311CPA: 3rd Job Description

Job title: Record Producer

Clients: Record studios, Record label and Bands

Purpose of job

Music producers organize all aspects of recording music within a recording studio. To engineer and record performers, artists, bands to a musical standard, identify music with commercial potential and delivering the finished product to the A and R department.

Duties and responsibilities

• The ability to interact well with musicians
• To help and guide bands/artists musical styles
• To record and produce a finished product
• Meet artist needs
• To liaise with labels, management, mastering studios etc

Experience and Qualifications

• A good wide knowledge of musical styles and genres
• Experience with musical software and hardware technology
• Good experience in sound recording, editing and mixing
• Worked with a number of bands and musicians etc
• Qualification’s in Music production or other equivalents
• Networking with artists, A&R men, labels, engineers etc

Conditions

• To work long hours confined in a recording studio
• To meet the requirements and deadlines

Income

• Many Producers work on a freelance basis and are paid a flat fee for recording sessions
• Or possibly with an agreed percentage (often between three and four percent) of the income from future sales

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