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Career paper
(Sound Engineer)
By Matt Ford
Every rap or sing your favorite song at work? Ever start humming your favorite tune and get in somewhat of trouble for it? Imagine listening to music all day, actually making music from scratch calling it your own product. If you love music and love to work who knows the sound engineer career might be for you. But before you start education is necessary first off you want to take preparation classed in high school. A person with their mind set on becoming a sound engineer should take any business classes they can get. This will help in the long run because in the music business it is very easy to get scammed. A sound engineer must know how to manage themselves and their money. Art classes help to, not the visual arts as much. I’m talking about music or drama related things. The art classes will help because if somebody is a sound engineer then music is what you will be working with you should take music appreciation and vocal music classes in school. Another vital class that would come to use would be a communications class. This will help you on better terms of communicating with people.
Math and English are expected for you to take you wouldn’t think they would have a lot to do with the job but you have to know how to add hertz and mix things which needs knowledge of numbers. (“Sound engineer” career databank. career and college search, Cheyenne middle school, Edmond Oklahoma, 2006
www.careerdatabank.com) English is self explanatory sound engineers need good verbal skills its possible for one to know no English or to be mute at that but companies want you to carry yourself professionally so with that comes the English. There are colleges based around the career the “full sail” college is among the most popular. It offers classes for all aspects such as mixing, recording, program operation, and classes that teach you how to fix and set up equipment. (“Sound engineer” career databank. career and college search, Cheyenne middle school, Edmond Oklahoma, 2006
www.careerdatabank.com) Local colleges may provide some classes also after college comes the hard part and that’s getting a job is the hard part. First off you need to have some experience in a studio this can be obtained by either applying for an internship, recording assistant, or apprenticeship at a record label or college. You must contact a college or record label with the programs available that would put you in the studio if all else fails then a studio set up worker will be fine also. After that a sound engineer should find himself or herself looking for a job opening in sound tech or as a sound engineer at a company. With a lot of internship time with good training a job opening should not be a problem. To land a one million dollar job takes skill or contacts with people. The income range for a sound engineer can vary from 20,000 to over 1,000,000 a year depending on the project and company in which they belong to. With little experience 140,000 comes easy if you have a good reputation doubling that is no issue. Sound engineers receive pa for days taken off and vacations threw out the year and trips to award shows threw their label. (“Sound engineer” career databank. career and college search, Cheyenne middle school, Edmond Oklahoma, 2006
www.careerdatabank.com) The pay relies on skill and how much work you put into the projects so a average cant be accurately calculated. Small indie labels may have a studio room and that is it and you could be making 50,000 as opposed to a well-known record label with a whole building furnished with pools and basketball courts. The working environment may also vary to. Small labels tend to just have a studio and a few instrument rooms maybe a lobby while larger labels or companies tend to have kitchens, offices, studio rooms, pools, spas, and so on. Sound engineers usually are sitting down at the soundboard or pc either recording an artist or making an instrumental for the artist to record on. It would most likely be a little bit of noise going on threw out the day being as your working on music nothing to extreme to the ears. They usually have a desk or workspace with a chair that is comfortable to them. Other added things include life sized movie props; record awards, couches, chairs, lights, and related stuff. You can wear what you please there is no dress code you must abide to. Come as you are, you may want to look professional to some extent this makes your image good. most people dress casually jeans t-shirt maybe a button up, rarely will you see 4 out of 5 sound engineers in a tux. The sound engineer is advised to wear what feels comfortable for them to work in. if your wearing something that may interfere with work then don’t wear it its that simple if something breaks you are held accountable. You need to be able to fix things and operate them with ease that’s what your paid and responsible for. Knowing what is good and motivating an artist and making adjustments so that you can attempt to perfect it. The sound engineer is expected to be able to fix the equipment, make the instrumentals, mix the rough draft of the product, speak clearly and have knowledge of formats such as wav. Mp3. aiff. Avi.
The music industry is a “multi – billion dollar global business entity”(audio courses, info from forum, [online] available,
http://www.audiocourses.com/ 1st, April, 2006,). This statement its correct the music industry is complex you can fail at becoming a successful sound engineer very easily. If you do succeed how ever you will be rewarded greatly with a great income. That come at a small sacrifice things like late hours but it would all be worth it to meet musicians and other famous producers like “the Neptune’s” , “Chad Hugo” , “Pharrell Williams”, “Scott storch”, “9th wonder”, “kanye west”, “timberland”, “lil Jon”, “André 3000”, “dr. dre”, eminem”, and so on.fame may come out of this it may not, either way most sound engineers love their job so fame and fortune does not matter. Some jobs related to this would be a music composer, audio engineer, radio broadcaster, dj, vocals coach, music teacher, music major professor, and a computer technician. In conclusion the world today knows the sound engineers as producers that produce their favorite songs as they sing them in while listening to the radio driving down the road. If we didn’t have them what would music be like? What would it sound like? Most likely a live band, and that’s all we would have. But we never know without them music could be different it might not.
