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