Music production

A record producer or music producer is a music-creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles. Typically the job involves hands-on oversight of recording sessions; ensuring artists deliver acceptable and quality performances, supervising the technical engineering of the recording, and coordinating the production team and process. The producer's involvement in a musical project can vary in depth and scope.

Sometimes in popular genres the producer may create the recording's entire sound and structure.
However, in classical music recording, for example, the producer serves as more of a liaison between the conductor and the engineering team.
The role is often likened to that of a film director, though there are important differences.

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