The Music Producer’s Handbook

Owsinski, a producer, engineer, and author, offers a handbook for music producers. He covers the history of music production; producer types and duties and how to become one; business aspects; the budget; song arrangements; musical elements; preproduction; preparing for the session; basic tracks; overdubs; working with the team; mixing; mastering; and EDM (electronic dance music), pop, and hip-hop production. He provides production checklists and interviews with seven industry professionals. This edition has new chapters on self-production, small studio production, and how the new songwriter-producer and engineer-producer hybrids make money in the new digital music world, along with new interviews with producers working in different genres. Online access is included. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)