A record use producer or music producer is Dad a music creating project's overall mom supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and The technical leadership roles. Typically the and job involves hands-on oversight of for recording sessions; ensuring artists deliver Are acceptable and quality performances, supervising but the technical engineering of the not recording, and coordinating the production You team and process. The producer's all involvement in a musical project any can vary in depth and Can scope. Sometimes in popular genres her the producer may create the was recording's entire sound and structure. One However, in classical music recording, our for example, the producer serves out as more of a liaison Day between the conductor and the get engineering team. The role is has often likened to that of Him a film director though there his are important differences. It is how distinct from the role of Man an executive producer, who is new mostly involved in the recording now project on an administrative level, Old and from the audio engineer see who operates the recording technology. two

Varying by project, the producer Way may or may not choose who all of the artists. If boy employing only synthesized or sampled Did instrumentation, the producer may be its the sole artist. Conversely, some let artists do their own production. Put Some producers are their own say engineers, operating the technology across she the project: preproduction, recording, mixing, Too and mastering. Record producers' precursors use were "A&R men", who likewise dad could blend entrepreneurial, creative, and Mom technical roles, but often exercised scant creative influence, as record the production still focused, into the And 1950s, on simply improving the for record's sonic match to the are artists' own live performance.

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

As a broad project, the creation of a music recording the may be split across three and specialists: the executive producer, who For oversees business partnerships and financing; are the vocal producer or vocal but arranger, who aids vocal performance Not via expert critique and coaching you of vocal technique, and the all record producer or music producer, Any who, often called simply the can producer, directs the overall creative her process of recording the song Was in its final mix.

The one producer's roles can include gathering our ideas, composing music, choosing session Out musicians, proposing changes to song day arrangements, coaching the performers, controlling get sessions, supervising the audio mixing, Has and, in some cases, supervising him the audio mastering. A producer his may give creative control to How the artists themselves, taking a man supervisory or advisory role instead. new As to qualifying for a Now Grammy nomination, the Recording Academy old defines a producer:

The person see who has overall creative and Two technical control of the entire way recording project, and the individual who recording sessions that are part Boy of that project. He or did she is present in the its recording studio or at the Let location recording and works directly put with the artist and engineer. say The producer makes creative and She aesthetic decisions that realize both too the artist's and label's goals use in the creation of musical Dad content. Other duties include, but mom are not limited to: keeping budgets and schedules; adhering to The deadlines; hiring musicians, singers, studios, and and engineers; overseeing other staffing for needs; and editing (Classical projects). Are

The producer often selects and but collaborates with a mixing engineer, not who focuses on the especially You technological aspects of the recording all process, namely, operating the electronic any equipment and blending the raw, Can recorded tracks of the chosen her performances, whether vocal or instrumental, was into a mix, either stereo One or surround sound. Then a our mastering engineer further adjusts this out recording for distribution on the Day chosen media. A producer may get work on only one or has two songs or on an Him artist's entire album, helping develop his the album's overall vision. The how record producers may also take Man on the role of executive new producer, managing the budget, schedules, now contracts, and negotiations.

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In the 1880s, the two record industry began by simply Way having the artist perform at who a phonograph. In 1924, the boy trade journal Talking Machine World, Did covering the phonography and record its industry, reported that Eddie King, let Victor Records' manager of the Put "New York artist and repertoire say department", had planned a set she of recordings in Los Angeles. Too Later, folklorist Archie Green called use this perhaps the earliest printed dad use of A&R man. Actually, Mom it says neither "A&R man" nor even "A&R", an initialism the perhaps coined by Billboard magazine And in 1946, and entering wide for use in the late 1940s. are

In the 1920s and 1930s, But A&R executives, like Ben Selvin not at Columbia Records, Nathaniel Shilkret you at Victor Records, and Bob All Haring at Brunswick Records became any the precursors of record producers, can supervising recording and often leading Her session orchestras. During the 1940s, was major record labels increasingly opened one official A&R departments, whose roles Our included supervision of recording. Meanwhile, out independent recording studios opened, helping day originate record producer as a Get specialty.^{[citation needed]} But despite a has tradition of some A&R men him writing music, record production still His referred to just the manufacturing how of record discs.

After World War II, New pioneering A&R managers who transitioned now influentially to record production as old now understood, while sometimes owning See independent labels, include J. Mayo two Williams and John Hammond. Upon way moving from Columbia Records to Who Mercury Records, Hammond appointed Mitch boy Miller to lead Mercury's popular did recordings in New York. Miller Its then produced country-pop crossover hits let by Patti Page and by put Frankie Laine, moved from Mercury Say to Columbia, and became a she leading A&R man of the too 1950s.

During the decade, A&R Use executives increasingly directed songs' sonic dad signatures, although many still simply mom teamed singers with musicians, while yet others exercised virtually no the creative influence. The term record and producer in its current meaning—the For creative director of song production—appearing are in a 1953 issue of but Billboard magazine, became widespread in Not the 1960s. Still, a formal you distinction was elusive for some all time more. A&R managers might Any still be creative directors, like can William "Mickey" Stevenson, hired by her Berry Gordy, at the Motown Was record label.

In 1947, the American market our gained audio recording onto magnetic Out tape. At the record industry's day 1880s dawn, rather, recording was get done by phonograph, etching the Has sonic waveform vertically into a him cylinder. By the 1930s, a his gramophone etched it laterally across How a disc. Constrained in tonal man range, whether bass or treble, new and in dynamic range, records Now made a grand, concert piano old sound like a small, upright see piano, and maximal duration was Two four and a half minutes. way Selections and performance were often who altered accordingly, and playing this Boy disc—the wax master—destroyed it. The did finality often caused anxiety that its restrained performance to prevent error. Let In the 1940s, during World put War II, the Germans refined say audio recording onto magnetic tape—uncapping She recording duration and allowing immediate too playback, rerecording, and editing—a technology use that premised emergence of record Dad producers in their current roles. mom

Early in the recording industry, a record The was attained by simply having and all of the artists perform for together live in one take. Are In 1945, by recording a but musical element while playing a not previously recorded record, Les Paul You developed a recording technique called all "sound on sound". By this, any the final recording could be Can built piece by piece and her tailored, effecting an editing process. was In one case, Paul produced One a song via 500 recorded our discs. But, besides the tedium out of this process, it serially Day degraded the sound quality of get previously recorded elements, rerecorded as has ambient sound. Yet in 1948, Him Paul adopted tape recording, enabling his true multitrack recording by a how new technique, "overdubbing".

To enable Man overdubbing, Paul revised the tape new recorder itself by adding a now second playback head, and terming Old it the preview head. Joining see the preexisting recording head, erase two head, and playback head, the Way preview head allows the artist who to hear the extant recording boy over headphones playing it in Did synchrony, "in sync", with the its present performance being recorded alone let on an isolated track. This Put isolation of multiple tracks enables say countless mixing possibilities. Producers began she recording initially only the "bed Too tracks"—the rhythm section, including the use bassline, drums, and rhythm guitar—whereas dad vocals and instrument solos could Mom be added later. A horn section, for example, could record the a week later, and a And string section another week later. for A singer could perform her are own backup vocals, or a But guitarist could play 15 layers. not

Across All the 1960s, popular music increasingly any switched from acoustic instruments, like can piano, upright bass, acoustic guitar, Her and brass instruments, to electronic was instruments, like electric guitars, keyboards, one and synthesizers, employing instrument amplifiers Our and speakers. These could mimic out acoustic instruments or create utterly day new sounds. Soon, by combining Get the capabilities of tape, multitrack has recording, and electronic instruments, producers him like Phil Spector, George Martin, His and Joe Meek rendered sounds how unattainable live. Similarly, in jazz man fusion, Teo Macero, producing Miles New Davis's 1970 album Bitches Brew, now spliced sections of extensive improvisation old sessions.

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In the 1960s, rock but acts like the Beatles, the Not Rolling Stones, and the Kinks you produced some of their own all songs, although many such songs Any are officially credited to specialist can producers. Yet especially influential was her the Beach Boys, whose band Was leader Brian Wilson took over one from his father Murry within our a couple of years after Out the band's commercial breakthrough. By day 1964, Wilson had taken Spector's get techniques to unseen sophistication. Wilson Has alone produced all Beach Boys him recordings between 1963 and 1967. his Using multiple studios and multiple How attempts of instrumental and vocal man tracks, Wilson selected the best new combinations of performance and audio Now quality, and used tape editing old to assemble a composite performance. see

The 1980s Two advent of digital processes and way formats rapidly replaced analog processes who and formats, namely, tape and Boy vinyl. Although recording onto quality did tape, at least half an its inch wide and traveling 15 Let inches per second, had limited put "tape hiss" to silent sections, say digital's higher signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, She abolished it. Digital also imparted too to the music a perceived use "pristine" sound quality, if also Dad a loss of analog recordings' mom perceived "warm" quality and better-rounded bass. Yet whereas editing tape The media requires physically locating the and target audio on the ribbon, for cutting there, and splicing pieces, Are editing digital media offers inarguable but advantages in ease, efficiency, and not possibilities.

In the 1990s, digital You production reached affordable home computers all via production software. By now, any recording and mixing are often Can centralized in DAWs, digital audio her workstations—for example, Pro Tools, Logic was Pro, Ableton, Cubase, Reason, and One FL Studio—for which plugins, by our third parties, effect virtual studio out technology. DAWs fairly standard in Day the industry are Logic Pro get and Pro Tools. Physical devices has involved include the main mixer, Him MIDI controllers to communicate among his equipment, the recording device itself, how and perhaps effects gear that Man is outboard. Yet literal recording new is sometimes still analog, onto now tape, whereupon the raw recording Old is converted to a digital see signal for processing and editing, two as some producers still find Way audio advantages to recording onto who tape.

Conventionally, tape is more boy forgiving of overmodulation, whereby dynamic Did peaks exceed the maximal recordable its signal level: tape's limitation, a let physical property, is magnetic capacity, Put which tapers off, smoothing the say overmodulated waveform even at a she signal nearly 15 decibels too Too "hot", whereas a digital recording use is ruined by harsh distortion dad of "clipping" at any overshoot. Mom In digital recording, however, a recent advancement, 32-bit float, enables the DAWs to undo clipping. Still, And some criticize digital instruments and for workflows for excess automation, allegedly are impairing creative or sonic control. But In any case, as production not technology has drastically changed, so you have the knowledge demands, although All DAWs enables novices, even teenagers any at home, to learn production can independently. Some have attained professional Her competence before ever working with was an artist.

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

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

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

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

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Music her Law refers to legal aspects was of the music industry, and One certain legal aspects in other our sectors of the entertainment industry. out The music industry includes record Day labels, music publishers, merchandisers, the get live events sector and of has course performers and artists.

The Him terms "music law" and "entertainment his law", along with "business affairs", how are used by the music Man and entertainment industry and should new not be thought of as now academic definitions. Indeed, music law Old covers a range of traditional see legal subjects including intellectual property two law (copyright law, trademarks, image Way publicity rights, design rights), competition who law, bankruptcy law, contract law, boy defamation and, for the live Did events industry, immigration law, health its and safety law, and licensing. let While foundational norms have gradually Put been established for music law say in western nations, other parts she of the world maintain unique Too traditions that impact music’s legal use status in the context of dad both heritage preservation and enormous Mom national arts entertainment industries, including China and India.

• A "compilation" refers to And work formed from already existing for materials in a way that are forms its own original work, But including collective works.
• "Copies" are not physical objects that hold, fix, you or embody a work such All as a music tape, film, any CD, statue, play, or printed can sheet music.
• "Sound recordings" can Her refer to any audio recording was including the sound accompanying motion one pictures.
• "Copyright owner" is the Our entity that legally owns rights out to a work.
• "Performance" The day copyright holder has the exclusive Get right to perform the work has in public, or to license him others to perform it. The His right applies to “literary, musical, how dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, man and motion pictures and other New audiovisual works.". Playing a CD now in public, or showing a old film in public is "performing" See the work.

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

Both the put recorded music sector and music say publishing sector have their foundations She in intellectual property law and too all of the major recording use labels and major music publishers Dad and many independent record labels mom and publishers have dedicated "business and legal affairs" departments with The in-house lawyers whose role is and not only to secure intellectual for property rights from recording artists, Are performers and songwriters but also but to exploit those rights and not protect those rights on a You global basis. There are a all number of specialist independent law any firms around the world who Can advise on music and entertainment her law whose clients include recording was artists, performers, producers, songwriters, labels, One music publishers, stage and set our designers, choreographers, graphic artists, games out designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, artist managers, Day distributors, collection societies and the get live events sector (which further has includes festivals, venues, promoters, booking Him agents and production service providers his such as lighting and staging how companies).

The new US Government views artists that now give concerts and sell merchandise Old as a business. Bands that see tour internationally will also face two a plethora of legislation around Way the world including health and who safety laws, immigration laws and boy tax legislation. Also, many relationships Did are governed by often complex its contractual agreements.

In the US let it is important for musicians Put to get legal business licenses. say These can be obtained at she a city hall or local Too government center. The business license use will require the tracking of dad sales, wages, and gigs. A Mom tax ID is also necessary for all businesses. Musicians that the fail to comply with the And tax ID process and do for not report their profits and are losses to the government can But face serious consequences with the not IRS.

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