Producer

What do Producers do?

Recording industry Producers organize all aspects of recording music. Many operate in the traditional way of working with performers in a recording studio with the assistance of a sound engineer. Others use their own equipment to try out ideas but use a commercial recording studio for the final recording. With changes in technology, an increasing number of people are becoming involved in producing their own music.

Some experienced sound engineers become recording industry Producers. Musicians and disc jockeys who have contacts in the music industry and have the technical expertise may also move into record production.

The work of a record Producer may include: selecting music and contacting musicians, identifying music with commercial potential, setting the budget and recording schedule, negotiating and signing contracts with performers and with the artists and repertoire (A&R) departments of music publishers or record companies, engineering the recording, delivering the product to the A&R department of the company, all within budget and on schedule.

The collaborative nature of music production means that Producers work with a wide variety of people, including performers, writers, arrangers, lawyers, accountants and distributors. Hours are long and irregular, often including evenings and weekends.

Many Producers work on a freelance basis and are paid a flat fee for recording sessions, possibly with an agreed percentage (often between three and four percent) of the income from future sales, so income can vary from next to nothing to tens of thousands of dollars. Producers may also be employed by a record label or music production company.

There are 8177 music industry professionals with the job title Producer on Music Jobs

Producer jobs which have appeared on the Music Jobs jobs board:

Producer/Engineers Any	05/17/12
Audio Engineer/Producer Los Angeles, CA	04/25/12
Musical Co-Producer New York, NY	03/09/12

Job description sources include (but are not limited to) imdb.com, skillset.org and wikipedia.