Thursday, February 13, 2014

What a producer does

5/4/2007 12:54:00 AM

It's interesting to listen to the answers you usually get to the following question: what do you think a producer does to a song?

Most people, including young musicians, tend to think that a producer "turns the knobs", "pays for everything" or "puts the thing on a cd".

I've had the pleasure of seeing two major producers in action. This is what they do: change the key and the tempo of the song, remove beats here and there, retune the guitars two or three keys down, have the singer sing in the staircase, and so on. They mess things up.

I guess what I'm really trying to say is that Rick Rubin, Bob Rock and Nile Rodgers are geniuses.


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