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In response to
"pmb fully non-legal question if you're still around"
by
hollywood big shot
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She generally co-produces her songs with another producer and others do the mixing and mastering. Typically her process is that she does a basic demo
Posted by
pmb (aka pmb)
Apr 25 '24, 11:23
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of a song and then works with her co-producer to sort of fill it out. Sometimes the co-producer has ideas that take it in a different direction, and sometimes the song remains largely the same with just production elements added. It's a very collaborative process. For mixing and mastering typically the person doing the mixing and the person do the mastering have been totally separate people. The mixer generally involves her and her co-producer in discussing and then listening to the mixes to get the sound where she wants it. Ultimately, it's her project so she gets to make the final decisions and navigating the egos is not always easy. Especially when others may be more experienced than she is. I've had many, many discussions with her about how to manage those relationships. The person who has mixed her last 2 albums is a very experienced mixer and producer who has worked with artists on some pretty big labels. After he mixed her first album he wanted to co-produce some songs with her and she expected to do this last album with him as her sole co-producer. As they got into the songs, she felt that he kept sort of adamantly pushing her in a direction that was different than what she wanted for the songs and she felt like he was just using his experience as sort of a hammer to make the album he wanted. She finally had to have a talk with him and they essentially decided to just have him mix the album and not work on the production. They work great together in that capacity. In the end the only thing he produced on the album were the "swisher" sounds at the very beginning of "Swishers" (the track was ultimately named that because she labeled that version "swishers" when they were working on the track and the decided they like the name). He got a writing and production credit for that. In any event, not sure if that fully answered your question, but more specifically, there is a sort of trading back and forth of tracks between her and the co-producer or the mixer and her and her co-producer and discussions about what she's looking for and what they're each hearing. Usually the mixer and masterer will allow for a few turns of edits at a fixed cost, but beyond that they'll want to be paid more.
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