Music Pre-production

Introduction

Music nowadays is very important is the source of many jobs for people and if you like music its necessary for you to know about the different things that you can do with any knowledge you have about music.

A very important part of all the things that music has is the production. Music production is all the process that makes possible to record a song including pre-production and post-production.

Music production is a topic that is very interesting because there are thousands of ways to combine music, tastes, voices, sounds etc. so this makes music production amazing for the ones that work as a music producer.

Is very important to know that is different creating music than producing music. A person can write a song and that’s all but a music producer would make from that letter a hit because he would record voices and instruments to make it sound amazing. So this is music production as a lifestyle.

Music Pre-production

“Music Production” as a topic divides into 3 steps pre-production, production and post-production.

Pre-production is the process that as the name tell us is the one that is before de production of the song so this means that is where we first have the letter of the song and the tones that the music will have and then we start making arrangements to the song.

If the song it’s going to have voices its necessary to make a vocalization before recording the voice so the singer has to practice the lyrics and the tone of the song.( https://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/feb96/recordproducer2.html)

Then we are going to make the recording of every voice, instrument or sound we want in the song so we have to take care that everything sounds excellent and there is not any noise from the outside of the recording room.

For having a good recording we need to know different microphone techniques so that we can save in the recording the sound as if we hear it live. When we got everything on its place let´s start with the recording of the song.

Music Production

This part is the one that will decide the way that the song will follow so we need to dedicate too much time to make a good work with the recordings. The production is the moment where we are going to edit and mix the recordings that we previously made. (http://www.music-production-guide.com/)

First we have to edit the recordings, the voices that are out of tune we have to apply them auto tune to make them sound almost perfect because if we exceed of auto tune its going to sound like a robot and will not be fine.

The instruments have to be equalized; this means that we have to make a balance between low, medium and

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