The Art Of Music Production – Part 4 – Audio Premium

In this week’s Audio Premium content, Bobby Owsinski continues to feed us insights on music production inspired by his new book “The Music Producer’s Handbook”. In Part 4 we look at overdubs.

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Music production is a job frequently misunderstood by everyone but the producer, or underestimated in the scope of just what the job entails. This series about music production is based around my new book, The Music Producer’s Handbook, where I’ll outline some basic production techniques and hopefully remove the vail of mystery from the process. Be aware that we’ll be looking at the relationship of a producer with a band or an artist with a backing band or studio musicians. We’ll tackle self-production later in the series.

In Part 4, we’ll look at what’s probably the most intense part of production – overdubs.

The overdubbing stage can be something as simple as fixing or replacing something in the basic tracks (like the bass, rhythm guitar, solos or lead vocal) to sophisticated layering and additions of horns and strings, multiple guitars, keyboards and background vocals. It’s also the phase of the project where the most experimenting is done, since even the most meticulously designed parts sometimes are found not to work and require some alteration.