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How to Become a Record Producer (Music How-To)

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This book wasn't very helpful at all. Basically, it just repeated the fact that to learn how to be a producer, you need hands on experience. Aside from the lack of information, the book was poorly written. The sentence structure in MANY cases could have been corrected by a high school senior. What made reading this book even worse was the fact that the author failed to be funny whenever he attempted to make a humorous remark. Spend your money on another book! Here's this one summed up in a nutshell - go produce for yourself and learn by trial and error. THAT'S DEEP!

So many recording books talk about the equipment and hardly anythin else. When I came accross this book, I was working in my bedroom studio but I didnt know what to do to break into production for real.

This book goes into so many different types of production, and it tells you all about the people invloved - A&R men, arrangers, programmers, session musicians. I feel I know how to talk to these people now.

When the book talks about euqipment, it puts it in perspective. Good studios have a certain type of equipment because it does the job and that's it. If you know what the right equipment is, and you go to the right studios like the pros do, then you get a pro sounding recording.

Loved the stuff on m anagement. I didn't think Id have to give away 20% of my earnings - but I can see why a producer needs a good manager now.

Great book. Five stars.

Just like Spielberg dosen't need to know how a camera works. A record producer dosen't need to know how all the equipment works. However this book, which is written in how they do it in the U.K., takes the opposite tack and loads up with generally useless information. Overdubbing, multisequencing, split track editing, these are things a producer shouldn't be concerned with. This book gives you a crash course and more. It even told what types of recorders and microphones are best right down to the model numbers. If you plan on opening your own studio, then this book could be considered helpful. If your aspirations are more like Puff Daddy, Quincy Jones, Russell Simmons, or L.A. Reid, then save your money. Overall, this book was a waste of time and money and I immediately began checking into Amazon's return policy

I love making music and I want to make it my career. This book has told me how difficult it is to get into the business, but it also explains realistically how to get started. I know where my life is going now.

I thought it was o.k as a startup book.It personnaly thought buying a manual I purchased from Musicbrains.net entitled the Turn your MPC and Triton in a cash machine took me a step further.

This book has helped me to find what i want to do with my life and helped me do it.