Personal Statement: A Career As A Producer

Before taking this class, I never really understood the job of a producer. I was under the impression that all producers would have to be a sound recording major and that this class would be useless to me. It was in fact quite the opposite, I learned so much about myself and how to work with others in this class. I also learned the importance of a well produced song. I realized that producers can wear so many different hats and despite the fact that I am not an audio engineering student, I could still have a future in the producing world. When Natalie Stovall came into the studio, her manager, Tracy Gershon, was also present. She was working on some other things at the same time but she was still giving input to what she thought about

I feel like I would be a discoverer producer since I am not much of a musician and I will most definitely not be an engineer. I am hoping to work as a manager so I will be their for my client while they are in the studio to put in my two cents when I feel it is necessary. I will also be their to support the artist in case they are having an off day. I feel like a producer is someone who understands the technical side of the industry but is still approachable. Their main job is to make sure their is a good song that is performed by a great singer. It is also crucial that a good singer gives a good performance. If they do not know, the producer will be able to realize that a singer can give a better performance on another day. Another critical aspect to a producer’s job is to have a good mix, they can either do it themselves or hand it off to a

I feel like some people controlled the song since they have experience writing songs and I tried to contribute what I thought but I feel as though it wasn’t taken seriously at times. I might not be a songwriter at the moment but the discussions that we had in class have really inspired me. I also feel like we did not take pre-production as seriously as we should have. All of the issues that we ran across stemmed from the lack of pre-production, for example, planning the session out. We did a good job at planning out a few sessions but I feel like there were some weeks that we would walk in and not have a plan until twenty minutes into the session because people would show up late or not come prepared and then once they showed up we would discuss what we would work on that day. The Google Doc that I mentioned earlier was created to ease the pre-production but I do not think that anyone else saw it that way or realized the importance. We would sometimes use our GroupMe to discuss pre-production but sometimes messages would be