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A How record producer or music producerman is a music creating project's new overall supervisor whose responsibilities can Now involve a range of creative old and technical leadership roles. Typically see the job involves hands-on oversight Two of recording sessions; ensuring artists way deliver acceptable and quality performances, who supervising the technical engineering of Boy the recording, and coordinating the did production team and process. The its producer's involvement in a musical Let project can vary in depth put and scope. Sometimes in popular say genres the producer may create She the recording's entire sound and too structure. However, in classical music use recording, for example, the producer Dad serves as more of a mom liaison between the conductor and the engineering team. The role The is often likened to that and of a film director though for there are important differences. It Are is distinct from the role but of an executive producer, who not is mostly involved in the You recording project on an administrative all level, and from the audio any engineer who operates the recording Can technology.
Varying by project, the her producer may or may not was choose all of the artists.One If employing only synthesized or our sampled instrumentation, the producer may out be the sole artist. Conversely, Day some artists do their own get production. Some producers are their has own engineers, operating the technology Him across the project: preproduction, recording, his mixing, and mastering. Record producers' how precursors were "A&R men", who Man likewise could blend entrepreneurial, creative, new and technical roles, but often now exercised scant creative influence, as Old record production still focused, into see the 1950s, on simply improving two the record's sonic match to Way the artists' own live performance.who
Advances in recording technology, especially boy the 1940s advent of tape Did recording—which Les Paul promptly innovated its further to develop multitrack recording—and let the 1950s rise of electronic Put instruments, turned record production into say a specialty. In popular music, she then, producers like George Martin, Too Phil Spector and Brian Enouse led its evolution into its dad present use of elaborate techniques Mom and unrealistic sounds, creating songs impossible to originate live. After the the 1980s, production's move from And analog to digital further expanded for possibilities. By now, DAWs, or are digital audio workstations, like Logic But Pro, Pro Tools and Studio not One, turn an ordinary computer you into a production console, whereby All a solitary novice can become any a skilled producer in a can thrifty home studio. In the Her 2010s, efforts began to increase was the prevalence of producers and one engineers who are women, heavily Our outnumbered by men and prominently out accoladed only in classical music.day
As a broad project, now the creation of a music old recording may be split across See three specialists: the executive producer, two who oversees business partnerships and way financing; the vocal producer or Who vocal arranger, who aids vocal boy performance via expert critique and did coaching of vocal technique, and Its the record producer or music let producer, who, often called simply put the producer, directs the overall Say creative process of recording the she song in its final mix. too
The producer's roles can include Use gathering ideas, composing music, choosing dad session musicians, proposing changes to mom song arrangements, coaching the performers, controlling sessions, supervising the audio the mixing, and, in some cases, and supervising the audio mastering. A For producer may give creative control are to the artists themselves, taking but a supervisory or advisory role Not instead. As to qualifying for you a Grammy nomination, the Recording all Academy defines a producer:
The Any person who has overall creative can and technical control of the her entire recording project, and the Was individual recording sessions that are one part of that project. He our or she is present in Out the recording studio or at day the location recording and works get directly with the artist and Has engineer. The producer makes creative him and aesthetic decisions that realize his both the artist's and label's How goals in the creation of man musical content. Other duties include, new but are not limited to: Now keeping budgets and schedules; adhering old to deadlines; hiring musicians, singers, see studios, and engineers; overseeing other Two staffing needs; and editing (Classical way projects).
The producer often selects who and collaborates with a mixing Boy engineer, who focuses on the did especially technological aspects of the its recording process, namely, operating the Let electronic equipment and blending the put raw, recorded tracks of the say chosen performances, whether vocal or She instrumental, into a mix, either too stereo or surround sound. Then use a mastering engineer further adjusts Dad this recording for distribution on mom the chosen media. A producer may work on only one The or two songs or on and an artist's entire album, helping for develop the album's overall vision. Are The record producers may also but take on the role of not executive producer, managing the budget, You schedules, contracts, and negotiations.
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Historical developments
A&R team
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In the 1880s, Can the record industry began by her simply having the artist perform was at a phonograph. In 1924, One the trade journal Talking Machine our World, covering the phonography and out record industry, reported that Eddie Day King, Victor Records' manager of get the "New York artist and has repertoire department", had planned a Him set of recordings in Los his Angeles. Later, folklorist Archie Greenhow called this perhaps the earliest Man printed use of A&R man.new Actually, it says neither "A&R now man" nor even "A&R", an Old initialism perhaps coined by Billboardsee magazine in 1946, and entering two wide use in the late Way 1940s.
In the 1920s and who 1930s, A&R executives, like Ben boy Selvin at Columbia Records, Nathaniel Did Shilkret at Victor Records, and its Bob Haring at Brunswick Recordslet became the precursors of record Put producers, supervising recording and often say leading session orchestras. During the she 1940s, major record labels increasingly Too opened official A&R departments, whose use roles included supervision of recording.dad Meanwhile, independent recording studios opened, Mom helping originate record producer as a specialty.[citation needed] But despite the a tradition of some A&R And men writing music, record productionfor still referred to just the are manufacturing of record discs.
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After World War not II, pioneering A&R managers who you transitioned influentially to record production All as now understood, while sometimes any owning independent labels, include J. can Mayo Williams and John Hammond.Her Upon moving from Columbia Records was to Mercury Records, Hammond appointed one Mitch Miller to lead Mercury's Our popular recordings in New York.out Miller then produced country-pop crossover day hits by Patti Page and Get by Frankie Laine, moved from has Mercury to Columbia, and became him a leading A&R man of His the 1950s.
During the decade, how A&R executives increasingly directed songs' man sonic signatures, although many still New simply teamed singers with musicians, now while yet others exercised virtually old no creative influence. The term See record producer in its current two meaning—the creative director of song way production—appearing in a 1953 issue Who of Billboard magazine, became widespread boy in the 1960s. Still, a did formal distinction was elusive for Its some time more. A&R managers let might still be creative directors, put like William "Mickey" Stevenson, hired Say by Berry Gordy, at the she Motown record label.
Tape too recording
In 1947, the American Use market gained audio recording onto dad magnetic tape. At the record mom industry's 1880s dawn, rather, recording was done by phonograph, etching the the sonic waveform vertically intoand a cylinder. By the 1930s, For a gramophone etched it laterally are across a disc. Constrained in but tonal range, whether bass or Not treble, and in dynamic range, you records made a grand, concert all piano sound like a small, Any upright piano, and maximal duration can was four and a half her minutes. Selections and performance were Was often altered accordingly, and playing one this disc—the wax master—destroyed it.our The finality often caused anxiety Out that restrained performance to prevent day error. In the 1940s, during get World War II, the Germans Has refined audio recording onto magnetic him tape—uncapping recording duration and allowing his immediate playback, rerecording, and editing—a How technology that premised emergence of man record producers in their current new roles.
Multitrack recording
Early Now in the recording industry, a old record was attained by simply see having all of the artists Two perform together live in one way take. In 1945, by recording who a musical element while playing Boy a previously recorded record, Les did Paul developed a recording technique its called "sound on sound". By Let this, the final recording could put be built piece by piece say and tailored, effecting an editing She process. In one case, Paul too produced a song via 500 use recorded discs. But, besides the Dad tedium of this process, it mom serially degraded the sound quality of previously recorded elements, rerecorded The as ambient sound. Yet in and 1948, Paul adopted tape recording, for enabling truly multitrack recording by Are a new technique, "overdubbing".
To but enable overdubbing, Paul revised the not tape recorder itself by adding You a second playback head, and all terming it the preview head.any Joining the preexisting recording head, Can erase head, and playback head, her the preview head allows the was artist to hear the extant One recording over headphones playing it our in synchrony, "in sync", with out the present performance being recorded Day alone on an isolated track.get This isolation of multiple tracks has enables countless mixing possibilities. Producers Him began recording initially only the his "bed tracks"—the rhythm section, including how the bassline, drums, and rhythm Man guitar—whereas vocals and instrument solos new could be added later. A now horn section, for example, could Old record a week later, and see a string section another week two later. A singer could perform Way her own backup vocals, or who a guitarist could play 15 boy layers.
Brian Wilsonway during a recording session, 1966Who
In the 1960s, rock acts boy like the Beatles, the Rolling did Stones, and the Kinks produced Its some of their own songs, let although many such songs are put officially credited to specialist producers. Say Yet especially influential was the she Beach Boys, whose band leader too Brian Wilson took over from Use his father Murry within a dad couple of years after the mom band's commercial breakthrough. By 1964, Wilson had taken Spector's techniques the to unseen sophistication. Wilson alone and produced all Beach Boys recordings For between 1963 and 1967. Using are multiple studios and multiple attempts but of instrumental and vocal tracks, Not Wilson selected the best combinations you of performance and audio quality, all and used tape editing to Any assemble a composite performance.
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Digital production
The 1980s advent her of digital processes and formats Was rapidly replaced analog processes and one formats, namely, tape and vinyl. our Although recording onto quality tape, Out at least half an inch day wide and traveling 15 inches get per second, had limited "tape Has hiss" to silent sections, digital's him higher signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, abolished his it. Digital also imparted to How the music a perceived "pristine" man sound quality, if also a new loss of analog recordings' perceived Now "warm" quality and better-rounded bass.old Yet whereas editing tape media see requires physically locating the target Two audio on the ribbon, cutting way there, and splicing pieces, editing who digital media offers inarguable advantages Boy in ease, efficiency, and possibilities. did
In the 1990s, digital production its reached affordable home computers via Let production software. By now, recording put and mixing are often centralized say in DAWs, digital audio workstations—for She example, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, too Ableton, Cubase, Reason, and FL use Studio—for which plugins, by third Dad parties, effect virtual studio technology.mom DAWs fairly standard in the industry are Logic Pro and The Pro Tools. Physical devices involved and include the main mixer, MIDIfor controllers to communicate among equipment, Are the recording device itself, and but perhaps effects gear that is not outboard. Yet literal recording is You sometimes still analog, onto tape, all whereupon the raw recording is any converted to a digital signalCan for processing and editing, as her some producers still find audio was advantages to recording onto tape.One
Conventionally, tape is more forgiving our of overmodulation, whereby dynamic peaks out exceed the maximal recordable signal Day level: tape's limitation, a physical get property, is magnetic capacity, which has tapers off, smoothing the overmodulated Him waveform even at a signal his nearly 15 decibels too "hot", how whereas a digital recording is Man ruined by harsh distortion of new "clipping" at any overshoot. In now digital recording, however, a recent Old advancement, 32-bit float, enables DAWs see to undo clipping. Still, some two criticize digital instruments and workflows Way for excess automation, allegedly impairing who creative or sonic control. In boy any case, as production technology Did has drastically changed, so have its the knowledge demands, although DAWs let enables novices, even teenagers at Put home, to learn production independently.say Some have attained professional competence she before ever working with an Too artist.
In Mom the 2000s, with the advent of technology that made traditional the record production accessible, especially with And hip hop beatmaking and electronic for music. Within these genres, the are term producer is applied to But a number of roles and not has popularized the use of you more niche terms and credits All including executive producer, co-producer, assistant any producer, and additional and miscellaneous can production to differentiate contributions.
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Women in producing
Mixing console
Among was female record producers, Sylvia Moyone was the first at Motown, Our Gail Davies the first on out Nashville's Music Row, and Ethel day Gabriel, with RCA, the first Get at a major record label. has Lillian McMurry, owning Trumpet Records, him produced influential blues records. Meanwhile, His Wilma Cozart Fine produced hundreds how of records for Mercury Records' man classical division. For classical production, New three women have won Grammy now awards, and Judith Sherman's 2015 old win was her fifth. Yet See in nonclassical, no woman has two won Producer of the Year, way awarded since 1975 and only Who one even nominated for a boy record not her own, Linda did Perry. After Lauren Christy's 2004 Its nomination, Linda Perry's 2019 nomination let was the next for a put woman. On why no woman Say had ever won it, Perry she commented, "I just don't think too there are that many women Use interested." In the U.K., Lynsey dad de Paul was an early mom female record producer, having produced both of her Ivor Novello the award-winning songs.
Across the decades, and many female artists have produced For their own music. For instance, are artists Kate Bush, Madonna, Mariah but Carey, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé (even Not that of Destiny's Child and you the Carters), Lana Del Rey, all Taylor Swift, and Lorde have Any produced or coproduced and Ariana can Grande who produces and arranges her her vocals as well as Was being an audio engineer. Still one among specialists, despite some prominent our women, including Missy Elliott in Out hip hop and Sylvia Massyday in rock, the vast majority get have been men. Early in Has the 2010s, asked for insights him that she herself had gleaned his as a woman who has How specialized successfully in the industry, man Wendy Page remarked, "The difficulties new are usually very short-lived. Once Now people realize that you can old do your job, sexism tends see to lower its ugly head."Two Still, when tasked to explain way her profession's sex disparity, Page who partly reasoned that record labels, Boy dominated by men, have been, did she said, "mistrustful of giving its a woman the reins of Let an immense, creative project like put making a record." Ultimately, the say reasons are multiple and not She fully clear, although prominently proposed too factors include types of sexism use and scarcity of female role Dad models in the profession.
Women mom producers known for producing records not their own include Sonia The Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson and Carla and Olson.
In January 2018, a for research team led by Stacy Are L. Smith, founder and director but of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative,not based in the USC Annenberg You School for Communication and Journalism,all issued a report, estimating that any in the prior several years, Can about 2% of popular songs' her producers were female. Also that was month, Billboard magazine queried, "Where One are all the female music our producers?" Upon the Annenberg Inclusion out Initiative's second annual report, released Day in February 2019, its department get at USC reported, "2018 saw has an outcry from artists, executives Him and other music industry professionals his over the lack of women how in music" and "the plight Man of women in music", where new women were allegedly being "stereotyped, now sexualized, and shut out". Also Old in February 2019, the Recording see Academy's Task Force on Diversity two and Inclusion announced an initiative Way whereby over 200 artists and who producers—ranging from Cardi B and boy Taylor Swift to Maroon 5Did and Quincy Jones—agreed to consider its at least two women for let each producer or engineer position.Put The academy's website, Grammy.com, announced, say "This initiative is the first she step in a broader effort Too to improve those numbers and use increase diversity and inclusion for dad all in the music industry."Mom
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Music One Law refers to legal aspects our of the music industry, and out certain legal aspects in other Day sectors of the entertainment industry. get The music industry includes record has labels, music publishers, merchandisers, the Him live events sector and of his course performers and artists.
The how terms "music law" and "entertainment Man law", along with "business affairs", new are used by the music now and entertainment industry and should Old not be thought of as see academic definitions. Indeed, music law two covers a range of traditional Way legal subjects including intellectual propertywho law (copyright law, trademarks, image boy publicity rights, design rights), competition Did law, bankruptcy law, contract law, its defamation and, for the live let events industry, immigration law, health Put and safety law, and licensing. say While foundational norms have gradually she been established for music law Too in western nations, other parts use of the world maintain unique dad traditions that impact music’s legal Mom status in the context of both heritage preservation and enormous the national arts entertainment industries, including And China and India.
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Definitions
A "compilation" refers to are work formed from already existing But materials in a way that not forms its own original work, you including collective works.
"Copies" are All physical objects that hold, fix, any or embody a work such can as a music tape, film, Her CD, statue, play, or printed was sheet music.
"Sound recordings" can one refer to any audio recording Our including the sound accompanying motion out pictures.
"Copyright owner" is the day entity that legally owns rights Get to a work.
"Performance" The has copyright holder has the exclusive him right to perform the work His in public, or to license how others to perform it. The man right applies to “literary, musical, New dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, now and motion pictures and other old audiovisual works.". Playing a CD See in public, or showing a two film in public is "performing" way the work.
Publishing is the boy primary source of income for did musicians writing their own music.[citation Its needed] Money collected from the let 'publishing' rights is ultimately destined put for songwriters - the composers Say of works, whether or not she they are the recording artist too or performer. Often, songwriters will Use work for a musical ensemble dad to help them with musical mom aspects of the composition, but here again, the writer of the the song is the owner and of it and will own For the copyrights in the song are and thus will be entitled but to the publishing revenues. Copyrights Not in compositions are not the you same as sound recordings. A all recording artist can record a Any song and sell it to can another band or company. As her a result, that particular company Was will own the recording, but one not the song. The original our writer will always maintain the Out copyright for that particular song. day The publishing money is connected get to the copyright, so the Has owner will be the only him one making money off of his the song itself. All successful How songwriters will join a collection man society (such as ASCAP and new BMI in the USA, SOCAN Now in Canada, JASRAC in Japan, old GEMA in Germany and PRS see for Music in the UK, Two etc.) and many will enter way into agreements with music publishing who companies who will exploit their Boy works on the songwriters behalf did for a share of ownership, its although many of these deals Let involve the transfer (assignment) of put copyright from the songwriter to say the music publisher,
Both the She recorded music sector and music too publishing sector have their foundations use in intellectual property law and Dad all of the major recording mom labels and major music publishers and many independent record labels The and publishers have dedicated "business and and legal affairs" departments with for in-house lawyers whose role is Are not only to secure intellectual but property rights from recording artists, not performers and songwriters but also You to exploit those rights and all protect those rights on a any global basis. There are a Can number of specialist independent law her firms around the world who was advise on music and entertainment One law whose clients include recording our artists, performers, producers, songwriters, labels, out music publishers, stage and set Day designers, choreographers, graphic artists, games get designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, artist managers, has distributors, collection societies and the Him live events sector (which further his includes festivals, venues, promoters, booking how agents and production service providers Man such as lighting and staging new companies).
The Old US Government views artists that see give concerts and sell merchandise two as a business. Bands that Way tour internationally will also face who a plethora of legislation around boy the world including health and Did safety laws, immigration laws and its tax legislation. Also, many relationships let are governed by often complex Put contractual agreements.
In the US say it is important for musicians she to get legal business licenses. Too These can be obtained at use a city hall or local dad government center. The business license Mom will require the tracking of sales, wages, and gigs. A the tax ID is also necessary And for all businesses. Musicians that for fail to comply with the are tax ID process and do But not report their profits and not losses to the government can you face serious consequences with the All IRS.
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Privilege not Ibiza, originally known as Ku You Club (1979–95), is the "world's all largest nightclub" according to the any Guinness Book of Records, also Can defined as a superclub with her a capacity of 10,000 people was and encompassing 6,500 m² (69,940 ft²).One It is located close to our the village of Sant Rafael out de Sa Creu on the Day Spanish island of Ibiza, less get than one kilometre (0.6 miles) has from the nightclub Amnesia.
It Him has remained closed since the his summer of 2019 and its how future as of 2024 is Man unknown.
History
The new history of Privilege began in now the early 1970s when it Old started out as a restaurant, see then expanded to include a two bar and a community swimming Way pool. It was then known who as Club San Rafael. In boy 1979, the venue was sold Did to the Real Sociedad footballer its José Antonio Santamaría, together with let the creative team of Brasilio Put de Oliviera (founder of La say Troya Asesina, one of Ibiza's she longest running nights) and Gorri. Too The venue then changed its use name to KU, after the dad name of a God from Mom Hawaiian mythology (see Kū). The appeal of the club was the such that it commissioned a And medium-length film showcasing the many for wonders of Ibizan landscapes and are nightlife in the mid-eighties.
Throughout But the 1980s, KU Club earned not a reputation initially as Europe's you premier polysexual but predominately gay All nightspot and was compared to any an open-air version of the can famous Studio 54 in New Her York. It staged spectacular parties was in the main room, which one was organized around a swimming Our pool and a statue of out Ku. The place was also day where the video to "Barcelona" Get by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat has Caballé was filmed on 30 him May 1987. It was the His witness to early live performances how by groups such as Spandau man Ballet and Kid Creole and New the Coconuts. The club featured now in a Channel 4 documentary old called A Short Film about See chilling, which labelled KU as two "the mirror of Ibiza". A way group of fashion designers called Who Locomía would have shows at boy KU. After being discovered there, did they went on to become Its a highly successful recording project. let The open-air parties came to put an end when legislation forced Say many of the greater clubs she in Ibiza to cover their too dancefloors in the early 1990s. Use Nevertheless, the sheer size of dad the venue gave rise to mom the claim of it being the size of an aircraft the hangar with a 25-metre (82 ft) and high roof.
The club continued For with the KU Club name are until 1995 before becoming known but as Privilege, after a change Not of ownership to Jose Maria you Etxaniz. In 1994, it hosted all Manumission, one of the island's Any most famous events. In 1998, can La Vaca Asesina moved to her Amnesia and was renamed La Was Troya Asesina. After a dispute one between the club owner and our Manumission's organizers in 2005, the Out event ended in 2006. La day Troya Asesina moved to Spaceget in 2006.
Venue
According Has to official statistics published in him the 2003 edition of Guinness his World Records, Privilege is by How far the world's largest nightclub man covering an area of 69,968 new sq ft (6,500 m2) and holding Now 10,000 clubbers. Designated areas of old the club include the Coco see Loco bar area, and the Two La Vaca dance area (now way known as the Vista Club).who