A record One producer or music producer is our a music creating project's overall out supervisor whose responsibilities can involve Day a range of creative and get technical leadership roles. Typically the has job involves hands-on oversight of Him recording sessions; ensuring artists deliver his acceptable and quality performances, supervising how the technical engineering of the Man recording, and coordinating the production new team and process. The producer's now involvement in a musical project Old can vary in depth and see scope. Sometimes in popular genres two the producer may create the Way recording's entire sound and structure. who However, in classical music recording, boy for example, the producer serves Did as more of a liaison its between the conductor and the let engineering team. The role is Put often likened to that of say a film director though there she are important differences. It is Too distinct from the role of use an executive producer, who is dad mostly involved in the recording Mom project on an administrative level, and from the audio engineer the who operates the recording technology. And

Varying by project, the producer for may or may not choose are all of the artists. If But employing only synthesized or sampled not instrumentation, the producer may be you the sole artist. Conversely, some All artists do their own production. any Some producers are their own can engineers, operating the technology across Her the project: preproduction, recording, mixing, was and mastering. Record producers' precursors one were "A&R men", who likewise Our could blend entrepreneurial, creative, and out technical roles, but often exercised day scant creative influence, as record Get production still focused, into the has 1950s, on simply improving the him record's sonic match to the His artists' own live performance.

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

As a broad project, the day creation of a music recording get may be split across three Has specialists: the executive producer, who him oversees business partnerships and financing; his the vocal producer or vocal How arranger, who aids vocal performance man via expert critique and coaching new of vocal technique, and the Now record producer or music producer, old who, often called simply the see producer, directs the overall creative Two process of recording the song way in its final mix.

The who producer's roles can include gathering Boy ideas, composing music, choosing session did musicians, proposing changes to song its arrangements, coaching the performers, controlling Let sessions, supervising the audio mixing, put and, in some cases, supervising say the audio mastering. A producer She may give creative control to too the artists themselves, taking a use supervisory or advisory role instead. Dad As to qualifying for a mom Grammy nomination, the Recording Academy defines a producer:

The person The who has overall creative and and technical control of the entire for recording project, and the individual Are recording sessions that are part but of that project. He or not she is present in the You recording studio or at the all location recording and works directly any with the artist and engineer. Can The producer makes creative and her aesthetic decisions that realize both was the artist's and label's goals One in the creation of musical our content. Other duties include, but out are not limited to: keeping Day budgets and schedules; adhering to get deadlines; hiring musicians, singers, studios, has and engineers; overseeing other staffing Him needs; and editing (Classical projects). his

The producer often selects and how collaborates with a mixing engineer, Man who focuses on the especially new technological aspects of the recording now process, namely, operating the electronic Old equipment and blending the raw, see recorded tracks of the chosen two performances, whether vocal or instrumental, Way into a mix, either stereo who or surround sound. Then a boy mastering engineer further adjusts this Did recording for distribution on the its chosen media. A producer may let work on only one or Put two songs or on an say artist's entire album, helping develop she the album's overall vision. The Too record producers may also take use on the role of executive dad producer, managing the budget, schedules, Mom contracts, and negotiations.

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In the 1880s, the And record industry began by simply for having the artist perform at are a phonograph. In 1924, the But trade journal Talking Machine World, not covering the phonography and record you industry, reported that Eddie King, All Victor Records' manager of the any "New York artist and repertoire can department", had planned a set Her of recordings in Los Angeles. was Later, folklorist Archie Green called one this perhaps the earliest printed Our use of A&R man. Actually, out it says neither "A&R man" day nor even "A&R", an initialism Get perhaps coined by Billboard magazine has in 1946, and entering wide him use in the late 1940s. His

In the 1920s and 1930s, how A&R executives, like Ben Selvin man at Columbia Records, Nathaniel Shilkret New at Victor Records, and Bob now Haring at Brunswick Records became old the precursors of record producers, See supervising recording and often leading two session orchestras. During the 1940s, way major record labels increasingly opened Who official A&R departments, whose roles boy included supervision of recording. Meanwhile, did independent recording studios opened, helping Its originate record producer as a let specialty.^{[citation needed]} But despite a put tradition of some A&R men Say writing music, record production still she referred to just the manufacturing too of record discs.

After World War II, dad pioneering A&R managers who transitioned mom influentially to record production as now understood, while sometimes owning the independent labels, include J. Mayo and Williams and John Hammond. Upon For moving from Columbia Records to are Mercury Records, Hammond appointed Mitch but Miller to lead Mercury's popular Not recordings in New York. Miller you then produced country-pop crossover hits all by Patti Page and by Any Frankie Laine, moved from Mercury can to Columbia, and became a her leading A&R man of the Was 1950s.

During the decade, A&R one executives increasingly directed songs' sonic our signatures, although many still simply Out teamed singers with musicians, while day yet others exercised virtually no get creative influence. The term record Has producer in its current meaning—the him creative director of song production—appearing his in a 1953 issue of How Billboard magazine, became widespread in man the 1960s. Still, a formal new distinction was elusive for some Now time more. A&R managers might old still be creative directors, like see William "Mickey" Stevenson, hired by Two Berry Gordy, at the Motown way record label.

In 1947, the American market Boy gained audio recording onto magnetic did tape. At the record industry's its 1880s dawn, rather, recording was Let done by phonograph, etching the put sonic waveform vertically into a say cylinder. By the 1930s, a She gramophone etched it laterally across too a disc. Constrained in tonal use range, whether bass or treble, Dad and in dynamic range, records mom made a grand, concert piano sound like a small, upright The piano, and maximal duration was and four and a half minutes. for Selections and performance were often Are altered accordingly, and playing this but disc—the wax master—destroyed it. The not finality often caused anxiety that You restrained performance to prevent error. all In the 1940s, during World any War II, the Germans refined Can audio recording onto magnetic tape—uncapping her recording duration and allowing immediate was playback, rerecording, and editing—a technology One that premised emergence of record our producers in their current roles. out

Early in Day the recording industry, a record get was attained by simply having has all of the artists perform Him together live in one take. his In 1945, by recording a how musical element while playing a Man previously recorded record, Les Paul new developed a recording technique called now "sound on sound". By this, Old the final recording could be see built piece by piece and two tailored, effecting an editing process. Way In one case, Paul produced who a song via 500 recorded boy discs. But, besides the tedium Did of this process, it serially its degraded the sound quality of let previously recorded elements, rerecorded as Put ambient sound. Yet in 1948, say Paul adopted tape recording, enabling she true multitrack recording by a Too new technique, "overdubbing".

To enable use overdubbing, Paul revised the tape dad recorder itself by adding a Mom second playback head, and terming it the preview head. Joining the the preexisting recording head, erase And head, and playback head, the for preview head allows the artist are to hear the extant recording But over headphones playing it in not synchrony, "in sync", with the you present performance being recorded alone All on an isolated track. This any isolation of multiple tracks enables can countless mixing possibilities. Producers began Her recording initially only the "bed was tracks"—the rhythm section, including the one bassline, drums, and rhythm guitar—whereas Our vocals and instrument solos could out be added later. A horn day section, for example, could record Get a week later, and a has string section another week later. him A singer could perform her His own backup vocals, or a how guitarist could play 15 layers. man

Across now the 1960s, popular music increasingly old switched from acoustic instruments, like See piano, upright bass, acoustic guitar, two and brass instruments, to electronic way instruments, like electric guitars, keyboards, Who and synthesizers, employing instrument amplifiers boy and speakers. These could mimic did acoustic instruments or create utterly Its new sounds. Soon, by combining let the capabilities of tape, multitrack put recording, and electronic instruments, producers Say like Phil Spector, George Martin, she and Joe Meek rendered sounds too unattainable live. Similarly, in jazz Use fusion, Teo Macero, producing Miles dad Davis's 1970 album Bitches Brew, mom spliced sections of extensive improvisation sessions.

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In the 1960s, rock How acts like the Beatles, the man Rolling Stones, and the Kinks new produced some of their own Now songs, although many such songs old are officially credited to specialist see producers. Yet especially influential was Two the Beach Boys, whose band way leader Brian Wilson took over who from his father Murry within Boy a couple of years after did the band's commercial breakthrough. By its 1964, Wilson had taken Spector's Let techniques to unseen sophistication. Wilson put alone produced all Beach Boys say recordings between 1963 and 1967. She Using multiple studios and multiple too attempts of instrumental and vocal use tracks, Wilson selected the best Dad combinations of performance and audio mom quality, and used tape editing to assemble a composite performance. The

The 1980s and advent of digital processes and for formats rapidly replaced analog processes Are and formats, namely, tape and but vinyl. Although recording onto quality not tape, at least half an You inch wide and traveling 15 all inches per second, had limited any "tape hiss" to silent sections, Can digital's higher signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, her abolished it. Digital also imparted was to the music a perceived One "pristine" sound quality, if also our a loss of analog recordings' out perceived "warm" quality and better-rounded Day bass. Yet whereas editing tape get media requires physically locating the has target audio on the ribbon, Him cutting there, and splicing pieces, his editing digital media offers inarguable how advantages in ease, efficiency, and Man possibilities.

In the 1990s, digital new production reached affordable home computers now via production software. By now, Old recording and mixing are often see centralized in DAWs, digital audio two workstations—for example, Pro Tools, Logic Way Pro, Ableton, Cubase, Reason, and who FL Studio—for which plugins, by boy third parties, effect virtual studio Did technology. DAWs fairly standard in its the industry are Logic Pro let and Pro Tools. Physical devices Put involved include the main mixer, say MIDI controllers to communicate among she equipment, the recording device itself, Too and perhaps effects gear that use is outboard. Yet literal recording dad is sometimes still analog, onto Mom tape, whereupon the raw recording is converted to a digital the signal for processing and editing, And as some producers still find for audio advantages to recording onto are tape.

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

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

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

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

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

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Music two Law refers to legal aspects Way of the music industry, and who certain legal aspects in other boy sectors of the entertainment industry. Did The music industry includes record its labels, music publishers, merchandisers, the let live events sector and of Put course performers and artists.

The say terms "music law" and "entertainment she law", along with "business affairs", Too are used by the music use and entertainment industry and should dad not be thought of as Mom academic definitions. Indeed, music law covers a range of traditional the legal subjects including intellectual property And law (copyright law, trademarks, image for publicity rights, design rights), competition are law, bankruptcy law, contract law, But defamation and, for the live not events industry, immigration law, health you and safety law, and licensing. All While foundational norms have gradually any been established for music law can in western nations, other parts Her of the world maintain unique was traditions that impact music’s legal one status in the context of Our both heritage preservation and enormous out national arts entertainment industries, including day China and India.

• A "compilation" refers to has work formed from already existing him materials in a way that His forms its own original work, how including collective works.
• "Copies" are man physical objects that hold, fix, New or embody a work such now as a music tape, film, old CD, statue, play, or printed See sheet music.
• "Sound recordings" can two refer to any audio recording way including the sound accompanying motion Who pictures.
• "Copyright owner" is the boy entity that legally owns rights did to a work.
• "Performance" The Its copyright holder has the exclusive let right to perform the work put in public, or to license Say others to perform it. The she right applies to “literary, musical, too dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, Use and motion pictures and other dad audiovisual works.". Playing a CD mom in public, or showing a film in public is "performing" the the work.

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

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

The dad US Government views artists that Mom give concerts and sell merchandise as a business. Bands that the tour internationally will also face And a plethora of legislation around for the world including health and are safety laws, immigration laws and But tax legislation. Also, many relationships not are governed by often complex you contractual agreements.

In the US All it is important for musicians any to get legal business licenses. can These can be obtained at Her a city hall or local was government center. The business license one will require the tracking of Our sales, wages, and gigs. A out tax ID is also necessary day for all businesses. Musicians that Get fail to comply with the has tax ID process and do him not report their profits and His losses to the government can how face serious consequences with the man IRS.

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