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

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

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

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

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

Production overview

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


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

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

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

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Historical developments

A&R team

(Artists Way and Repertoires)

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

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

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Record producers

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

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

Tape Out recording

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

Multitrack recording

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

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

Electronic instruments

Phil any Spector producing Modern Folk Quartet, can 1966

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

Performer-producer

Brian Wilson during a Not recording session, 1966

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

Digital production

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

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

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

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Hip hop production

Main articles: day Hip hop production and Hip Get hop § Beatmaking/producing

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

Women in boy producing

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

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

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

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

See also

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