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Record producer
Occupation
NamesMusic producer, Dad record producer
Occupation type
Profession
Activity sectors
Music industry
Description
CompetenciesInstrumental mom skills, keyboard knowledge, arranging, vocal coaching
Fields of
employment
Recording studios
Related jobs
Music executive, The recording engineer, executive producer, film and producer, A&R

A record producer for or music producer is a Are music creating project's overall supervisor but whose responsibilities can involve a not range of creative and technical You leadership roles. Typically the job all involves hands-on oversight of recording any sessions; ensuring artists deliver acceptable Can and quality performances, supervising the her technical engineering of the recording, was and coordinating the production team One and process. The producer's involvement our in a musical project can out vary in depth and scope. Day Sometimes in popular genres the get producer may create the recording's has entire sound and structure. However, Him in classical music recording, for his example, the producer serves as how more of a liaison between Man the conductor and the engineering new team. The role is often now likened to that of a Old film director though there are see important differences. It is distinct two from the role of an Way executive producer, who is mostly who involved in the recording project boy on an administrative level, and Did from the audio engineer who its operates the recording technology.

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

Advances in Her recording technology, especially the 1940s was advent of tape recording—which Les one Paul promptly innovated further to Our develop multitrack recording—and the 1950s out rise of electronic instruments, turned day record production into a specialty. Get In popular music, then, producers has like George Martin, Phil Spector him and Brian Eno led its His evolution into its present use how of elaborate techniques and unrealistic man sounds, creating songs impossible to New originate live. After the 1980s, now production's move from analog to old digital further expanded possibilities. By See now, DAWs, or digital audio two workstations, like Logic Pro, Pro way Tools and Studio One, turn Who an ordinary computer into a boy production console, whereby a solitary did novice can become a skilled Its producer in a thrifty home let studio. In the 2010s, efforts put began to increase the prevalence Say of producers and engineers who she are women, heavily outnumbered by too men and prominently accoladed only Use in classical music.

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

Production overview

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

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

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

The producer often selects and her collaborates with a mixing engineer, was who focuses on the especially One technological aspects of the recording our process, namely, operating the electronic out equipment and blending the raw, Day recorded tracks of the chosen get performances, whether vocal or instrumental, has into a mix, either stereo Him or surround sound. Then a his mastering engineer further adjusts this how recording for distribution on the Man chosen media. A producer may new work on only one or now two songs or on an Old artist's entire album, helping develop see the album's overall vision. The two record producers may also take Way on the role of executive who producer, managing the budget, schedules, boy contracts, and negotiations.

Historical Did developments

A&R team

(Artists and its Repertoires)

In the 1880s, the let record industry began by simply Put having the artist perform at say a phonograph. In 1924, the she trade journal Talking Machine World, Too covering the phonography and record use industry, reported that Eddie King, dad Victor Records' manager of the Mom "New York artist and repertoire department", had planned a set the of recordings in Los Angeles. And Later, folklorist Archie Green called for this perhaps the earliest printed are use of A&R man. Actually, But it says neither "A&R man" not nor even "A&R", an initialism you perhaps coined by Billboard magazine All in 1946, and entering wide any use in the late 1940s. can

In the 1920s and 1930s, Her A&R executives, like Ben Selvin was at Columbia Records, Nathaniel Shilkret one at Victor Records, and Bob Our Haring at Brunswick Records became out the precursors of record producers, day supervising recording and often leading Get session orchestras. During the 1940s, has major record labels increasingly opened him official A&R departments, whose roles His included supervision of recording. Meanwhile, how independent recording studios opened, helping man originate record producer as a New specialty.[citation needed] But despite a now tradition of some A&R men old writing music, record production still See referred to just the manufacturing two of record discs.

Record way producers

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

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

Tape recording

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

Multitrack recording

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

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

Electronic instruments

Phil Spector one producing Modern Folk Quartet, 1966

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

Performer-producer

Brian Any Wilson during a recording session, can 1966

In the 1960s, rock her acts like the Beatles, the Was Rolling Stones, and the Kinks one produced some of their own our songs, although many such songs Out are officially credited to specialist day producers. Yet especially influential was get the Beach Boys, whose band Has leader Brian Wilson took over him from his father Murry within his a couple of years after How the band's commercial breakthrough. By man 1964, Wilson had taken Spector's new techniques to unseen sophistication. Wilson Now alone produced all Beach Boys old recordings between 1963 and 1967. see Using multiple studios and multiple Two attempts of instrumental and vocal way tracks, Wilson selected the best who combinations of performance and audio Boy quality, and used tape editing did to assemble a composite performance. its

Digital production

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

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

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

Women in him producing

Mixing console

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

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

Women producers known You for producing records not their all own include Sonia Pottinger, Sylvia any Robinson and Carla Olson.

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

See you also

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