Music Production Roles & Steps of Production
These are the 3 Key Roles in Music Production.
What is a producer, audio engineer, and artist?
What is a track?
A DAW is a ______
What is a Digital Audio Workstation?
This is a new performance or recording of an existing song.
What is a cover?
The artist known for popularizing auto-tune in the 2000's.
Who is T-Pain?
The role responsible for arranging and overseeing the creative vision of a song.
What is a/the producer?
A short, repeating section of music often used as a foundation in music production.
What is a loop?
The Name of a Popular DAW discussed in class
What is Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Adobe Audition, Ableton Live, FL Studio, etc?
Using a portion of an existing track in a new song is called this.
What is Direct Sampling?
As shown in class, Whitney Houston's 1992 rendition of "I'm Every Woman" is an example of this.
What is a cover?
This role captures high-quality recordings of vocal or instruments.
What is the engineer?
This term refers to adjusting the balances of frequencies in a track to enhance or reduce certain sounds.
What is EQ (Equalization).
This type of audio effect is used to add depth to sound by creating the illusion of space, often making it sound like it's being heard in a larger room or hall making an echo.
What is reverb?
Recreating a melody or part of a track without using the original audio.
What is interpolation sampling?
The name of the first major hit to use auto-tune in 1998.
What is Believe by Cher?
This stage of music production involved capturing the performance of vocals or instruments and often includes multiple takes to ensure quality.
What is recording?
This technology allows digital instruments to communicate and create music without audio signals.
What is MIDI?
This digital tool allows producers to correct pitch inaccuracies in vocals during recording or mixing.
What is Auto-Tune?
Used in the class example, Bruno Mars singing "Don't believe me, just watch" in "Uptown Funk" is an example of this type of sample from Trinidad James.
What is an interpolation sample?
Before becoming a tool for music, Auto-Tune's underlying technology was used in this field.
What is oil exploration?
The process of balancing audio levels and adding effects to enhance a track.
What is mixing?
This process finalizes a track for release by adjusting its overall sound and ensuring consistency across platforms.
What is mastering?
What is analog is physical and can be broken or manipulated? What is digital is not tangible and uses software?
Kanye West using elements of Michael Jackson’s "P.Y.T." in his song "The Good Life" is an example of this sampling technique.
What is a direct sample?
This person is the developer of Antares Audio Technologies.
Who is Dr. Andy Hildebrand?