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everyone is claiming to be a producer...has the word lost meaning?
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| LoveHate |
i know myself..that i am only a beat maker right now...yeah i know a little bit about effects such as compressions equing...reverb etc..but if i walked into a studio i would be lost
i dont know maybe its just me, but i have been meeting a lot of people lately that claim to be a producer just because they own a copy of fl studio or ableton.
as we all know making the beat or a loop is only 10 percent of what a producer does..
through my eyes...a producer is a person who solves the needs...for all of the musicians in the studio..as well as the recording..programing..and..the final mix down..of everything..
basically not just a guy who programs with software..but knows his way around a studio..
maybe im ranting...fail topic possibly? |
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| JEO |
I'd rather call myself an artist, record myself throwing a saucepan around the kitchen, call it music and claim to have produced myself.
In fact, I don't even know the exact definition of a producer :conf: can a studio engineer that mixes a band's song/album be called a producer? |
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| -FSP- |
I often stumble upon my acquaintance's Myspace and they are rapping with the autotune out of key with a really awful beat that's in the red. Are they producers? Yes they are. Are they any good? No they are not.
Everyone has a voice but not everyone's a good singer. |
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| daeus |
Too many people talk about it on these forums and dont practice anywhere near as much,
back to lurking... |
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| Raphie |
| WTF is a "beatmaker" ?!? :D |
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| Kenny Rogers |
| im a phenomenon. a littlebit of artist/performer, writer/producer, dj/promoter, hifi-designer, sound-technician, label-manager. you name it, as long as it has something to do with sound im doing it. and i dont earn from it so basically im most of all a noob. |
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| kevin shawn |
| I enjoy making music on my computer box |
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| Coyke |
In the "real" world a producer would have a total different job from what most of the people here do. Because you got to be writer, musician, producer and engineer in the same time. If you going to promote yourself you might call yourself manager too.
Maybe that's also why there is so much self-distributed crap released, because we can :D and some people just being overwhelmed by all these "jobs" they trying to do at the same time. |
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| Mad for Brad |
not sure what the real world refers to but I would say in most cases, the producer is not the writer or the engineer. In fact in some cases, he is so far detached from the product that he is just the nod giver and more of a general manager like the producer of the film. The guy that makes sure the band is getting along, recording in time and making sure the product is good enough. The term said by a nobody is just as bad as when people used to say "i'm in a bad" or now " i'm a dj " Everyone is in a band, everyone is a dj, and everyone is a producer. Thats why I chose composition because that term has not been taken yet.
actually when people ask me what I do, I tell them i'm an accountant. Saying you are in the music business is inviting a laugh by most people. Perhaps I have low self esteem. It is also a great way to avoid further questioning as it is probably the most boring job on the planet. Saying you are a composer makes people think A you are poor, but B they want to know more and I have playing 21 questions. If i'm around fellow musicians, i'm pretty candid. I'm a half rate composer that takes 1/4 rate composers reductions and term them into music player by an orchestra. Of course that was when I was in LA. Now i'm a freelance anything which kinda sounds like i'm unemployed. And of course in NY as well as LA, the word freelance is kinda cliche too. Yup got a real stinker of a screenplay right here just about to be read by Brian Grazer. OF course this would happen at starbucks with my macbook out looking around making sure everyone knows i'm doing real work which means it must be in the creative realm. Hollywood!!!! |
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| tehlord |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kenny Rogers
as long as it has something to do with sound im doing it. |
Well, apart from silence. |
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| owien |
well if you make dance music then that involves producing it so yeah i call myself a producer i don't think you need a top flight production studio to call anyone anything other then that.
a producer is a general term used for someone who makes tracks an artist is more complex in terms because it can mean he/she writes music plays music and sings the to. |
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| Omega_Blue |
i know too many deejays in my local area that claim that they're producers either verbally or on their bio/blog/website but when i actually ask them to give me a link to their or whatever, they always claim that they're "still working on it" or that they "just dabble" with production lol.
the term "producer" has, for the amateur deejay, become a false distinguishment that is definitely raped nowadays. |
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