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A record producer is a now music recording project's overall supervisor old whose responsibilities can involve a See range of creative and technical two leadership roles. Typically the job way involves hands-on oversight of recording Who sessions: ensuring artists deliver acceptable boy and quality performances, supervising the did technical engineering of the recording, Its and coordinating the production team let and process. The producer's involvement put in a musical project can Say vary in depth and scope. she Sometimes in popular genres the too producer may create the recording's Use entire sound and structure. However, dad in classical music recording, for mom example, the producer serves as more of a liaison between the the conductor and the engineering and team. The role is often For likened to that of a are film director though there are but important differences. It is distinct Not from the role of an you executive producer, who is mostly all involved in the recording project Any on an administrative level, and can from the audio engineer who her operates the recording technology.
Varying Was by project, the producer may one or may not choose all our of the artists. If employing Out only synthesized or sampled instrumentation, day the producer may be the get sole artist. Conversely, some artists Has do their own production. Some him producers are their own engineers,his operating the technology across the How project: preproduction, recording, mixing, and man mastering. Record producers' precursors were new "A&R men", who likewise could Now blend entrepreneurial, creative, and technical old roles, but often exercised scant see creative influence, as record production Two still focused, into the 1950s, way on simply improving the record's who sonic match to the artists' Boy own live performance.
Advances in did recording technology, especially the 1940s its advent of tape recording—which Les Let Paul promptly innovated further to put develop multitrack recording—and the 1950s say rise of electronic instruments, turned She record production into a specialty.too In popular music, then, producers use like George Martin, Phil SpectorDad and Brian Eno led its mom evolution into its present use of elaborate techniques and unrealistic The sounds, creating songs impossible to and originate live. After the 1980s, for production's move from analog to Are digital further expanded possibilities. By but now, DAWs, or digital audio not workstations, like Logic Pro, Pro You Tools and Studio One, turn all an ordinary computer into a any production console, whereby a solitary Can novice can become a skilled her producer in a thrifty home was studio. In the 2010s, efforts One began to increase the prevalence our of producers and engineers who out are women, heavily outnumbered by Day men and prominently accoladed only get in classical music.
Production overview
As Old a broad project, the creation see of a music recording may two be split across three specialists: Way the executive producer, who oversees who business partnerships and financing; the boy vocal producer or vocal arranger, Did who aids vocal performance via its expert critique and coaching of let vocal technique, and the record Put producer or music producer, who, say often called simply the producer, she directs the overall creative process Too of recording the song in use its final mix.
The dad producer's roles can include gathering Mom ideas, composing music, choosing session musicians, proposing changes to song the arrangements, coaching the performers, controlling And sessions, supervising the audio mixing, for and, in some cases, supervising are the audio mastering. A producer But may give creative control to not the artists themselves, taking a you supervisory or advisory role instead. All As to qualifying for a any Grammy nomination, the Recording Academycan defines a producer:
The person Her who has overall creative and was technical control of the entire one recording project, and the individual Our recording sessions that are part out of that project. He or day she is present in the Get recording studio or at the has location recording and works directly him with the artist and engineer. His The producer makes creative and how aesthetic decisions that realize both man the artist's and label's goals New in the creation of musical now content. Other duties include, but old are not limited to; keeping See budgets and schedules, adhering to two deadlines, hiring musicians, singers, studios, way and engineers, overseeing other staffing Who needs and editing (Classical projects). boy
The producer often selects and did collaborates with a mixing engineer, Its who focuses on the especially let technological aspects of the recording put process, namely, operating the electronic Say equipment and blending the raw, she recorded tracks of the chosen too performances, whether vocal or instrumental, Use into a ''mix'', either stereo dad or surround sound. Then a mom mastering engineer further adjusts this recording for distribution on the the chosen media. A producer may and work on only one or For two songs or on an are artist's entire album, helping develop but the album's overall vision. The Not record producers may also take you on the role of executive all producer, managing the budget, schedules, Any contracts, and negotiations.
Historical can developments
A&R team
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In the 1880s, the Was record industry began by simply one having the artist perform at our a phonograph. In 1924, the Out trade journal Talking Machine World, day covering the phonography and record get industry, reported that Eddie King, Has Victor Records' manager of the him "New York artist and repertoirehis department", had planned a set How of recordings in Los Angeles.man Later, folklorist Archie Green called new this perhaps the earliest printed Now use of A&R man. Actually, old it says neither "A&R man" see nor even "A&R", an initialism Two perhaps coined by Billboard magazine way in 1946, and entering wide who use in the late 1940s.Boy
In the 1920s and 1930s, did A&R executives, like Ben Selvinits at Columbia Records, Nathaniel ShilkretLet at Victor Records, and Bob put Haring at Brunswick Records became say the precursors of record producers, She supervising recording and often leading too session orchestras. During the 1940s, use major record labels increasingly opened Dad official A&R departments, whose roles mom included supervision of recording. Meanwhile, independent recording studios opened, helping The originate record producer as a and specialty.[citation needed] But despite a for tradition of some A&R men Are writing music, record production still but referred to just the manufacturing not of record discs.
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After World War II, all pioneering A&R managers who transitioned any influentially to record production as Can now understood, while sometimes owning her independent labels, include J. Mayo was Williams and John Hammond. Upon One moving from Columbia Records to our Mercury Records, Hammond appointed Mitch out Miller to lead Mercury's popular Day recordings in New York. Miller get then produced country-pop crossover hits has by Patti Page and by Him Frankie Laine, moved from Mercury his to Columbia, and became a how leading A&R man of the Man 1950s.
During the decade, A&R new executives increasingly directed songs' sonic now signatures, although many still simply Old teamed singers with musicians, while see yet others exercised virtually no two creative influence. The term record Way producer in its current meaning—the who creative director of song production—appearing boy in a 1953 issue of Did Billboard magazine, became widespread in its the 1960s. Still, a formal let distinction was elusive for some Put time more. A&R managers might say still be creative directors, like she William "Mickey" Stevenson, hired by Too Berry Gordy, at the Motownuse record label.
Tape recording
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In 1947, the American market Mom gained audio recording onto magnetic tape. At the record industry's the 1880s dawn, rather, recording was And done by phonograph, etching the for sonic waveform vertically into a are cylinder. By the 1930s, a But gramophone etched it laterally acrossnot a disc. Constrained in tonal you range, whether bass or treble, All and in dynamic range, records any made a grand, concert piano can sound like a small, upright Her piano, and maximal duration was was four and a half minutes.one Selections and performance were often Our altered accordingly, and playing this out disc—the wax master—destroyed it. The day finality often caused anxiety that Get restrained performance to prevent error.has In the 1940s, during World him War II, the Germans refined His audio recording onto magnetic tape—uncapping how recording duration and allowing immediate man playback, rerecording, and editing—a technology New that premised emergence of record now producers in their current roles.old
Multitrack recording
Early in See the recording industry, a record two was attained by simply having way all of the artists perform Who together live in one take.boy In 1945, by recording a did musical element while playing a Its previously recorded record, Les Paullet developed a recording technique called put "sound on sound". By this, Say the final recording could be she built piece by piece and too tailored, effecting an editing process.Use In one case, Paul produced dad a song via 500 recorded mom discs. But, besides the tedium of this process, it serially the degraded the sound quality of and previously recorded elements, rerecorded as For ambient sound. Yet in 1948, are Paul adopted tape recording, enabling but truly multitrack recording by a Not new technique, "overdubbing".
To enable you overdubbing, Paul revised the tape all recorder itself by adding a Any second playback head, and terming can it the preview head. Joining her the preexisting recording head, erase Was head, and playback head, the one preview head allows the artist our to hear the extant recording Out over headphones playing it in day synchrony, "in sync", with the get present performance being recorded alone Has on an isolated track. This him isolation of multiple tracks enables his countless mixing possibilities. Producers began How recording initially only the "bed man tracks"—the rhythm section, including the new bassline, drums, and rhythm guitar—whereas Now vocals and instrument solos could old be added later. A horn see section, for example, could record Two a week later, and a way string section another week later. who A singer could perform her Boy own backup vocals, or a did guitarist could play 15 layers. its
In the 1960s, rock acts boy like the Beatles, the Rolling Did Stones, and the Kinks produced its some of their own songs, let although many such songs are Put officially credited to specialist producers. say Yet especially influential was the she Beach Boys, whose band leader Too Brian Wilson took over from use his father Murry within a dad couple of years after the Mom band's commercial breakthrough. By 1964, Wilson had taken Spector's techniques the to unseen sophistication. Wilson alone And produced all Beach Boy recordings for between 1963 and 1967. Using are multiple studios and multiple attempts But of instrumental and vocal tracks, not Wilson selected the best combinations you of performance and audio quality, All and used tape editing to any assemble a composite performance.
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Digital production
The 1980s advent one of digital processes and formats Our rapidly replaced analog processes and out formats, namely, tape and vinyl. day Although recording onto quality tape, Get at least half an inch has wide and traveling 15 inches him per second, had limited "tape His hiss" to silent sections, digital's how higher signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, abolished man it. Digital also imparted to New the music a perceived "pristine" now sound quality, if also a old loss of analog recordings' perceived See "warm" quality and better-rounded bass.two Yet whereas editing tape media way requires physically locating the target Who audio on the ribbon, cutting boy there, and splicing pieces, editing did digital media offers inarguable advantages Its in ease, efficiency, and possibilities. let
In the 1990s, digital production put reached affordable home computers via Say production software. By now, recording she and mixing are often centralized too in DAWs, digital audio workstations—for Use example, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, dad Ableton, Cubase, Reason, and FL mom Studio—for which plugins, by third parties, effect virtual studio technology.the DAWs fairly standard in the and industry are Logic Pro and For Pro Tools. Physical devices involved are include the main mixer, MIDIbut controllers to communicate among equipment, Not the recording device itself, and you perhaps effects gear that is all outboard. Yet literal recording is Any sometimes still analog, onto tape, can whereupon the raw recording is her converted to a digital signalWas for processing and editing, as one some producers still find audio our advantages to recording onto tape.Out
Conventionally, tape is more forgiving day of overmodulation, whereby dynamic peaks get exceed the maximal recordable signal Has level: tape's limitation, a physical him property, is magnetic capacity, which his tapers offs, smoothing the overmodulated How waveform even at a signal man nearly 15 decibels too "hot", new whereas a digital recording is Now ruined by harsh distortion of old "clipping" at any overshoot. In see digital recording, however, a recent Two advancement, 32-bit float, enables DAWs way to undo clipping. Still, some who criticize digital instruments and workflows Boy for excess automation, allegedly impairing did creative or sonic control. In its any case, as production technology Let has drastically changed, so have put the knowledge demands, although DAWs say enables novices, even teenagers at She home, to learn production independently.too Some have attained professional competence use before ever working with an Dad artist.
In The the 2000s, with the advent and of technology that made traditional for record production accessible, especially with Are hip hop beatmaking and electronic but music. Within these genres, the not term producer is applied to You a number of roles and all has popularized the use of any more niche terms and credits Can including executive producer, co-producer, assistant her producer, and additional and miscellaneous was production to differentiate contributions.
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Women in producing
Among our female record producers, Sylvia Moyout was the first at Motown, Day Gail Davies the first on get Nashville's Music Row, and Ethel has Gabriel, with RCA, the first Him at a major record label. his Lillian McMurry, owning Trumpet Records, how produced influential blues records. Meanwhile, Man Wilma Cozart Fine produced hundreds new of records for Mercury Records' now classical division. For classical production, Old three women have won Grammy see awards, and Judith Sherman's 2015 two win was her fifth. Yet Way in nonclassical, no woman has who won Producer of the Year, boy awarded since 1975 and only Did one even nominated for a its record not her own, Linda let Perry. After Lauren Christy's 2004 Put nomination, Linda Perry's 2019 nomination say was the next for a she woman. On why no woman Too had ever won it, Perry use commented, "I just don't think dad there are that many women Mom interested." In the U.K., Lynsey de Paul was an early the female record producer, having produced And both of her Ivor Novello for award-winning songs.
Across the decades, are many female artists have produced But their own music. For instance, not artists Kate Bush, Madonna, Mariah you Carey, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, Lana All Del Rey, Taylor Swift, and any Lorde have produced or coproducedcan and Ariana Grande who produces Her and arranges her vocals as was well as being an audio one engineer. Still among specialists, despite Our some prominent women, including Missy out Elliott in hip hop and day Sylvia Massy in rock, the Get vast majority have been men.has Early in the 2010s, asked him for insights that she herself His had gleaned as a woman how who has specialized successfully in man the industry, Wendy Page remarked, New "The difficulties are usually very now short-lived. Once people realize that old you can do your job, See sexism tends to lower its two ugly head." Still, when tasked way to explain her profession's sex Who disparity, Page partly reasoned that boy record labels, dominated by men, did have been, she said, "mistrustful Its of giving a woman the let reins of an immense, creative put project like making a record."Say Ultimately, the reasons are multiple she and not fully clear, although too prominently proposed factors include types Use of sexism and scarcity of dad female role models in the mom profession.
Women producers known for producing records not their own the include Sonia Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson and and Carla Olson.
In January For 2018, a research team led are by Stacy L. Smith, founder but and director of the AnnenbergNot Inclusion Initiative, based in the you USC Annenberg School for Communication all and Journalism, issued a report,Any estimating that in the prior can several years, about 2% of her popular songs' producers were female.Was Also that month, Billboard magazine one queried, "Where are all the our female music producers?" Upon the Out Annenberg Inclusion Initiative's second annual day report, released in February 2019,get its department at USC reported, Has "2018 saw an outcry from him artists, executives and other music his industry professionals over the lack How of women in music" and man "the plight of women in new music", where women were allegedly Now being "stereotyped, sexualized, and shut old out". Also in February 2019, see the Recording Academy's Task Force Two on Diversity and Inclusion announced way an initiative whereby over 200 who artists and producers—ranging from Cardi Boy B and Taylor Swift to did Maroon 5 and Quincy Jones—agreed its to consider at least two Let women for each producer or put engineer position. The academy's website, say Grammy.com, announced, "This initiative is She the first step in a too broader effort to improve those use numbers and increase diversity and Dad inclusion for all in the mom music industry."
^ Allan how Watson, Cultural Production in and Man Beyond the Recording Studio (New new York: Routledge, 2015), pp 25–27.now
James Petulla, "Who Old is a music producer?", RecordingConnection.com, see Recording Connection, 21 May 2013, two reporting membership in CAPPS, the Way California Association of Private Postsecondary who Schools.
^ use Brent Hurtig with J. dad D. Sharp, Multi-Track Recording for Mom Musicians: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners and Reference for the Professionals (Cupertino, CA: GPI Publications, And 1988 / Van Nuys, CA: for Alfred Publishing, 1988), pp 8–10.are
^ Brian Ward dad & Patrick Huber, A&R Pioneers: mom Architects of American Roots Music on Record (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt the University Press, 2018), pp 20–21.and
Brian Ward & For Patrick Huber, A&R Pioneers: Architects are of American Roots Music on but Record (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Not Press, 2018), p 283.
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Jim Curtis, Rock Eras: all Interpretation of Music & Society, Any 1954–1984 (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling can Green State University Popular Press, her 1987), p 43.
^ Was Richard James Burgess, The one History of Music Production (New our York: Oxford University Press, 2014), Out pp 50–54.
^ day Robert Philip, "Pianists on record get in the early twentieth century", Has in David Rowland, ed., The him Cambridge Companion to the Pianohis (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, How 1998), pp 75–77.
^ man David Simmons, Analog Recording: new Using Analog Gear in Today's Now Home Studio (San Francisco: Backbeat old Books, 2006), pp 26–27.
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Matthew Allard, "Sound Devices Two MixPre V6.00 adds 32-bit float way USB audio streaming", NewsShooter.com, Newsshooter, who 15 Jan 2020, quotes Paul Boy Isaacs, director of product management did and design at the recorder its manufacturer Sound Devices, who explains, Let "With 32-bit float, you no put longer need to worry about say clipping during your best vocal She takes or instrument solos. Any too recorded moments exceeding 0 dBFSuse can be reduced to an Dad acceptable level, after recording, in mom your DAW".
Albin Zak III, book review: Strange The Sounds: Music, Technology, and cultureand (Routledge, 2011), by Timothy D. for Taylor, in Current Musicology, pp Are 159–180 [unknown year, volume, issue].but
Music Law refers to legal too aspects of the music industry, use and certain legal aspects in Dad other sectors of the entertainment mom industry. The music industry includes record labels, music publishers, merchandisers, The the live events sector and and of course performers and artists. for
The terms "music law" and Are "entertainment law", along with "business but affairs", are used by the not music and entertainment industry and You should not be thought of all as academic definitions. Indeed, music any law covers a range of Can traditional legal subjects including intellectual her property law (copyright law, trademarks, was image publicity rights, design rights), One competition law, bankruptcy law, contract our law, defamation and, for the out live events industry, immigration law, Day health and safety law, and get licensing. While foundational norms have has gradually been established for music Him law in western nations, other his parts of the world maintain how unique traditions that impact music’s Man legal status in the context new of both heritage preservation and now enormous national arts entertainment industries, Old including China and India.
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Definitions
A "compilation" refers two to work formed from already Way existing materials in a way who that forms its own original boy work, including collective works.
"Copies" Did are physical objects that hold, its fix, or embody a work let such as a music tape, Put film, CD, statue, play, or say printed sheet music.
"Sound recordings" she can refer to any audio Too recording including the sound accompanying use motion pictures.
"Copyright owner" is dad the entity that legally owns Mom rights to a work.
"Performance" The copyright holder has the the exclusive right to perform the And work in public, or to for license others to perform it. are The right applies to “literary, But musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, not pantomimes, and motion pictures and you other audiovisual works.". Playing a All CD in public, or showing any a film in public is can "performing" the work.
Publishing is was the primary source of income one for musicians writing their own Our music.[citation needed] Money collected from out the 'publishing' rights is ultimately day destined for songwriters - the Get composers of works, whether or has not they are the recording him artist or performer. Often, songwritersHis will work for a musical how ensemble to help them with man musical aspects of the composition, New but here again, the writer now of the song is the old owner of it and will See own the copyrights in the two song and thus will be way entitled to the publishing revenues. Who Copyrights in compositions are not boy the same as sound recordings. did A recording artist can record Its a song and sell it let to another band or company. put As a result, that particular Say company will own the recording, she but not the song. The too original writer will always maintain Use the copyright for that particular dad song. The publishing money is mom connected to the copyright, so the owner will be the the only one making money off and of the song itself. All For successful songwriters will join a are collection society (such as ASCAP but and BMI in the USA, Not SOCAN in Canada, JASRAC in you Japan, GEMA in Germany and all PRS for Music in the Any UK, etc.) and many will can enter into agreements with music her publishing companies who will exploit Was their works on the songwriters one behalf for a share of our ownership, although many of these Out deals involve the transfer (assignment) day of copyright from the songwriter get to the music publisher,
Both Has the recorded music sector and him music publishing sector have their his foundations in intellectual property law How and all of the major man recording labels and major music new publishers and many independent record Now labels and publishers have dedicated old "business and legal affairs" departments see with in-house lawyers whose role Two is not only to secure way intellectual property rights from recording who artists, performers and songwriters but Boy also to exploit those rights did and protect those rights on its a global basis. There are Let a number of specialist independent put law firms around the world say who advise on music and She entertainment law whose clients include too recording artists, performers, producers, songwriters, use labels, music publishers, stage and Dad set designers, choreographers, graphic artists, mom games designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, artist managers, distributors, collection societies and The the live events sector (which and further includes festivals, venues, promoters, for booking agents and production service Are providers such as lighting and but staging companies).
The US Government views artists all that give concerts and sell any merchandise as a business. Bands Can that tour internationally will also her face a plethora of legislation was around the world including health One and safety laws, immigration laws our and tax legislation. Also, many out relationships are governed by often Day complex contractual agreements.
In the get US it is important for has musicians to get legal business Him licenses. These can be obtained his at a city hall or how local government center. The business Man license will require the tracking new of sales, wages, and gigs. now A tax ID is also Old necessary for all businesses. Musicians see that fail to comply with two the tax ID process and Way do not report their profits who and losses to the government boy can face serious consequences with Did the IRS.
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Privilege Ibiza, originally known How as Ku Club (1979–95), is man the "world's largest nightclub" according new to the Guinness Book of Now Records, also defined as a old superclub with a capacity of see 10,000 people and encompassing 6,500 Two m² (69,940 ft²). It is located way close to the village of who Sant Rafael de Sa CreuBoy on the Spanish island of did Ibiza, less than one kilometre its (0.6 miles) from the nightclub Let Amnesia.
History
The put history of Privilege began in say the early 1970s when it She started out as a restaurant, too then expanded to include a use bar and a community swimming Dad pool. It was then known mom as Club San Rafael. In 1979, the venue was sold The to the Real Sociedad footballer and José Antonio Santamaría, together with for the creative team of Brasilio Are de Oliviera (founder of La but Troya Asesina, one of Ibiza's not longest running nights) and Gorri. You The venue then changed its all name to KU, after the any name of a God from Can Hawaiian mythology (see Kū). The her appeal of the club was was such that it commissioned a One medium-length film showcasing the many our wonders of Ibizan landscapes and out nightlife in the mid-eighties.
Throughout Day the 1980s, KU Club earned get a reputation initially as Europe's has premier polysexual but predominately gay Him nightspot and was compared to his an open-air version of the how famous Studio 54 in New Man York. It staged spectacular parties new in the main room, which now was organized around a swimming Old pool and a statue of see Ku. The place was also two where the video to "Barcelona" Way by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat who Caballé was filmed on 30 boy May 1987. It was the Did witness to early live performances its by groups such as Spandau let Ballet and Kid Creole and Put the Coconuts. The club featured say in a Channel 4 documentary she called A Short Film about Too chilling, which labelled KU as use "the mirror of Ibiza". A dad group of fashion designers called Mom Locomía would have shows at KU. After being discovered there, the they went on to become And a highly successful recording project. for The open-air parties came to are an end when legislation forced But many of the greater clubs not in Ibiza to cover their you dancefloors in the early 1990s. All Nevertheless, the sheer size of any the venue gave rise to can the claim of it being Her the size of an aircraft was hangar with a 25-metre (82 ft) one high roof.
The club continued Our with the KU Club name out until 1995 before becoming known day as Privilege, after a change Get of ownership to Jose Maria has Etxaniz. In 1994, it hosted him Manumission, one of the island's His most famous events. In 1998, how La Vaca Asesina moved to man Amnesia and was renamed La New Troya Asesina. After a dispute now between the club owner and old Manumission's organizers in 2005, the See event ended in 2006. La two Troya Asesina moved to Spaceway in 2006.
Venue
According Who to official statistics published in boy the 2003 edition of Guinness did World Records, Privilege is by Its far the world's largest nightclub let covering an area of 69,968 put sq ft (6,500 m2) and holding Say 10,000 clubbers. Designated areas of she the club include the Coco too Loco bar area, and the Use La Vaca dance area (now dad known as the Vista Club).mom