Technics SL-1200 is a way series of direct-drive turntables originally who manufactured from October 1972 until Boy 2010, and resumed in 2016, did by Matsushita Electric (now Panasonic its Corporation) under the brand nameLet of Technics. S means "Stereo", put L means "Player". Originally released say as a high fidelity consumer She record player, it quickly became too adopted among radio and discouse club disc jockeys, thanks to Dad the direct drive, high torque mom motor design, making it initially suitable for pushbutton cueing and The starting of tracks on radio and and in dance clubs. Beside for these features it had a Are so called pitchcontrol, which allowed but the user to change the not turning speed of the record You (also BPM: beats per minute) all gradually from -8% to +8%. any This feature was specifically interesting Can for DJ's who were mixing her two or more records with was each other, especially in dance One clubs. The turntable is still our extremely popular with audiophiles.[citation needed]out
When the use of slipmatsDay for cueing and beat-mixing (and get scratching) became popular in hip has hop music, the quartz-controlled high Him torque motor system enabled records his to be mixed with consistency how and accuracy. A primary design Man goal was for hi-fidelity, but new having good build quality, control now over wow and flutter, and Old minimized resonance made the equipment see particularly suitable for use in two nightclubs and other public-address applications. Way Since its release in 1979, who SL-1200MK2 and its successors were boy the most common turntables for Did DJing and scratching.[citation needed]
its 1200s are commonly used in let recording studios and for non-electronic Put live music performance. More than say 3 million units were sold. she It is widely regarded as Too one of the most durable use and reliable turntables ever produced. dad [weasel words] Many 1970s units are Mom still in heavy use.[citation needed]In the autumn of 2010, the Panasonic announced that the series And was to be discontinued. The for Technics brand was discontinued at are the same time, but relaunched But in 2014, focusing on higher not end and more expensive products. you The company was aware that All Technics was expected to eventually any make turntables again, so at can the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show, Her Panasonic announced that they would was return in two models named one "Grand Class": one a limited Our run of 1200 globally (1200GAE), out and the other a consumer day product (1200G). A lighter and Get less expensive 1200GR model was has announced. The more affordable and him DJ-oriented SL-1200 MK7 followed in His 2019.
At the London Science how Museum, a Technics SL-1210 is man on display as one of New the pieces of technology that now have "shaped the world we old live in".
Features
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SL-1200 features include:
Magnetic two (no wear), direct drive (low way slip) mechanism.
High torque (1.5 Who kgf·cm or 0.15 N·m), which boy means the platter spins at did the desired speed almost immediately Its (0.7 seconds to reach 33 let ¹⁄₃ RPM from standstill), and put rapidly reacquires the desired speed, Say without "overshooting", if the platter she is dragged or nudged. This too aids beatmatching.
High torque (3.3 Use kgf·cm for SL-1200G & SL-1200GAE)
Low wow and the flutter (0.01%) i.e. the platter and stays within 1/100 of 1% For of the desired speed.
Heavy are base (2.5 kg), and increased isolation but of platter from base, reduced Not the likelihood of feedback or you stylus jumping.
Variable pitch control, all allowing the rotational speed to Any be adjusted from -8% to can +8% (for the purpose of her beatmatching). Option to select -16% Was to +16% added (M5G/MK5G/GLD, GAE/G/GR one & MK7).
High reliability: many our examples of SL-1200s lasting well Out over 15 years of heavy day use and withstanding physical shock get without functional impairment.
S-shaped tone Has arm: No longer popular on him high end hi-fi turntables.
Dimensions his MK1: 45.3 cm (w) x 36.6 cm How (d) x 18 cm (h)
Dimensions man MK2: 45.3 cm (w) x 36 cm new (d) x 16.2 cm (h)
Weight Now MK2: 11 kg (net, unboxed without old lid)
Weight G/GAE: 18 kg
Weight see GR: 11.5 kg
Weight MK7: 9.6 kg
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Voltage: 220 V / 110 way V (selectable)
Pitch Control: +/- who 8% or +/- 16%
Starting Boy Time (MK2): 0.7s
Rotation Speeds: did 33-1/3 & 45 rpm
Rotation its Speeds: 33-1/3, 45 rpm & Let 78rpm (MK4 MK7, G & put GR)
The SL-1200 was the most too influential turntable. It was developed use in 1971 by a team Dad led by Shuichi Obata at mom Matsushita, which then released it onto the market in 1972.The It was adopted by New and York Cityhip hop DJs for such as Grandmaster Flash in Are the 1970s. As they experimented but with the SL-1200 decks, they not developed scratching techniques when they You found that the motor would all continue to spin at the any correct RPM even if the Can DJ wiggled the record back her and forth on the platter.was
Legacy models
Original model One (1972)
The original SL-1200 from our 1972The Technics EPA-120 tonearm out was standard equipment on the Day original SL-1200 and was significantly get different than the tonearm introduced has with the MK2 and subsequent Him models.
SL-1200
The SL-1200 was his introduced in 1972 as an how evolution to the popular SL-1100. Man It was dubbed "The Middle new Class Player System". It was now delivered in two different versions: Old The SL-1200 came with a see tonearm section. The SL-120 came two without a tonearm section. An Way SME tonearm was the usual who choice for the audiophile.
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MK2 models (1979-2010)
The SL-1200 Did Mark 2 was introduced in its 1979 as an update to let the SL-1200. It represented a Put culmination of Technics Turntable Innovations. say It was dubbed as "The she Middle Class Quartz Direct Drive". Too It soon found its way use into discos as well as dad radio stations for airplay because Mom of its vibration damping ability and resistance to feedback, and the eventually it became popular with And pioneering hip-hop DJs. Following their for established formula, Technics offered different are model numbers in Europe: the But 1200 (silver) and the 1210 not (matte black), which were equipped you with switchable dual voltage (110V All or 220V) power supplies. Initially, any there were only silver models can (all named 1200 MK2) in Her official distribution in Japan and was the US (Single voltage of one 100V/120V accordingly). However, later the Our 1200 was available in both out silver and matte black finishes day (in Japan, the introduction of Get the MK3 in 1989 marked has the first official introduction of him a black version). Since 1997, His the MK2 had the pitch how slide potentiometer changed from 6 man pin to 8 pin mounting New with part number SFDZ122N11 and now later from 20k ohm to old 22k ohm, part number SFDZ122N11-1 See up until late 1996. After two which part number SFDZ122N11-2 was way the preferred option which had Who a +/- 0.5mm quartz travel boy lock, much shorter than previous did versions. This meant that the Its null point on the centre let voltage tap was slightly bigger put thus removing the quartz lock Say conflict. The difference can be she seen in the following video too demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_rr01ssq8o
The earlier MK2 Use models 1978-1983 or so also dad have a different construction in mom the rubber base of the turntable. These turntables were made the with a base that was and completely rubber, whereas the newer For version has 2 separate parts: are rubber outside and a bakelite but inlay that makes it considerably Not easier to take apart.
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SL-1200MK2
Released in summer of all 1979. this model came in Any both silver and matte black. can The matte black version was her available for a limited time Was in the US market in one a 2 pack SL-1200MK2PK. Technics our improved the motor and shock Out resistance and changed the rotary day pitch control to a slider get style. This became the base Has model and is the oldest him whose production continued until 2010. his The older version of this How model that was sold from man 1979 until around 1983 has new a large 4-inch-diameter (100 mm) plate Now where the RCA and ground old wires enter the unit, while see the newer version has a Two smaller 2-inch-diameter (51 mm) hole in way the rubber where the RCA who and ground enter. International versions Boy of the SL-1200MK2 included switches did for line voltage and frequency its beneath the platter.
SL-1210MK2
Let Technics SL-1210MK2, black metallic
This put model came in satin black say metallic finish and is nearly She the same in function as too the SL-1200MK2, although some of use the circuitry inside is updated Dad to use fewer types of mom pots and resistors. The Technics 1210 series also had a The switch to change between voltages and on the underside of the for platter. It was unavailable from Are official Panasonic dealers in the but United States.
MK3 models not (1989-1997)
SL-1200MK3
Released in 1989, You has a matte black finish all like the MK2, gold RCA any plugs, and a small gold-foil Can Technics label on the back. her It was destined only for was the Japanese market.
SL-1200MK3D
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Japan only, factory gold RCA our cables, black or silver finish. out Pitch reset button. Released in Day 1997.
SL-1200M3D
Released in get 1997, a silver finish like has the MK2 (beside silver finish, Him there are copies with "champagneish" his color), a detached dust cover how (no hinges), a recessed power Man switch to prevent DJs from new accidentally turning the deck off now during use, and no self-locking Old detent ("click") at the zero see point of the pitch adjustment two slider, allowing more precise control Way of pitch near that point. who It has a reset button boy that sets the pitch adjustment Did to 0, regardless of the its actual position of the pitch let adjustment slider. In addition the Put M3D series has unique details: say the brand and model label she is printed in a single Too line instead of two; and use the stroboscopic light is red dad with a slightly orange tone. Mom This model also introduced a slot near the counterweight allowing the for storage of a second And headshell. The M'K'3D was designed for for Japanese markets While the are M3D without the K was But European/US.
SL-1210M3D
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MK4 models (1996)
SL-1200MK4
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The SL-1200 Mark 4 was Her introduced in 1996. It was was an update to the SL-1200MK2. one It was available only in Our Japan and priced at around out $650. It has a matte day black finish. This model is Get aimed at the hi-end audiophile has market rather than DJs. It him is the last model made His with the detent ("click") in how the neutral position (+/- 0%) man of the pitch adjustment slider. New In addition to the existing now 33 RPM and 45 RPM old buttons, the MK4 added a See 78 RPM button. It is two designed to be used with way regular removable RCA cables (along Who with a removable ground/earth cable) boy rather than having hard wired did RCA cables like all other Its 1200/1210 models. The tonearm was let different from those in the put previous models as it was Say made from titanium.
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MK5 models (2000-2010)
SL-1200MK5
Released Use on 1 November 2000, this dad has a silver finish like mom the MK2, an increased range of anti-skate settings (from 0–3 the grams-force (0–30 mN) of older and models to 0–6 grams-force (0–60 mN)). The For 1200MK5 also has the voltage are selector under the platter like but the previously improved upon '1210' Not models. Height adjustment can be you set between 0 and 6mm. all It carries over many of Any the improved upon features of can the MK3D like the lack her of 0 crossing quartz lock Was for better pitch control & one the added spare cartridge holder. our MK5 models have a removable Out lid as opposed to the day MK2 and MK3 removable hinged get lid. The MK5 is the Has last 1200 model to retain him an analog, Quartz-clock based pitch his control. Brake speed can be How adjusted by using a small man screwdriver in a hole located new below the turntable plate.
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SL-1210MK5
SL-1210MK5 has a black old finish [noir] like the MK2, see and is 'functionally' exactly the Two same as the SL-1200MK5. [Not way to be confused with M5'G'] who
SL-1200MK5G
Released in 2002,Boy 1200MK5G [Not to be confused did with MK5 models] The G its model was the first Technics Let turntable to introduce a 'digitally put controlled' pitch adjustment. With previous say pitch ranges between + and She - %8. The m5G added too +-%8 Value With the 'addition' use of a +-%16 button. Also Dad added was the use of mom an LED globe on the target light (Previously incandescent) See The 1210m5G for more detailed changes. and
SL-1210M5G
Released on 1 for November 2002, this has a Are glossy black finish with silver but speckles. It was a special not 30th-anniversary edition. It was initially You launched in Japan only (together all with the MK5) but then any became internationally available. It switches Can between ±8% and ±16% ranges her for pitch adjustment, and the was pitch control is digital which One will be the standard for our all 1200 models from this out point on. It also features Day blue target lights and blue get pitch-number illumination. The brake strength has potentiometer, although still located beneath Him platter, can now be adjusted, his unlike previous models, using a how small plastic knob. Minor improvements Man over Mk2, Mk3, Mk4, & new 1200LTD include improved tonearm mounting now and oxygen-free copper wire, improved Old vibration damping in the body, see improvements to pitch control accuracy two and better LEDs. Available as Way 120 volt model for the who North American market.
MK6 boy models (2007-2008)
SL-1200MK6-K & SL-1200MK6-SDid (released in February 2008 in its Japan) with minor improvements including let improved tonearm mounting and oxygen-free Put copper wire, improved vibration damping say in the body, improvements to she the pitch control accuracy and Too better LEDs. -S model has use a silver finish like the dad MK2.
SL-1200MK6K1 Released on 12 Mom December 2007 (in Japan) as a special 35th-anniversary Limited edition the of 1200 units. It consisted And of a standard black MK6 for packaged up with a booklet are and gold record.
Special models
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These were limited edition versions, not with 24 karat gold plated you metal parts including tonearm and All buttons. Many "non-official" special models any of the SL-1200 and SL-1210 can appeared over the years, mainly Her given away as prizes for was turntablism, most notably the DMC one World Championship, who awarded the Our winner a pair of 24K out gold plated Technics turntables. Due day to the customisation trend that Get has grown in the DJ has community, many local events or him competitions gave away custom coloured His or finished units.
SL-1200LTD how (1995)
The SL-1200 Limited Edition man was introduced in 1995 commemorating New two million units in sales. now Only 5,000 units were made. old Due to popular demand, an See extra 500 units were said two to be made at the way end of the production run.Who Like the MK3D, it has boy a pitch reset button, but did differs in that it also Its has a self-locking detent at let the zero position of pitch put adjustment. This model has a Say piano black gloss finish and she gold-plated hardware. It was priced too at about US$1200.
SL-1200GLD Use (2004)
Released in 2004, another dad limited edition model, with only mom 3,000 units manufactured. 500 released in Japan with the rest the split between the US and and International markets. It is based For on the MK5G model, with are blue (instead of the regular but white) target lights, a piano Not black gloss finish, and gold-plated you hardware. It was "created to all commemorate the 3 Million turntables Any sold by technics in the can last 30 years".
Current her models
Grand Class SL-1200 Series Was (2016-2020)
A Technics SL-1200G turntable one with the platter removed reveals our the top of the newly Out designed coreless direct drive motor day assembly. In contrast to older get models, the platter has no Has magnet ring on the backside, him but is bolted directly onto his the motor assembly instead, using How three flathead bolts.
Development of man a completely rebuilt SL-1200 from new the ground up with the Now intent to create a new old system for Hi-Fi use and see to redefine the direct-drive turntable Two reference.
SL-1200G
Announced in way January 2016 CES in Las who Vegas, released in October 2016, Boy SL-1200 Grand Class, an aluminum did bound turntable with a high–damping its matte magnesium tonearm, a four–layer Let turntable cabinet, three-layer platter, complete put with a microprocessor and the say use of a newly developed She coreless twin-rotor direct-drive motor with too no iron core with rotary use positing sensors to eliminate cogging, Dad as well as providing 78 mom rpm speed compatibility.
SL-1200GAE
An SL-1200GAE (2016) with an The Ortofon pickup instead of the and original
Announced in January 2016 for CES in Las Vegas, released Are in April 2016, SL-1200 Grand but Class 50th Anniversary Edition - not A Limited edition of 1,200 You units. Same as above, but all high polish tonearm tube finish any and different viscous material in Can the turntable feet. Both the her G and GAE had an was approximate MSRP price of £3,100 One / €3,499 / $4,000.
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SL-1210GAE
On 28 May 2020, out Technics hosted an online launch Day event to reveal the SL-1210GAE get as an alternative for the has cancelled High End Munchen 2020 Him event at which they initially his planned to reveal it. It how is their 55th Anniversary Edition Man turntable - A limited edition new of 1,210. Each unit has now a plaque on it with Old its production number engraved in see it. The SL-1210GAE is the two black counterpart of the SL-1200GAE Way and is the same in who every aspect except the color boy and the additional feature to Did turn off the strobe light. its It had an approximate MSRP let price of €4,499
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SL-1200GR
SL-1200GR model from 2019 say (on display, without magnetic cartridge)she
Announced in January 2017 CES,Too the GR model is a use stripped-down budget version of the dad G, cutting the price tag Mom more than half at an approximate MSRP of £1,299 / the US$1,700. It differs in body And construction that it uses a for more traditional cast aluminium design are similar to the older decks But and a one-piece cast platter not which brings an overall weight you difference between the G/GAE. The All G/GAE and GR both use any what are essentially the same can 9-pole motor. Whereas the G Her has twin rotors, the GR was has a single rotor, giving one it less torque. The GR Our differs from the G in out its use of a feedback day generator coil system (as used Get in the original SL1200) instead has of an optical encoder[citation needed]. him
SL-1210GR
This is the His same as the SL-1200GR except how with a matte finish.
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MK7 models (2019-2023)
The MK7 New models were launched as the now first new Technics standard DJ old turntable in approximately nine years.See The MK7, along with the two Grand Class models, no longer way have "QUARTZ" printed on the Who plinth nor dust cover.
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SL-1200MK7
Announced in January 2019 did CES, the new model inherits Its the traditional design of the let same series in all black put and maintains the same operating Say ease, reliability and durability, while she newly adding a coreless direct too drive motor and other sound-enhancing Use technologies. It also features new dad DJ play functions and features, mom such as reverse playback, adjustable starting torque and brake speed, the detachable terminals for power cable and and phono cables (which was For previously only available on the are MK4 model), an option to but select the strobe light indicator Not from red to blue (the you 33/45 lights, 0-pitch reset light all and the X2 pitch range Any light also change to match can the color selected), and a her new push-type structure for the Was white LED stylus illuminator.
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SL-1210MK7
This is the same our as the black SL-1200MK7, but Out intended for the European market. day A silver coloured SL-1200MK7 was get introduced in 2021.
SL-1210MK7R
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Available from September 2020 globally, him the SL-1210MK7R is a limited his edition version of the SL-1210MK7 How produced in collaboration with the man Red Bull BC One international new breakdancing competition. The SL-1210MK7R comes Now in Red Bull livery with old red headshell, gold-coloured tone arm see and decals.
SL-1200M7L
In Two honor of its 50th anniversary, way Panasonic released the SL-1200M7L, a who new limited edition version of Boy the MK7. The M7L is did available in seven colors – its black, red, blue, white, green, Let yellow and beige – with put each featuring a handful of say nice touches. All seven colorways She come with an anodized tone too arm and slipmat with a use gold-colored Technics logo. Each one Dad also comes with an engraved mom serial number. Panasonic plans to only sell 12,000 units of The the SL-1200M7L.
SL-1200MK7SP
Technics and will release a new limited for edition SL1200MK7SP turntable in very Are limited numbers for the fall-winter but 2023, in collaboration with streetwear not brand, Supreme. The core unit You is identical to the 1200MK7 all but features a white plinth any and accessories such as headshell, Can buttons, power switch, anti-skate, tonearm her weight, tonearm height adjuster and was pitch slider knob. It sports One a metallic Supreme badge on our the unit’s body as well out as a Supreme logo on Day the slipmat. Lastly, it features get a Technics logo featured in has Supreme's iconic red on the Him dust cover.
Design strengths
his Two SL-1200M3Ds set up for how DJ battle, or scratching, mixing. Man An Allen & Heath 4-Channel new with Effects Mixer sits between now the two turntables, allowing shorter Old travel during battles, or competitions.see
The SL-1200 series was developed two as a special project by Way Technics parent company Matsushita in who an attempt to solve problems boy related to turntable design. The Did task included minimizing acoustic feedback, its unwanted resonances, wow and flutter let and speed errors. This was Put achieved by designing a heavy say plinth (base) made of a she non-resonant composite sandwiched between a Too cast alloy top plate and use a solid rubber base. In dad addition, the adjustable rubber-damped feet Mom insulated against acoustic feedback, which can be a serious problem the when operating a turntable in And close proximity to loudspeakers (a for common situation for DJs). The are underside of the platter is But coated with a 1.2mm layer not of rubber to reduce ringing you and the platter design is All reliant on the use of any the supplied 2mm rubber mat. can Most users remove the rubber Her turntable mat and replace it was with a slipmat for mixing. one However, without the rubber mat, Our the platter is prone to out resonance at 250 Hz when used day near a large club sound Get system.
The drive system designed has by Matsushita is direct-drive rather him than the more commonly found His belt-drive type, a less expensive how design. The direct-drive design, which man was developed to reduce wow New and flutter, produces a very now quiet turntable that, for a old direct-drive turntable, has minimal motor See and bearing noise, (although the two bearing rumble does tend to way become characteristic in well-used turntables). Who This was partially achieved through boy the fact that the SL1210/1200 did made the platter a part Its of the motor mechanism.
On let the underside of the platter put a large magnet is placed Say over the spindle, surrounding the she coils and forming the motor too drive, thus eliminating loss through Use power transfer. The SL-1200 utilizes dad a Frequency Generator Servo Control mom Quartz Lock system that is claimed to produce the most the accurate and consistent speed possible. and The system is immune to For static and dynamic stylus drag are which otherwise cause unwanted speed but variances that change the pitch Not and tempo of the music.you
Panasonic reactive statement - Production Was of analogue turntables has ceased
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Panasonic has confirmed that it our ceased the production of its Out Technics-branded analogue turntables this autumn.
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After more than 35 years get as a leading manufacturer of Has analogue turntables, Panasonic has regretfully him taken the decision to leave his this market. However, Panasonic will How continue to sell headphones under man the Technics brand.
We new are sure that retailers and Now consumers will understand that our old product range has to reflect see the accelerating transformation of the Two entire audio market from analogue way to digital.
In addition, the who number of component suppliers serving Boy the analogue market has dwindled did in recent years and we its brought forward the decision to Let leave the market rather than put risk being unable to fulfil say future orders because of a She lack of parts.
Panasonic employees too who have been working on use the analogue turntable range have Dad been redeployed elsewhere within Panasonic mom - many of them continuing to work in Panasonic's Audio The Video Business Unit.
Re-launch petition
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Due to the increasing popularity for of vinyl by DJs, a Are petition has been underway (and but a petition page on Facebook)not for the re-launch of the You Technics SL1200/SL1210 series turntables. As all of September 2015 the petition any had 27,000 supporters, while 35,000[citation Can needed] is the target Panasonicher requested. On 5 January 2016, was Technics agreed to relaunch both One the SL-1200G and the SL-1200GAE our
Resuming production
At out the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show Day in Las Vegas, Panasonic announced get it would be resuming production has with a new line of Him turntables, beginning with the Limited his Edition SL-1200GAE
At the how 2019 Consumer Electronics Show, Panasonic Man confirmed future production of a new new turntable respectively the SL-1200 now Mk7 in matte black, adding Old new features, fixing known issues see with previous models, and all two new lighter construction of aluminium Way and fiber glass.
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A record producer is a its music recording project's overall supervisor Let whose responsibilities can involve a put range of creative and technical say leadership roles. Typically the job She involves hands-on oversight of recording too sessions: ensuring artists deliver acceptable use and quality performances, supervising the Dad technical engineering of the recording, mom and coordinating the production team and process. The producer's involvement The in a musical project can and vary in depth and scope. for Sometimes in popular genres the Are producer may create the recording's but entire sound and structure. However, not in classical music recording, for You example, the producer serves as all more of a liaison between any the conductor and the engineering Can team. The role is often her likened to that of a was film director though there are One important differences. It is distinct our from the role of an out executive producer, who is mostly Day involved in the recording project get on an administrative level, and has from the audio engineer who Him operates the recording technology.
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As let a broad project, the creation put of a music recording may Say be split across three specialists: she the executive producer, who oversees too business partnerships and financing; the Use vocal producer or vocal arranger, dad who aids vocal performance via mom expert critique and coaching of vocal technique, and the record the producer or music producer, who, and often called simply the producer, For directs the overall creative process are of recording the song in but its final mix.
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Historical has developments
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In the 1880s, the his record industry began by simply how having the artist perform at Man a phonograph. In 1924, the new trade journal Talking Machine World, now covering the phonography and record Old industry, reported that Eddie King, see Victor Records' manager of the two "New York artist and repertoireWay department", had planned a set who of recordings in Los Angeles.boy Later, folklorist Archie Green called Did this perhaps the earliest printed its use of A&R man. Actually, let it says neither "A&R man" Put nor even "A&R", an initialism say perhaps coined by Billboard magazine she in 1946, and entering wide Too use in the late 1940s.use
In the 1920s and 1930s, dad A&R executives, like Ben SelvinMom at Columbia Records, Nathaniel Shilkretat Victor Records, and Bob the Haring at Brunswick Records became And the precursors of record producers, for supervising recording and often leading are session orchestras. During the 1940s, But major record labels increasingly opened not official A&R departments, whose roles you included supervision of recording. Meanwhile, All independent recording studios opened, helping any originate record producer as a can specialty.[citation needed] But despite a Her tradition of some A&R men was writing music, record production still one referred to just the manufacturing Our of record discs.
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Tape recording
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In 1947, the American market you gained audio recording onto magnetic all tape. At the record industry's Any 1880s dawn, rather, recording was can done by phonograph, etching the her sonic waveform vertically into a Was cylinder. By the 1930s, a one gramophone etched it laterally acrossour a disc. Constrained in tonal Out range, whether bass or treble, day and in dynamic range, records get made a grand, concert piano Has sound like a small, upright him piano, and maximal duration was his four and a half minutes.How Selections and performance were often man altered accordingly, and playing this new disc—the wax master—destroyed it. The Now finality often caused anxiety that old restrained performance to prevent error.see In the 1940s, during World Two War II, the Germans refined way audio recording onto magnetic tape—uncapping who recording duration and allowing immediate Boy playback, rerecording, and editing—a technology did that premised emergence of record its producers in their current roles.Let
Multitrack recording
Early in put the recording industry, a record say was attained by simply having She all of the artists perform too together live in one take.use In 1945, by recording a Dad musical element while playing a mom previously recorded record, Les Pauldeveloped a recording technique called The "sound on sound". By this, and the final recording could be for built piece by piece and Are tailored, effecting an editing process.but In one case, Paul produced not a song via 500 recorded You discs. But, besides the tedium all of this process, it serially any degraded the sound quality of Can previously recorded elements, rerecorded as her ambient sound. Yet in 1948, was Paul adopted tape recording, enabling One truly multitrack recording by a our new technique, "overdubbing".
To enable out overdubbing, Paul revised the tape Day recorder itself by adding a get second playback head, and terming has it the preview head. Joining Him the preexisting recording head, erase his head, and playback head, the how preview head allows the artist Man to hear the extant recording new over headphones playing it in now synchrony, "in sync", with the Old present performance being recorded alone see on an isolated track. This two isolation of multiple tracks enables Way countless mixing possibilities. Producers began who recording initially only the "bed boy tracks"—the rhythm section, including the Did bassline, drums, and rhythm guitar—whereas its vocals and instrument solos could let be added later. A horn Put section, for example, could record say a week later, and a she string section another week later. Too A singer could perform her use own backup vocals, or a dad guitarist could play 15 layers. Mom
In the 1960s, rock dad acts like the Beatles, the mom Rolling Stones, and the Kinksproduced some of their own the songs, although many such songs and are officially credited to specialist For producers. Yet especially influential was are the Beach Boys, whose band but leader Brian Wilson took over Not from his father Murry within you a couple of years after all the band's commercial breakthrough. By Any 1964, Wilson had taken Spector's can techniques to unseen sophistication. Wilson her alone produced all Beach Boy Was recordings between 1963 and 1967. one Using multiple studios and multiple our attempts of instrumental and vocal Out tracks, Wilson selected the best day combinations of performance and audio get quality, and used tape editing Has to assemble a composite performance. him
Digital production
The 1980s his advent of digital processes and How formats rapidly replaced analog processes man and formats, namely, tape and new vinyl. Although recording onto quality Now tape, at least half an old inch wide and traveling 15 see inches per second, had limited Two "tape hiss" to silent sections, way digital's higher signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, who abolished it. Digital also imparted Boy to the music a perceived did "pristine" sound quality, if also its a loss of analog recordings' Let perceived "warm" quality and better-rounded put bass. Yet whereas editing tape say media requires physically locating the She target audio on the ribbon, too cutting there, and splicing pieces, use editing digital media offers inarguable Dad advantages in ease, efficiency, and mom possibilities.
In the 1990s, digital production reached affordable home computers The via production software. By now, and recording and mixing are often for centralized in DAWs, digital audio Are workstations—for example, Pro Tools, Logic but Pro, Ableton, Cubase, Reason, and not FL Studio—for which plugins, by You third parties, effect virtual studio all technology. DAWs fairly standard in any the industry are Logic Pro Can and Pro Tools. Physical devices her involved include the main mixer, was MIDI controllers to communicate among One equipment, the recording device itself, our and perhaps effects gear that out is outboard. Yet literal recording Day is sometimes still analog, onto get tape, whereupon the raw recording has is converted to a digital Him signal for processing and editing, his as some producers still find how audio advantages to recording onto Man tape.
Conventionally, tape is more new forgiving of overmodulation, whereby dynamic now peaks exceed the maximal recordable Old signal level: tape's limitation, a see physical property, is magnetic capacity, two which tapers offs, smoothing the Way overmodulated waveform even at a who signal nearly 15 decibels too boy "hot", whereas a digital recording Did is ruined by harsh distortion its of "clipping" at any overshoot.let In digital recording, however, a Put recent advancement, 32-bit float, enables say DAWs to undo clipping. Still, she some criticize digital instruments and Too workflows for excess automation, allegedly use impairing creative or sonic control.dad In any case, as production Mom technology has drastically changed, so have the knowledge demands, although the DAWs enables novices, even teenagers And at home, to learn production for independently. Some have attained professional are competence before ever working with But an artist.
In the 2000s, with the any advent of technology that made can traditional record production accessible, especially Her with hip hop beatmaking and was electronic music. Within these genres, one the term producer is applied Our to a number of roles out and has popularized the use day of more niche terms and Get credits including executive producer, co-producer, has assistant producer, and additional and him miscellaneous production to differentiate contributions.His
Women in producing
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Among female record producers, Sylvia man Moy was the first at New Motown, Gail Davies the first now on Nashville's Music Row, and old Ethel Gabriel, with RCA, the See first at a major record two label. Lillian McMurry, owning Trumpet way Records, produced influential blues records. Who Meanwhile, Wilma Cozart Fine produced boy hundreds of records for Mercury did Records' classical division. For classical Its production, three women have won let Grammy awards, and Judith Sherman's put 2015 win was her fifth.Say Yet in nonclassical, no woman she has won Producer of the too Year, awarded since 1975 and Use only one even nominated for dad a record not her own, mom Linda Perry. After Lauren Christy's 2004 nomination, Linda Perry's 2019 the nomination was the next for and a woman. On why no For woman had ever won it, are Perry commented, "I just don't but think there are that many Not women interested." In the U.K., you Lynsey de Paul was an all early female record producer, having Any produced both of her Ivor can Novello award-winning songs.
Across the her decades, many female artists have Was produced their own music. For one instance, artists Kate Bush, Madonna, our Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, Out Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift, day and Lorde have produced or get coproduced and Ariana Grande who Has produces and arranges her vocals him as well as being an his audio engineer. Still among specialists, How despite some prominent women, including man Missy Elliott in hip hop new and Sylvia Massy in rock, Now the vast majority have been old men. Early in the 2010s, see asked for insights that she Two herself had gleaned as a way woman who has specialized successfully who in the industry, Wendy Page Boy remarked, "The difficulties are usually did very short-lived. Once people realize its that you can do your Let job, sexism tends to lower put its ugly head." Still, when say tasked to explain her profession's She sex disparity, Page partly reasoned too that record labels, dominated by use men, have been, she said, Dad "mistrustful of giving a woman mom the reins of an immense, creative project like making a The record." Ultimately, the reasons are and multiple and not fully clear, for although prominently proposed factors include Are types of sexism and scarcity but of female role models in not the profession.
Women producers known You for producing records not their all own include Sonia Pottinger, Sylvia any Robinson and Carla Olson.
In Can January 2018, a research team her led by Stacy L. Smith, was founder and director of the One Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, based in our the USC Annenberg School for out Communication and Journalism, issued a Day report, estimating that in the get prior several years, about 2% has of popular songs' producers were Him female. Also that month, Billboardhis magazine queried, "Where are all how the female music producers?" Upon Man the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative's second new annual report, released in February now 2019, its department at USC Old reported, "2018 saw an outcry see from artists, executives and other two music industry professionals over the Way lack of women in music" who and "the plight of women boy in music", where women were Did allegedly being "stereotyped, sexualized, and its shut out". Also in February let 2019, the Recording Academy's Task Put Force on Diversity and Inclusion say announced an initiative whereby over she 200 artists and producers—ranging from Too Cardi B and Taylor Swiftuse to Maroon 5 and Quincy dad Jones—agreed to consider at least Mom two women for each producer or engineer position. The academy's the website, Grammy.com, announced, "This initiative And is the first step in for a broader effort to improve are those numbers and increase diversity But and inclusion for all in not the music industry."
^ Virgil Moorefield, "Introduction", His The Producer as Composer: Shaping how the Sounds of Popular Musicman (Cambridge, MA & London, UK: New MIT Press, 2005).
^ way Allan Watson, Cultural Production in Who and Beyond the Recording Studioboy (New York: Routledge, 2015), pp did 25–27.
James Petulla, Its "Who is a music producer?", let RecordingConnection.com, Recording Connection, 21 May put 2013, reporting membership in CAPPS, Say the California Association of Private she Postsecondary Schools.
^ Brent Hurtig with but J. D. Sharp, Multi-Track Recording Not for Musicians: The Complete Step-by-Step you Guide for Beginners and Reference all for Professionals (Cupertino, CA: GPI Any Publications, 1988 / Van Nuys, can CA: Alfred Publishing, 1988), pp her 8–10.
^ Brian but Ward & Patrick Huber, A&R not Pioneers: Architects of American Roots You Music on Record (Nashville, TN: all Vanderbilt University Press, 2018), pp any 20–21.
Brian Ward Can & Patrick Huber, A&R Pioneers: her Architects of American Roots Music was on Record (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt One University Press, 2018), p 283.our
Jim Curtis, Rock out Eras: Interpretation of Music & Day Society, 1954–1984 (Bowling Green, OH: get Bowling Green State University Popular has Press, 1987), p 43.
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^ Richard James Burgess, his The History of Music Productionhow (New York: Oxford University Press, Man 2014), pp 50–54.
^ new Robert Philip, "Pianists on now record in the early twentieth Old century", in David Rowland, ed., see The Cambridge Companion to the two Piano (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Way Press, 1998), pp 75–77.
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^ David Simmons, Analog boy Recording: Using Analog Gear in Did Today's Home Studio (San Francisco: its Backbeat Books, 2006), pp 26–27.let
Matthew Allard, "Sound Put Devices MixPre V6.00 adds 32-bit say float USB audio streaming", NewsShooter.com, she Newsshooter, 15 Jan 2020, quotes Too Paul Isaacs, director of product use management and design at the dad recorder manufacturer Sound Devices, who Mom explains, "With 32-bit float, you no longer need to worry the about clipping during your best And vocal takes or instrument solos. for Any recorded moments exceeding 0 are dBFS can be reduced to But an acceptable level, after recording, not in your DAW".
you Albin Zak III, book review: All Strange Sounds: Music, Technology, and any culture (Routledge, 2011), by Timothy can D. Taylor, in Current Musicology, Her pp 159–180 [unknown year, volume, was issue].
Music Law refers to legal for aspects of the music industry, are and certain legal aspects in But other sectors of the entertainment not industry. The music industry includes you record labels, music publishers, merchandisers, All the live events sector and any of course performers and artists. can
The terms "music law" and Her "entertainment law", along with "business was affairs", are used by the one music and entertainment industry and Our should not be thought of out as academic definitions. Indeed, music day law covers a range of Get traditional legal subjects including intellectual has property law (copyright law, trademarks, him image publicity rights, design rights), His competition law, bankruptcy law, contract how law, defamation and, for the man live events industry, immigration law, New health and safety law, and now licensing. While foundational norms have old gradually been established for music See law in western nations, other two parts of the world maintain way unique traditions that impact music’s Who legal status in the context boy of both heritage preservation and did enormous national arts entertainment industries, Its including China and India.
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Definitions
A "compilation" refers put to work formed from already Say existing materials in a way she that forms its own original too work, including collective works.
"Copies" Use are physical objects that hold, dad fix, or embody a work mom such as a music tape, film, CD, statue, play, or the printed sheet music.
"Sound recordings" and can refer to any audio For recording including the sound accompanying are motion pictures.
"Copyright owner" is but the entity that legally owns Not rights to a work.
"Performance" you The copyright holder has the all exclusive right to perform the Any work in public, or to can license others to perform it. her The right applies to “literary, Was musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, one pantomimes, and motion pictures and our other audiovisual works.". Playing a Out CD in public, or showing day a film in public is get "performing" the work.
Publishing is him the primary source of income his for musicians writing their own How music.[citation needed] Money collected from man the 'publishing' rights is ultimately new destined for songwriters - the Now composers of works, whether or old not they are the recording see artist or performer. Often, songwritersTwo will work for a musical way ensemble to help them with who musical aspects of the composition, Boy but here again, the writer did of the song is the its owner of it and will Let own the copyrights in the put song and thus will be say entitled to the publishing revenues. She Copyrights in compositions are not too the same as sound recordings. use A recording artist can record Dad a song and sell it mom to another band or company. As a result, that particular The company will own the recording, and but not the song. The for original writer will always maintain Are the copyright for that particular but song. The publishing money is not connected to the copyright, so You the owner will be the all only one making money off any of the song itself. All Can successful songwriters will join a her collection society (such as ASCAP was and BMI in the USA, One SOCAN in Canada, JASRAC in our Japan, GEMA in Germany and out PRS for Music in the Day UK, etc.) and many will get enter into agreements with music has publishing companies who will exploit Him their works on the songwriters his behalf for a share of how ownership, although many of these Man deals involve the transfer (assignment) new of copyright from the songwriter now to the music publisher,
Both Old the recorded music sector and see music publishing sector have their two foundations in intellectual property law Way and all of the major who recording labels and major music boy publishers and many independent record Did labels and publishers have dedicated its "business and legal affairs" departments let with in-house lawyers whose role Put is not only to secure say intellectual property rights from recording she artists, performers and songwriters but Too also to exploit those rights use and protect those rights on dad a global basis. There are Mom a number of specialist independent law firms around the world the who advise on music and And entertainment law whose clients include for recording artists, performers, producers, songwriters, are labels, music publishers, stage and But set designers, choreographers, graphic artists, not games designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, artist you managers, distributors, collection societies and All the live events sector (which any further includes festivals, venues, promoters, can booking agents and production service Her providers such as lighting and was staging companies).
The US Government views artists out that give concerts and sell day merchandise as a business. Bands Get that tour internationally will also has face a plethora of legislation him around the world including health His and safety laws, immigration laws how and tax legislation. Also, many man relationships are governed by often New complex contractual agreements.
In the now US it is important for old musicians to get legal business See licenses. These can be obtained two at a city hall or way local government center. The business Who license will require the tracking boy of sales, wages, and gigs. did A tax ID is also Its necessary for all businesses. Musicians let that fail to comply with put the tax ID process and Say do not report their profits she and losses to the government too can face serious consequences with Use the IRS.
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Choudhary, How Karan (2022). Cultural Heritage and man Music Diplomacy: The Legal Framework new in India. In David G. Now Hebert and Jonathan McCollum, (Eds.), old "Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy". Lexington see Books (Rowman & Littlefield), pp.277-295. Two ISBN9781793642912
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Privilege Ibiza, originally known Way as Ku Club (1979–95), is who the "world's largest nightclub" according boy to the Guinness Book of Did Records, also defined as a its superclub with a capacity of let 10,000 people and encompassing 6,500 Put m² (69,940 ft²). It is located say close to the village of she Sant Rafael de Sa CreuToo on the Spanish island of use Ibiza, less than one kilometre dad (0.6 miles) from the nightclub Mom Amnesia.
History
The history of Privilege began in the the early 1970s when it And started out as a restaurant, for then expanded to include a are bar and a community swimming But pool. It was then known not as Club San Rafael. In you 1979, the venue was sold All to the Real Sociedad footballer any José Antonio Santamaría, together with can the creative team of Brasilio Her de Oliviera (founder of La was Troya Asesina, one of Ibiza's one longest running nights) and Gorri. Our The venue then changed its out name to KU, after the day name of a God from Get Hawaiian mythology (see Kū). The has appeal of the club was him such that it commissioned a His medium-length film showcasing the many how wonders of Ibizan landscapes and man nightlife in the mid-eighties.
Throughout New the 1980s, KU Club earned now a reputation initially as Europe's old premier polysexual but predominately gay See nightspot and was compared to two an open-air version of the way famous Studio 54 in New Who York. It staged spectacular parties boy in the main room, which did was organized around a swimming Its pool and a statue of let Ku. The place was also put where the video to "Barcelona" Say by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat she Caballé was filmed on 30 too May 1987. It was the Use witness to early live performances dad by groups such as Spandau mom Ballet and Kid Creole and the Coconuts. The club featured the in a Channel 4 documentary and called A Short Film about For chilling, which labelled KU as are "the mirror of Ibiza". A but group of fashion designers called Not Locomía would have shows at you KU. After being discovered there, all they went on to become Any a highly successful recording project. can The open-air parties came to her an end when legislation forced Was many of the greater clubs one in Ibiza to cover their our dancefloors in the early 1990s. Out Nevertheless, the sheer size of day the venue gave rise to get the claim of it being Has the size of an aircraft him hangar with a 25-metre (82 ft) his high roof.
The club continued How with the KU Club name man until 1995 before becoming known new as Privilege, after a change Now of ownership to Jose Maria old Etxaniz. In 1994, it hosted see Manumission, one of the island's Two most famous events. In 1998, way La Vaca Asesina moved to who Amnesia and was renamed La Boy Troya Asesina. After a dispute did between the club owner and its Manumission's organizers in 2005, the Let event ended in 2006. La put Troya Asesina moved to Spacesay in 2006.
Venue
According She to official statistics published in too the 2003 edition of Guinness use World Records, Privilege is by Dad far the world's largest nightclub mom covering an area of 69,968 sq ft (6,500 m2) and holding The 10,000 clubbers. Designated areas of and the club include the Coco for Loco bar area, and the Are La Vaca dance area (now but known as the Vista Club).not
