A record for producer or music producer is are a music creating project's overall But supervisor whose responsibilities can involve not a range of creative and you technical leadership roles. Typically the All job involves hands-on oversight of any recording sessions; ensuring artists deliver can acceptable and quality performances, supervising Her the technical engineering of the was recording, and coordinating the production one team and process. The producer's Our involvement in a musical project out can vary in depth and day scope. Sometimes in popular genres Get the producer may create the has recording's entire sound and structure. him However, in classical music recording, His for example, the producer serves how as more of a liaison man between the conductor and the New engineering team. The role is now often likened to that of old a film director though there See are important differences. It is two distinct from the role of way an executive producer, who is Who mostly involved in the recording boy project on an administrative level, did and from the audio engineer Its who operates the recording technology. let

Varying by project, the producer put may or may not choose Say all of the artists. If she employing only synthesized or sampled too instrumentation, the producer may be Use the sole artist. Conversely, some dad artists do their own production. mom Some producers are their own engineers, operating the technology across the the project: preproduction, recording, mixing, and and mastering. Record producers' precursors For were "A&R men", who likewise are could blend entrepreneurial, creative, and but technical roles, but often exercised Not scant creative influence, as record you production still focused, into the all 1950s, on simply improving the Any record's sonic match to the can artists' own live performance.

Advances her in recording technology, especially the Was 1940s advent of tape recording—which one Les Paul promptly innovated further our to develop multitrack recording—and the Out 1950s rise of electronic instruments, day turned record production into a get specialty. In popular music, then, Has producers like George Martin, Phil him Spector and Brian Eno led his its evolution into its present How use of elaborate techniques and man unrealistic sounds, creating songs impossible new to originate live. After the Now 1980s, production's move from analog old to digital further expanded possibilities. see By now, DAWs, or digital Two audio workstations, like Logic Pro, way Pro Tools and Studio One, who turn an ordinary computer into Boy a production console, whereby a did solitary novice can become a its skilled producer in a thrifty Let home studio. In the 2010s, put efforts began to increase the say prevalence of producers and engineers She who are women, heavily outnumbered too by men and prominently accoladed use only in classical music.

As a broad project, the not creation of a music recording You may be split across three all specialists: the executive producer, who any oversees business partnerships and financing; Can the vocal producer or vocal her arranger, who aids vocal performance was via expert critique and coaching One of vocal technique, and the our record producer or music producer, out who, often called simply the Day producer, directs the overall creative get process of recording the song has in its final mix.

The Him producer's roles can include gathering his ideas, composing music, choosing session how musicians, proposing changes to song Man arrangements, coaching the performers, controlling new sessions, supervising the audio mixing, now and, in some cases, supervising Old the audio mastering. A producer see may give creative control to two the artists themselves, taking a Way supervisory or advisory role instead. who As to qualifying for a boy Grammy nomination, the Recording Academy Did defines a producer:

The person its who has overall creative and let technical control of the entire Put recording project, and the individual say recording sessions that are part she of that project. He or Too she is present in the use recording studio or at the dad location recording and works directly Mom with the artist and engineer. The producer makes creative and the aesthetic decisions that realize both And the artist's and label's goals for in the creation of musical are content. Other duties include, but But are not limited to: keeping not budgets and schedules; adhering to you deadlines; hiring musicians, singers, studios, All and engineers; overseeing other staffing any needs; and editing (Classical projects). can

The producer often selects and Her collaborates with a mixing engineer, was who focuses on the especially one technological aspects of the recording Our process, namely, operating the electronic out equipment and blending the raw, day recorded tracks of the chosen Get performances, whether vocal or instrumental, has into a mix, either stereo him or surround sound. Then a His mastering engineer further adjusts this how recording for distribution on the man chosen media. A producer may New work on only one or now two songs or on an old artist's entire album, helping develop See the album's overall vision. The two record producers may also take way on the role of executive Who producer, managing the budget, schedules, boy contracts, and negotiations.

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In the 1880s, the let record industry began by simply put having the artist perform at Say a phonograph. In 1924, the she trade journal Talking Machine World, too covering the phonography and record Use industry, reported that Eddie King, dad Victor Records' manager of the mom "New York artist and repertoire department", had planned a set the of recordings in Los Angeles. and Later, folklorist Archie Green called For this perhaps the earliest printed are use of A&R man. Actually, but it says neither "A&R man" Not nor even "A&R", an initialism you perhaps coined by Billboard magazine all in 1946, and entering wide Any use in the late 1940s. can

In the 1920s and 1930s, her A&R executives, like Ben Selvin Was at Columbia Records, Nathaniel Shilkret one at Victor Records, and Bob our Haring at Brunswick Records became Out the precursors of record producers, day supervising recording and often leading get session orchestras. During the 1940s, Has major record labels increasingly opened him official A&R departments, whose roles his included supervision of recording. Meanwhile, How independent recording studios opened, helping man originate record producer as a new specialty.^{[citation needed]} But despite a Now tradition of some A&R men old writing music, record production still see referred to just the manufacturing Two of record discs.

After World War II, who pioneering A&R managers who transitioned Boy influentially to record production as did now understood, while sometimes owning its independent labels, include J. Mayo Let Williams and John Hammond. Upon put moving from Columbia Records to say Mercury Records, Hammond appointed Mitch She Miller to lead Mercury's popular too recordings in New York. Miller use then produced country-pop crossover hits Dad by Patti Page and by mom Frankie Laine, moved from Mercury to Columbia, and became a The leading A&R man of the and 1950s.

During the decade, A&R for executives increasingly directed songs' sonic Are signatures, although many still simply but teamed singers with musicians, while not yet others exercised virtually no You creative influence. The term record all producer in its current meaning—the any creative director of song production—appearing Can in a 1953 issue of her Billboard magazine, became widespread in was the 1960s. Still, a formal One distinction was elusive for some our time more. A&R managers might out still be creative directors, like Day William "Mickey" Stevenson, hired by get Berry Gordy, at the Motown has record label.

In 1947, the American market his gained audio recording onto magnetic how tape. At the record industry's Man 1880s dawn, rather, recording was new done by phonograph, etching the now sonic waveform vertically into a Old cylinder. By the 1930s, a see gramophone etched it laterally across two a disc. Constrained in tonal Way range, whether bass or treble, who and in dynamic range, records boy made a grand, concert piano Did sound like a small, upright its piano, and maximal duration was let four and a half minutes. Put Selections and performance were often say altered accordingly, and playing this she disc—the wax master—destroyed it. The Too finality often caused anxiety that use restrained performance to prevent error. dad In the 1940s, during World Mom War II, the Germans refined audio recording onto magnetic tape—uncapping the recording duration and allowing immediate And playback, rerecording, and editing—a technology for that premised emergence of record are producers in their current roles. But

Early in not the recording industry, a record you was attained by simply having All all of the artists perform any together live in one take. can In 1945, by recording a Her musical element while playing a was previously recorded record, Les Paul one developed a recording technique called Our "sound on sound". By this, out the final recording could be day built piece by piece and Get tailored, effecting an editing process. has In one case, Paul produced him a song via 500 recorded His discs. But, besides the tedium how of this process, it serially man degraded the sound quality of New previously recorded elements, rerecorded as now ambient sound. Yet in 1948, old Paul adopted tape recording, enabling See true multitrack recording by a two new technique, "overdubbing".

To enable way overdubbing, Paul revised the tape Who recorder itself by adding a boy second playback head, and terming did it the preview head. Joining Its the preexisting recording head, erase let head, and playback head, the put preview head allows the artist Say to hear the extant recording she over headphones playing it in too synchrony, "in sync", with the Use present performance being recorded alone dad on an isolated track. This mom isolation of multiple tracks enables countless mixing possibilities. Producers began the recording initially only the "bed and tracks"—the rhythm section, including the For bassline, drums, and rhythm guitar—whereas are vocals and instrument solos could but be added later. A horn Not section, for example, could record you a week later, and a all string section another week later. Any A singer could perform her can own backup vocals, or a her guitarist could play 15 layers. Was

Across our the 1960s, popular music increasingly Out switched from acoustic instruments, like day piano, upright bass, acoustic guitar, get and brass instruments, to electronic Has instruments, like electric guitars, keyboards, him and synthesizers, employing instrument amplifiers his and speakers. These could mimic How acoustic instruments or create utterly man new sounds. Soon, by combining new the capabilities of tape, multitrack Now recording, and electronic instruments, producers old like Phil Spector, George Martin, see and Joe Meek rendered sounds Two unattainable live. Similarly, in jazz way fusion, Teo Macero, producing Miles who Davis's 1970 album Bitches Brew, Boy spliced sections of extensive improvisation did sessions.

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In the 1960s, rock her acts like the Beatles, the was Rolling Stones, and the Kinks One produced some of their own our songs, although many such songs out are officially credited to specialist Day producers. Yet especially influential was get the Beach Boys, whose band has leader Brian Wilson took over Him from his father Murry within his a couple of years after how the band's commercial breakthrough. By Man 1964, Wilson had taken Spector's new techniques to unseen sophistication. Wilson now alone produced all Beach Boys Old recordings between 1963 and 1967. see Using multiple studios and multiple two attempts of instrumental and vocal Way tracks, Wilson selected the best who combinations of performance and audio boy quality, and used tape editing Did to assemble a composite performance. its

The 1980s let advent of digital processes and Put formats rapidly replaced analog processes say and formats, namely, tape and she vinyl. Although recording onto quality Too tape, at least half an use inch wide and traveling 15 dad inches per second, had limited Mom "tape hiss" to silent sections, digital's higher signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, the abolished it. Digital also imparted And to the music a perceived for "pristine" sound quality, if also are a loss of analog recordings' But perceived "warm" quality and better-rounded not bass. Yet whereas editing tape you media requires physically locating the All target audio on the ribbon, any cutting there, and splicing pieces, can editing digital media offers inarguable Her advantages in ease, efficiency, and was possibilities.

In the 1990s, digital one production reached affordable home computers Our via production software. By now, out recording and mixing are often day centralized in DAWs, digital audio Get workstations—for example, Pro Tools, Logic has Pro, Ableton, Cubase, Reason, and him FL Studio—for which plugins, by His third parties, effect virtual studio how technology. DAWs fairly standard in man the industry are Logic Pro New and Pro Tools. Physical devices now involved include the main mixer, old MIDI controllers to communicate among See equipment, the recording device itself, two and perhaps effects gear that way is outboard. Yet literal recording Who is sometimes still analog, onto boy tape, whereupon the raw recording did is converted to a digital Its signal for processing and editing, let as some producers still find put audio advantages to recording onto Say tape.

Conventionally, tape is more she forgiving of overmodulation, whereby dynamic too peaks exceed the maximal recordable Use signal level: tape's limitation, a dad physical property, is magnetic capacity, mom which tapers off, smoothing the overmodulated waveform even at a the signal nearly 15 decibels too and "hot", whereas a digital recording For is ruined by harsh distortion are of "clipping" at any overshoot. but In digital recording, however, a Not recent advancement, 32-bit float, enables you DAWs to undo clipping. Still, all some criticize digital instruments and Any workflows for excess automation, allegedly can impairing creative or sonic control. her In any case, as production Was technology has drastically changed, so one have the knowledge demands, although our DAWs enables novices, even teenagers Out at home, to learn production day independently. Some have attained professional get competence before ever working with Has an artist.

Among female record his producers, Sylvia Moy was the How first at Motown, Gail Davies man the first on Nashville's Music new Row, and Ethel Gabriel, with Now RCA, the first at a old major record label. Lillian McMurry, see owning Trumpet Records, produced influential Two blues records. Meanwhile, Wilma Cozart way Fine produced hundreds of records who for Mercury Records' classical division. Boy For classical production, three women did have won Grammy awards, and its Judith Sherman's 2015 win was Let her fifth. Yet in nonclassical, put no woman has won Producer say of the Year, awarded since She 1975 and only one even too nominated for a record not use her own, Linda Perry. After Dad Lauren Christy's 2004 nomination, Linda mom Perry's 2019 nomination was the next for a woman. On The why no woman had ever and won it, Perry commented, "I for just don't think there are Are that many women interested." In but the U.K., Lynsey de Paul not was an early female record You producer, having produced both of all her Ivor Novello award-winning songs. any

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

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

In can January 2018, a research team Her led by Stacy L. Smith, was founder and director of the one Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, based in Our the USC Annenberg School for out Communication and Journalism, issued a day report, estimating that in the Get prior several years, about 2% has of popular songs' producers were him female. Also that month, Billboard His magazine queried, "Where are all how the female music producers?" Upon man the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative's second New annual report, released in February now 2019, its department at USC old reported, "2018 saw an outcry See from artists, executives and other two music industry professionals over the way lack of women in music" Who and "the plight of women boy in music", where women were did allegedly being "stereotyped, sexualized, and Its shut out". Also in February let 2019, the Recording Academy's Task put Force on Diversity and Inclusion Say announced an initiative whereby over she 200 artists and producers—ranging from too Cardi B and Taylor Swift Use to Maroon 5 and Quincy dad Jones—agreed to consider at least mom two women for each producer or engineer position. The academy's the website, Grammy.com, announced, "This initiative and is the first step in For a broader effort to improve are those numbers and increase diversity but and inclusion for all in Not the music industry."

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Music Get Law refers to legal aspects has of the music industry, and him certain legal aspects in other His sectors of the entertainment industry. how The music industry includes record man labels, music publishers, merchandisers, the New live events sector and of now course performers and artists.

The old terms "music law" and "entertainment See law", along with "business affairs", two are used by the music way and entertainment industry and should Who not be thought of as boy academic definitions. Indeed, music law did covers a range of traditional Its legal subjects including intellectual property let law (copyright law, trademarks, image put publicity rights, design rights), competition Say law, bankruptcy law, contract law, she defamation and, for the live too events industry, immigration law, health Use and safety law, and licensing. dad While foundational norms have gradually mom been established for music law in western nations, other parts the of the world maintain unique and traditions that impact music’s legal For status in the context of are both heritage preservation and enormous but national arts entertainment industries, including Not China and India.

• A "compilation" refers to all work formed from already existing Any materials in a way that can forms its own original work, her including collective works.
• "Copies" are Was physical objects that hold, fix, one or embody a work such our as a music tape, film, Out CD, statue, play, or printed day sheet music.
• "Sound recordings" can get refer to any audio recording Has including the sound accompanying motion him pictures.
• "Copyright owner" is the his entity that legally owns rights How to a work.
• "Performance" The man copyright holder has the exclusive new right to perform the work Now in public, or to license old others to perform it. The see right applies to “literary, musical, Two dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, way and motion pictures and other who audiovisual works.". Playing a CD Boy in public, or showing a did film in public is "performing" its the work.

Publishing is the put primary source of income for say musicians writing their own music.^{[citation She needed]} Money collected from the too 'publishing' rights is ultimately destined use for songwriters - the composers Dad of works, whether or not mom they are the recording artist or performer. Often, songwriters will The work for a musical ensemble and to help them with musical for aspects of the composition, but Are here again, the writer of but the song is the owner not of it and will own You the copyrights in the song all and thus will be entitled any to the publishing revenues. Copyrights Can in compositions are not the her same as sound recordings. A was recording artist can record a One song and sell it to our another band or company. As out a result, that particular company Day will own the recording, but get not the song. The original has writer will always maintain the Him copyright for that particular song. his The publishing money is connected how to the copyright, so the Man owner will be the only new one making money off of now the song itself. All successful Old songwriters will join a collection see society (such as ASCAP and two BMI in the USA, SOCAN Way in Canada, JASRAC in Japan, who GEMA in Germany and PRS boy for Music in the UK, Did etc.) and many will enter its into agreements with music publishing let companies who will exploit their Put works on the songwriters behalf say for a share of ownership, she although many of these deals Too involve the transfer (assignment) of use copyright from the songwriter to dad the music publisher,

Both the Mom recorded music sector and music publishing sector have their foundations the in intellectual property law and And all of the major recording for labels and major music publishers are and many independent record labels But and publishers have dedicated "business not and legal affairs" departments with you in-house lawyers whose role is All not only to secure intellectual any property rights from recording artists, can performers and songwriters but also Her to exploit those rights and was protect those rights on a one global basis. There are a Our number of specialist independent law out firms around the world who day advise on music and entertainment Get law whose clients include recording has artists, performers, producers, songwriters, labels, him music publishers, stage and set His designers, choreographers, graphic artists, games how designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, artist managers, man distributors, collection societies and the New live events sector (which further now includes festivals, venues, promoters, booking old agents and production service providers See such as lighting and staging two companies).

The Who US Government views artists that boy give concerts and sell merchandise did as a business. Bands that Its tour internationally will also face let a plethora of legislation around put the world including health and Say safety laws, immigration laws and she tax legislation. Also, many relationships too are governed by often complex Use contractual agreements.

In the US dad it is important for musicians mom to get legal business licenses. These can be obtained at the a city hall or local and government center. The business license For will require the tracking of are sales, wages, and gigs. A but tax ID is also necessary Not for all businesses. Musicians that you fail to comply with the all tax ID process and do Any not report their profits and can losses to the government can her face serious consequences with the Was IRS.

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