What does a producer actually do?

What does the music producer do?

[micster]

Produce the music?

xD im not sure

[Kodayumi]

Of course..as the name suggest..he/she produces something..maybe musics and the pvs for singers

[shavoingin]

A music producer can do anything from making coffee to just sitting back and listening. That sounds like an easy job, and it can be. When you have a great recording engineer doing the recording, and great artists and musicians around you creating great music a producer’s job becomes very easy. But when you are on a budget with very limit studio time, a busy schedule, a singer that keeps messing up the vocal track because he/she is nervous, the drummer that can’t get the groove right, a recording engineer who can’t get the computer to record the next track your job as a producer becomes a lot more challenging. And this is what being a good producer is being about. At these moments a producer needs to be a problem solver and make decisions. Every producer does it differently, but the result is the same, a recorded and well produced song.


i just searched what does a music producer do lol

[Dustie]

i guess it's kinda what shavoingin said -- it's about 'arranging the production', means organising it, booking the studio, hiring a music composer and arranger {or rather organising the music [already composed by someone] buying process and then finding someone who'll do the arrangement for the music [wrap the bare melody into sounds; beats, basses, riffs, samples and all the stuff]}, then hireing someone to do the remixes.

That's what I think Max Matsuura takes care of, I think. Among many other things.

[Keishi]

so basically, an album can be produced by a lot of producer?

[Dustie]

Originally Posted by ChrisKay

so basically, an album can be produced by a lot of producer?

Well... A single song/track can have it's producer too (different than the album producer, becouse, let's say, it was produced earlier and only now was purchased for the album).

It's kinda complicated, becouse a producer's job is different depending on what a producer is producing.

One general thing is that a producer is usually the person who has the power to make a company (for example a label) give money for a specific project (for example releasing an album [and all the loads of things that go along with it])

A song producer -- I guess that would be hiring an arranger and a writer and paying them to do their jobs (or buying an arrangement or lyrics), organising the studio to record vocals (if needed), taking care of saving and securing the whole work and stuff...

An album producer -- buying already produced/arranged/written songs and/or organising producers/arrangers/writers to do the songs, organising recording sessions in the studio, taking care of the 'putting things together' process, arranging promotional compagin (not like he does it himself, but hires people to do specific things).

Also, a producer can also be the arranger of the song, or the writer... It simply depends on what skills the person has and how much experience.

so... producer is like a director of a film?

Not really... when it comes to movies, a director is the person who works on the set closely with the photography director to choose how should the camera show things (angles, pans, cuts, takes and such), and also with the actors, how should they show things off.

A movie producer is again, someone who talks to big bosses of movie companies to convince them to give money for a specific project and then takes care of using the money to 'buy' everything needed to make a movie -- filming crew, actors, organising locations, sets, studios... all the stuff.


While producing a record is less complex than producing a Hollywood movie, there isn't many kinds of producers involving in creating music, but for filming, there's just way too many things to do for one single person, that's why there's all kinds of producers [co-producers, executive producers, support producers...], and all kinds of people helping them. It's hard to say exactly what each of them is hired to do and what they finally end up doing - hence it's difficult to give a clear description of who exactly a producer is.

[emaNresU]

so... producer is like a director of a film?