A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job it is to oversee and manage
the recording (i.e. "production") of an artist's music. A producer has many
roles that may include, but are not limited to, gathering ideas for the project,
selecting songs and/or musicians, coaching the artist and musicians in the
studio, controlling the recording sessions, and supervising the entire process
through mixing and mastering. Producers also often
take on a wider entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget,
schedules, and negotiations.
Today, the recording industry has two kinds of producers: executive
producer and music producer; they have different roles. While an
executive producer oversees a project's finances, a music producer oversees the
creation of the music.
A music producer can, in some cases, be compared to a film director, with
noted practitioner Phil Ek himself describing his role as "the person who
creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, like a director
would a movie. The engineer would be more the
cameraman of the movie."[2]
The music producer's job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music. The
scope of responsibility may be one or two songs or an artist's entire album – in
which case the producer will typically develop an overall vision for the album
and how the various songs may interrelate.
In the UK, before the rise of the record producer, someone from A&R would
oversee the recording session(s), assuming responsibility for creative decisions
relating to the recording.
THEE ELITE is a group of intellignet, creative, extra-ordinary minds put together to create some of the most incredible music production. We create music in many different ways for many different genres of music. Our focus is to re-invent the way people listen to the different elements in a song.
