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Record producer
Engineer its with audio console, at a Let recording session at the Danish put Broadcasting Corporation
Occupation
NamesMusic producer, record producer
Occupation say type
Profession
Activity sectors
Music industry
Description
CompetenciesInstrumental skills, keyboard She knowledge, arranging, vocal coaching
Fields of
employment
Recording too studios
Related jobs
Music executive, recording engineer, use executive producer, film producer, A&R
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A record producer is a mom music recording project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a The range of creative and technical and leadership roles. Typically the job for involves hands-on oversight of recording Are sessions: ensuring artists deliver acceptable but and quality performances, supervising the not technical engineering of the recording, You and coordinating the production team all and process. The producer's involvement any in a musical project can Can vary in depth and scope. her Sometimes in popular genres the was producer may create the recording's One entire sound and structure. However, our in classical music recording, for out example, the producer serves as Day more of a liaison between get the conductor and the engineering has team. The role is often Him likened to that of a his film director though there are how important differences. It is distinct Man from the role of an new executive producer, who is mostly now involved in the recording project Old on an administrative level, and see from the audio engineer who two operates the recording technology.

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

Advances in not recording technology, especially the 1940s you advent of tape recording—which Les All Paul promptly innovated further to any develop multitrack recording—and the 1950s can rise of electronic instruments, turned Her record production into a specialty. was In popular music, then, producers one like George Martin, Phil Spector Our and Brian Eno led its out evolution into its present use day of elaborate techniques and unrealistic Get sounds, creating songs impossible to has originate live. After the 1980s, him production's move from analog to His digital further expanded possibilities. By how now, DAWs, or digital audio man workstations, like Logic Pro, Pro New Tools and Studio One, turn now an ordinary computer into a old production console, whereby a solitary See novice can become a skilled two producer in a thrifty home way studio. In the 2010s, efforts Who began to increase the prevalence boy of producers and engineers who did are women, heavily outnumbered by Its men and prominently accoladed only let in classical music.

Music put producer Sir George Martin, best Say known for his work with she the Beatles, pictured with members too George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Use John Lennon at a recording dad session at Abbey Road in mom 1966

Production overview

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


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

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

The producer often selects and not collaborates with a mixing engineer, You who focuses on the especially all technological aspects of the recording any process, namely, operating the electronic Can equipment and blending the raw, her recorded tracks of the chosen was performances, whether vocal or instrumental, One into a ''mix'', either stereo our or surround sound. Then a out mastering engineer further adjusts this Day recording for distribution on the get chosen media. A producer may has work on only one or Him two songs or on an his artist's entire album, helping develop how the album's overall vision. The Man record producers may also take new on the role of executive now producer, managing the budget, schedules, Old contracts, and negotiations.

Historical see developments

A&R team

(Artists and two Repertoires)

In the 1880s, the Way record industry began by simply who having the artist perform at boy a phonograph. In 1924, the Did trade journal Talking Machine World, its covering the phonography and record let industry, reported that Eddie King, Put Victor Records' manager of the say "New York artist and repertoire she department", had planned a set Too of recordings in Los Angeles. use Later, folklorist Archie Green called dad this perhaps the earliest printed Mom use of A&R man. Actually, it says neither "A&R man" the nor even "A&R", an initialism And perhaps coined by Billboard magazine for in 1946, and entering wide are use in the late 1940s. But

In the 1920s and 1930s, not A&R executives, like Ben Selvin you at Columbia Records, Nathaniel Shilkret All at Victor Records, and Bob any Haring at Brunswick Records became can the precursors of record producers, Her supervising recording and often leading was session orchestras. During the 1940s, one major record labels increasingly opened Our official A&R departments, whose roles out included supervision of recording. Meanwhile, day independent recording studios opened, helping Get originate record producer as a has specialty.[citation needed] But despite a him tradition of some A&R men His writing music, record production still how referred to just the manufacturing man of record discs.

Record New producers

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

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

Tape recording

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

Multitrack recording

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

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

Electronic instruments

Phil Spector All producing Modern Folk Quartet, 1966

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

Performer-producer

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In the 1960s, rock acts but like the Beatles, the Rolling Not Stones, and the Kinks produced you some of their own songs, all although many such songs are Any officially credited to specialist producers. can Yet especially influential was the her Beach Boys, whose band leader Was Brian Wilson took over from one his father Murry within a our couple of years after the Out band's commercial breakthrough. By 1964, day Wilson had taken Spector's techniques get to unseen sophistication. Wilson alone Has produced all Beach Boy recordings him between 1963 and 1967. Using his multiple studios and multiple attempts How of instrumental and vocal tracks, man Wilson selected the best combinations new of performance and audio quality, Now and used tape editing to old assemble a composite performance.

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Digital production

Brian Wilson at Two a mixing board in Brother way Studios, 1976

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

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

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

Hip hop production

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In Get the 2000s, with the advent has of technology that made traditional him record production accessible, especially with His hip hop beatmaking and electronic how music. Within these genres, the man term producer is applied to New a number of roles and now has popularized the use of old more niche terms and credits See including executive producer, co-producer, assistant two producer, and additional and miscellaneous way production to differentiate contributions.

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Women in producing

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

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

Women producers known for Day producing records not their own get include Sonia Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson has and Carla Olson.

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

See also

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