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Originally Posted by symbeline
Ok, enlighten us 
I don't know if I use the word "production" correctly, I associate it with tweaking a song until it's a final product, *engineering* it if you want. I *know* this because a friend plays in a pop rock band, and he refers to production as to what the sound engineers (I think) do with their recordings in the studio: a vast and amazing amount of things BTW. I guess the producer is the one who orchestrates that.
What would be the correct terminology? |
Production is just part of the game and is not the be-all, one stop fix to a finished record. There are many steps involved. Nobody has even mentioned mastering, where a sound can also sometimes, and does, get shaped. I wouldn't say that Shanks did all phases either - that is not how it's done. It's not always production's fault, that's all I'm saying, if a sound is what it is. I know this because I am an engineer
And yes, there is a lot to the process of getting a song 'done', let alone a who album that is a coherent piece of work.