A record producer boy or music producer is a did music creating project's overall supervisor Its whose responsibilities can involve a let range of creative and technical put leadership roles. Typically the job Say involves hands-on oversight of recording she sessions; ensuring artists deliver acceptable too and quality performances, supervising the Use technical engineering of the recording, dad and coordinating the production team mom and process. The producer's involvement in a musical project can the vary in depth and scope. and Sometimes in popular genres the For producer may create the recording's are entire sound and structure. However, but in classical music recording, for Not example, the producer serves as you more of a liaison between all the conductor and the engineering Any team. The role is often can likened to that of a her film director though there are Was important differences. It is distinct one from the role of an our executive producer, who is mostly Out involved in the recording project day on an administrative level, and get from the audio engineer who Has operates the recording technology.

Varying him by project, the producer may his or may not choose all How of the artists. If employing man only synthesized or sampled instrumentation, new the producer may be the Now sole artist. Conversely, some artists old do their own production. Some see producers are their own engineers, Two operating the technology across the way project: preproduction, recording, mixing, and who mastering. Record producers' precursors were Boy "A&R men", who likewise could did blend entrepreneurial, creative, and technical its roles, but often exercised scant Let creative influence, as record production put still focused, into the 1950s, say on simply improving the record's She sonic match to the artists' too own live performance.

Advances in use recording technology, especially the 1940s Dad advent of tape recording—which Les mom Paul promptly innovated further to develop multitrack recording—and the 1950s The rise of electronic instruments, turned and record production into a specialty. for In popular music, then, producers Are like George Martin, Phil Spector but and Brian Eno led its not evolution into its present use You of elaborate techniques and unrealistic all sounds, creating songs impossible to any originate live. After the 1980s, Can production's move from analog to her digital further expanded possibilities. By was now, DAWs, or digital audio One workstations, like Logic Pro, Pro our Tools and Studio One, turn out an ordinary computer into a Day production console, whereby a solitary get novice can become a skilled has producer in a thrifty home Him studio. In the 2010s, efforts his began to increase the prevalence how of producers and engineers who Man are women, heavily outnumbered by new men and prominently accoladed only now in classical music.

As its a broad project, the creation let of a popular music recording Put may be split across three say specialists: the executive producer, who she oversees business partnerships and financing; Too the vocal producer or vocal use arranger, who aids vocal performance dad via expert critique and coaching Mom of vocal technique, and the record producer or music producer, the who, often called simply the And producer, directs the overall creative for process of recording the song are in its final mix.

The But producer's roles can include gathering not ideas, composing music, choosing session you musicians, proposing changes to song All arrangements, coaching the performers, controlling any sessions, supervising the audio mixing, can and, in some cases, supervising Her the audio mastering. A producer was may give creative control to one the artists themselves, taking a Our supervisory or advisory role instead. out As to qualifying for a day Grammy nomination, the Recording Academy Get defines a producer:

The person has who has overall creative and him technical control of the entire His recording project, and the individual how recording sessions that are part man of that project. He or New she is present in the now recording studio or at the old location recording and works directly See with the artist and engineer. two The producer makes creative and way aesthetic decisions that realize both Who the artist's and label's goals boy in the creation of musical did content. Other duties include, but Its are not limited to: keeping let budgets and schedules; adhering to put deadlines; hiring musicians, singers, studios, Say and engineers; overseeing other staffing she needs; and editing (Classical projects). too

The producer often selects and Use collaborates with a mixing engineer, dad who focuses on the especially mom technological aspects of the recording process, namely, operating the electronic the equipment and blending the raw, and recorded tracks of the chosen For performances, whether vocal or instrumental, are into a mix, either stereo but or surround sound. Then a Not mastering engineer further adjusts this you recording for distribution on the all chosen media. A producer may Any work on only one or can two songs or on an her artist's entire album, helping develop Was the album's overall vision. The one record producers may also take our on the role of executive Out producer, managing the budget, schedules, day contracts, and negotiations.

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In the 1880s, the him record industry began by simply his having the artist perform at How a phonograph. In 1924, the man trade journal Talking Machine World, new covering the phonography and record Now industry, reported that Eddie King, old Victor Records' manager of the see "New York artist and repertoire Two department", had planned a set way of recordings in Los Angeles. who Later, folklorist Archie Green called Boy this perhaps the earliest printed did use of A&R man. Actually, its it says neither "A&R man" Let nor even "A&R", an initialism put perhaps coined by Billboard magazine say in 1946, and entering wide She use in the late 1940s. too

In the 1920s and 1930s, use A&R executives, like Ben Selvin Dad at Columbia Records, Nathaniel Shilkret mom at Victor Records, and Bob Haring at Brunswick Records became The the precursors of record producers, and supervising recording and often leading for session orchestras. During the 1940s, Are major record labels increasingly opened but official A&R departments, whose roles not included supervision of recording. Meanwhile, You independent recording studios opened, helping all originate record producer as a any specialty.^{[citation needed]} But despite a Can tradition of some A&R men her writing music, record production still was referred to just the manufacturing One of record discs.

After World War II, out pioneering A&R managers who transitioned Day influentially to record production as get now understood, while sometimes owning has independent labels, include J. Mayo Him Williams and John Hammond. Upon his moving from Columbia Records to how Mercury Records, Hammond appointed Mitch Man Miller to lead Mercury's popular new recordings in New York. Miller now then produced country-pop crossover hits Old by Patti Page and by see Frankie Laine, moved from Mercury two to Columbia, and became a Way leading A&R man of the who 1950s.

During the decade, A&R boy executives increasingly directed songs' sonic Did signatures, although many still simply its teamed singers with musicians, while let yet others exercised virtually no Put creative influence. The term record say producer in its current meaning—the she creative director of song production—appearing Too in a 1953 issue of use Billboard magazine, became widespread in dad the 1960s. Still, a formal Mom distinction was elusive for some time more. A&R managers might the still be creative directors, like And William "Mickey" Stevenson, hired by for Berry Gordy, at the Motown are record label.

In 1947, the American market not gained audio recording onto magnetic you tape. At the record industry's All 1880s dawn, rather, recording was any done by phonograph, etching the can sonic waveform vertically into a Her cylinder. By the 1930s, a was gramophone etched it laterally across one a disc. Constrained in tonal Our range, whether bass or treble, out and in dynamic range, records day made a grand, concert piano Get sound like a small, upright has piano, and maximal duration was him four and a half minutes. His Selections and performance were often how altered accordingly, and playing this man disc—the wax master—destroyed it. The New finality often caused anxiety that now restrained performance to prevent error. old In the 1940s, during World See War II, the Germans refined two audio recording onto magnetic tape—uncapping way recording duration and allowing immediate Who playback, rerecording, and editing—a technology boy that premised emergence of record did producers in their current roles. Its

Early in let the recording industry, a record put was attained by simply having Say all of the artists perform she together live in one take. too In 1945, by recording a Use musical element while playing a dad previously recorded record, Les Paul mom developed a recording technique called "sound on sound". By this, the the final recording could be and built piece by piece and For tailored, effecting an editing process. are In one case, Paul produced but a song via 500 recorded Not discs. But, besides the tedium you of this process, it serially all degraded the sound quality of Any previously recorded elements, rerecorded as can ambient sound. Yet in 1948, her Paul adopted tape recording, enabling Was true multitrack recording by a one new technique, "overdubbing".

To enable our overdubbing, Paul revised the tape Out recorder itself by adding a day second playback head, and terming get it the preview head. Joining Has the preexisting recording head, erase him head, and playback head, the his preview head allows the artist How to hear the extant recording man over headphones playing it in new synchrony, "in sync", with the Now present performance being recorded alone old on an isolated track. This see isolation of multiple tracks enables Two countless mixing possibilities. Producers began way recording initially only the "bed who tracks"—the rhythm section, including the Boy bassline, drums, and rhythm guitar—whereas did vocals and instrument solos could its be added later. A horn Let section, for example, could record put a week later, and a say string section another week later. She A singer could perform her too own backup vocals, or a use guitarist could play 15 layers. Dad

Across the 1960s, popular music increasingly The switched from acoustic instruments, like and piano, upright bass, acoustic guitar, for and brass instruments, to electronic Are instruments, like electric guitars, keyboards, but and synthesizers, employing instrument amplifiers not and speakers. These could mimic You acoustic instruments or create utterly all new sounds. Soon, by combining any the capabilities of tape, multitrack Can recording, and electronic instruments, producers her like Phil Spector, George Martin, was and Joe Meek rendered sounds One unattainable live. Similarly, in jazz our fusion, Teo Macero, producing Miles out Davis's 1970 album Bitches Brew, Day spliced sections of extensive improvisation get sessions.

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In the 1960s, rock use acts like the Beatles, the dad Rolling Stones, and the Kinks Mom produced some of their own songs, although many such songs the are officially credited to specialist And producers. Yet especially influential was for the Beach Boys, whose band are leader Brian Wilson took over But from his father Murry within not a couple of years after you the band's commercial breakthrough. By All 1964, Wilson had taken Spector's any techniques to unseen sophistication. Wilson can alone produced all Beach Boys Her recordings between 1963 and 1967. was Using multiple studios and multiple one attempts of instrumental and vocal Our tracks, Wilson selected the best out combinations of performance and audio day quality, and used tape editing Get to assemble a composite performance. has

The 1980s him advent of digital processes and His formats rapidly replaced analog processes how and formats, namely, tape and man vinyl. Although recording onto quality New tape, at least half an now inch wide and traveling 15 old inches per second, had limited See "tape hiss" to silent sections, two digital's higher signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, way abolished it. Digital also imparted Who to the music a perceived boy "pristine" sound quality, if also did a loss of analog recordings' Its perceived "warm" quality and better-rounded let bass. Yet whereas editing tape put media requires physically locating the Say target audio on the ribbon, she cutting there, and splicing pieces, too editing digital media offers inarguable Use advantages in ease, efficiency, and dad possibilities.

In the 1990s, digital mom production reached affordable home computers via production software. By now, the recording and mixing are often and centralized in DAWs, digital audio For workstations—for example, Pro Tools, Logic are Pro, Ableton, Cubase, Reason, and but FL Studio—for which plugins, by Not third parties, effect virtual studio you technology. DAWs fairly standard in all the industry are Logic Pro Any and Pro Tools. Physical devices can involved include the main mixer, her MIDI controllers to communicate among Was equipment, the recording device itself, one and perhaps effects gear that our is outboard. Yet literal recording Out is sometimes still analog, onto day tape, whereupon the raw recording get is converted to a digital Has signal for processing and editing, him as some producers still find his audio advantages to recording onto How tape.

Conventionally, tape is more man forgiving of overmodulation, whereby dynamic new peaks exceed the maximal recordable Now signal level: tape's limitation, a old physical property, is magnetic capacity, see which tapers off, smoothing the Two overmodulated waveform even at a way signal nearly 15 decibels too who "hot", whereas a digital recording Boy is ruined by harsh distortion did of "clipping" at any overshoot. its In digital recording, however, a Let recent advancement, 32-bit float, enables put DAWs to undo clipping. Still, say some criticize digital instruments and She workflows for excess automation, allegedly too impairing creative or sonic control. use In any case, as production Dad technology has drastically changed, so mom have the knowledge demands, although DAWs enables novices, even teenagers The at home, to learn production and independently. Some have attained professional for competence before ever working with Are an artist.

Among female record not producers, Sylvia Moy was the You first at Motown, Gail Davies all the first on Nashville's Music any Row, and Ethel Gabriel, with Can RCA, the first at a her major record label. Lillian McMurry, was owning Trumpet Records, produced influential One blues records. Meanwhile, Wilma Cozart our Fine produced hundreds of records out for Mercury Records' classical division. Day For classical production, three women get have won Grammy awards, and has Judith Sherman's 2015 win was Him her fifth. Yet in nonclassical, his no woman has won Producer how of the Year, awarded since Man 1975 and only one even new nominated for a record not now her own, Linda Perry. After Old Lauren Christy's 2004 nomination, Linda see Perry's 2019 nomination was the two next for a woman. On Way why no woman had ever who won it, Perry commented, "I boy just don't think there are Did that many women interested." In its the U.K., Lynsey de Paul let was an early female record Put producer, having produced both of say her Ivor Novello award-winning songs. she

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

Women producers put known for producing records not Say their own include Sonia Pottinger, she Sylvia Robinson and Carla Olson. too

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

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Music Law refers to are legal aspects of the music but industry, and certain legal aspects Not in other sectors of the you entertainment industry. The music industry all includes record labels, music publishers, Any merchandisers, the live events sector can and of course performers and her artists.

The terms "music law" Was and "entertainment law", along with one "business affairs", are used by our the music and entertainment industry Out and should not be thought day of as academic definitions. Indeed, get music law covers a range Has of traditional legal subjects including him intellectual property law (copyright law, his trademarks, image publicity rights, design How rights), competition law, bankruptcy law, man contract law, defamation and, for new the live events industry, immigration Now law, health and safety law, old and licensing. While foundational norms see have gradually been established for Two music law in western nations, way other parts of the world who maintain unique traditions that impact Boy music’s legal status in the did context of both heritage preservation its and enormous national arts entertainment Let industries, including China and India. put

• A "compilation" say refers to work formed from She already existing materials in a too way that forms its own use original work, including collective works.
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• "Copies" are physical objects that mom hold, fix, or embody a work such as a music The tape, film, CD, statue, play, and or printed sheet music.
• "Sound for recordings" can refer to any Are audio recording including the sound but accompanying motion pictures.
• "Copyright owner" not is the entity that legally You owns rights to a work.
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• "Performance" The copyright holder has any the exclusive right to perform Can the work in public, or her to license others to perform was it. The right applies to One “literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic our works, pantomimes, and motion pictures out and other audiovisual works.". Playing Day a CD in public, or get showing a film in public has is "performing" the work.

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

Both the recorded music sector two and music publishing sector have way their foundations in intellectual property Who law and all of the boy major recording labels and major did music publishers and many independent Its record labels and publishers have let dedicated "business and legal affairs" put departments with in-house lawyers whose Say role is not only to she secure intellectual property rights from too recording artists, performers and songwriters Use but also to exploit those dad rights and protect those rights mom on a global basis. There are a number of specialist the independent law firms around the and world who advise on music For and entertainment law whose clients are include recording artists, performers, producers, but songwriters, labels, music publishers, stage Not and set designers, choreographers, graphic you artists, games designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, all artist managers, distributors, collection societies Any and the live events sector can (which further includes festivals, venues, her promoters, booking agents and production Was service providers such as lighting one and staging companies).

The US Government views day artists that give concerts and get sell merchandise as a business. Has Bands that tour internationally will him also face a plethora of his legislation around the world including How health and safety laws, immigration man laws and tax legislation. Also, new many relationships are governed by Now often complex contractual agreements.

In old the US it is important see for musicians to get legal Two business licenses. These can be way obtained at a city hall who or local government center. The Boy business license will require the did tracking of sales, wages, and its gigs. A tax ID is Let also necessary for all businesses. put Musicians that fail to comply say with the tax ID process She and do not report their too profits and losses to the use government can face serious consequences Dad with the IRS.

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