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