Choosing a Music Producer

Thankfully, music is a passion that pays. Other people are not so lucky in their areas of interest. But it doesn't matter, does it? They do it for love. Music rewards when you give it your best, and you give your listeners the best. However, certain factors could hinder you from giving the best to your listeners, which is how you make money from music. One of them is the Producer.

A Music producer gives life to your music. You can have a great voice, write beautiful lyrics, but that is not enough to make great music. A music producer seals the potential of your song to be successful or unsuccessful. Here are five things you should look out for when working with a music producer.

Professionalism: lookout for how they present themselves and their brand. Music production is a serious business. And if a producer doesn’t care about how their business looks to potential customers, then you should be concerned about what their attitude to your song will be.

Expertise: just as an artist has a style of music they specialise in, so do producers have a particular style or a few they are good at. Beware of Producers who claim they can do all styles or a ridiculous number like eight genres. Specialisation comes before competence. 

Your expectations: have set expectations and let them guide your choice of a producer. If you don’t stand for anything, you will fall for everything. Any producer who cannot give you what you need for your music should be ruled out no matter how successful they are. The point is that it is not the producer you need.

Chemistry: your producer should connect with you as an artist, your song and your message. Only then can they take what you have and make it what it needs to be. If you don’t see any connection between you and your producer, your project is already missing an essential ingredient. You cannot make a sound judgement on a song unless you have connected with it.  

Cost: of course you have to consider money. Pick someone whose full services you can afford. Don’t insist on a producer, only to get a half-baked service from them because they can’t give their best at the price you can afford. Don't do that to your song. This is not to say you should be haunting for cheap services. That won’t serve you well either because you can fall into the hands of a quack. 

Honestly, many songs are great on their own. This greatness has just been lost during production. If you have a song like that, it's not a bad idea to have a new producer work on the song afresh. When you have that song ready, a platform to share it is not a problem. Epoh Music has got you. It is free, and you can manage your content on the platform from your Artist account.

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