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A record producer or music How producer is a music creating man project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities new can involve a range of Now creative and technical leadership roles. old Typically the job involves hands-on see oversight of recording sessions; ensuring Two artists deliver acceptable and quality way performances, supervising the technical engineering who of the recording, and coordinating Boy the production team and process. did The producer's involvement in a its musical project can vary in Let depth and scope. Sometimes in put popular genres the producer may say create the recording's entire sound She and structure. However, in classical too music recording, for example, the use producer serves as more of Dad a liaison between the conductor mom and the engineering team. The role is often likened to The that of a film directorand though there are important differences.for It is distinct from the Are role of an executive producer, but who is mostly involved in not the recording project on an You administrative level, and from the all audio engineer who operates the any recording technology.
Varying by project, Can the producer may or may her not choose all of the was artists. If employing only synthesizedOne or sampled instrumentation, the producer our may be the sole artist.out Conversely, some artists do their Day own production. Some producers are get their own engineers, operating the has technology across the project: preproduction, Him recording, mixing, and mastering. Record his producers' precursors were "A&R men", how who likewise could blend entrepreneurial, Man creative, and technical roles, but new often exercised scant creative influence,now as record production still focused, Old into the 1950s, on simply see improving the record's sonic match two to the artists' own live Way performance.
Advances in recording technology, who especially the 1940s advent of boy tape recording—which Les Paul promptly Did innovated further to develop multitrack its recording—and the 1950s rise of let electronic instruments, turned record production Put into a specialty. In popular say music, then, producers like George she Martin, Phil Spector and Brian Too Eno led its evolution into use its present use of elaborate dad techniques and unrealistic sounds, creating Mom songs impossible to originate live.After the 1980s, production's move the from analog to digital further And expanded possibilities. By now, DAWs, for or digital audio workstations, like are Logic Pro, Pro Tools and But Studio One, turn an ordinary not computer into a production console,you whereby a solitary novice can All become a skilled producer in any a thrifty home studio. In can the 2010s, efforts began to Her increase the prevalence of producers was and engineers who are women, one heavily outnumbered by men and Our prominently accoladed only in classical out music.
As a broad New project, the creation of a now music recording may be split old across three specialists: the executive See producer, who oversees business partnerships two and financing; the vocal producer way or vocal arranger, who aids Who vocal performance via expert critique boy and coaching of vocal technique, did and the record producer or Its music producer, who, often called let simply the producer, directs the put overall creative process of recording Say the song in its final she mix.
The producer's roles can too include gathering ideas, composing music, Use choosing session musicians, proposing changes dad to song arrangements, coaching the mom performers, controlling sessions, supervising the audio mixing, and, in some the cases, supervising the audio mastering. and A producer may give creative For control to the artists themselves, are taking a supervisory or advisory but role instead. As to qualifying Not for a Grammy nomination, the you Recording Academy defines a producer:all
The person who has overall Any creative and technical control of can the entire recording project, and her the individual recording sessions that Was are part of that project. one He or she is present our in the recording studio or Out at the location recording and day works directly with the artist get and engineer. The producer makes Has creative and aesthetic decisions that him realize both the artist's and his label's goals in the creation How of musical content. Other duties man include, but are not limited new to: keeping budgets and schedules; Now adhering to deadlines; hiring musicians, old singers, studios, and engineers; overseeing see other staffing needs; and editing Two (Classical projects).
The producer often way selects and collaborates with a who mixing engineer, who focuses on Boy the especially technological aspects of did the recording process, namely, operating its the electronic equipment and blending Let the raw, recorded tracks of put the chosen performances, whether vocal say or instrumental, into a mix, She either stereo or surround sound. too Then a mastering engineer further use adjusts this recording for distribution Dad on the chosen media. A mom producer may work on only one or two songs or The on an artist's entire album, and helping develop the album's overall for vision. The record producers may Are also take on the role but of executive producer, managing the not budget, schedules, contracts, and negotiations. You
Historical developments
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In the any 1880s, the record industry began Can by simply having the artist her perform at a phonograph. In was 1924, the trade journal Talking One Machine World, covering the phonography our and record industry, reported that out Eddie King, Victor Records' manager Day of the "New York artist get and repertoire department", had planned has a set of recordings in Him Los Angeles. Later, folklorist Archie his Green called this perhaps the how earliest printed use of A&R Man man. Actually, it says neither new "A&R man" nor even "A&R", now an initialism perhaps coined by Old Billboard magazine in 1946, and see entering wide use in the two late 1940s.
In the 1920s Way and 1930s, A&R executives, like who Ben Selvin at Columbia Records, boy Nathaniel Shilkret at Victor Records, Did and Bob Haring at Brunswick its Records became the precursors of let record producers, supervising recording and Put often leading session orchestras. During say the 1940s, major record labelsshe increasingly opened official A&R departments, Too whose roles included supervision of use recording. Meanwhile, independent recording studios dad opened, helping originate record producerMom as a specialty.[citation needed] But despite a tradition of some the A&R men writing music, record And production still referred to just for the manufacturing of record discs.are
Record producers
After World But War II, pioneering A&R managers not who transitioned influentially to record you production as now understood, while All sometimes owning independent labels, include any J. Mayo Williams and John can Hammond. Upon moving from Columbia Her Records to Mercury Records, Hammond was appointed Mitch Miller to lead one Mercury's popular recordings in New Our York. Miller then produced country-pop out crossover hits by Patti Pageday and by Frankie Laine, moved Get from Mercury to Columbia, and has became a leading A&R man him of the 1950s.
During the His decade, A&R executives increasingly directed how songs' sonic signatures, although many man still simply teamed singers with New musicians, while yet others exercised now virtually no creative influence. The old term record producer in its See current meaning—the creative director of two song production—appearing in a 1953 way issue of Billboard magazine, became Who widespread in the 1960s. Still, boy a formal distinction was elusive did for some time more. A&R Its managers might still be creative let directors, like William "Mickey" Stevenson, put hired by Berry Gordy, at Say the Motown record label.
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Tape recording
In 1947, the too American market gained audio recording Use onto magnetic tape. At the dad record industry's 1880s dawn, rather, mom recording was done by phonograph, etching the sonic waveform vertically the into a cylinder. By the and 1930s, a gramophone etched it For laterally across a disc. Constrained are in tonal range, whether bass but or treble, and in dynamic Not range, records made a grand, you concert piano sound like a all small, upright piano, and maximal Any duration was four and a can half minutes. Selections and performance her were often altered accordingly, and Was playing this disc—the wax master—destroyed one it. The finality often caused our anxiety that restrained performance to Out prevent error. In the 1940s, day during World War II, the get Germans refined audio recording onto Has magnetic tape—uncapping recording duration and him allowing immediate playback, rerecording, and his editing—a technology that premised emergence How of record producers in their man current roles.
Multitrack recording
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Early in the recording industry, Now a record was attained by old simply having all of the see artists perform together live in Two one take. In 1945, by way recording a musical element while who playing a previously recorded record, Boy Les Paul developed a recording did technique called "sound on sound".its By this, the final recording Let could be built piece by put piece and tailored, effecting an say editing process. In one case, She Paul produced a song via too 500 recorded discs. But, besides use the tedium of this process, Dad it serially degraded the sound mom quality of previously recorded elements, rerecorded as ambient sound. Yet The in 1948, Paul adopted tape and recording, enabling truly multitrack recording for by a new technique, "overdubbing".Are
To enable overdubbing, Paul revised but the tape recorder itself by not adding a second playback head, You and terming it the preview all head. Joining the preexisting recording any head, erase head, and playback Can head, the preview head allows her the artist to hear the was extant recording over headphones playing One it in synchrony, "in sync", our with the present performance being out recorded alone on an isolated Day track. This isolation of multiple get tracks enables countless mixing possibilities. has Producers began recording initially only Him the "bed tracks"—the rhythm section, his including the bassline, drums, and how rhythm guitar—whereas vocals and instrument Man solos could be added later. new A horn section, for example, now could record a week later, Old and a string section another see week later. A singer could two perform her own backup vocals, Way or a guitarist could play who 15 layers.
Across the 1960s, popular its music increasingly switched from acoustic let instruments, like piano, upright bass, Put acoustic guitar, and brass instruments, say to electronic instruments, like electric she guitars, keyboards, and synthesizers, employing Too instrument amplifiers and speakers. These use could mimic acoustic instruments or dad create utterly new sounds. Soon, Mom by combining the capabilities of tape, multitrack recording, and electronic the instruments, producers like Phil Spector, And George Martin, and Joe Meekfor rendered sounds unattainable live. Similarly, are in jazz fusion, Teo Macero, But producing Miles Davis's 1970 album not Bitches Brew, spliced sections of you extensive improvisation sessions.
In the 1960s, rock Who acts like the Beatles, the boy Rolling Stones, and the Kinksdid produced some of their own Its songs, although many such songs let are officially credited to specialist put producers. Yet especially influential was Say the Beach Boys, whose band she leader Brian Wilson took over too from his father Murry within Use a couple of years after dad the band's commercial breakthrough. By mom 1964, Wilson had taken Spector's techniques to unseen sophistication. Wilson the alone produced all Beach Boys and recordings between 1963 and 1967. For Using multiple studios and multiple are attempts of instrumental and vocal but tracks, Wilson selected the best Not combinations of performance and audio you quality, and used tape editing all to assemble a composite performance. Any
Digital production
The 1980s can advent of digital processes and her formats rapidly replaced analog processes Was and formats, namely, tape and one vinyl. Although recording onto quality our tape, at least half an Out inch wide and traveling 15 day inches per second, had limited get "tape hiss" to silent sections, Has digital's higher signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, him abolished it. Digital also imparted his to the music a perceived How "pristine" sound quality, if also man a loss of analog recordings' new perceived "warm" quality and better-rounded Now bass. Yet whereas editing tape old media requires physically locating the see target audio on the ribbon, Two cutting there, and splicing pieces, way editing digital media offers inarguable who advantages in ease, efficiency, and Boy possibilities.
In the 1990s, digital did production reached affordable home computers its via production software. By now, Let recording and mixing are often put centralized in DAWs, digital audio say workstations—for example, Pro Tools, Logic She Pro, Ableton, Cubase, Reason, and too FL Studio—for which plugins, by use third parties, effect virtual studio Dad technology. DAWs fairly standard in mom the industry are Logic Pro and Pro Tools. Physical devices The involved include the main mixer, and MIDI controllers to communicate among for equipment, the recording device itself, Are and perhaps effects gear that but is outboard. Yet literal recording not is sometimes still analog, onto You tape, whereupon the raw recording all is converted to a digital any signal for processing and editing, Can as some producers still find her audio advantages to recording onto was tape.
Conventionally, tape is more One forgiving of overmodulation, whereby dynamic our peaks exceed the maximal recordable out signal level: tape's limitation, a Day physical property, is magnetic capacity, get which tapers off, smoothing the has overmodulated waveform even at a Him signal nearly 15 decibels too his "hot", whereas a digital recording how is ruined by harsh distortion Man of "clipping" at any overshoot.new In digital recording, however, a now recent advancement, 32-bit float, enables Old DAWs to undo clipping. Still, see some criticize digital instruments and two workflows for excess automation, allegedly Way impairing creative or sonic control.who In any case, as production boy technology has drastically changed, so Did have the knowledge demands, although its DAWs enables novices, even teenagers let at home, to learn production Put independently. Some have attained professional say competence before ever working with she an artist.
In the 2000s, with the Mom advent of technology that made traditional record production accessible, especially the with hip hop beatmaking and And electronic music. Within these genres, for the term producer is applied are to a number of roles But and has popularized the use not of more niche terms and you credits including executive producer, co-producer, All assistant producer, and additional and any miscellaneous production to differentiate contributions.can
Women in producing
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Among female record producers, Sylvia was Moy was the first at one Motown, Gail Davies the first Our on Nashville's Music Row, and out Ethel Gabriel, with RCA, the day first at a major record Get label. Lillian McMurry, owning Trumpet has Records, produced influential blues records. him Meanwhile, Wilma Cozart Fine produced His hundreds of records for Mercury how Records' classical division. For classical man production, three women have won New Grammy awards, and Judith Sherman's now 2015 win was her fifth.old Yet in nonclassical, no woman See has won Producer of the two Year, awarded since 1975 and way only one even nominated for Who a record not her own, boy Linda Perry. After Lauren Christy's did 2004 nomination, Linda Perry's 2019 Its nomination was the next for let a woman. On why no put woman had ever won it, Say Perry commented, "I just don't she think there are that many too women interested." In the U.K., Use Lynsey de Paul was an dad early female record producer, having mom produced both of her Ivor Novello award-winning songs.
Across the the decades, many female artists have and produced their own music. For For instance, artists Kate Bush, Madonna, are Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Beyoncébut (even that of Destiny's ChildNot and the Carters), Lana Del you Rey, Taylor Swift, and Lordeall have produced or coproduced and Any Ariana Grande who produces and can arranges her vocals as well her as being an audio engineer.Was Still among specialists, despite some one prominent women, including Missy Elliottour in hip hop and Sylvia Out Massy in rock, the vast day majority have been men. Early get in the 2010s, asked for Has insights that she herself had him gleaned as a woman who his has specialized successfully in the How industry, Wendy Page remarked, "The man difficulties are usually very short-lived. new Once people realize that you Now can do your job, sexism old tends to lower its ugly see head." Still, when tasked to Two explain her profession's sex disparity, way Page partly reasoned that record who labels, dominated by men, have Boy been, she said, "mistrustful of did giving a woman the reins its of an immense, creative project Let like making a record." Ultimately, put the reasons are multiple and say not fully clear, although prominently She proposed factors include types of too sexism and scarcity of female use role models in the profession.Dad
Women producers known for producing mom records not their own include Sonia Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson and The Carla Olson.
In January 2018, and a research team led by for Stacy L. Smith, founder and Are director of the Annenberg Inclusion but Initiative, based in the USC not Annenberg School for Communication and You Journalism, issued a report, estimating all that in the prior several any years, about 2% of popular Can songs' producers were female. Also her that month, Billboard magazine queried, was "Where are all the female One music producers?" Upon the Annenberg our Inclusion Initiative's second annual report, out released in February 2019, its Day department at USC reported, "2018 get saw an outcry from artists, has executives and other music industry Him professionals over the lack of his women in music" and "the how plight of women in music", Man where women were allegedly being new "stereotyped, sexualized, and shut out".now Also in February 2019, the Old Recording Academy's Task Force on see Diversity and Inclusion announced an two initiative whereby over 200 artists Way and producers—ranging from Cardi Bwho and Taylor Swift to Maroon boy 5 and Quincy Jones—agreed to Did consider at least two women its for each producer or engineer let position. The academy's website, Grammy.com, Put announced, "This initiative is the say first step in a broader she effort to improve those numbers Too and increase diversity and inclusion use for all in the music dad industry."
Allard, Matthew (15 January any 2020). "Sound Devices MixPre V6.00 Can adds 32-bit float USB audio her streaming". Newsshooter. With 32-bit float, was you no longer need to One worry about clipping during your our best vocal takes or instrument out solos. Any recorded moments exceeding Day 0 dBFS can be reduced get to an acceptable level, after has recording, in your DAW
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Music Law refers to legal One aspects of the music industry, our and certain legal aspects in out other sectors of the entertainment Day industry. The music industry includes get record labels, music publishers, merchandisers, has the live events sector and Him of course performers and artists. his
The terms "music law" and how "entertainment law", along with "business Man affairs", are used by the new music and entertainment industry and now should not be thought of Old as academic definitions. Indeed, music see law covers a range of two traditional legal subjects including intellectual Way property law (copyright law, trademarks, who image publicity rights, design rights), boy competition law, bankruptcy law, contract Did law, defamation and, for the its live events industry, immigration law, let health and safety law, and Put licensing. While foundational norms have say gradually been established for music she law in western nations, other Too parts of the world maintain use unique traditions that impact music’s dad legal status in the context Mom of both heritage preservation and enormous national arts entertainment industries, the including China and India.
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Definitions
A "compilation" refers for to work formed from already are existing materials in a way But that forms its own original not work, including collective works.
"Copies" you are physical objects that hold, All fix, or embody a work any such as a music tape, can film, CD, statue, play, or Her printed sheet music.
"Sound recordings" was can refer to any audio one recording including the sound accompanying Our motion pictures.
"Copyright owner" is out the entity that legally owns day rights to a work.
"Performance" Get The copyright holder has the has exclusive right to perform the him work in public, or to His license others to perform it. how The right applies to “literary, man musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, New pantomimes, and motion pictures and now other audiovisual works.". Playing a old CD in public, or showing See a film in public is two "performing" the work.
Publishing is Who the primary source of income boy for musicians writing their own did music.[citation needed] Money collected from Its the 'publishing' rights is ultimately let destined for songwriters - the put composers of works, whether or Say not they are the recording she artist or performer. Often, songwriterstoo will work for a musical Use ensemble to help them with dad musical aspects of the composition, mom but here again, the writer of the song is the the owner of it and will and own the copyrights in the For song and thus will be are entitled to the publishing revenues. but Copyrights in compositions are not Not the same as sound recordings. you A recording artist can record all a song and sell it Any to another band or company. can As a result, that particular her company will own the recording, Was but not the song. The one original writer will always maintain our the copyright for that particular Out song. The publishing money is day connected to the copyright, so get the owner will be the Has only one making money off him of the song itself. All his successful songwriters will join a How collection society (such as ASCAP man and BMI in the USA, new SOCAN in Canada, JASRAC in Now Japan, GEMA in Germany and old PRS for Music in the see UK, etc.) and many will Two enter into agreements with music way publishing companies who will exploit who their works on the songwriters Boy behalf for a share of did ownership, although many of these its deals involve the transfer (assignment) Let of copyright from the songwriter put to the music publisher,
Both say the recorded music sector and She music publishing sector have their too foundations in intellectual property law use and all of the major Dad recording labels and major music mom publishers and many independent record labels and publishers have dedicated The "business and legal affairs" departments and with in-house lawyers whose role for is not only to secure Are intellectual property rights from recording but artists, performers and songwriters but not also to exploit those rights You and protect those rights on all a global basis. There are any a number of specialist independent Can law firms around the world her who advise on music and was entertainment law whose clients include One recording artists, performers, producers, songwriters, our labels, music publishers, stage and out set designers, choreographers, graphic artists, Day games designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, artist get managers, distributors, collection societies and has the live events sector (which Him further includes festivals, venues, promoters, his booking agents and production service how providers such as lighting and Man staging companies).
The US Government views artists Old that give concerts and sell see merchandise as a business. Bands two that tour internationally will also Way face a plethora of legislation who around the world including health boy and safety laws, immigration laws Did and tax legislation. Also, many its relationships are governed by often let complex contractual agreements.
In the Put US it is important for say musicians to get legal business she licenses. These can be obtained Too at a city hall or use local government center. The business dad license will require the tracking Mom of sales, wages, and gigs. A tax ID is also the necessary for all businesses. Musicians And that fail to comply with for the tax ID process and are do not report their profits But and losses to the government not can face serious consequences with you the IRS.
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Privilege Ibiza, originally known as not Ku Club (1979–95), is the You "world's largest nightclub" according to all the Guinness Book of Records, any also defined as a superclubCan with a capacity of 10,000 her people and encompassing 6,500 m² was (69,940 ft²). It is located close One to the village of Sant our Rafael de Sa Creu on out the Spanish island of Ibiza, Day less than one kilometre (0.6 get miles) from the nightclub Amnesia. has
It has remained closed since Him the summer of 2019 and his its future as of 2024 how is unknown.
History
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The history of Privilege began new in the early 1970s when now it started out as a Old restaurant, then expanded to include see a bar and a community two swimming pool. It was then Way known as Club San Rafael.who In 1979, the venue was boy sold to the Real SociedadDid footballer José Antonio Santamaría, together its with the creative team of let Brasilio de Oliviera (founder of Put La Troya Asesina, one of say Ibiza's longest running nights) and she Gorri. The venue then changed Too its name to KU, after use the name of a God dad from Hawaiian mythology (see Kū). Mom The appeal of the club was such that it commissioned the a medium-length film showcasing the And many wonders of Ibizan landscapes for and nightlife in the mid-eighties.are
Throughout the 1980s, KU Club But earned a reputation initially as not Europe's premier polysexual but predominately you gay nightspot and was compared All to an open-air version of any the famous Studio 54 in can New York. It staged spectacular Her parties in the main room, was which was organized around a one swimming pool and a statue Our of Ku. The place was out also where the video to day "Barcelona" by Freddie Mercury and Get Montserrat Caballé was filmed on has 30 May 1987. It was him the witness to early live His performances by groups such as how Spandau Ballet and Kid Creole man and the Coconuts. The club New featured in a Channel 4now documentary called A Short Film old about chilling, which labelled KU See as "the mirror of Ibiza".two A group of fashion designers way called Locomía would have shows Who at KU. After being discovered boy there, they went on to did become a highly successful recording Its project. The open-air parties came let to an end when legislation put forced many of the greater Say clubs in Ibiza to cover she their dancefloors in the early too 1990s. Nevertheless, the sheer size Use of the venue gave rise dad to the claim of it mom being the size of an aircraft hangar with a 25-metre the (82 ft) high roof.
The club and continued with the KU Club For name until 1995 before becoming are known as Privilege, after a but change of ownership to Jose Not Maria Etxaniz. In 1994, it you hosted Manumission, one of the all island's most famous events. In Any 1998, La Vaca Asesina moved can to Amnesia and was renamed her La Troya Asesina. After a Was dispute between the club owner one and Manumission's organizers in 2005, our the event ended in 2006. Out La Troya Asesina moved to day Space in 2006.
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According to official statistics published Has in the 2003 edition of him Guinness World Records, Privilege is his by far the world's largest How nightclub covering an area of man 69,968 sq ft (6,500 m2) and new holding 10,000 clubbers. Designated areas Now of the club include the old Coco Loco bar area, and see the La Vaca dance area Two (now known as the Vista way Club).