What is the work like?
You would use complex electronic equipment to record sound for many different uses, such as:
-commercial music recordings
- radio, TV, film and commercials
- corporate videos
- websites
- computer games and other types of interactive media.
Your work would involve:
- planning recording sessions with producers and artists
- setting up microphones and equipment in the studio
- setting the right sound levels and dynamics
- operating equipment for recording, mixing, mastering, sequencing and sampling
- recording each instrument or item onto a separate track
- monitoring and balancing sound levels
- mixing tracks to produce a final ‘master’ track
- logging tapes and other details of the session in the studio archive.
With experience, you might also act as studio manager.
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Date Published: August 18, 2009
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