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I'm a professional audio engineer
of 13+ years, and an audio technician of over 19 years. What
does this mean exactly?
An audio engineer records,
edits, manipulates, mixes, or masters sound by technical means
in order to realize an artist's or record producer's creative
vision. While usually associated with music production, an audio
engineer deals with sound for a wide range of applications, including
post-production for video and film, live sound reinforcement,
advertising, multimedia, and broadcasting. In larger productions,
an audio engineer is responsible for the technical aspects of
a sound recording or other audio production, and works together
with a record producer or director, although the engineer's role
may also be integrated with that of the producer. In smaller
productions and studios, the audio engineer and producer are
often one and the same person.
Over the years, I've redesigned
and engineered rooms acoustically for various churches and concert
halls. This may mean that the room may not have been equalized
properly for a flat audio response (normal-sounding environment
to the average human ear), or it could be that the speakers are
not installed correctly to cover the entire area with nominal
and equal sound. Perhaps there's a frequency in the room which
causes unwanted feedback or unwanted sounds for the talents on
stage that needs to be removed. I offer services for all of these
and more.
Since 2001, I've engineered
concerts, productions, church services, and live television braodcast.
I've also edited, mixed, and mastered recordings for various
clients in either my post-production studio or live in-house.
-- I've even had the opportunity to apply as a Tape Production
Engineer for Skywalker Sound, but was not accepted because they
said I was overqualified. Go figure.
I'm quite familiar with both
analog and digital consoles, patch panel systems, outboard processing,
AD/DA conversion, nearfield delay speakers, and specialize in
detecting frequency feedback by solely using the human ear (vs
a real-time analyzer unit).
I realize this may be a lot
to take in, but if you could imagine for just a moment what it
would be like to mix over 68 channels of audio, with the producer
on your backside watching (and listening) closely to your mix,
while at the same time paying attention to the talent on stage
and guess what they may want before they even ask you, this is
a typical minute (yes, minute) behind the console as an audio
engineer. Most sessions or productions have a duration of over
4 hours of time behind the console.
Now you can stop imagining and leave the "fun" audio
antics to professionals like me. After all, it's one of the jobs
I love doing!
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