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Audio engineering is a highly skilled trade that incorporates the use of studio audio equipment and technology to produce, reproduce, mix and record quality sound. A trained engineer, as well as having advanced technical skills, should also have an ear capable of discerning between acoustic, psychoacoustic and electronic sound.
In places where high quality sound is an absolute necessity, such as radio or television broadcasting studios, expert and reliable studio audio equipment is vital. As the technological age storms forward with the production on newer and more innovative studio audio equipment, and software to boot, it is becoming increasingly important for the audio engineer to be acquainted with the latest in audio hardware synchronization tools.
There's no doubting it's a hard graft for today's audio engineer, but with increased focus on skills-development within the audio engineering industry, it is an attainable career choice for those with the creative and technical skills to make it in the industry.
The process of getting sound just right isn't all complicated, however. Sometimes, it merely involves knowing where to position a microphone or when to adjust sound levels. Studio audio engineering is a rare profession where creativity meets technical savvy, where left brain activity meets right brain activity head-on.
The Creative Arts is a term that has become synonymous with the so-called flakier' professions, such as poetry-writing, painting, sculpting, etc. Audio engineering put a spanner in that theory by bridging the technical professions with the more fanciful ones. Knowing how to manipulate sounds so that it hits the right note or creates the desired effect is as much an art as it is a science. It requires a rare type of person: one with the cognitive faculties of a mathematician and the imaginative resources of the artist. It's no wonder that it's fast becoming a desirable career choice.
Where should speakers go in an echoey recording studio? How can background sounds be kept out of an important recording? These are all questions a sound engineer worth his salt should know by gut.
