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Old 29th January 2006, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

As for your confusion over composer and producer... In jpop, the composer just writes the melody and maybe a basic chord sequence or backbone to the song. The "producer" as we say in western music is actually the "arranger" in japanese music, the one who chooses the final instrumentation. The mixer decides the volume of those instruments relative to each other.
that's not just in japanese music =P I don't know how things are in the US, but here it's often the same as in Japan.
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