What Is Audio Engineering? Your Career Guide | Coursera

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Discover what audio engineers do, where they work, what they earn, and how they use audio engineering programs to do their job. You’ll also uncover more about the skills involved in this career and learn how to get started.
Audio engineering applies electronic, digital, acoustic, and electrical principles to the recording and production of music, voices, and sounds.
The median annual salary for an audio engineer is $56,600 per year [1], which can increase with experience.
Typical audio engineering tasks include recording, editing, mixing, and mastering.
You can earn a music-related degree, certificate, or certification to start your career in audio engineering.
Discover the role of an audio engineer and how to become one. Afterward, if you’re ready to start learning about music production, enroll in the Music Production Specialization from Berklee. In just four weeks, you can learn how to run an efficient and well-organized recording session. Upon completion, you’ll earn a shareable certificate to include on your resume or LinkedIn profile.
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Audio engineering is a profession that involves the scientific, aesthetic, and technological aspects of manipulating, recording, and reproducing audio. It’s the process of applying electronic, digital, acoustic, and electrical principles to the recording and production of music, voices, and sounds.
Audio engineers are sometimes called sound technicians. Many different types of audio engineers, such as live venue sound engineers, video game sound designers, and studio recording engineers, have at least one thing in common: They’re accustomed to using audio engineering programs. Whether you’re working on a live event, a movie soundtrack, or an artist’s latest album, you’ll use your technical skills to ensure that everything sounds as good as possible.
Audio engineering may be a good career for you if you love working with technology and working on creative projects. It requires you to be detail-oriented and able to work well under pressure while also being innovative and adventurous.
As a music producer, making something sound fantastic often means using audio engineering techniques. Some popular techniques you’ll learn in audio engineering that you can use in your productions include:
Mastering: The process of getting the final mix (or master) ready for distribution
Ducking: A technique used to reduce the volume of one sound in response to the presence of another sound, often used for background music and voice-overs
EQ matching: The process of matching the tonal characteristics of one sound source with another sound source
Mix bus compression: Using compression on the mix bus (the main fader) in order to glue together the various elements of your mix
Sidechaining: Lowering the level of one signal in response to another signal
Compression: An audio processing technique designed to reduce the dynamic range of a signal by lowering its loudest parts while bringing up its quietest parts
Reverb: A type of audio effect that simulates an acoustic environment, producing reflections and reverberations to create the illusion of space within a track or recording
Audio engineers are responsible for capturing, mixing, or reproducing sound using electronic audio equipment. The field is broad since it’s applied to music, television, film, and other media channels.
Audio engineers could work in many different settings and with several types of artists or clients. While most audio engineers work in music recording studios, you can also find work in other areas, such as:
Film production: Sound effects and tracks
Movie theaters: Sound design
Broadcasting: Audio production
Colleges and universities: Teaching audio engineering
Live theater: Audio playback and live sound management
As an audio engineer, you may have the following duties:
Recording: You'll record sound or capture audio data as the first step in creating a finished piece of music or other audio.
Editing: You’ll use computer software to edit and manipulate recorded sounds. You’ll combine these sounds with effects like reverb, delay, or distortion to make them fit for the intended purpose, such as movie soundtracks or commercial jingles.
Mixing: You’ll use mixing techniques, such as equalization (EQ) and compression, to alter the timbre of an instrument, voice, or track. You also may use dynamic processing, such as gating or limiting, to control volume levels within an audio track.
Mastering: Mastering is a process used by many musicians and audio engineers to ensure tracks are compatible in various media formats for commercial distribution. Mastering also encompasses other technical aspects, such as creating tracks that will sound good on various playback systems, like car stereos, home stereos, laptops, and portable devices.
Audio engineers can specialize in certain types of media productions, such as music, film, TV, or radio broadcasting. You may want to gain proficiency with specific types of equipment and software to succeed as an audio engineer. For example, if you’re an audio engineer working in radio broadcasting, you’ll need to learn to use computer hardware and software for editing and broadcast automation.
As an audio engineer working in live sound systems, you’ll know how to manipulate sound using equalizers and other control devices to create quality sound output from loudspeakers to reach throughout the venue.
Audio engineers use many audio engineering software programs, techniques, tools, and equipment to fit each project. As an audio engineer, you may perform some of the following tasks:
Operate equipment that records, copies, synchronizes, or mixes voices, music, or sounds.
Work with producers to determine how to organize music and sounds.
Place microphones around a set and work with boom operators to record actors clearly during filming.
Edit audio by removing unwanted sounds or adding extra effects.
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