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An Audio Career Sounds Like a Good Idea

An Audio Career Sounds Like a Good Idea By Martin A. David
martin.david@hqeducation.com
HQ Education Columnist
April 14,2005

Special effects - in movies, television, and even on the Internet - are easy to notice. The soundscape that accompanies these effects is less noticeable if the audio engineering crew members are doing their jobs well. The work of these highly trained graduates of audio engineering schools is much more obvious if it is done poorly.

Audio Schools

Of course, attending an audio technology school will prepare you for a much wider range of audio jobs than just the narrow world of entertainment. Sound, and therefore sound engineering, is all around us. Audio schools offer courses in everything from the theory of electronic sound to car audio training.

Audio Jobs

Audio jobs are found in almost every sector of society. For example, schools and colleges require people who specialize in the type of audio visual setups used in education. Television rules the airwaves, but there are still engineers needed to run audio radio programs.

Other Audio Engineer Jobs

If the entertainment industry does attract you, you can take audio courses that lead you into the music world. There are audio programs just for recording engineers. Recording engineers are audio engineers who work to preserve sound, music and voice on some form of recording media.

Of course, audio engineering jobs have changed a lot from the days of setting sound on to discs, eventually changing to CD recordings, and now to DVDs. In all these cases, the audio engineers are responsible for the balance and production of the recorded signals.

Whether it is the recording of sound for movies and television, the presentation of audio visual material in the education field or the engineering of music recordings, there are a growing number of jobs available for engineers trained in using the equipment of the audio world.


About the Author

Martin A. David consults as a Senior Technical Writer for a number of Silicon Valley firms. He is also a translator, specializing in Danish, French and Spanish literary works. He has written numerous feature articles for publications including the Los Angeles Times. He has also published a novel, and a non-fiction book in the area of dance. Martin earned his B.A. in Liberal Arts from Brooklyn College in his native New York. He currently chairs the Santa Clara Cultural Advisory Commission in Santa Clara, California.


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