Richard K. Adler
Grammy Award Winning Engineer / Producer
Rich Adler has been in the recording industry for 30 years and in Nashville since 1975. His discography has many highlights including Neil Young, Dolly Parton, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, Alison Krauss, Johnny Cash, Doc Watson, John Prine, Bela Fleck, Natalie Cole, Sam Bush, Jerry Jeff Walker, Dave Mallet, Shel Silverstein, Iris Dement and John Hartford.
He welcomes the opportunity to discuss your recording project with you and can bring to it a wealth of experience that is absolutely priceless.
"Richard Adler is as fine an engineer as I've ever worked with." John Hartford, multi Grammy winner, composer of Gentle On My Mind
What Is A Record Producer?
The duties of a record producer depend on the individual recording project, but generally a producer is the person responsible for guiding a master recording from inception to commercial release. The producer controls the recording sessions, picks the musicians who will play the songs, often serves as coach to the performer and the assembled musicians and often has a heavy hand in choosing the material to be recorded. In addition, the producer normally supervises the mixing process, in which individual parts are combined to create a finished recording.
As a recording center, Nashville has been home to several important and effective producers, many of whom were (or are) also musicians, performers and/or record moguls. The list of Music City luminaries includes but is not limited to: Owen Bradley, Chet Atkins, Don Law, Billy Sherrill, Jerry Kennedy, Aubrey Mayhew, Porter Wagoner, Buddy Killen, Jimmy Bowen, Tony Brown, Paul Worley, Byron Gallimore, Buddy Cannon and Dann Huff.
--Peter Cooper, Staff Writer Reprinted from The Tennessean, May 7, 2006
