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A producers' role in the overall sound of an album is often under-appreciated. Sure, most people know roughly what it is that producers do, but until you've been in a recording session and seen first-hand how producers work with bands you can't possibly understand the entirety of the impact they have on the final product. [...]

Producers can make or break an album. The right one can do everything from highlighting nuanced elements of a band's performance and eliciting tone and depth from an amp setup to cementing an iconic sound for an already iconic band. The wrong one ... well, we've all heard the sonic abortion that was St. Anger. Two of-the-moment producers who decidedly fall in the former category are New York's