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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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