Our producer wants a producer credit, does he deserve it?

[musicguy2500]

Hi all,

I have a situation where my band went to a producer. He recorded and produced our track.
We were not satisfied with the recording as it was far removed form our vision. Rather than go though revisions, he politely asked us to take the stems elsewhere.

Next - A new producer gets our vibe and does a great job using the stems. Over weeks, he mixed added production elements, eq'd everything and mastered.

The first producer wants to to be mentioned as 'recorded and produced by'. I understand 'recorded by' but we are not using his production elements even though he included some files with the stems, so at most as you do he recorded and cleaned up the raw files.

Do you think the first producer still deserves the 'produced by' mention as well as 'recorded by' ?

(also I'm referring to the mentions on the the streaming apps, not a % producer cut of the song)

Thanks in advance,
musicguy2500

 

[rhythmgj]

These are issues that should be worked out ahead of time, in **written agreements.** But that being a moot point for you now, I would say work out some kind of credit that you can all agree on. He *does* deserve credit for his input, and be aware that any precedent you set can be used legally to pursue royalties (you likely won't get away with a "producer credit for streaming only" scenario).


GJ

 

[musicguy2500]

These are issues that should be worked out ahead of time, in **written agreements.** But that being a moot point for you now, I would say work out some kind of credit that you can all agree on. He *does* deserve credit for his input, and be aware that any precedent you set can be used legally to pursue royalties (you likely won't get away with a "producer credit for streaming only" scenario).


GJ

True, the first guy did technically 'produce' sounds even if only for the raw stems that we're using. so yeah 2 x producers will be mentioned on Spotify (more detail on youtube though) Thanks

 

[rhythmgj]

No problem! I always advocate for people to work out as much detail on deals and work expectations as possible beforehand, which is often difficult for musicians and creatives ("Let's just get going and make something!!"). But it's easy to share credit on something when it's just a basic idea that everyone is contributing to and/or not making any money. Once it's in a fixed form, or worse still, in a position to potentially bring in $$, a lot of the collegial creative atmosphere tends to evaporate...


GJ