audio engineering
Recording studio craft
Audio engineering is the technical field concerned with recording, manipulating, mixing, and reproducing sound.
Audio engineers operate recording equipment, balance sound levels, apply effects, and ensure quality in music production, film, broadcasting, and live performance.
The discipline spans from studio work to concert venues to post-production: She studied audio engineering before landing a job at a recording studio.
- equalizationMaking things uniform
- dynamic rangeSignal amplitude span
- mixing consoleAudio signal control panel
- control roomFacility housing operational oversight
- sound boothSoundproofed recording space
multitrack recording · tape machine · mixing · sound design · mastering · microphone · compression · podcasting · room acoustics · radio broadcasting · phantom power · DAW · gain staging · preamplifiers · reverb · noise reduction · signal processing · soundproofing
- audiosound, headphones, volume control, sound recording, noise
- engineeringengineers, blueprint, project manager, computer science, R&D
- audio technologysound design, signal processing, DSP, sound waves, waveforms
- soundsound, sound waves, echoes, acoustics, vibrations
- hearingear, cochlea, hearing loss, deaf, hearing test
- music industryalbum, albums, singles, record label, record labels
audio engineeringvisual effects
Digitally created film imagery
cinematography · video production · image processing · visual design · lighting design
audio engineeringmusical composition
Created arrangement of notes
performing · songwriting · composing · singing · musicianship