Music Producer Assesment free essay sample

In 66 he joined Olympic Sound Studios where he recorded many great artists including Traffic, The Beetles, The Rolling Stones and Jim Hendrix. He had great collaboration with Jim engineering every album from Are You Experienced to The Cry of Love. He worked with Led Zeppelin and many great artists of modern music. 2 Hes inspiration was by Bob Auger and Keith Grant. They thought him many great techniques and how to approach recording, for example learning to record orchestras with 3 Saiss: Left, Centre, Right and letting the conductor to take care of balancing.He then implemented those techniques in rock music. He is definitely one of the greatest producers and engineers alive and back in the days his mixing sequences were never heard before. He used to track live, and he worked on the best analog equipment we can imagine, starting from PEE consoles to classic outboard gear. The sound of his albums we can define as really analog sounding, with a lot of tube, and transformer sound in them. His career started in Advision Sound Studios in 62 and in 63 He has joined PYE Studios which was 2 track studios, soon he was running first PYE four track studio. In 66 he joined Olympic Sound Studios where he recorded many great artists including Traffic, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix. He had great collaboration with Jimi engineering every album from â€Å"Are You Experienced† to â€Å"The Cry of Love†. He worked with Led Zeppelin and many great artists of modern music. 2 He’s inspiration was by Bob Auger and Keith Grant. They thought him many great techniques and how to approach recording, for example learning to record orchestras with 3 U47’s: Left, Centre, Right and letting the conductor to take care of balancing. He then implemented those techniques in rock music. He is definitely one of the greatest producers and engineers alive and back in the days his mixing techniques were never heard before. He used to track live, and he worked on the best analog equipment we can imagine, starting from PYE consoles to classic outboard gear. The sound of his albums we can define as really analog sounding, with a lot of tube, and transformer sound in them. It is just pure classic rock sound. In the early days he worked on 3 track machine, and then when the new technologies emerged he moved onto 8, 16 and then 24 2 inch  machines. In his production he only had 4 or 5 things in disposal, reverb, tape delay, compression and phasing. He also uses dynamic panning in a way that hadn’t been done before. He admitted that when producing and mixing the tracks they didn’t really know what they were doing, they were just doing it, using instinct. Jimi and Eddie were all about instinct and improvisation, and probably that’s why they created such amazing music together. He says â€Å"I tried to use the board as a pallet, artist would pick the colours, I would pick the colures of the sound. â€Å"His approach to producing an artist is really listening to what one want to express, and then taking his vision to create a record. In his productions is really all about the soul of the music. His preferable way of work nowadays is a hybrid setup which is really the best of both worlds. He likes to track on a 2† machine and then transfer the tracks into Pro Tools and then mix in a hybrid system. He is known of collaboration with Waves, and he worked in development of some of their best analog emulation plugins. He also likes to record with Neumann microphones but also with humble 57’s and 58’s because as he says the placement is more important than the microphone itself. 3 He was the first producer I got interested in when I started my passion in music production, and till this day I still learn a lot from interviews and just from listening to his music. Rick Rubin The second person which highly contributed to the modern music as a producer is Rick Rubin, the first thing we notice about this man is his massive grey beard, a bread of a man on a musical journey, as he likes to describe himself. He started in 1984 as a co-founder of Def Jam Records and since then he became one of the most influential producers in the history of modern music. He worked on the whole spectrum of music, from classic rock albums to modern pop and hip hop albums. 4 He likes to be minimalistic in his production, he says: â€Å"there’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across. †5 He tends to strip down the sound and eliminate typical production elements such as reverbs, backing vocals and delays. Being a great producer involves more than engineering skills and techniques, working with the artist and getting most from them is as crucial as the technical skills. Rick is loved by the artists and he can create a true bond with them allowing them to open their creative mind and let the creativity flow onto the tape. He helps the artists to find their way and he shows them how to become better in the performance. 6 Some artists say: â€Å"He has the ability and patience to let the music to be discovered not manufactured. In this field Rick and Eddie are similar in their approach, which is probably part of their shared success, putting the artist and his vision in the core of their production seems to be the right thing to do and they are definitely masters in this field. As great producer as he is, there has been some controversy about his production approach. Some artists dislike working with him saying that he is overrated and overpriced, like the musicians from Slipknot which were very disappointed with his contribution to the album they were making with him. But probably the biggest criticism comes from his contribution to the Loudness War. He’s latest Black Sabbath album â€Å"13† was criticised for being completely smashed to death by distortion and compression to make it as loud as possible, not leaving our ears any room to breathe. He received many bad reviews for this album and even non audiophile listeners complain about this fact. 9 Rick works in a hybrid environment and because he started much later than Eddie and because of that most of the engineering techniques were developed, and Rick himself didn’t contributed in this field that much. Despite the fact of mixed reviews of his work Rick is definitely a star in this industry, some even call him guru. The fact is that he produced some of the most influential albums in modern music and he is not showing any signs of stopping. With the rapid growth of technology there’s now many so called â€Å"bedroom producers†; they don’t have massive budgets, or big consoles, sometimes there’s not even a single live instrument; with a small midi keyboard, cheap microphone, laptop and an interface they are able to produce entire albums and distribute them via various online services. This has its advantages and disadvantages, there’s definitely more music being produced and spread into the internet, but unfortunately most of it isn’t that great. The value of an experienced producer taking care of all those small aspects is really lacking in music today; in the other hand we have modern pop music where hundreds of people are working on every detail of the songs of (in some cases) talentless singers, there’s no more real emotions or true talent of musicians, and the â€Å"music† is over produced to death.