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A his record producer is a music How recording project's overall supervisor whose man responsibilities can involve a range new of creative and technical leadership Now roles. Typically the job involves old hands-on oversight of recording sessions: see ensuring artists deliver acceptable and Two quality performances, supervising the technical way engineering of the recording, and who coordinating the production team and Boy process. The producer's involvement in did a musical project can vary its in depth and scope. Sometimes Let in popular genres the producer put may create the recording's entire say sound and structure. However, in She classical music recording, for example, too the producer serves as more use of a liaison between the Dad conductor and the engineering team. mom The role is often likened to that of a film The director though there are important and differences. It is distinct from for the role of an executive Are producer, who is mostly involved but in the recording project on not an administrative level, and from You the audio engineer who operates all the recording technology.
Varying by any project, the producer may or Can may not choose all of her the artists. If employing only was synthesized or sampled instrumentation, the One producer may be the sole our artist. Conversely, some artists do out their own production. Some producers Day are their own engineers, operating get the technology across the project: has preproduction, recording, mixing, and mastering. Him Record producers' precursors were "A&R his men", who likewise could blend how entrepreneurial, creative, and technical roles,Man but often exercised scant creative new influence, as record production still now focused, into the 1950s, on Old simply improving the record's sonic see match to the artists' own two live performance.
Advances in recording Way technology, especially the 1940s advent who of tape recording—which Les Paulboy promptly innovated further to develop Did multitrack recording—and the 1950s rise its of electronic instruments, turned record let production into a specialty. In Put popular music, then, producers like say George Martin, Phil Spector and she Brian Eno led its evolution Too into its present use of use elaborate techniques and unrealistic sounds, dad creating songs impossible to originate Mom live. After the 1980s, production's move from analog to digital the further expanded possibilities. By now, And DAWs, or digital audio workstations, for like Logic Pro, Pro Toolsare and Studio One, turn an But ordinary computer into a production not console, whereby a solitary novice you can become a skilled producer All in a thrifty home studio.any In the 2010s, efforts began can to increase the prevalence of Her producers and engineers who are was women, heavily outnumbered by men one and prominently accoladed only in Our classical music.
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Production overview
As a man broad project, the creation of New a music recording may be now split across three specialists: the old executive producer, who oversees business See partnerships and financing; the vocal two producer or vocal arranger, who way aids vocal performance via expert Who critique and coaching of vocal boy technique, and the record producer did or music producer, who, often Its called simply the producer, directs let the overall creative process of put recording the song in its Say final mix.
The producer's she roles can include gathering ideas, too composing music, choosing session musicians, Use proposing changes to song arrangements, dad coaching the performers, controlling sessions, mom supervising the audio mixing, and, in some cases, supervising the the audio mastering. A producer may and give creative control to the For artists themselves, taking a supervisory are or advisory role instead. As but to qualifying for a GrammyNot nomination, the Recording Academy defines you a producer:
The person who all has overall creative and technical Any control of the entire recording can project, and the individual recording her sessions that are part of Was that project. He or she one is present in the recording our studio or at the location Out recording and works directly with day the artist and engineer. The get producer makes creative and aesthetic Has decisions that realize both the him artist's and label's goals in his the creation of musical content. How Other duties include, but are man not limited to; keeping budgets new and schedules, adhering to deadlines, Now hiring musicians, singers, studios, and old engineers, overseeing other staffing needs see and editing (Classical projects).
The Two producer often selects and collaborates way with a mixing engineer, who who focuses on the especially technological Boy aspects of the recording process, did namely, operating the electronic equipment its and blending the raw, recorded Let tracks of the chosen performances, put whether vocal or instrumental, into say a ''mix'', either stereo or She surround sound. Then a mastering too engineer further adjusts this recording use for distribution on the chosen Dad media. A producer may work mom on only one or two songs or on an artist's The entire album, helping develop the and album's overall vision. The record for producers may also take on Are the role of executive producer, but managing the budget, schedules, contracts, not and negotiations.
Historical developments
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In the 1880s, the record any industry began by simply having Can the artist perform at a her phonograph. In 1924, the trade was journal Talking Machine World, covering One the phonography and record industry, our reported that Eddie King, Victor out Records' manager of the "New Day York artist and repertoire department", get had planned a set of has recordings in Los Angeles. Later, Him folklorist Archie Green called this his perhaps the earliest printed use how of A&R man. Actually, it Man says neither "A&R man" nor new even "A&R", an initialism perhaps now coined by Billboard magazine in Old 1946, and entering wide use see in the late 1940s.
In two the 1920s and 1930s, A&R Way executives, like Ben Selvin at who Columbia Records, Nathaniel Shilkret at boy Victor Records, and Bob Haring Did at Brunswick Records became the its precursors of record producers, supervising let recording and often leading session Put orchestras. During the 1940s, major say record labels increasingly opened official she A&R departments, whose roles included Too supervision of recording. Meanwhile, independent use recording studios opened, helping originate dad record producer as a specialty.[citation Mom needed] But despite a tradition of some A&R men writing the music, record production still referred And to just the manufacturing of for record discs.
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After World War II, pioneering But A&R managers who transitioned influentially not to record production as now you understood, while sometimes owning independent All labels, include J. Mayo Williamsany and John Hammond. Upon moving can from Columbia Records to Mercury Her Records, Hammond appointed Mitch Millerwas to lead Mercury's popular recordings one in New York. Miller then Our produced country-pop crossover hits by out Patti Page and by Frankie day Laine, moved from Mercury to Get Columbia, and became a leading has A&R man of the 1950s.him
During the decade, A&R executives His increasingly directed songs' sonic signatures, how although many still simply teamed man singers with musicians, while yet New others exercised virtually no creative now influence. The term record producerold in its current meaning—the creative See director of song production—appearing in two a 1953 issue of Billboardway magazine, became widespread in the Who 1960s. Still, a formal distinction boy was elusive for some time did more. A&R managers might still Its be creative directors, like William let "Mickey" Stevenson, hired by Berry put Gordy, at the Motown record Say label.
Tape recording
In she 1947, the American market gained too audio recording onto magnetic tape.Use At the record industry's 1880s dad dawn, rather, recording was done mom by phonograph, etching the sonic waveform vertically into a cylinder.the By the 1930s, a gramophone and etched it laterally across a For disc. Constrained in tonal range, are whether bass or treble, and but in dynamic range, records made Not a grand, concert piano sound you like a small, upright piano, all and maximal duration was four Any and a half minutes. Selections can and performance were often altered her accordingly, and playing this disc—the Was wax master—destroyed it. The finality one often caused anxiety that restrained our performance to prevent error. In Out the 1940s, during World War day II, the Germans refined audio get recording onto magnetic tape—uncapping recording Has duration and allowing immediate playback, him rerecording, and editing—a technology that his premised emergence of record producers How in their current roles.
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Multitrack recording
Early in the new recording industry, a record was Now attained by simply having all old of the artists perform together see live in one take. In Two 1945, by recording a musical way element while playing a previously who recorded record, Les Paul developed Boy a recording technique called "sound did on sound". By this, the its final recording could be built Let piece by piece and tailored, put effecting an editing process. In say one case, Paul produced a She song via 500 recorded discs.too But, besides the tedium of use this process, it serially degraded Dad the sound quality of previously mom recorded elements, rerecorded as ambient sound. Yet in 1948, Paul The adopted tape recording, enabling truly and multitrack recording by a new for technique, "overdubbing".
To enable overdubbing, Are Paul revised the tape recorder but itself by adding a second not playback head, and terming it You the preview head. Joining the all preexisting recording head, erase head, any and playback head, the preview Can head allows the artist to her hear the extant recording over was headphones playing it in synchrony, One "in sync", with the present our performance being recorded alone on out an isolated track. This isolation Day of multiple tracks enables countless get mixing possibilities. Producers began recording has initially only the "bed tracks"—the Him rhythm section, including the bassline, his drums, and rhythm guitar—whereas vocals how and instrument solos could be Man added later. A horn section, new for example, could record a now week later, and a string Old section another week later. A see singer could perform her own two backup vocals, or a guitarist Way could play 15 layers.
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Electronic instruments
Across the Did 1960s, popular music increasingly switched its from acoustic instruments, like piano, let upright bass, acoustic guitar, and Put brass instruments, to electronic instruments, say like electric guitars, keyboards, and she synthesizers, employing instrument amplifiers and Too speakers. These could mimic acoustic use instruments or create utterly new dad sounds. Soon, by combining the Mom capabilities of tape, multitrack recording, and electronic instruments, producers like the Phil Spector, George Martin, and And Joe Meek rendered sounds unattainable for live. Similarly, in jazz fusion, are Teo Macero, producing Miles Davis's But 1970 album Bitches Brew, spliced not sections of extensive improvisation sessions. you
In See the 1960s, rock acts like two the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, way and the Kinks produced some Who of their own songs, although boy many such songs are officially did credited to specialist producers. Yet Its especially influential was the Beach let Boys, whose band leader Brian put Wilson took over from his Say father Murry within a couple she of years after the band's too commercial breakthrough. By 1964, Wilson Use had taken Spector's techniques to dad unseen sophistication. Wilson alone produced mom all Beach Boy recordings between 1963 and 1967. Using multiple the studios and multiple attempts of and instrumental and vocal tracks, Wilson For selected the best combinations of are performance and audio quality, and but used tape editing to assemble Not a composite performance.
Digital you production
The 1980s advent of can digital processes and formats rapidly her replaced analog processes and formats, Was namely, tape and vinyl. Although one recording onto quality tape, at our least half an inch wide Out and traveling 15 inches per day second, had limited "tape hiss" get to silent sections, digital's higher Has signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, abolished it.him Digital also imparted to the his music a perceived "pristine" sound How quality, if also a loss man of analog recordings' perceived "warm" new quality and better-rounded bass. Yet Now whereas editing tape media requires old physically locating the target audio see on the ribbon, cutting there, Two and splicing pieces, editing digital way media offers inarguable advantages in who ease, efficiency, and possibilities.
In Boy the 1990s, digital production reached did affordable home computers via production its software. By now, recording and Let mixing are often centralized in put DAWs, digital audio workstations—for example, say Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton, She Cubase, Reason, and FL Studio—for too which plugins, by third parties, use effect virtual studio technology. DAWs Dad fairly standard in the industry mom are Logic Pro and Pro Tools. Physical devices involved include The the main mixer, MIDI controllers and to communicate among equipment, the for recording device itself, and perhaps Are effects gear that is outboard. but Yet literal recording is sometimes not still analog, onto tape, whereupon You the raw recording is converted all to a digital signal for any processing and editing, as some Can producers still find audio advantages her to recording onto tape.
Conventionally, was tape is more forgiving of One overmodulation, whereby dynamic peaks exceed our the maximal recordable signal level: out tape's limitation, a physical property, Day is magnetic capacity, which tapers get offs, smoothing the overmodulated waveform has even at a signal nearly Him 15 decibels too "hot", whereas his a digital recording is ruined how by harsh distortion of "clipping" Man at any overshoot. In digital new recording, however, a recent advancement, now 32-bit float, enables DAWs to Old undo clipping. Still, some criticize see digital instruments and workflows for two excess automation, allegedly impairing creative Way or sonic control. In any who case, as production technology has boy drastically changed, so have the Did knowledge demands, although DAWs enables its novices, even teenagers at home, let to learn production independently. Some Put have attained professional competence before say ever working with an artist.she
In the dad 2000s, with the advent of Mom technology that made traditional record production accessible, especially with hip the hop beatmaking and electronic music. And Within these genres, the term for producer is applied to a are number of roles and has But popularized the use of more not niche terms and credits including you executive producer, co-producer, assistant producer, All and additional and miscellaneous production any to differentiate contributions.
Women can in producing
Among female Her record producers, Sylvia Moy was was the first at Motown, Gail one Davies the first on Nashville's Our Music Row, and Ethel Gabriel, out with RCA, the first at day a major record label. Lillian Get McMurry, owning Trumpet Records, produced has influential blues records. Meanwhile, Wilma him Cozart Fine produced hundreds of His records for Mercury Records' classical how division. For classical production, three man women have won Grammy awards, New and Judith Sherman's 2015 win now was her fifth. Yet in old nonclassical, no woman has won See Producer of the Year, awarded two since 1975 and only one way even nominated for a record Who not her own, Linda Perry.boy After Lauren Christy's 2004 nomination, did Linda Perry's 2019 nomination was Its the next for a woman.let On why no woman had put ever won it, Perry commented, Say "I just don't think there she are that many women interested."too In the U.K., Lynsey de Use Paul was an early female dad record producer, having produced both mom of her Ivor Novello award-winning songs.
Across the decades, many the female artists have produced their and own music. For instance, artists For Kate Bush, Madonna, Mariah Carey, are Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, Lana Del but Rey, Taylor Swift, and LordeNot have produced or coproduced and you Ariana Grande who produces and all arranges her vocals as well Any as being an audio engineer.can Still among specialists, despite some her prominent women, including Missy ElliottWas in hip hop and Sylvia one Massy in rock, the vast our majority have been men. Early Out in the 2010s, asked for day insights that she herself had get gleaned as a woman who Has has specialized successfully in the him industry, Wendy Page remarked, "The his difficulties are usually very short-lived. How Once people realize that you man can do your job, sexism new tends to lower its ugly Now head." Still, when tasked to old explain her profession's sex disparity, see Page partly reasoned that record Two labels, dominated by men, have way been, she said, "mistrustful of who giving a woman the reins Boy of an immense, creative project did like making a record." Ultimately, its the reasons are multiple and Let not fully clear, although prominently put proposed factors include types of say sexism and scarcity of female She role models in the profession.too
Women producers known for producing use records not their own include Dad Sonia Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson and mom Carla Olson.
In January 2018, a research team led by The Stacy L. Smith, founder and and director of the Annenberg Inclusion for Initiative, based in the USC Are Annenberg School for Communication and but Journalism, issued a report, estimating not that in the prior several You years, about 2% of popular all songs' producers were female. Also any that month, Billboard magazine queried, Can "Where are all the female her music producers?" Upon the Annenberg was Inclusion Initiative's second annual report, One released in February 2019, its our department at USC reported, "2018 out saw an outcry from artists, Day executives and other music industry get professionals over the lack of has women in music" and "the Him plight of women in music", his where women were allegedly being how "stereotyped, sexualized, and shut out".Man Also in February 2019, the new Recording Academy's Task Force on now Diversity and Inclusion announced an Old initiative whereby over 200 artists see and producers—ranging from Cardi Btwo and Taylor Swift to Maroon Way 5 and Quincy Jones—agreed to who consider at least two women boy for each producer or engineer Did position. The academy's website, Grammy.com, its announced, "This initiative is the let first step in a broader Put effort to improve those numbers say and increase diversity and inclusion she for all in the music Too industry."
^ any Virgil Moorefield, "Introduction", The Producer can as Composer: Shaping the Sounds Her of Popular Music (Cambridge, MA was & London, UK: MIT Press, one 2005).
^ Allan Watson, has Cultural Production in and Beyond him the Recording Studio (New York: His Routledge, 2015), pp 25–27.
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^ Say Brent Hurtig with J. D. she Sharp, Multi-Track Recording for Musicians: too The Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Use Beginners and Reference for Professionalsdad (Cupertino, CA: GPI Publications, 1988 mom / Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing, 1988), pp 8–10.
^ Brian Ward & She Patrick Huber, A&R Pioneers: Architects too of American Roots Music on use Record (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Dad Press, 2018), pp 20–21.
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Are Jim Curtis, Rock Eras: Interpretation but of Music & Society, 1954–1984not (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green You State University Popular Press, 1987), all p 43.
^ any Richard James Burgess, The History Can of Music Production (New York: her Oxford University Press, 2014), pp was 50–54.
^ Robert One Philip, "Pianists on record in our the early twentieth century", in out David Rowland, ed., The Cambridge Day Companion to the Piano (Cambridge, get UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998), has pp 75–77.
^ Him David Simmons, Analog Recording: Using his Analog Gear in Today's Home how Studio (San Francisco: Backbeat Books, Man 2006), pp 26–27.
new Matthew Allard, "Sound Devices MixPre now V6.00 adds 32-bit float USB Old audio streaming", NewsShooter.com, Newsshooter, 15 see Jan 2020, quotes Paul Isaacs, two director of product management and Way design at the recorder manufacturer who Sound Devices, who explains, "With boy 32-bit float, you no longer Did need to worry about clipping its during your best vocal takes let or instrument solos. Any recorded Put moments exceeding 0 dBFS can say be reduced to an acceptable she level, after recording, in your Too DAW".
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Music its Law refers to legal aspects let of the music industry, and Put certain legal aspects in other say sectors of the entertainment industry. she The music industry includes record Too labels, music publishers, merchandisers, the use live events sector and of dad course performers and artists.
The Mom terms "music law" and "entertainment law", along with "business affairs", the are used by the music And and entertainment industry and should for not be thought of as are academic definitions. Indeed, music law But covers a range of traditional not legal subjects including intellectual propertyyou law (copyright law, trademarks, image All publicity rights, design rights), competition any law, bankruptcy law, contract law, can defamation and, for the live Her events industry, immigration law, health was and safety law, and licensing. one While foundational norms have gradually Our been established for music law out in western nations, other parts day of the world maintain unique Get traditions that impact music’s legal has status in the context of him both heritage preservation and enormous His national arts entertainment industries, including how China and India.
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Definitions
A "compilation" refers to New work formed from already existing now materials in a way that old forms its own original work, See including collective works.
"Copies" are two physical objects that hold, fix, way or embody a work such Who as a music tape, film, boy CD, statue, play, or printed did sheet music.
"Sound recordings" can Its refer to any audio recording let including the sound accompanying motion put pictures.
"Copyright owner" is the Say entity that legally owns rights she to a work.
"Performance" The too copyright holder has the exclusive Use right to perform the work dad in public, or to license mom others to perform it. The right applies to “literary, musical, the dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and and motion pictures and other For audiovisual works.". Playing a CD are in public, or showing a but film in public is "performing" Not the work.
Publishing is the all primary source of income for Any musicians writing their own music.[citation can needed] Money collected from the her 'publishing' rights is ultimately destined Was for songwriters - the composers one of works, whether or not our they are the recording artist Out or performer. Often, songwriters will day work for a musical ensemble get to help them with musical Has aspects of the composition, but him here again, the writer of his the song is the owner How of it and will own man the copyrights in the song new and thus will be entitled Now to the publishing revenues. Copyrights old in compositions are not the see same as sound recordings. A Two recording artist can record a way song and sell it to who another band or company. As Boy a result, that particular company did will own the recording, but its not the song. The original Let writer will always maintain the put copyright for that particular song. say The publishing money is connected She to the copyright, so the too owner will be the only use one making money off of Dad the song itself. All successful mom songwriters will join a collection society (such as ASCAP and The BMI in the USA, SOCAN and in Canada, JASRAC in Japan, for GEMA in Germany and PRS Are for Music in the UK, but etc.) and many will enter not into agreements with music publishing You companies who will exploit their all works on the songwriters behalf any for a share of ownership, Can although many of these deals her involve the transfer (assignment) of was copyright from the songwriter to One the music publisher,
Both the our recorded music sector and music out publishing sector have their foundations Day in intellectual property law and get all of the major recording has labels and major music publishers Him and many independent record labels his and publishers have dedicated "business how and legal affairs" departments with Man in-house lawyers whose role is new not only to secure intellectual now property rights from recording artists, Old performers and songwriters but also see to exploit those rights and two protect those rights on a Way global basis. There are a who number of specialist independent law boy firms around the world who Did advise on music and entertainment its law whose clients include recording let artists, performers, producers, songwriters, labels, Put music publishers, stage and set say designers, choreographers, graphic artists, games she designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, artist managers, Too distributors, collection societies and the use live events sector (which further dad includes festivals, venues, promoters, booking Mom agents and production service providers such as lighting and staging the companies).
The for US Government views artists that are give concerts and sell merchandise But as a business. Bands that not tour internationally will also face you a plethora of legislation around All the world including health and any safety laws, immigration laws and can tax legislation. Also, many relationships Her are governed by often complex was contractual agreements.
In the US one it is important for musicians Our to get legal business licenses. out These can be obtained at day a city hall or local Get government center. The business license has will require the tracking of him sales, wages, and gigs. A His tax ID is also necessary how for all businesses. Musicians that man fail to comply with the New tax ID process and do now not report their profits and old losses to the government can See face serious consequences with the two IRS.
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Privilege Ibiza, originally known as get Ku Club (1979–95), is the has "world's largest nightclub" according to Him the Guinness Book of Records, his also defined as a superclubhow with a capacity of 10,000 Man people and encompassing 6,500 m² new (69,940 ft²). It is located close now to the village of Sant Old Rafael de Sa Creu on see the Spanish island of Ibiza, two less than one kilometre (0.6 Way miles) from the nightclub Amnesia. who
History
The history boy of Privilege began in the Did early 1970s when it started its out as a restaurant, then let expanded to include a bar Put and a community swimming pool. say It was then known as she Club San Rafael. In 1979, Too the venue was sold to use the Real Sociedad footballer José dad Antonio Santamaría, together with the Mom creative team of Brasilio de Oliviera (founder of La Troya the Asesina, one of Ibiza's longest And running nights) and Gorri. The for venue then changed its name are to KU, after the name But of a God from Hawaiian not mythology (see Kū). The appeal you of the club was such All that it commissioned a medium-length any film showcasing the many wonders can of Ibizan landscapes and nightlife Her in the mid-eighties.
Throughout the was 1980s, KU Club earned a one reputation initially as Europe's premier Our polysexual but predominately gay nightspot out and was compared to an day open-air version of the famous Get Studio 54 in New York. has It staged spectacular parties in him the main room, which was His organized around a swimming pool how and a statue of Ku. man The place was also where New the video to "Barcelona" by now Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballéold was filmed on 30 May See 1987. It was the witness two to early live performances by way groups such as Spandau BalletWho and Kid Creole and the boy Coconuts. The club featured in did a Channel 4 documentary called Its A Short Film about chilling, let which labelled KU as "the put mirror of Ibiza". A group Say of fashion designers called Locomíashe would have shows at KU.too After being discovered there, they Use went on to become a dad highly successful recording project. The mom open-air parties came to an end when legislation forced many the of the greater clubs in and Ibiza to cover their dancefloors For in the early 1990s. Nevertheless, are the sheer size of the but venue gave rise to the Not claim of it being the you size of an aircraft hangar all with a 25-metre (82 ft) high Any roof.
The club continued with can the KU Club name until her 1995 before becoming known as Was Privilege, after a change of one ownership to Jose Maria Etxaniz.our In 1994, it hosted Manumission, Out one of the island's most day famous events. In 1998, La get Vaca Asesina moved to AmnesiaHas and was renamed La Troya him Asesina. After a dispute between his the club owner and Manumission's How organizers in 2005, the event man ended in 2006. La Troya new Asesina moved to Space in Now 2006.
Venue
According to old official statistics published in the see 2003 edition of Guinness World Two Records, Privilege is by far way the world's largest nightclub covering who an area of 69,968 sq Boy ft (6,500 m2) and holding 10,000 did clubbers. Designated areas of the its club include the Coco Loco Let bar area, and the La put Vaca dance area (now known say as the Vista Club).