4U Recording’s Studio Manager, Crystal Carpenter wrote an op-ed published in Billboard exploring how recording studios can get more women in their ranks!
A lot of people ask me, “How do we get more women working in recording studios?” The answer is simple: Go get them! And the earlier, the better.
– Crystal Carpenter, 4U Recording
Working in a studio can be daunting. Producing, engineering, mixing, mastering — none of these things comes naturally. You have to learn them, and it’s not always clear how. That’s why just 2% of the producers of last year’s top 100 songs were women, and only six were women of color, according to USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. We need to illuminate the path, and we need to do it from both an educational and practical perspective.