Hire music producer: Basic Tips and Guidelines
If you’re an artist, band or songwriter; are you about to hire music producer/record producer? Think twice because you may or may not need a record producer at all.
Source: Jeremy D. Silverman
Below are the conditions when you “really” need to have a record producer:
1.) If you desperately need a high quality recordings of your single. This assumes you write the song. Only a record producer can “professionally” transform your completely written song into professional recordings. This single may be used for promotional purposes such as demo submission or to radio, etc.
2.) If you drastically need to release an independent recording album which will compete with major label artist or other good independent recording label artists; then you surely need to hire a recording producer to supervise the recording sessions, create artistic sonic vision of the album and to produce a complete master CD.
What if you really need a record producer as your need falls in either two of the above conditions? Now, hiring a record producer is not an easy task because you need a “perfect” man to do the job which should pass in all these qualifications:
1.) Attitude – this is the most important. Treat music producer like your Dad, what attitudes do you like from your Dad. It is the same attitude requirement you require from your music producer. You need someone who is: supportive, honest, creative, strong and someone that has the potential to love and believe in your musical abilities.
2.) Experience and mastery in your selected genre – this is the second most important; you might asked the potential candidate about his or her previous experience and completed recording projects. Try to listen to it and make sure that it was your selected genre. Of course, you should not be hiring a producer who has a ton of experience in producing rock records and you need them to produce a hip hop records. It is important that you like his/her work. If not, there is no point of hiring that producer.
3.) Price – the third most important. Of course, you should hire a record producer that can offer the price you can afford. I suggest cutting the cost by hiring a producer that owns his/her own studio. This means that he/she will not be renting a studio which could be costly for both of you.
It is good that you will plan in advance in how you are able to pay the record producer back. One good suggestion is to offer him a share of the ownership in the sound recording or song copyrights. So instead of having only you as the songwriter of the song, you can add the music producer as one of the authors (of course the producer is contributing to the song). In this case, you will not be paying anything to the record producer other than the future music royalties which your music can earn if it will be commercially released successfully.
4.) Proximity to your location – of course, it would be nice that both of you are living in the same location and close to it’s other. The farther the producer to you, it will be harder for him/her to communicate with you as well as it will be costly to supervise the recording projects since either both of you will travel just to get the recording done.
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