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The engineer is the technician, and the producer used to be the person who hired the studio, the engineer, the songwriter, the musicians, interfaced with the label, put all the budgets together and produced a set of recordings for the label. Then slowly, throughout the ’60s and ’70s, it evolved to mean this tastemaker who sat on a couch and said, “That sounds great” or “That sounds okay.” There’s a joke: “How many producers does it take to screw in a light bulb? I don’t know, what do you think?” That’s what producers do: sit around and create some kind of intense vibe.

Casey Rice: The Anti-Producer : Mess Noise