HI, I suppose to know the answer, but I thought about it…
how to enter “vocals engineered by” into MB?
It’s possible to select a sub-category of vocals. In my case there would be (at least) lead vocals, background vocals and choir vocals. Should I enter all of these? It would be accurate.
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a guitar solo and various vocals were recorded in a separate session …
“vocals & guitar engineered by …”
There are details: Alex Gopher is mainly DJ and mixer. For the track Time there were additionally various vocals and a guitar solo recorded. Engineers on this recording were these two guys (quite famous producers and studio owners - Applehead Studios).
So you would leave it without further details, probably. This is the release:
My problem is that on that release I can’t see the engineer credits as there are two pages of edits open. So I look only at the first track.
If he is Engineering the vocals, then it is clear he is Engineer [vocals]. I would only break down the multiple specific types if he wasn’t looking after one category. For example, if someone else Engineered the background vocals, then I would specify which ones he was dealing with separately.
If he engineered BOTH vocals and instruments, then I leave him as Engineer.
I only add the separate tasks if separate people are doing them.
Vocals alone can’t be selected for engineer and that-like. Only a sub-category for vocals.
It was only guitar and not other instruments, performed by Alex Gopher. So it would be reasonable to credit Engineer [guitar], but the corresponding Engineer [vocals] is not possible, isn’t it?
Personally, given the absense of the exactly appropriate option, I would simply pick one of the options (maybe “other vocals”) and set the credited as field to “vocals”. I suppose you could add multiple relationships for each sub-type if you know it applies but that seems like overkill.
I agree it would be ideal if we could indicate generic “vocals” like we can for performer relations.
Should I add the original credits or something like that: (?) Engineer credits for track 1 should be:
Engineer [vocals] (not possible yet due to interface restrictions)
What you wrote sounds about right. You could add a “Sub-Optimal Credits” header, but I think that stopped being a mandatory thing we do like in 2010 So as you wish with that (it sometimes does make things easier to find though).