Music isn’t produced over night, but rather through various steps and processes. Majority of people lack understanding of the steps and processes used to create music. Differing from majority opinion, producing music is a lengthy process at that, including various checks and balances that coincide together to form an articulated song or piece. In order to create a successful music production one must edit, mix, and master their work.
The recording process, to many sound engineers, is the most important step in producing a project. The First step, after the necessary equipment has been purchased, is properly rehearsing the intended material. This will allow each musician to properly play his or her part, and produce a well-oiled recording (Moore). The Second Step is deciding the structure of recording, whether to record as a group, or individually. As a group, the recording will sound more natural, and tend to breath; however, recording individually will allow the project to be more concrete timing wise. The Rolling Stones used the group recording method, which was leading factor into their natural sound (Moore). Once a method of recording is decided one may proceed onto recording each desired instrument.
As the recording process is completed one may divulge into editing their work. Editing is broken up into 3 categories: General, Medium, and Fine ("The Music Production Process: Step 6 Editing Music"). General Editing includes the basic notion of choosing each tracks individual level based on the loudness of others. Another step includes the correction of the singer’s notes, and or pitch correction. This is often done with auto tune programs such as Antares Auto-Tune EFX 2 (“Products”). Pitch correction is vastly use...
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..., all one needs is the proper equipment, and the proper knowledge. Experience is key in this field, in which the producer understands the correct techniques.
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