Prince's sound engineer discusses what it takes to make a song or album.

[Spicechinodiva]

Between Purple rain to Love***y. 

 

Susan Rogers was the premiere sound engineer of Prince, she discusses how He was way to focused into making his own music, given at any time Susan basically lived off of no sleep, cos 3 in the morning the phone could ring, and Prince had an idea to do a song, and unless it's completed .

 

It will not let him to shutdown his brain..

 

So you had to do it. Get it done, but prince like most musicians eat, sleep breathe Music, him dying alome doesn't surprise her as the artist's of that era was career oriented to the point their partner couldn't work as they were the provider of the family, that you can stay at home while they tout and reap the benefits, sounds nice, but the spouse ends up being alone most of the time..

 

However I learned one thing while streaming she rarely gets money in the era of pure sales..

 

The sales of purple rain and sign o' the times basically helped Susan pay her mortgage faster than most people and her student loans when she became a psychologist, cos like she said by the time autotune took over, a sound engineer like Susan was becoming obsolete to a machine cos her job was to make prince sound good to the Music, auto tune and computers made sound engineers basically irrelevant to the landscape especially since they recorded Music on tape.

 

Analog film, which back then if a mistake or an off key note happened it was left there, as you can't re do.

 

Hint demos of demos of the same song exists as it wasn't officially recorded on the album until it was perfected. 

 

But sometimes the mistake like in if i was your girlfriend, basically added a cool element even though as Susan said, working with perfectionists, she was scared of getting fired a lot..

 

The 3 hour interview opens up about the genius and eventually overtime where she saw first hand he needed time off cos the Music started to fail to what he could do.

 

@Blackout2006

@Jordan Miller

 

And one thing is he and Susan ended up fighting a lot, cos as a fan Susan knew he could do better and needed to deal with the relationship ending of him and Susannah Melvoin, but the industry at that time didnt allow nobody to take time off, if you were due to put out a record, you had to complete it, or face a lawsuit regardless if you weren't in a good head space.

Which is why a lot of people including prince is dead, they weren't seen as human beings but money to the business executives and to exploit.