Audio engineering is the branch of engineering dealing with the production of sound through mechanical means. The field of audio engineering integrates many disciplines, including electrical engineering, acoustics, psychoacoustics, and music. However, audio engineering is focused on the process of generating sounds, and concerns itself less with the effects of sound in a given space. Unlike acoustical engineering, audio engineering generally does not deal with noise control or acousticaldesign. Much of audio engineering is also used in broadcast engineering.
An audio engineer is someone with experience and training in the production and manipulation of sound through mechanical means. As a professional title, this person is sometimes designated as a sound engineer instead. A person with one of these titles is commonly listed in the credits of many commercial music recordings (also in other productions that include sound, such as movies).
In typical sound reinforcement applications, audio engineers often assume the role of producer, making artistic decisions along with technical ones.
The University of Miami is one of the only schools to offer Audio Engineering as a degree. Their flavor of Audio Engineering deals with circuit design and integration
Recordingengineers make their living by the ability to create, scrutinize, critique, modify, shape, control, enjoy and rejoice in the details and sound quality of music and audio sound.
Recording techniques are increasingly computerized and digitized, which allows allow recordingengineers to work in a non-destructive format, at a faster and more efficient pace while collaborating with others in locations throughout the world.
Recordingengineers may be required to work extremely long hours in a studio or on a film set to meet project deadlines.
But unlike a painter or a musician the recordingengineer has to be content with his or her work going largely unappreciated by the general public.
But when you start making recordings yourself, if you have what it takes to be a recordingengineer, you begin to hear all sorts of things that at first inspection seem to have nothing to do with the music itself.
Also, in situations where one of the musicians considers himself to be the producer of the recording, the fact is that the engineer is probably doing most of the real production work, even if he or she doesn’t claim a full share of the credit.
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