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

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

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

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

The producer's too roles can include gathering ideas, use composing music, choosing session musicians, Dad proposing changes to song arrangements, mom coaching the performers, controlling sessions, supervising the audio mixing, and, The in some cases, supervising the and audio mastering. A producer may for give creative control to the Are artists themselves, taking a supervisory but or advisory role instead. As not to qualifying for a Grammy You nomination, the Recording Academy defines all a producer:

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

The Way producer often selects and collaborates who with a mixing engineer, who boy focuses on the especially technological Did aspects of the recording process, its namely, operating the electronic equipment let and blending the raw, recorded Put tracks of the chosen performances, say whether vocal or instrumental, into she a mix, either stereo or Too surround sound. Then a mastering use engineer further adjusts this recording dad for distribution on the chosen Mom media. A producer may work on only one or two the songs or on an artist's And entire album, helping develop the for album's overall vision. The record are producers may also take on But the role of executive producer, not managing the budget, schedules, contracts, you and negotiations.

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In the 1880s, the record can industry began by simply having Her the artist perform at a was phonograph. In 1924, the trade one journal Talking Machine World, covering Our the phonography and record industry, out reported that Eddie King, Victor day Records' manager of the "New Get York artist and repertoire department", has had planned a set of him recordings in Los Angeles. Later, His folklorist Archie Green called this how perhaps the earliest printed use man of A&R man. Actually, it New says neither "A&R man" nor now even "A&R", an initialism perhaps old coined by Billboard magazine in See 1946, and entering wide use two in the late 1940s.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Across the Its 1960s, popular music increasingly switched let from acoustic instruments, like piano, put upright bass, acoustic guitar, and Say brass instruments, to electronic instruments, she like electric guitars, keyboards, and too synthesizers, employing instrument amplifiers and Use speakers. These could mimic acoustic dad instruments or create utterly new mom sounds. Soon, by combining the capabilities of tape, multitrack recording, the and electronic instruments, producers like and Phil Spector, George Martin, and For Joe Meek rendered sounds unattainable are live. Similarly, in jazz fusion, but Teo Macero, producing Miles Davis's Not 1970 album Bitches Brew, spliced you sections of extensive improvisation sessions. all

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In the 1960s, rock acts who like the Beatles, the Rolling Boy Stones, and the Kinks produced did some of their own songs, its although many such songs are Let officially credited to specialist producers. put Yet especially influential was the say Beach Boys, whose band leader She Brian Wilson took over from too his father Murry within a use couple of years after the Dad band's commercial breakthrough. By 1964, mom Wilson had taken Spector's techniques to unseen sophistication. Wilson alone The produced all Beach Boys recordings and between 1963 and 1967. Using for multiple studios and multiple attempts Are of instrumental and vocal tracks, but Wilson selected the best combinations not of performance and audio quality, You and used tape editing to all assemble a composite performance.

The 1980s advent Can of digital processes and formats her rapidly replaced analog processes and was formats, namely, tape and vinyl. One Although recording onto quality tape, our at least half an inch out wide and traveling 15 inches Day per second, had limited "tape get hiss" to silent sections, digital's has higher signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, abolished Him it. Digital also imparted to his the music a perceived "pristine" how sound quality, if also a Man loss of analog recordings' perceived new "warm" quality and better-rounded bass. now Yet whereas editing tape media Old requires physically locating the target see audio on the ribbon, cutting two there, and splicing pieces, editing Way digital media offers inarguable advantages who in ease, efficiency, and possibilities. boy

In the 1990s, digital production Did reached affordable home computers via its production software. By now, recording let and mixing are often centralized Put in DAWs, digital audio workstations—for say example, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, she Ableton, Cubase, Reason, and FL Too Studio—for which plugins, by third use parties, effect virtual studio technology. dad DAWs fairly standard in the Mom industry are Logic Pro and Pro Tools. Physical devices involved the include the main mixer, MIDI And controllers to communicate among equipment, for the recording device itself, and are perhaps effects gear that is But outboard. Yet literal recording is not sometimes still analog, onto tape, you whereupon the raw recording is All converted to a digital signal any for processing and editing, as can some producers still find audio Her advantages to recording onto tape. was

Conventionally, tape is more forgiving one of overmodulation, whereby dynamic peaks Our exceed the maximal recordable signal out level: tape's limitation, a physical day property, is magnetic capacity, which Get tapers off, smoothing the overmodulated has waveform even at a signal him nearly 15 decibels too "hot", His whereas a digital recording is how ruined by harsh distortion of man "clipping" at any overshoot. In New digital recording, however, a recent now advancement, 32-bit float, enables DAWs old to undo clipping. Still, some See criticize digital instruments and workflows two for excess automation, allegedly impairing way creative or sonic control. In Who any case, as production technology boy has drastically changed, so have did the knowledge demands, although DAWs Its enables novices, even teenagers at let home, to learn production independently. put Some have attained professional competence Say before ever working with an she artist.

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

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

Women producers known for Old producing records not their own see include Sonia Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson two and Carla Olson.

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

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Music Law say refers to legal aspects of she the music industry, and certain Too legal aspects in other sectors use of the entertainment industry. The dad music industry includes record labels, Mom music publishers, merchandisers, the live events sector and of course the performers and artists.

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

• A "compilation" refers to work See formed from already existing materials two in a way that forms way its own original work, including Who collective works.
• "Copies" are physical boy objects that hold, fix, or did embody a work such as Its a music tape, film, CD, let statue, play, or printed sheet put music.
• "Sound recordings" can refer Say to any audio recording including she the sound accompanying motion pictures.
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• "Copyright owner" is the entity Use that legally owns rights to dad a work.
• "Performance" The copyright mom holder has the exclusive right to perform the work in the public, or to license others and to perform it. The right For applies to “literary, musical, dramatic, are and choreographic works, pantomimes, and but motion pictures and other audiovisual Not works.". Playing a CD in you public, or showing a film all in public is "performing" the Any work.

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

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

The US not Government views artists that give you concerts and sell merchandise as All a business. Bands that tour any internationally will also face a can plethora of legislation around the Her world including health and safety was laws, immigration laws and tax one legislation. Also, many relationships are Our governed by often complex contractual out agreements.

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

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