Property News · February 11, 2016

How do I become … a record producer?


Steve Levine explains how skills he gained working as a studio ‘tape op’ led to him producing multi-platinum Culture Club albums and starting his own label Music producer Steve Levine always knew he wanted a career in music. “I grew up listening to the sound of reggae, ska and Motown in the early 1960s. From a very young age, I wanted to make records – but initially, I wanted to be a sound engineer.”Despite his ambitions he left school in 1975 with no qualifications. “In those days, there wasn’t the lovely range of sound technology university courses there are nowadays,” he says. He decided to knock on doors of recording studios in London, to ask if they had a vacancy for a “tape op”. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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