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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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