Ask Playbill Cast Album Column Features Prez Kurt Deutsch

Be sure to check out the latest ‘Ask Playbill’ column, which focuses on recording cast albums! It it’s an extensive feature with great (if we do say so ourselves) input from our very own Kurt Deutsch, founder and President of Sh-K-Boom & Ghostlight Records.

Here’s an excerpt:

The leader during this process is the producer — the equivalent to the director in theatre. There’s also a recording engineer, who oversees a lot of the technical aspects of the recording session: making sure the studio is set up properly, making sure all the microphones work, and making sure the sound is being captured in the right way. (Deutsch serves as the producer on his albums but will often co-produce with the recording engineer.) Another job is the ProTools engineer, who makes sure the sound is being fed into the ProTools software in the correct way.

Read the full column here.