in dance music the title "producer" has meant song writer / recording artist since the late 70s. and George Martin wrote an awful lot of notes for the Beatles.

in dance music the title "producer" has meant song writer / recording artist since the late 70s. and George Martin wrote an awful lot of notes for the Beatles. also there are many classic rock producers who don't actually touch the mixing desk or microphones. that's the engineer's job. Geoff Emerick did the mixing for the Beatles and he wasn't even allowed to move the microphones. he had to call in the studio mic engineers to do that. company policy.