Recording Studio Engineer Essay

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The Record Studio Engineer as an Industry Professional

Introduction;
An Audio Engineer is a person that takes a sound and works with it though means of mathematical equations and practical use of sound capturing and modifying equipment to transform it from simple sound to something of use to many industries. A Recording Studio Engineers role is a pivotal one as there can’t be “Recorded” music without the expertise of the Recording Studio Engineer.

The Studio engineers roles towards a finished audio project can be varied, and in most part would have past through a few different engineers hands before completion, Though I’ll be focusing on a Recording Studio Engineer and the skills they require to go about turning sound into the greatest …show more content…

Here are some examples of the ingenuity of some engineers;

A vintage set of half size Ward Beck modules configured as a channel strip. A From left to right: Penny & Giles fader;461M mic-pre-amp; 462 parametric equalizer; 466 compressor/limiter; and 467 meter/noise gate. Built by;
Tom Gruning at Gruning Audioworks, LLC, 125 Grove Street, Middleburgh, NY 12122 http://www.gruningaudioworks.com/products.htm As electronics is a wide part of the industry now having converted over to a Digital Audio Workspace or D.A.W systems from analogue tape which is a dying art amongst newer budding engineers today from adjusting to the setup skills all are replaced by a computer of some sort and a recording platform such as a D.A.W. Digital Audio workstations’ come on many computer based platforms, though having a good understanding of at least the more commonly found systems seems to benefit all recording studio engineers as this allows them to virtually be able to walk into any studio be it in their own city or abroad in another country an still be able to deliver a quality product to whomever their clients may

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