From Demo to Delivery

Preface

Russ Hepworth-Sawyer

When Focal Press approached me to consider pulling some highly reputed authors’ work together to make a new publication, I considered what subject matter I thought was absent on the shelves. As a Senior Lecturer in Music Production at Leeds College of Music, it occurred to me that many of the books on our reading lists don’t quite map, in detail, what we call the production process from start to finish—from inception to release. This book I hope, to some extent, fulfills this place on the bookshelf.

For the most part, this so-called music “production process,” whilst a little fluid in the sense that it can be reinterpreted from time to time, remains loosely the same despite the release format or genre. For today it ...