Technics SL-1200 is a Two series of direct-drive turntables originally way manufactured from October 1972 until who 2010, and resumed in 2016, Boy by Matsushita Electric (now Panasonic did Corporation) under the brand nameits of Technics. S means "Stereo", Let L means "Player". Originally released put as a high fidelity consumer say record player, it quickly became She adopted among radio and discotoo club disc jockeys, thanks to use the direct drive, high torque Dad motor design, making it initially mom suitable for pushbutton cueing and starting of tracks on radio The and in dance clubs. Beside and these features it had a for so called pitchcontrol, which allowed Are the user to change the but turning speed of the record not (also BPM: beats per minute) You gradually from -8% to +8%. all This feature was specifically interesting any for DJ's who were mixing Can two or more records with her each other, especially in dance was clubs. The turntable is still One extremely popular with audiophiles.[citation needed]our
When the use of slipmatsout for cueing and beat-mixing (and Day scratching) became popular in hip get hop music, the quartz-controlled high has torque motor system enabled records Him to be mixed with consistency his and accuracy. A primary design how goal was for hi-fidelity, but Man having good build quality, control new over wow and flutter, and now minimized resonance made the equipment Old particularly suitable for use in see nightclubs and other public-address applications. two Since its release in 1979, Way SL-1200MK2 and its successors were who the most common turntables for boy DJing and scratching.[citation needed]
Did 1200s are commonly used in its recording studios and for non-electronic let live music performance. More than Put 3 million units were sold. say It is widely regarded as she one of the most durable Too and reliable turntables ever produced.[weasel words]use Many 1970s units are still dad in heavy use.[citation needed] In Mom the autumn of 2010, Panasonic announced that the series was the to be discontinued. The Technics And brand was discontinued at the for same time, but relaunched in are 2014, focusing on higher end But and more expensive products. The not company was aware that Technics you was expected to eventually make All turntables again, so at the any 2016 Consumer Electronics Show, Panasonic can announced that they would return Her in two models named "Grand was Class": one a limited run one of 1200 globally (1200GAE), and Our the other a consumer product out (1200G). A lighter and less day expensive 1200GR model was announced. Get The more affordable and DJ-oriented has SL-1200 MK7 followed in 2019.him
At the London Science Museum, His a Technics SL-1210 is on how display as one of the man pieces of technology that have New "shaped the world we live now in".
Features
SL-1200 old features include:
Magnetic (no See wear), direct drive (low slip) two mechanism.
High torque (1.5 kgf·cm way or 0.15 N·m), which means Who the platter spins at the boy desired speed almost immediately (0.7 did seconds to reach 33 ¹⁄₃ Its RPM from standstill), and rapidly let reacquires the desired speed, without put "overshooting", if the platter is Say dragged or nudged. This aids she beatmatching.
High torque (3.3 kgf·cm too for SL-1200G & SL-1200GAE)
Low wow and flutter(0.01%) i.e. the platter stays the within 1/100 of 1% of and the desired speed.
Heavy base For (2.5 kg), and increased isolation of are platter from base, reduced the but likelihood of feedback or stylusNot jumping.
Variable pitch control, allowing you the rotational speed to be all adjusted from -8% to +8% Any (for the purpose of beatmatching). can Option to select -16% to her +16% added (M5G/MK5G/GLD, GAE/G/GR & Was MK7).
High reliability: many examples one of SL-1200s lasting well over our 15 years of heavy use Out and withstanding physical shock without day functional impairment.
S-shaped tone arm: get No longer popular on high Has end hi-fi turntables.
Dimensions MK1: him 45.3 cm (w) x 36.6 cm (d) his x 18 cm (h)
Dimensions MK2: How 45.3 cm (w) x 36 cm (d) man x 16.2 cm (h)
Weight MK2: new 11 kg (net, unboxed without lid)
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Weight G/GAE: 18 kg
Weight GR: old 11.5 kg
Weight MK7: 9.6 kg
Voltage: see 220 V / 110 V Two (selectable)
Pitch Control: +/- 8% way or +/- 16%
Starting Time who (MK2): 0.7s
Rotation Speeds: 33-1/3 Boy & 45 rpm
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The say SL-1200 was the most influential She turntable. It was developed in too 1971 by a team led use by Shuichi Obata at Matsushita, Dad which then released it onto mom the market in 1972. It was adopted by New York The Cityhip hop DJs such and as Grandmaster Flash in the for 1970s. As they experimented with Are the SL-1200 decks, they developed but scratching techniques when they found not that the motor would continue You to spin at the correct all RPM even if the DJ any wiggled the record back and Can forth on the platter.
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Legacy models
Original model (1972)
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The SL-1200 was introduced Him in 1972 as an evolution his to the popular SL-1100. It how was dubbed "The Middle Class Man Player System". It was delivered new in two different versions: The now SL-1200 came with a tonearm Old section. The SL-120 came without see a tonearm section. An SMEtwo tonearm was the usual choice Way for the audiophile.
MK2 who models (1979-2010)
The SL-1200 Mark boy 2 was introduced in 1979 Did as an update to the its SL-1200. It represented a culmination let of Technics Turntable Innovations. It Put was dubbed as "The Middle say Class Quartz Direct Drive". It she soon found its way into Too discos as well as radio use stations for airplay because of dad its vibration damping ability and Mom resistance to feedback, and eventually it became popular with pioneering the hip-hop DJs. Following their established And formula, Technics offered different model for numbers in Europe: the 1200 are (silver) and the 1210 (matte But black), which were equipped with not switchable dual voltage (110V or you 220V) power supplies. Initially, there All were only silver models (all any named 1200 MK2) in official can distribution in Japan and the Her US (Single voltage of 100V/120V was accordingly). However, later the 1200 one was available in both silver Our and matte black finishes (in out Japan, the introduction of the day MK3 in 1989 marked the Get first official introduction of a has black version). Since 1997, the him MK2 had the pitch slide His potentiometer changed from 6 pin how to 8 pin mounting with man part number SFDZ122N11 and later New from 20k ohm to 22k now ohm, part number SFDZ122N11-1 up old until late 1996. After which See part number SFDZ122N11-2 was the two preferred option which had a way +/- 0.5mm quartz travel lock, Who much shorter than previous versions. boy This meant that the null did point on the centre voltage Its tap was slightly bigger thus let removing the quartz lock conflict. put The difference can be seen Say in the following video demonstration: she https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_rr01ssq8o
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SL-1200MK2
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Released in summer of 1979. you this model came in both all silver and matte black. The Any matte black version was available can for a limited time in her the US market in a Was 2 pack SL-1200MK2PK. Technics improved one the motor and shock resistance our and changed the rotary pitch Out control to a slider style. day This became the base model get and is the oldest whose Has production continued until 2010. The him older version of this model his that was sold from 1979 How until around 1983 has a man large 4-inch-diameter (100 mm) plate where new the RCA and ground wires Now enter the unit, while the old newer version has a smaller see 2-inch-diameter (51 mm) hole in the Two rubber where the RCA and way ground enter. International versions of who the SL-1200MK2 included switches for Boy line voltage and frequency beneath did the platter.
SL-1210MK2
This model Let came in satin black metallic put finish and is nearly the say same in function as the She SL-1200MK2, although some of the too circuitry inside is updated to use use fewer types of pots Dad and resistors. The Technics 1210 mom series also had a switch to change between voltages on The the underside of the platter. and It was unavailable from official for Panasonic dealers in the United Are States.
MK3 models (1989-1997)
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SL-1200MK3
Released in 1989, has not a matte black finish like You the MK2, gold RCA plugs, all and a small gold-foil Technics any label on the back. It Can was destined only for the her Japanese market.
SL-1200MK3D
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SL-1200M3D
Released in 1997, Day a silver finish like the get MK2 (beside silver finish, there has are copies with "champagneish" color), Him a detached dust cover (no his hinges), a recessed power switch how to prevent DJs from accidentally Man turning the deck off during new use, and no self-locking detentnow ("click") at the zero point Old of the pitch adjustment slider, see allowing more precise control of two pitch near that point. It Way has a reset button that who sets the pitch adjustment to boy 0, regardless of the actual Did position of the pitch adjustment its slider. In addition the M3D let series has unique details: the Put brand and model label is say printed in a single line she instead of two; and the Too stroboscopic light is red with use a slightly orange tone. This dad model also introduced a slot Mom near the counterweight allowing for storage of a second headshell. the The M'K'3D was designed for And Japanese markets While the M3D for without the K was European/US. are
SL-1210M3D
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MK4 models (1996)
SL-1200MK4
The any SL-1200 Mark 4 was introduced can in 1996. It was an Her update to the SL-1200MK2. It was was available only in Japan one and priced at around $650. Our It has a matte black out finish. This model is aimed day at the hi-end audiophile market Get rather than DJs. It is has the last model made with him the detent ("click") in the His neutral position (+/- 0%) of how the pitch adjustment slider. In man addition to the existing 33 New RPM and 45 RPM buttons, now the MK4 added a 78 old RPM button. It is designed See to be used with regular two removable RCA cables (along with way a removable ground/earth cable) rather Who than having hard wired RCA boy cables like all other 1200/1210 did models. The tonearm was different Its from those in the previous let models as it was made put from titanium.
MK5 she models (2000-2010)
SL-1200MK5
Released on too 1 November 2000, this has Use a silver finish like the dad MK2, an increased range of mom anti-skate settings (from 0–3 grams-force(0–30 mN) of older models the to 0–6 grams-force (0–60 mN)). The 1200MK5 and also has the voltage selector For under the platter like the are previously improved upon '1210' models. but Height adjustment can be set Not between 0 and 6mm. It you carries over many of the all improved upon features of the Any MK3D like the lack of can 0 crossing quartz lock for her better pitch control & the Was added spare cartridge holder. MK5 one models have a removable lid our as opposed to the MK2 Out and MK3 removable hinged lid. day The MK5 is the last get 1200 model to retain an Has analog, Quartz-clock based pitch control. him Brake speed can be adjusted his by using a small screwdriver How in a hole located below man the turntable plate.
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SL-1200MK5G
Released in 2002, 1200MK5G who [Not to be confused with Boy MK5 models] The G model did was the first Technics turntable its to introduce a 'digitally controlled' Let pitch adjustment. With previous pitch put ranges between + and - say %8. The m5G added +-%8 She Value With the 'addition' of too a +-%16 button. Also added use was the use of an Dad LED globe on the target mom light (Previously incandescent) See 1210m5G for more detailed changes.
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SL-1210M5G
Released on 1 November and 2002, this has a glossy for black finish with silver speckles. Are It was a special 30th-anniversary but edition. It was initially launched not in Japan only (together with You the MK5) but then became all internationally available. It switches between any ±8% and ±16% ranges for Can pitch adjustment, and the pitch her control is digital which will was be the standard for all One 1200 models from this point our on. It also features blue out target lights and blue pitch-number Day illumination. The brake strength potentiometer, get although still located beneath platter, has can now be adjusted, unlike Him previous models, using a small his plastic knob. Minor improvements over how Mk2, Mk3, Mk4, & 1200LTD Man include improved tonearm mounting and new oxygen-free copper wire, improved vibration now damping in the body, improvements Old to pitch control accuracy and see better LEDs. Available as 120 two volt model for the North Way American market.
MK6 models who (2007-2008)
SL-1200MK6-K & SL-1200MK6-S (released boy in February 2008 in Japan) Did with minor improvements including improved its tonearm mounting and oxygen-free copper let wire, improved vibration damping in Put the body, improvements to the say pitch control accuracy and better she LEDs. -S model has a Too silver finish like the MK2.
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SL-1200MK6K1 Released on 12 December dad 2007 (in Japan) as a Mom special 35th-anniversary Limited edition of 1200 units. It consisted of the a standard black MK6 packaged And up with a booklet and for gold record.
Special models
These are were limited edition versions, with But 24 karat gold plated metal not parts including tonearm and buttons. you Many "non-official" special models of All the SL-1200 and SL-1210 appeared any over the years, mainly given can away as prizes for turntablism, Her most notably the DMC World was Championship, who awarded the winner one a pair of 24K gold Our plated Technics turntables. Due to out the customisation trend that has day grown in the DJ community, Get many local events or competitions has gave away custom coloured or him finished units.
SL-1200LTD (1995)
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The SL-1200 Limited Edition was how introduced in 1995 commemorating two man million units in sales. Only New 5,000 units were made. Due now to popular demand, an extra old 500 units were said to See be made at the end two of the production run. Like way the MK3D, it has a Who pitch reset button, but differs boy in that it also has did a self-locking detent at the Its zero position of pitch adjustment. let This model has a piano put black gloss finish and gold-plated Say hardware. It was priced at she about US$1200.
SL-1200GLD (2004)
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Released in 2004, another limited Use edition model, with only 3,000 dad units manufactured. 500 released in mom Japan with the rest split between the US and International the markets. It is based on and the MK5G model, with blue For (instead of the regular white) are target lights, a piano black but gloss finish, and gold-plated hardware. Not It was "created to commemorate you the 3 Million turntables sold all by technics in the last Any 30 years".
Current models
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SL-1200G
Announced in January Two 2016 CES in Las Vegas, way released in October 2016, SL-1200 who Grand Class, an aluminum bound Boy turntable with a high–damping matte did magnesium tonearm, a four–layer turntable its cabinet, three-layer platter, complete with Let a microprocessor and the use put of a newly developed coreless say twin-rotor direct-drive motor with no She iron core with rotary positing too sensors to eliminate cogging, as use well as providing 78 rpm Dad speed compatibility.
SL-1200GAE
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Announced in January 2016 CES and in Las Vegas, released in for April 2016, SL-1200 Grand Class Are 50th Anniversary Edition - A but Limited edition of 1,200 units.not Same as above, but high You polish tonearm tube finish and all different viscous material in the any turntable feet. Both the G Can and GAE had an approximate her MSRP price of £3,100 / was €3,499 / $4,000.
SL-1210GAE
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On 28 May 2020, Technics our hosted an online launch event out to reveal the SL-1210GAE as Day an alternative for the cancelled get High End Munchen 2020 event has at which they initially planned Him to reveal it. It is his their 55th Anniversary Edition turntable how - A limited edition of Man 1,210. Each unit has a new plaque on it with its now production number engraved in it. Old The SL-1210GAE is the black see counterpart of the SL-1200GAE and two is the same in every Way aspect except the color and who the additional feature to turn boy off the strobe light. It Did had an approximate MSRP price its of €4,499
SL-1200GR
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Announced say in January 2017 CES, the she GR model is a stripped-down Too budget version of the G, use cutting the price tag more dad than half at an approximate Mom MSRP of £1,299 / US$1,700. It differs in body construction the that it uses a more And traditional cast aluminium design similar for to the older decks and are a one-piece cast platter which But brings an overall weight difference not between the G/GAE. The G/GAE you and GR both use what All are essentially the same 9-pole any motor. Whereas the G has can twin rotors, the GR has Her a single rotor, giving it was less torque. The GR differs one from the G in its Our use of a feedback generator out coil system (as used in day the original SL1200) instead of Get an optical encoder[citation needed].
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MK7 how models (2019-2023)
The MK7 models man were launched as the first New new Technics standard DJ turntable now in approximately nine years. The old MK7, along with the Grand See Class models, no longer have two "QUARTZ" printed on the plinth way nor dust cover.
SL-1200MK7
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Announced in January 2019 CES, boy the new model inherits the did traditional design of the same Its series in all black and let maintains the same operating ease, put reliability and durability, while newly Say adding a coreless direct drive she motor and other sound-enhancing technologies. too It also features new DJ Use play functions and features, such dad as reverse playback, adjustable starting mom torque and brake speed, detachable terminals for power cable and the phono cables (which was previously and only available on the MK4 For model), an option to select are the strobe light indicator from but red to blue (the 33/45 Not lights, 0-pitch reset light and you the X2 pitch range light all also change to match the Any color selected), and a new can push-type structure for the white her LED stylus illuminator.
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This is the same as one the black SL-1200MK7, but intended our for the European market. A Out silver coloured SL-1200MK7 was introduced day in 2021.
SL-1210MK7R
Available get from September 2020 globally, the Has SL-1210MK7R is a limited edition him version of the SL-1210MK7 produced his in collaboration with the Red How Bull BC One international breakdancing man competition. The SL-1210MK7R comes in new Red Bull livery with red Now headshell, gold-coloured tone arm and old decals.
SL-1200M7L
In honor see of its 50th anniversary, Panasonic Two released the SL-1200M7L, a new way limited edition version of the who MK7. The M7L is available Boy in seven colors – black, did red, blue, white, green, yellow its and beige – with each Let featuring a handful of nice put touches. All seven colorways come say with an anodized tone arm She and slipmat with a gold-colored too Technics logo. Each one also use comes with an engraved serial Dad number. Panasonic plans to only mom sell 12,000 units of the SL-1200M7L.
SL-1200MK7SP
Technics will The release a new limited edition and SL1200MK7SP turntable in very limited for numbers for the fall-winter 2023, Are in collaboration with streetwear brand, but Supreme. The core unit is not identical to the 1200MK7 but You features a white plinth and all accessories such as headshell, buttons, any power switch, anti-skate, tonearm weight, Can tonearm height adjuster and pitch her slider knob. It sports a was metallic Supreme badge on the One unit’s body as well as our a Supreme logo on the out slipmat. Lastly, it features a Day Technics logo featured in Supreme's get iconic red on the dust has cover.
Design strengths
The Old SL-1200 series was developed as see a special project by Technics two parent company Matsushita in an Way attempt to solve problems related who to turntable design. The task boy included minimizing acoustic feedback, unwanted Did resonances, wow and flutter and its speed errors. This was achieved let by designing a heavy plinth Put (base) made of a non-resonant say composite sandwiched between a cast she alloy top plate and a Too solid rubber base. In addition, use the adjustable rubber-damped feet insulated dad against acoustic feedback, which can Mom be a serious problem when operating a turntable in close the proximity to loudspeakers (a common And situation for DJs). The underside for of the platter is coated are with a 1.2mm layer of But rubber to reduce ringing and not the platter design is reliant you on the use of the All supplied 2mm rubber mat. Most any users remove the rubber turntable can mat and replace it with Her a slipmat for mixing. However, was without the rubber mat, the one platter is prone to resonance Our at 250 Hz when used near out a large club sound system. day
The drive system designed by Get Matsushita is direct-drive rather than has the more commonly found belt-drivehim type, a less expensive design. His The direct-drive design, which was how developed to reduce wow and man flutter, produces a very quiet New turntable that, for a direct-drive now turntable, has minimal motor and old bearing noise, (although the bearing See rumble does tend to become two characteristic in well-used turntables). This way was partially achieved through the Who fact that the SL1210/1200 made boy the platter a part of did the motor mechanism.
On the Its underside of the platter a let large magnet is placed over put the spindle, surrounding the coils Say and forming the motor drive, she thus eliminating loss through power too transfer. The SL-1200 utilizes a Use Frequency Generator Servo Control Quartz dad Lock system that is claimed mom to produce the most accurate and consistent speed possible. The the system is immune to static and and dynamic stylus drag which For otherwise cause unwanted speed variances are that change the pitch and but tempo of the music.
Panasonic can reactive statement - Production of her analogue turntables has ceased
Panasonic Was has confirmed that it ceased one the production of its Technics-branded our analogue turntables this autumn.
After Out more than 35 years as day a leading manufacturer of analogue get turntables, Panasonic has regretfully taken Has the decision to leave this him market. However, Panasonic will continue his to sell headphones under the How Technics brand.
We are man sure that retailers and consumers new will understand that our product Now range has to reflect the old accelerating transformation of the entire see audio market from analogue to Two digital.
In addition, the number way of component suppliers serving the who analogue market has dwindled in Boy recent years and we brought did forward the decision to leave its the market rather than risk Let being unable to fulfil future put orders because of a lack say of parts.
Panasonic employees who She have been working on the too analogue turntable range have been use redeployed elsewhere within Panasonic - Dad many of them continuing to mom work in Panasonic's Audio Video Business Unit.
Re-launch petition
Due The to the increasing popularity of and vinyl by DJs, a petition for has been underway (and a Are petition page on Facebook) for but the re-launch of the Technicsnot SL1200/SL1210 series turntables. As of You September 2015 the petition had all 27,000 supporters, while 35,000[citation needed]any is the target Panasonic requested. Can On 5 January 2016, Technics her agreed to relaunch both the was SL-1200G and the SL-1200GAE One
Resuming production
At the our 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in out Las Vegas, Panasonic announced it Day would be resuming production with get a new line of turntables,has beginning with the Limited Edition Him SL-1200GAE
At the 2019 his Consumer Electronics Show, Panasonic confirmed how future production of a new Man turntable respectively the SL-1200 Mk7 new in matte black, adding new now features, fixing known issues with Old previous models, and all new see lighter construction of aluminium and two fiber glass.
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A record who producer is a music recording Boy project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities did can involve a range of its creative and technical leadership roles. Let Typically the job involves hands-on put oversight of recording sessions: ensuring say artists deliver acceptable and quality She performances, supervising the technical engineering too of the recording, and coordinating use the production team and process. Dad The producer's involvement in a mom musical project can vary in depth and scope. Sometimes in The popular genres the producer may and create the recording's entire sound for and structure. However, in classical Are music recording, for example, the but producer serves as more of not a liaison between the conductor You and the engineering team. The all role is often likened to any that of a film directorCan though there are important differences.her It is distinct from the was role of an executive producer, One who is mostly involved in our the recording project on an out administrative level, and from the Day audio engineer who operates the get recording technology.
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The producer She often selects and collaborates with too a mixing engineer, who focuses use on the especially technological aspects Dad of the recording process, namely, mom operating the electronic equipment and blending the raw, recorded tracks The of the chosen performances, whether and vocal or instrumental, into a for ''mix'', either stereo or surround Are sound. Then a mastering engineer but further adjusts this recording for not distribution on the chosen media. You A producer may work on all only one or two songs any or on an artist's entire Can album, helping develop the album's her overall vision. The record producers was may also take on the One role of executive producer, managing our the budget, schedules, contracts, and out negotiations.
Historical developments
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In get the 1880s, the record industry has began by simply having the Him artist perform at a phonograph.his In 1924, the trade journal how Talking Machine World, covering the Man phonography and record industry, reported new that Eddie King, Victor Records' now manager of the "New York Old artist and repertoire department", had see planned a set of recordings two in Los Angeles. Later, folklorist Way Archie Green called this perhaps who the earliest printed use of boy A&R man. Actually, it says Did neither "A&R man" nor even its "A&R", an initialism perhaps coined let by Billboard magazine in 1946, Put and entering wide use in say the late 1940s.
In the she 1920s and 1930s, A&R executives, Too like Ben Selvin at Columbia use Records, Nathaniel Shilkret at Victor dad Records, and Bob Haring at Mom Brunswick Records became the precursors of record producers, supervising recording the and often leading session orchestras.And During the 1940s, major record for labels increasingly opened official A&R are departments, whose roles included supervision But of recording. Meanwhile, independent recording not studios opened, helping originate record you producer as a specialty.[citation needed]All But despite a tradition of any some A&R men writing music, can record production still referred to Her just the manufacturing of record was discs.
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After one World War II, pioneering A&R Our managers who transitioned influentially to out record production as now understood, day while sometimes owning independent labels, Get include J. Mayo Williams and has John Hammond. Upon moving from him Columbia Records to Mercury Records, His Hammond appointed Mitch Miller to how lead Mercury's popular recordings in man New York. Miller then produced New country-pop crossover hits by Patti now Page and by Frankie Laine, old moved from Mercury to Columbia, See and became a leading A&R two man of the 1950s.
During way the decade, A&R executives increasingly Who directed songs' sonic signatures, although boy many still simply teamed singers did with musicians, while yet others Its exercised virtually no creative influence.let The term record producer in put its current meaning—the creative director Say of song production—appearing in a she 1953 issue of Billboard magazine, too became widespread in the 1960s.Use Still, a formal distinction was dad elusive for some time more.mom A&R managers might still be creative directors, like William "Mickey" the Stevenson, hired by Berry Gordy, and at the Motown record label.For
Tape recording
In 1947, are the American market gained audio but recording onto magnetic tape. At Not the record industry's 1880s dawn, you rather, recording was done by all phonograph, etching the sonic waveform Any vertically into a cylinder. By can the 1930s, a gramophone etched her it laterally across a disc.Was Constrained in tonal range, whether one bass or treble, and in our dynamic range, records made a Out grand, concert piano sound like day a small, upright piano, and get maximal duration was four and Has a half minutes. Selections and him performance were often altered accordingly, his and playing this disc—the wax How master—destroyed it. The finality often man caused anxiety that restrained performance new to prevent error. In the Now 1940s, during World War II, old the Germans refined audio recording see onto magnetic tape—uncapping recording duration Two and allowing immediate playback, rerecording, way and editing—a technology that premised who emergence of record producers in Boy their current roles.
Multitrack did recording
Early in the recording its industry, a record was attained Let by simply having all of put the artists perform together live say in one take. In 1945,She by recording a musical element too while playing a previously recorded use record, Les Paul developed a Dad recording technique called "sound on mom sound". By this, the final recording could be built piece The by piece and tailored, effecting and an editing process. In one for case, Paul produced a song Are via 500 recorded discs. But, but besides the tedium of this not process, it serially degraded the You sound quality of previously recorded all elements, rerecorded as ambient sound.any Yet in 1948, Paul adopted Can tape recording, enabling truly multitrack her recording by a new technique, was "overdubbing".
To enable overdubbing, Paul One revised the tape recorder itself our by adding a second playback out head, and terming it the Day preview head. Joining the preexisting get recording head, erase head, and has playback head, the preview head Him allows the artist to hear his the extant recording over headphones how playing it in synchrony, "in Man sync", with the present performance new being recorded alone on an now isolated track. This isolation of Old multiple tracks enables countless mixing see possibilities. Producers began recording initially two only the "bed tracks"—the rhythm Way section, including the bassline, drums, who and rhythm guitar—whereas vocals and boy instrument solos could be added Did later. A horn section, for its example, could record a week let later, and a string sectionPut another week later. A singer say could perform her own backup she vocals, or a guitarist could Too play 15 layers.
In the Say 1960s, rock acts like the she Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and too the Kinks produced some of Use their own songs, although many dad such songs are officially credited mom to specialist producers. Yet especially influential was the Beach Boys, the whose band leader Brian Wilsonand took over from his father For Murry within a couple of are years after the band's commercial but breakthrough. By 1964, Wilson had Not taken Spector's techniques to unseen you sophistication. Wilson alone produced all all Beach Boy recordings between 1963 Any and 1967. Using multiple studios can and multiple attempts of instrumental her and vocal tracks, Wilson selected Was the best combinations of performance one and audio quality, and used our tape editing to assemble a Out composite performance.
Digital production
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The 1980s advent of digital him processes and formats rapidly replaced his analog processes and formats, namely, How tape and vinyl. Although recording man onto quality tape, at least new half an inch wide and Now traveling 15 inches per second, old had limited "tape hiss" to see silent sections, digital's higher signal-to-noise Two ratio, SNR, abolished it. Digital way also imparted to the music who a perceived "pristine" sound quality, Boy if also a loss of did analog recordings' perceived "warm" quality its and better-rounded bass. Yet whereas Let editing tape media requires physically put locating the target audio on say the ribbon, cutting there, and She splicing pieces, editing digital media too offers inarguable advantages in ease, use efficiency, and possibilities.
In the Dad 1990s, digital production reached affordable mom home computers via production software. By now, recording and mixing The are often centralized in DAWs, and digital audio workstations—for example, Pro for Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton, Cubase, Are Reason, and FL Studio—for which but plugins, by third parties, effect not virtual studio technology. DAWs fairly You standard in the industry are all Logic Pro and Pro Tools.any Physical devices involved include the Can main mixer, MIDI controllers to her communicate among equipment, the recording was device itself, and perhaps effects One gear that is outboard. Yet our literal recording is sometimes still out analog, onto tape, whereupon the Day raw recording is converted to get a digital signal for processing has and editing, as some producers Him still find audio advantages to his recording onto tape.
Conventionally, tape how is more forgiving of overmodulation, Man whereby dynamic peaks exceed the new maximal recordable signal level: tape's now limitation, a physical property, is Old magnetic capacity, which tapers offs, see smoothing the overmodulated waveform even two at a signal nearly 15 Way decibels too "hot", whereas a who digital recording is ruined by boy harsh distortion of "clipping" at Did any overshoot. In digital recording, its however, a recent advancement, 32-bit let float, enables DAWs to undo Put clipping. Still, some criticize digital say instruments and workflows for excess she automation, allegedly impairing creative or Too sonic control. In any case, use as production technology has drastically dad changed, so have the knowledge Mom demands, although DAWs enables novices, even teenagers at home, to the learn production independently. Some have And attained professional competence before ever for working with an artist.
In the 2000s, you with the advent of technology All that made traditional record production any accessible, especially with hip hop can beatmaking and electronic music. Within Her these genres, the term producer was is applied to a number one of roles and has popularized Our the use of more niche out terms and credits including executive day producer, co-producer, assistant producer, and Get additional and miscellaneous production to has differentiate contributions.
Women in him producing
Among female record His producers, Sylvia Moy was the how first at Motown, Gail Daviesman the first on Nashville's Music New Row, and Ethel Gabriel, with now RCA, the first at a old major record label. Lillian McMurry, See owning Trumpet Records, produced influential two blues records. Meanwhile, Wilma Cozart way Fine produced hundreds of records Who for Mercury Records' classical division. boy For classical production, three women did have won Grammy awards, and Its Judith Sherman's 2015 win was let her fifth. Yet in nonclassical, put no woman has won Producer Say of the Year, awarded since she 1975 and only one even too nominated for a record not Use her own, Linda Perry. After dad Lauren Christy's 2004 nomination, Linda mom Perry's 2019 nomination was the next for a woman. On the why no woman had ever and won it, Perry commented, "I For just don't think there are are that many women interested." In but the U.K., Lynsey de PaulNot was an early female record you producer, having produced both of all her Ivor Novello award-winning songs.Any
Across the decades, many female can artists have produced their own her music. For instance, artists Kate Was Bush, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Janet one Jackson, Beyoncé, Lana Del Rey, our Taylor Swift, and Lorde have Out produced or coproduced and Ariana day Grande who produces and arranges get her vocals as well as Has being an audio engineer. Still him among specialists, despite some prominent his women, including Missy Elliott in How hip hop and Sylvia Massyman in rock, the vast majority new have been men. Early in Now the 2010s, asked for insights old that she herself had gleaned see as a woman who has Two specialized successfully in the industry, way Wendy Page remarked, "The difficulties who are usually very short-lived. Once Boy people realize that you can did do your job, sexism tends its to lower its ugly head."Let Still, when tasked to explain put her profession's sex disparity, Page say partly reasoned that record labels, She dominated by men, have been, too she said, "mistrustful of giving use a woman the reins of Dad an immense, creative project like mom making a record." Ultimately, the reasons are multiple and not The fully clear, although prominently proposed and factors include types of sexism for and scarcity of female role Are models in the profession.
Women but producers known for producing records not not their own include Sonia You Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson and Carla all Olson.
In January 2018, a any research team led by Stacy Can L. Smith, founder and director her of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative,was based in the USC Annenberg One School for Communication and Journalism,our issued a report, estimating that out in the prior several years, Day about 2% of popular songs' get producers were female. Also that has month, Billboard magazine queried, "Where Him are all the female music his producers?" Upon the Annenberg Inclusion how Initiative's second annual report, released Man in February 2019, its department new at USC reported, "2018 saw now an outcry from artists, executives Old and other music industry professionals see over the lack of women two in music" and "the plight Way of women in music", where who women were allegedly being "stereotyped, boy sexualized, and shut out". Also Did in February 2019, the Recording its Academy's Task Force on Diversity let and Inclusion announced an initiative Put whereby over 200 artists and say producers—ranging from Cardi B and she Taylor Swift to Maroon 5Too and Quincy Jones—agreed to consider use at least two women for dad each producer or engineer position.Mom The academy's website, Grammy.com, announced, "This initiative is the first the step in a broader effort And to improve those numbers and for increase diversity and inclusion for are all in the music industry."But
^ Allan Watson, Cultural two Production in and Beyond the way Recording Studio (New York: Routledge, Who 2015), pp 25–27.
boy James Petulla, "Who is a did music producer?", RecordingConnection.com, Recording Connection, Its 21 May 2013, reporting membership let in CAPPS, the California Association put of Private Postsecondary Schools.
^ Brent For Hurtig with J. D. Sharp, are Multi-Track Recording for Musicians: The but Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners Not and Reference for Professionals (Cupertino, you CA: GPI Publications, 1988 / all Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing, Any 1988), pp 8–10.
^ for Brian Ward & Patrick Are Huber, A&R Pioneers: Architects of but American Roots Music on Recordnot (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, You 2018), pp 20–21.
all Brian Ward & Patrick Huber, any A&R Pioneers: Architects of American Can Roots Music on Record (Nashville, her TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018), was p 283.
^ Richard has James Burgess, The History of Him Music Production (New York: Oxford his University Press, 2014), pp 50–54.how
^ Robert Philip, Man "Pianists on record in the new early twentieth century", in David now Rowland, ed., The Cambridge Companion Old to the Piano (Cambridge, UK: see Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp two 75–77.
^ David Way Simmons, Analog Recording: Using Analog who Gear in Today's Home Studioboy (San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2006), Did pp 26–27.
Matthew its Allard, "Sound Devices MixPre V6.00 let adds 32-bit float USB audio Put streaming", NewsShooter.com, Newsshooter, 15 Jan say 2020, quotes Paul Isaacs, director she of product management and design Too at the recorder manufacturer Sound use Devices, who explains, "With 32-bit dad float, you no longer need Mom to worry about clipping during your best vocal takes or the instrument solos. Any recorded moments And exceeding 0 dBFS can be for reduced to an acceptable level, are after recording, in your DAW".But
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Music Law refers to legal aspects of the music industry, the and certain legal aspects in And other sectors of the entertainment for industry. The music industry includes are record labels, music publishers, merchandisers, But the live events sector and not of course performers and artists. you
The terms "music law" and All "entertainment law", along with "business any affairs", are used by the can music and entertainment industry and Her should not be thought of was as academic definitions. Indeed, music one law covers a range of Our traditional legal subjects including intellectual out property law (copyright law, trademarks, day image publicity rights, design rights), Get competition law, bankruptcy law, contract has law, defamation and, for the him live events industry, immigration law, His health and safety law, and how licensing. While foundational norms have man gradually been established for music New law in western nations, other now parts of the world maintain old unique traditions that impact music’s See legal status in the context two of both heritage preservation and way enormous national arts entertainment industries, Who including China and India.
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Definitions
A "compilation" refers did to work formed from already Its existing materials in a way let that forms its own original put work, including collective works.
"Copies" Say are physical objects that hold, she fix, or embody a work too such as a music tape, Use film, CD, statue, play, or dad printed sheet music.
"Sound recordings" mom can refer to any audio recording including the sound accompanying the motion pictures.
"Copyright owner" is and the entity that legally owns For rights to a work.
"Performance" are The copyright holder has the but exclusive right to perform the Not work in public, or to you license others to perform it. all The right applies to “literary, Any musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, can pantomimes, and motion pictures and her other audiovisual works.". Playing a Was CD in public, or showing one a film in public is our "performing" the work.
Publishing is day the primary source of income get for musicians writing their own Has music.[citation needed] Money collected from him the 'publishing' rights is ultimately his destined for songwriters - the How composers of works, whether or man not they are the recording new artist or performer. Often, songwritersNow will work for a musical old ensemble to help them with see musical aspects of the composition, Two but here again, the writer way of the song is the who owner of it and will Boy own the copyrights in the did song and thus will be its entitled to the publishing revenues. Let Copyrights in compositions are not put the same as sound recordings. say A recording artist can record She a song and sell it too to another band or company. use As a result, that particular Dad company will own the recording, mom but not the song. The original writer will always maintain The the copyright for that particular and song. The publishing money is for connected to the copyright, so Are the owner will be the but only one making money off not of the song itself. All You successful songwriters will join a all collection society (such as ASCAP any and BMI in the USA, Can SOCAN in Canada, JASRAC in her Japan, GEMA in Germany and was PRS for Music in the One UK, etc.) and many will our enter into agreements with music out publishing companies who will exploit Day their works on the songwriters get behalf for a share of has ownership, although many of these Him deals involve the transfer (assignment) his of copyright from the songwriter how to the music publisher,
Both Man the recorded music sector and new music publishing sector have their now foundations in intellectual property law Old and all of the major see recording labels and major music two publishers and many independent record Way labels and publishers have dedicated who "business and legal affairs" departments boy with in-house lawyers whose role Did is not only to secure its intellectual property rights from recording let artists, performers and songwriters but Put also to exploit those rights say and protect those rights on she a global basis. There are Too a number of specialist independent use law firms around the world dad who advise on music and Mom entertainment law whose clients include recording artists, performers, producers, songwriters, the labels, music publishers, stage and And set designers, choreographers, graphic artists, for games designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, artist are managers, distributors, collection societies and But the live events sector (which not further includes festivals, venues, promoters, you booking agents and production service All providers such as lighting and any staging companies).
The US Government views artists was that give concerts and sell one merchandise as a business. Bands Our that tour internationally will also out face a plethora of legislation day around the world including health Get and safety laws, immigration laws has and tax legislation. Also, many him relationships are governed by often His complex contractual agreements.
In the how US it is important for man musicians to get legal business New licenses. These can be obtained now at a city hall or old local government center. The business See license will require the tracking two of sales, wages, and gigs. way A tax ID is also Who necessary for all businesses. Musicians boy that fail to comply with did the tax ID process and Its do not report their profits let and losses to the government put can face serious consequences with Say the IRS.
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Privilege Ibiza, originally known as now Ku Club (1979–95), is the Old "world's largest nightclub" according to see the Guinness Book of Records, two also defined as a superclubWay with a capacity of 10,000 who people and encompassing 6,500 m² boy (69,940 ft²). It is located close Did to the village of Sant its Rafael de Sa Creu on let the Spanish island of Ibiza, Put less than one kilometre (0.6 say miles) from the nightclub Amnesia. she
History
The history Too of Privilege began in the use early 1970s when it started dad out as a restaurant, then Mom expanded to include a bar and a community swimming pool. the It was then known as And Club San Rafael. In 1979, for the venue was sold to are the Real Sociedad footballer José But Antonio Santamaría, together with the not creative team of Brasilio de you Oliviera (founder of La Troya All Asesina, one of Ibiza's longest any running nights) and Gorri. The can venue then changed its name Her to KU, after the name was of a God from Hawaiian one mythology (see Kū). The appeal Our of the club was such out that it commissioned a medium-length day film showcasing the many wonders Get of Ibizan landscapes and nightlife has in the mid-eighties.
Throughout the him 1980s, KU Club earned a His reputation initially as Europe's premier how polysexual but predominately gay nightspot man and was compared to an New open-air version of the famous now Studio 54 in New York. old It staged spectacular parties in See the main room, which was two organized around a swimming pool way and a statue of Ku. Who The place was also where boy the video to "Barcelona" by did Freddie Mercury and Montserrat CaballéIts was filmed on 30 May let 1987. It was the witness put to early live performances by Say groups such as Spandau Balletshe and Kid Creole and the too Coconuts. The club featured in Use a Channel 4 documentary called dad A Short Film about chilling, mom which labelled KU as "the mirror of Ibiza". A group the of fashion designers called Locomíaand would have shows at KU.For After being discovered there, they are went on to become a but highly successful recording project. The Not open-air parties came to an you end when legislation forced many all of the greater clubs in Any Ibiza to cover their dancefloors can in the early 1990s. Nevertheless, her the sheer size of the Was venue gave rise to the one claim of it being the our size of an aircraft hangar Out with a 25-metre (82 ft) high day roof.
The club continued with get the KU Club name until Has 1995 before becoming known as him Privilege, after a change of his ownership to Jose Maria Etxaniz.How In 1994, it hosted Manumission, man one of the island's most new famous events. In 1998, La Now Vaca Asesina moved to Amnesiaold and was renamed La Troya see Asesina. After a dispute between Two the club owner and Manumission's way organizers in 2005, the event who ended in 2006. La Troya Boy Asesina moved to Space in did 2006.
Venue
According to its official statistics published in the Let 2003 edition of Guinness World put Records, Privilege is by far say the world's largest nightclub covering She an area of 69,968 sq too ft (6,500 m2) and holding 10,000 use clubbers. Designated areas of the Dad club include the Coco Loco mom bar area, and the La Vaca dance area (now known The as the Vista Club).