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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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