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Music Production and Recording

Music production and recording is an easy process if you have the right equipment and perform in a setting that’s conducive to producing good sound.  Common sense tells us that all you need to record music is a microphone and something to record the music on.  While this is pretty much the case, it doesn’t describe the situation in its entirety.  You need a lot more equipment to ensure you can hear yourself as you record, the size and shape of the room don’t interfere, and that you get a quality recording every time you step in the booth.  Once you’re done recording the music, you need to have somebody produce it to give it some life.  Words are nothing without instruments behind them and vice versa.
Producers have the option of bringing in talented musicians to record music for their track or creating the music themselves using several types of complex, expensive equipment.  This kind of equipment is essentially to a DJ’s ability to create music.  On the music side, they’re pretty much a one person band.  Every so often a DJ enlists a singer or rapper to help them finish a song, but DJs produce instrumentals a lot more often than songs with lyrics on them.  DJs also record mixes of music to play at their performances.  Before they couldn’t do anything with music unless it came from a vinyl record, but new equipment allows DJs to mix and scratch music from any CD.  This might not be considered classic DJing, but it’s still DJing nonetheless.