FREE Producer Career Questions and Answers

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The best time to record lead vocals is usually:

When the singer arrives early one day

When the drums are finished

At the last moment

Over time and when the singer is at his or her best,

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A producer should have two important skills:

Musical abilities, as well as soldering abilities

People skills, overall concept vision

Excellent video ideas, friends at the record label

Capability to identify a hit by hearing a song on the radio

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According to these lectures, the three most important decisions to make when creating a song are:

Song length, drum sound, and bass part

Song selection, vocal performance, beat or groove

Song selection, tempo selection, and solo instrumentation

Song title, vocal sound, and video director

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Record companies choose which CDs or songs they believe will be hits based solely on their gut feelings and industry knowledge.

True

False

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Once a producer has determined what is right and wrong with a song and its arrangement, parts, and so on, he or she should:

Everything should be changed.

Take a vote to ensure that everyone else agrees.

Leave what is right alone and fix what is broken.

Fix what is right and leave what is wrong alone.

Change to another song.

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Does a producer always mix a song with the engineer who recorded it?

True

False

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The following are the last opportunities to make sonic changes to your production before it is sent to the plant:

Initializing

Mixing

Mastering

Splicing

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