How to Become a Record Producer

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Summary: Do you want to become a Record Producer? Start here...
Review: Every musician with an interest in recording dreams of being a record producer -- it's the top job in music. But although many aspire to become record producers, few ever achieve their dream. This book tells how you, if you have the talent and determination, can become one. You'll never see your name in lights, but you will have the immense satisfaction of knowing that it was you who made that No. 1 happen. This book explains the musical aspects of the process of producing a record, from finding a singer or band and choosing a song, all the way through to making sure that you get your pay check on time. It covers rehearsal and pre-production, selling the singer or band to a record company A&R manager, and working in the studio, whether it is a modest home setup or a top class commercial studio. You will learn how to: Spot talent; Assess demo tapes; Develop an act; Rehearsal and pre-production; Working with live musicians and MIDI; Dealing with record companies; Hiring musicians; Choosing a studio; Mixing and remixing. Stop dreaming and start to take your first steps into the exciting world of record production.

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Summary: It's going to get me started!
Review: I love making music and I want to make it my career. This book has told me how difficult it is to get into the business, but it also explains realistically how to get started. I know where my life is going now.

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Summary: It's going to get me started!
Review: Just like Spielberg dosen't need to know how a camera works. A record producer dosen't need to know how all the equipment works. However this book, which is written in how they do it in the U.K., takes the opposite tack and loads up with generally useless information. Overdubbing, multisequencing, split track editing, these are things a producer shouldn't be concerned with. This book gives you a crash course and more. It even told what types of recorders and microphones are best right down to the model numbers. If you plan on opening your own studio, then this book could be considered helpful. If your aspirations are more like Puff Daddy, Quincy Jones, Russell Simmons, or L.A. Reid, then save your money. Overall, this book was a waste of time and money and I immediately began checking into Amazon's return policy

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Summary: May be helpful in the U.K. but useless in the U.S.
Review: Just like Spielberg dosen't need to know how a camera works. A record producer dosen't need to know how all the equipment works. However this book, which is written in how they do it in the U.K., takes the opposite tack and loads up with generally useless information. Overdubbing, multisequencing, split track editing, these are things a producer shouldn't be concerned with. This book gives you a crash course and more. It even told what types of recorders and microphones are best right down to the model numbers. If you plan on opening your own studio, then this book could be considered helpful. If your aspirations are more like Puff Daddy, Quincy Jones, Russell Simmons, or L.A. Reid, then save your money. Overall, this book was a waste of time and money and I immediately began checking into Amazon's return policy

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Summary: Darn good read
Review: So many recording books talk about the equipment and hardly anythin else. When I came accross this book, I was working in my bedroom studio but I didnt know what to do to break into production for real.

This book goes into so many different types of production, and it tells you all about the people invloved - A&R men, arrangers, programmers, session musicians. I feel I know how to talk to these people now.

When the book talks about euqipment, it puts it in perspective. Good studios have a certain type of equipment because it does the job and that's it. If you know what the right equipment is, and you go to the right studios like the pros do, then you get a pro sounding recording.

Loved the stuff on m anagement. I didn't think Id have to give away 20% of my earnings - but I can see why a producer needs a good manager now.

Great book. Five stars.

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Summary: I thought it was vey informative
Review: This book has helped me to find what i want to do with my life and helped me do it.

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Summary: Dribble.
Review: This book wasn't very helpful at all. Basically, it just repeated the fact that to learn how to be a producer, you need hands on experience. Aside from the lack of information, the book was poorly written. The sentence structure in MANY cases could have been corrected by a high school senior. What made reading this book even worse was the fact that the author failed to be funny whenever he attempted to make a humorous remark. Spend your money on another book! Here's this one summed up in a nutshell - go produce for yourself and learn by trial and error. THAT'S DEEP!