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Also known as recording engineer, sound producer, sound director, sound engineer, music engineer, musical engineer, first engineer

engineer who operates recording, mixing, sound reproduction equipment

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Instance of
profession
Subclass of
engineer
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Engineer at audio console at Danish Broadcasting Corporation.png
Said to be same as
audio technician
Field of occupation
dubbing
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female form of label
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Commons category
Audio engineers
topic's main category
Category:Audio engineers
partially coincident with
audio technician
male form of label
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Encyclopedic overview

An audio engineer with audio console at a recording session at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation

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. Audio engineers work on the "technical aspect of recording—the placing of microphones, pre-amp knobs, the setting of levels. The physical recording of any project is done by an engineer…"

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