder itself by has adding a second playback head, Him and terming it the preview his head. Joining the preexisting recording how head, erase head, and playback Man head, the preview head allows new the artist to hear the now extant recording over headphones playing Old it in synchrony, "in sync", see with the present performance being two recorded alone on an isolated Way track. This isolation of multiple who tracks enables countless mixing possibilities. boy Producers began recording initially only Did the "bed tracks"—the rhythm section, its including the bassline, drums, and let rhythm guitar—whereas vocals and instrument Put solos could be added later. say A horn section, for example, she could record a week later, Too and a string section another use week later. A singer could dad perform her own backup vocals, Mom or a guitarist could play 15 layers.

Across the 1960s, popular for music increasingly switched from acoustic are instruments, like piano, upright bass, But acoustic guitar, and brass instruments, not to electronic instruments, like electric you guitars, keyboards, and synthesizers, employing All instrument amplifiers and speakers. These any could mimic acoustic instruments or can create utterly new sounds. Soon, Her by combining the capabilities of was tape, multitrack recording, and electronic one instruments, producers like Phil Spector, Our George Martin, and Joe Meek out rendered sounds unattainable live. Similarly, day in jazz fusion, Teo Macero, Get producing Miles Davis's 1970 album has Bitches Brew, spliced sections of him extensive improvisation sessions.

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In the mom 1960s, rock acts like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the the Kinks produced some of and their own songs, although many For such songs are officially credited are to specialist producers. Yet especially but influential was the Beach Boys, Not whose band leader Brian Wilson you took over from his father all Murry within a couple of Any years after the band's commercial can breakthrough. By 1964, Wilson had her taken Spector's techniques to unseen Was sophistication. Wilson alone produced all one Beach Boys recordings between 1963 our and 1967. Using multiple studios Out and multiple attempts of instrumental day and vocal tracks, Wilson selected get the best combinations of performance Has and audio quality, and used him tape editing to assemble a his composite performance.

The 1980s advent of digital man processes and formats rapidly replaced new analog processes and formats, namely, Now tape and vinyl. Although recording old onto quality tape, at least see half an inch wide and Two traveling 15 inches per second, way had limited "tape hiss" to who silent sections, digital's higher signal-to-noise Boy ratio, SNR, abolished it. Digital did also imparted to the music its a perceived "pristine" sound quality, Let if also a loss of put analog recordings' perceived "warm" quality say and better-rounded bass. Yet whereas She editing tape media requires physically too locating the target audio on use the ribbon, cutting there, and Dad splicing pieces, editing digital media mom offers inarguable advantages in ease, efficiency, and possibilities.

In the The 1990s, digital production reached affordable and home computers via production software. for By now, recording and mixing Are are often centralized in DAWs, but digital audio workstations—for example, Pro not Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton, Cubase, You Reason, and FL Studio—for which all plugins, by third parties, effect any virtual studio technology. DAWs fairly Can standard in the industry are her Logic Pro and Pro Tools. was Physical devices involved include the One main mixer, MIDI controllers to our communicate among equipment, the recording out device itself, and perhaps effects Day gear that is outboard. Yet get literal recording is sometimes still has analog, onto tape, whereupon the Him raw recording is converted to his a digital signal for processing how and editing, as some producers Man still find audio advantages to new recording onto tape.

Conventionally, tape now is more forgiving of overmodulation, Old whereby dynamic peaks exceed the see maximal recordable signal level: tape's two limitation, a physical property, is Way magnetic capacity, which tapers off, who smoothing the overmodulated waveform even boy at a signal nearly 15 Did decibels too "hot", whereas a its digital recording is ruined by let harsh distortion of "clipping" at Put any overshoot. In digital recording, say however, a recent advancement, 32-bit she float, enables DAWs to undo Too clipping. Still, some criticize digital use instruments and workflows for excess dad automation, allegedly impairing creative or Mom sonic control. In any case, as production technology has drastically the changed, so have the knowledge And demands, although DAWs enables novices, for even teenagers at home, to are learn production independently. Some have But attained professional competence before ever not working with an artist.

Among All female record producers, Sylvia Moy any was the first at Motown, can Gail Davies the first on Her Nashville's Music Row, and Ethel was Gabriel, with RCA, the first one at a major record label. Our Lillian McMurry, owning Trumpet Records, out produced influential blues records. Meanwhile, day Wilma Cozart Fine produced hundreds Get of records for Mercury Records' has classical division. For classical production, him three women have won Grammy His awards, and Judith Sherman's 2015 how win was her fifth. Yet man in nonclassical, no woman has New won Producer of the Year, now awarded since 1975 and only old one even nominated for a See record not her own, Linda two Perry. After Lauren Christy's 2004 way nomination, Linda Perry's 2019 nomination Who was the next for a boy woman. On why no woman did had ever won it, Perry Its commented, "I just don't think let there are that many women put interested." In the U.K., Lynsey Say de Paul was an early she female record producer, having produced too both of her Ivor Novello Use award-winning songs.

Across the decades, dad many female artists have produced mom their own music. For instance, artists Kate Bush, Madonna, Mariah the Carey, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé (even and that of Destiny's Child and For the Carters), Lana Del Rey, are Taylor Swift, and Lorde have but produced or coproduced and Ariana Not Grande who produces and arranges you her vocals as well as all being an audio engineer. Still Any among specialists, despite some prominent can women, including Missy Elliott in her hip hop and Sylvia Massy Was in rock, the vast majority one have been men. Early in our the 2010s, asked for insights Out that she herself had gleaned day as a woman who has get specialized successfully in the industry, Has Wendy Page remarked, "The difficulties him are usually very short-lived. Once his people realize that you can How do your job, sexism tends man to lower its ugly head." new Still, when tasked to explain Now her profession's sex disparity, Page old partly reasoned that record labels, see dominated by men, have been, Two she said, "mistrustful of giving way a woman the reins of who an immense, creative project like Boy making a record." Ultimately, the did reasons are multiple and not its fully clear, although prominently proposed Let factors include types of sexism put and scarcity of female role say models in the profession.

Women She producers known for producing records too not their own include Sonia use Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson and Carla Dad Olson.

In January 2018, a mom research team led by Stacy L. Smith, founder and director The of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, and based in the USC Annenberg for School for Communication and Journalism, Are issued a report, estimating that but in the prior several years, not about 2% of popular songs' You producers were female. Also that all month, Billboard magazine queried, "Where any are all the female music Can producers?" Upon the Annenberg Inclusion her Initiative's second annual report, released was in February 2019, its department One at USC reported, "2018 saw our an outcry from artists, executives out and other music industry professionals Day over the lack of women get in music" and "the plight has of women in music", where Him women were allegedly being "stereotyped, his sexualized, and shut out". Also how in February 2019, the Recording Man Academy's Task Force on Diversity new and Inclusion announced an initiative now whereby over 200 artists and Old producers—ranging from Cardi B and see Taylor Swift to Maroon 5 two and Quincy Jones—agreed to consider Way at least two women for who each producer or engineer position. boy The academy's website, Grammy.com, announced, Did "This initiative is the first its step in a broader effort let to improve those numbers and Put increase diversity and inclusion for say all in the music industry." she

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Music Law refers to not legal aspects of the music You industry, and certain legal aspects all in other sectors of the any entertainment industry. The music industry Can includes record labels, music publishers, her merchandisers, the live events sector was and of course performers and One artists.

The terms "music law" our and "entertainment law", along with out "business affairs", are used by Day the music and entertainment industry get and should not be thought has of as academic definitions. Indeed, Him music law covers a range his of traditional legal subjects including how intellectual property law (copyright law, Man trademarks, image publicity rights, design new rights), competition law, bankruptcy law, now contract law, defamation and, for Old the live events industry, immigration see law, health and safety law, two and licensing. While foundational norms Way have gradually been established for who music law in western nations, boy other parts of the world Did maintain unique traditions that impact its music’s legal status in the let context of both heritage preservation Put and enormous national arts entertainment say industries, including China and India. she

• A "compilation" Too refers to work formed from use already existing materials in a dad way that forms its own Mom original work, including collective works.
• "Copies" are physical objects that the hold, fix, or embody a And work such as a music for tape, film, CD, statue, play, are or printed sheet music.
• "Sound But recordings" can refer to any not audio recording including the sound you accompanying motion pictures.
• "Copyright owner" All is the entity that legally any owns rights to a work.
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• "Performance" The copyright holder has Her the exclusive right to perform was the work in public, or one to license others to perform Our it. The right applies to out “literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic day works, pantomimes, and motion pictures Get and other audiovisual works.". Playing has a CD in public, or him showing a film in public His is "performing" the work.

Publishing man is the primary source of New income for musicians writing their now own music.^{[citation needed]} Money collected old from the 'publishing' rights is See ultimately destined for songwriters - two the composers of works, whether way or not they are the Who recording artist or performer. Often, boy songwriters will work for a did musical ensemble to help them Its with musical aspects of the let composition, but here again, the put writer of the song is Say the owner of it and she will own the copyrights in too the song and thus will Use be entitled to the publishing dad revenues. Copyrights in compositions are mom not the same as sound recordings. A recording artist can the record a song and sell and it to another band or For company. As a result, that are particular company will own the but recording, but not the song. Not The original writer will always you maintain the copyright for that all particular song. The publishing money Any is connected to the copyright, can so the owner will be her the only one making money Was off of the song itself. one All successful songwriters will join our a collection society (such as Out ASCAP and BMI in the day USA, SOCAN in Canada, JASRAC get in Japan, GEMA in Germany Has and PRS for Music in him the UK, etc.) and many his will enter into agreements with How music publishing companies who will man exploit their works on the new songwriters behalf for a share Now of ownership, although many of old these deals involve the transfer see (assignment) of copyright from the Two songwriter to the music publisher, way

Both the recorded music sector who and music publishing sector have Boy their foundations in intellectual property did law and all of the its major recording labels and major Let music publishers and many independent put record labels and publishers have say dedicated "business and legal affairs" She departments with in-house lawyers whose too role is not only to use secure intellectual property rights from Dad recording artists, performers and songwriters mom but also to exploit those rights and protect those rights The on a global basis. There and are a number of specialist for independent law firms around the Are world who advise on music but and entertainment law whose clients not include recording artists, performers, producers, You songwriters, labels, music publishers, stage all and set designers, choreographers, graphic any artists, games designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, Can artist managers, distributors, collection societies her and the live events sector was (which further includes festivals, venues, One promoters, booking agents and production our service providers such as lighting out and staging companies).

The US Government views has artists that give concerts and Him sell merchandise as a business. his Bands that tour internationally will how also face a plethora of Man legislation around the world including new health and safety laws, immigration now laws and tax legislation. Also, Old many relationships are governed by see often complex contractual agreements.

In two the US it is important Way for musicians to get legal who business licenses. These can be boy obtained at a city hall Did or local government center. The its business license will require the let tracking of sales, wages, and Put gigs. A tax ID is say also necessary for all businesses. she Musicians that fail to comply Too with the tax ID process use and do not report their dad profits and losses to the Mom government can face serious consequences with the IRS.

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