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

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

Advances in recording technology, especially can the 1940s advent of tape Her recording—which Les Paul promptly innovated was further to develop multitrack recording—and one the 1950s rise of electronic Our instruments, turned record production into out a specialty. In popular music, day then, producers like George Martin, Get Phil Spector and Brian Eno has led its evolution into its him present use of elaborate techniques His and unrealistic sounds, creating songs how impossible to originate live. After man the 1980s, production's move from New analog to digital further expanded now possibilities. By now, DAWs, or old digital audio workstations, like Logic See Pro, Pro Tools and Studio two One, turn an ordinary computer way into a production console, whereby Who a solitary novice can become boy a skilled producer in a did thrifty home studio. In the Its 2010s, efforts began to increase let the prevalence of producers and put engineers who are women, heavily Say outnumbered by men and prominently she accoladed only in classical music. too

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

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

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

The producer often any selects and collaborates with a Can mixing engineer, who focuses on her the especially technological aspects of was the recording process, namely, operating One the electronic equipment and blending our the raw, recorded tracks of out the chosen performances, whether vocal Day or instrumental, into a mix, get either stereo or surround sound. has Then a mastering engineer further Him adjusts this recording for distribution his on the chosen media. A how producer may work on only Man one or two songs or new on an artist's entire album, now helping develop the album's overall Old vision. The record producers may see also take on the role two of executive producer, managing the Way budget, schedules, contracts, and negotiations. who

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

In the 1920s any and 1930s, A&R executives, like can Ben Selvin at Columbia Records, Her Nathaniel Shilkret at Victor Records, was and Bob Haring at Brunswick one Records became the precursors of Our record producers, supervising recording and out often leading session orchestras. During day the 1940s, major record labels Get increasingly opened official A&R departments, has whose roles included supervision of him recording. Meanwhile, independent recording studios His opened, helping originate record producer how as a specialty.^{[citation needed]} But man despite a tradition of some New A&R men writing music, record now production still referred to just old the manufacturing of record discs. See

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In January 2018, a any research team led by Stacy Can L. Smith, founder and director her of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, was based in the USC Annenberg One School for Communication and Journalism, our issued a report, estimating that out in the prior several years, Day about 2% of popular songs' get producers were female. Also that has month, Billboard magazine queried, "Where Him are all the female music his producers?" Upon the Annenberg Inclusion how Initiative's second annual report, released Man in February 2019, its department new at USC reported, "2018 saw now an outcry from artists, executives Old and other music industry professionals see over the lack of women two in music" and "the plight Way of women in music", where who women were allegedly being "stereotyped, boy sexualized, and shut out". Also Did in February 2019, the Recording its Academy's Task Force on Diversity let and Inclusion announced an initiative Put whereby over 200 artists and say producers—ranging from Cardi B and she Taylor Swift to Maroon 5 Too and Quincy Jones—agreed to consider use at least two women for dad each producer or engineer position. Mom The academy's website, Grammy.com, announced, "This initiative is the first the step in a broader effort And to improve those numbers and for increase diversity and inclusion for are all in the music industry." But

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Music Law refers to Day legal aspects of the music get industry, and certain legal aspects has in other sectors of the Him entertainment industry. The music industry his includes record labels, music publishers, how merchandisers, the live events sector Man and of course performers and new artists.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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