Engineering Sound the Basics of Being an Audio Engineer

Welcome to EngineeringSound.net. This is the first post of many and I hope to teach you how to engineer sound and everything you need to know about the world of digital recording. The posts on this site will be designed to empower, and train you, in the techniques of a sound engineer. If you are hoping this information will land you a job in the professional fields, it will not. This site can in no way replace the skills you would learn by going to an audio engineering school. But if you love sound, and digital recording is a hobby, then you will find this site a great value. Also, if you are all ready working as an engineer, you might find this site teaching you new tricks.

If you happened to stubble upon this site, remember that it’s in its infancy. I will be posting twice a week and sharing with you all the knowledge you need to run your own home studio. Those of you who are interested in Engineering Sound, Digital Recording, Live Sound Reinforcement, or anything else to do with being an audio engineer, make sure to bookmark this site because I promise not to disappoint. So to start out, I’ll be covering the basics to give you a foundation to build on. I’ve met a lot of good sound engineers over the years that really didn’t understand what they were doing. Anybody can set up microphones, twist nobs on a mixer, and burn it to a CD. These are the mass of home engineers that never took the time to learn why twisting that nob makes it sound good.

So if you ever want to skip ahead and start mixing tracks, just remember that I’m trying to give you a leg up on your future competition. If you’re asking “what competition is he talking about?” There are a lot of amateur audio engineers that make pretty good money following their hobby. So next post we’ll start covering the basics.