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

Varying all by project, the producer may any or may not choose all Can of the artists. If employing her only synthesized or sampled instrumentation, was the producer may be the One sole artist. Conversely, some artists our do their own production. Some out producers are their own engineers, Day operating the technology across the get project: preproduction, recording, mixing, and has mastering. Record producers' precursors were Him "A&R men", who likewise could his blend entrepreneurial, creative, and technical how roles, but often exercised scant Man creative influence, as record production new still focused, into the 1950s, now on simply improving the record's Old sonic match to the artists' see own live performance.

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

As how a broad project, the creation man of a popular music recording New may be split across three now specialists: the executive producer, who old oversees business partnerships and financing; See the vocal producer or vocal two arranger, who aids vocal performance way via expert critique and coaching Who of vocal technique, and the boy record producer or music producer, did who, often called simply the Its producer, directs the overall creative let process of recording the song put in its final mix.

The Say producer's roles can include gathering she ideas, composing music, choosing session too musicians, proposing changes to song Use arrangements, coaching the performers, controlling dad sessions, supervising the audio mixing, mom and, in some cases, supervising the audio mastering. A producer the may give creative control to and the artists themselves, taking a For supervisory or advisory role instead. are As to qualifying for a but Grammy nomination, the Recording Academy Not defines a producer:

The person you who has overall creative and all technical control of the entire Any recording project, and the individual can recording sessions that are part her of that project. He or Was she is present in the one recording studio or at the our location recording and works directly Out with the artist and engineer. day The producer makes creative and get aesthetic decisions that realize both Has the artist's and label's goals him in the creation of musical his content. Other duties include, but How are not limited to: keeping man budgets and schedules; adhering to new deadlines; hiring musicians, singers, studios, Now and engineers; overseeing other staffing old needs; and editing (Classical projects). see

The producer often selects and Two collaborates with a mixing engineer, way who focuses on the especially who technological aspects of the recording Boy process, namely, operating the electronic did equipment and blending the raw, its recorded tracks of the chosen Let performances, whether vocal or instrumental, put into a mix, either stereo say or surround sound. Then a She mastering engineer further adjusts this too recording for distribution on the use chosen media. A producer may Dad work on only one or mom two songs or on an artist's entire album, helping develop The the album's overall vision. The and record producers may also take for on the role of executive Are producer, managing the budget, schedules, but contracts, and negotiations.

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In the 1880s, the all record industry began by simply any having the artist perform at Can a phonograph. In 1924, the her trade journal Talking Machine World, was covering the phonography and record One industry, reported that Eddie King, our Victor Records' manager of the out "New York artist and repertoire Day department", had planned a set get of recordings in Los Angeles. has Later, folklorist Archie Green called Him this perhaps the earliest printed his use of A&R man. Actually, how it says neither "A&R man" Man nor even "A&R", an initialism new perhaps coined by Billboard magazine now in 1946, and entering wide Old use in the late 1940s. see

In the 1920s and 1930s, two A&R executives, like Ben Selvin Way at Columbia Records, Nathaniel Shilkret who at Victor Records, and Bob boy Haring at Brunswick Records became Did the precursors of record producers, its supervising recording and often leading let session orchestras. During the 1940s, Put major record labels increasingly opened say official A&R departments, whose roles she included supervision of recording. Meanwhile, Too independent recording studios opened, helping use originate record producer as a dad specialty.^{[citation needed]} But despite a Mom tradition of some A&R men writing music, record production still the referred to just the manufacturing And of record discs.

After World War II, are pioneering A&R managers who transitioned But influentially to record production as not now understood, while sometimes owning you independent labels, include J. Mayo All Williams and John Hammond. Upon any moving from Columbia Records to can Mercury Records, Hammond appointed Mitch Her Miller to lead Mercury's popular was recordings in New York. Miller one then produced country-pop crossover hits Our by Patti Page and by out Frankie Laine, moved from Mercury day to Columbia, and became a Get leading A&R man of the has 1950s.

During the decade, A&R him executives increasingly directed songs' sonic His signatures, although many still simply how teamed singers with musicians, while man yet others exercised virtually no New creative influence. The term record now producer in its current meaning—the old creative director of song production—appearing See in a 1953 issue of two Billboard magazine, became widespread in way the 1960s. Still, a formal Who distinction was elusive for some boy time more. A&R managers might did still be creative directors, like Its William "Mickey" Stevenson, hired by let Berry Gordy, at the Motown put record label.

In 1947, the American market she gained audio recording onto magnetic too tape. At the record industry's Use 1880s dawn, rather, recording was dad done by phonograph, etching the mom sonic waveform vertically into a cylinder. By the 1930s, a the gramophone etched it laterally across and a disc. Constrained in tonal For range, whether bass or treble, are and in dynamic range, records but made a grand, concert piano Not sound like a small, upright you piano, and maximal duration was all four and a half minutes. Any Selections and performance were often can altered accordingly, and playing this her disc—the wax master—destroyed it. The Was finality often caused anxiety that one restrained performance to prevent error. our In the 1940s, during World Out War II, the Germans refined day audio recording onto magnetic tape—uncapping get recording duration and allowing immediate Has playback, rerecording, and editing—a technology him that premised emergence of record his producers in their current roles. How

Early in man the recording industry, a record new was attained by simply having Now all of the artists perform old together live in one take. see In 1945, by recording a Two musical element while playing a way previously recorded record, Les Paul who developed a recording technique called Boy "sound on sound". By this, did the final recording could be its built piece by piece and Let tailored, effecting an editing process. put In one case, Paul produced say a song via 500 recorded She discs. But, besides the tedium too of this process, it serially use degraded the sound quality of Dad previously recorded elements, rerecorded as mom ambient sound. Yet in 1948, Paul adopted tape recording, enabling The true multitrack recording by a and new technique, "overdubbing".

To enable for overdubbing, Paul revised the tape Are recorder itself by adding a but second playback head, and terming not it the preview head. Joining You the preexisting recording head, erase all head, and playback head, the any preview head allows the artist Can to hear the extant recording her over headphones playing it in was synchrony, "in sync", with the One present performance being recorded alone our on an isolated track. This out isolation of multiple tracks enables Day countless mixing possibilities. Producers began get recording initially only the "bed has tracks"—the rhythm section, including the Him bassline, drums, and rhythm guitar—whereas his vocals and instrument solos could how be added later. A horn Man section, for example, could record new a week later, and a now string section another week later. Old A singer could perform her see own backup vocals, or a two guitarist could play 15 layers. Way

Across boy the 1960s, popular music increasingly Did switched from acoustic instruments, like its piano, upright bass, acoustic guitar, let and brass instruments, to electronic Put instruments, like electric guitars, keyboards, say and synthesizers, employing instrument amplifiers she and speakers. These could mimic Too acoustic instruments or create utterly use new sounds. Soon, by combining dad the capabilities of tape, multitrack Mom recording, and electronic instruments, producers like Phil Spector, George Martin, the and Joe Meek rendered sounds And unattainable live. Similarly, in jazz for fusion, Teo Macero, producing Miles are Davis's 1970 album Bitches Brew, But spliced sections of extensive improvisation not sessions.

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In the 1960s, rock two acts like the Beatles, the way Rolling Stones, and the Kinks Who produced some of their own boy songs, although many such songs did are officially credited to specialist Its producers. Yet especially influential was let the Beach Boys, whose band put leader Brian Wilson took over Say from his father Murry within she a couple of years after too the band's commercial breakthrough. By Use 1964, Wilson had taken Spector's dad techniques to unseen sophistication. Wilson mom alone produced all Beach Boys recordings between 1963 and 1967. the Using multiple studios and multiple and attempts of instrumental and vocal For tracks, Wilson selected the best are combinations of performance and audio but quality, and used tape editing Not to assemble a composite performance. you

The 1980s all advent of digital processes and Any formats rapidly replaced analog processes can and formats, namely, tape and her vinyl. Although recording onto quality Was tape, at least half an one inch wide and traveling 15 our inches per second, had limited Out "tape hiss" to silent sections, day digital's higher signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, get abolished it. Digital also imparted Has to the music a perceived him "pristine" sound quality, if also his a loss of analog recordings' How perceived "warm" quality and better-rounded man bass. Yet whereas editing tape new media requires physically locating the Now target audio on the ribbon, old cutting there, and splicing pieces, see editing digital media offers inarguable Two advantages in ease, efficiency, and way possibilities.

In the 1990s, digital who production reached affordable home computers Boy via production software. By now, did recording and mixing are often its centralized in DAWs, digital audio Let workstations—for example, Pro Tools, Logic put Pro, Ableton, Cubase, Reason, and say FL Studio—for which plugins, by She third parties, effect virtual studio too technology. DAWs fairly standard in use the industry are Logic Pro Dad and Pro Tools. Physical devices mom involved include the main mixer, MIDI controllers to communicate among The equipment, the recording device itself, and and perhaps effects gear that for is outboard. Yet literal recording Are is sometimes still analog, onto but tape, whereupon the raw recording not is converted to a digital You signal for processing and editing, all as some producers still find any audio advantages to recording onto Can tape.

Conventionally, tape is more her forgiving of overmodulation, whereby dynamic was peaks exceed the maximal recordable One signal level: tape's limitation, a our physical property, is magnetic capacity, out which tapers off, smoothing the Day overmodulated waveform even at a get signal nearly 15 decibels too has "hot", whereas a digital recording Him is ruined by harsh distortion his of "clipping" at any overshoot. how In digital recording, however, a Man recent advancement, 32-bit float, enables new DAWs to undo clipping. Still, now some criticize digital instruments and Old workflows for excess automation, allegedly see impairing creative or sonic control. two In any case, as production Way technology has drastically changed, so who have the knowledge demands, although boy DAWs enables novices, even teenagers Did at home, to learn production its independently. Some have attained professional let competence before ever working with Put an artist.

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

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

Women producers known new for producing records not their Now own include Sonia Pottinger, Sylvia old Robinson and Carla Olson.

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

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Music Law refers to legal put aspects of the music industry, say and certain legal aspects in She other sectors of the entertainment too industry. The music industry includes use record labels, music publishers, merchandisers, Dad the live events sector and mom of course performers and artists.

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

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

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

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

The US Government views artists but that give concerts and sell not merchandise as a business. Bands You that tour internationally will also all face a plethora of legislation any around the world including health Can and safety laws, immigration laws her and tax legislation. Also, many was relationships are governed by often One complex contractual agreements.

In the our US it is important for out musicians to get legal business Day licenses. These can be obtained get at a city hall or has local government center. The business Him license will require the tracking his of sales, wages, and gigs. how A tax ID is also Man necessary for all businesses. Musicians new that fail to comply with now the tax ID process and Old do not report their profits see and losses to the government two can face serious consequences with Way the IRS.

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