Audio engineer
An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.
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Sound
Vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
An audio engineer, on the other hand, is concerned with the recording, manipulation, mixing, and reproduction of sound.
Equalization (audio)
Process of adjusting the volume of different frequency bands within an audio signal.
Much later the concept was applied in audio engineering to adjust the frequency response in recording, reproduction, and live sound reinforcement systems.
Recording studio
Specialized facility for sound recording, mixing, and audio production of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds.
Ideally, both the recording and monitoring (listening and mixing) spaces are specially designed by an acoustician or audio engineer to achieve optimum acoustic properties (acoustic isolation or diffusion or absorption of reflected sound echoes that could otherwise interfere with the sound heard by the listener).
Broadcast engineering
Field of electrical engineering, and now to some extent computer engineering and information technology, which deals with radio and television broadcasting.
Audio engineering and RF engineering are also essential parts of broadcast engineering, being their own subsets of electrical engineering.
Effects unit
Electronic device that alters the sound of a musical instrument or other audio source through audio signal processing.
Musicians, audio engineers and record producers use effects units during live performances or in the studio, typically with electric guitar, bass guitar, electronic keyboard or electric piano.
Headphones
Headphones are a pair of small loudspeaker drivers worn on or around the head over a user's ears.
Headphones are also used by people in various professional contexts, such as audio engineers mixing sound for live concerts or sound recordings and DJs, who use headphones to cue up the next song without the audience hearing, aircraft pilots and call center employees.
Live sound mixing
Live sound mixing is the blending of multiple sound sources by an audio engineer using a mixing console or software.
Record producer
Recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.
The executive producer, on the other hand, enables the recording project through entrepreneurship, and an audio engineer operates the technology.
Acoustical engineering
Branch of engineering dealing with sound and vibration.
Audio engineers develop and use audio signal processing algorithms.
Microphone
Transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal.
Microphones are used in many applications such as telephones, hearing aids, public address systems for concert halls and public events, motion picture production, live and recorded audio engineering, sound recording, two-way radios, megaphones, and radio and television broadcasting.