Chapter 20
The Business of Recording and Production
In This Chapter
◆ What a producer does
◆ How to become a recording engineer
◆ Evaluating a career as a studio musician
So far we’ve looked at careers in artist and business management, as well as booking. Well, other careers can be had in the recording part of the music business. Granted, many recording studios are seeing their business migrate to artists with their own home studios, but there’s still a lot of recording being done at all levels, and a lot of people continue to work in the recording business.
There are two main careers in the recording industry: producers and engineers. In addition, there remains some work for studio musicians (the guys who play on other people’s recordings), arrangers ...
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