Audio Engineering

Starting a career in the music industry is a difficult task. There are many important steps that you need to take along the way, and the path is often long and confusing. The people that you meet along the way will guide you along this path, and hopefully help you become a music industry success story. The goal is to not let your message get jumbled and distorted beyond your control and lead you to disaster.

My career clusters was performing arts and I chose the career named, Music Director/Composer. Directors lead orchestras, choirs, groups, and bands while composers make music or arrange other piece in a variety of music styles. Directors ensure that the musicians play with one concert sound, balancing the melody, tuning, rhythm, and dynamic. They give feedback to the musicians or section leaders so that they can achieve the sound and style they want in the music. The work environment for directors work in religious organizations, and schools with music programs. They also spend a lot of time traveling around to and places. Composers work in offices, recording studios, or their own home. Similar occupations of this career are actors, dancer and choreographers, high, middle, and elementary school teachers, musicians and singers, producers and directors, and writers and authors. The job outlook is growing by 3% which is

In the first months of college, I wasn’t so sure if I wanted to pursue architecture, finance, or engineering; I was utterly lost, unlike many of my peers. Over the months, I pondered on what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Then, I realized I was never interested in obtaining a job where I would sit at a desk and stare at some numbers on a computer screen for 9 hours every day. Through my daily routine and utilization of time, I realized I found less joy in the courses I applied least outside of the classroom, yet was intrigued that with the many hours I worked in the studio. I could work on a skill in which I could use in the career I wanted; a path in which I could leave a legacy through molding the world the way I wanted to see

As a student of Full Sail University I am completing the course of Audio Production. Growing up music was always an escape for me. My childhood was not perfect and sometimes the only thing I felt that could help me escape reality was music. Knowing how to sing, rap, and produce music by the age of 16 was my get away from the world. Developing the skill without a degree is one thing. I am attending Full Sail University to further my knowledge in this area of work and to also better my skills. Music is a major industry to work in. Not stopping there I also love to have my own brands and labels with all areas of work. This is why I look up to O’shea “Ice Cube” Jackson Sr. Ice Cube has come a long way from the 90’s. From making music to

Firstly, long before it was established and renamed Soundview, the area was a Native American settlement by the Siwanoy (Jackson, 1995). This Native American indigenous tribe was settled along what is now known as the Bronx River which is the western border of soundview. During the seventeenth century, the Dutch and English had taken interest in the Bronx which led to them settling in the area; eventually buying the land from the Native Americans in 1639 (Jenkins, 1912). The early eighteenth century Soundview was seen as an area for residence and estates to be enjoyed by those who did not live in the area all year around; at the same time many wealthy families saw it as an opportunity to use it as farmland. This area of the Bronx became known

An audio engineer is responsible for the operation of the soundboard and other equipment in the recording of music, words, sounds, or any combination of such material. There are several types of engineering positions available in today's studios. In large studios, there are usually several engineers, each with the own duties and contributions. There are recording engineers, recording assistants, set-up engineers, maintenance engineers, and even mix-down engineers in some cases. In smaller studios the engineer is usually responsible for all of these duties. As a rule, the engineer should be able to set-up, use, and fix the equipment they work with.

College is supposed to be a place where you advance both personally and academically. College helps you to understand who you are as a person. This important investment should not bankrupt individuals and cause major financial problems later on in life. I go to a Private liberal arts college where tuition is $25,680 a year. I commute to campus to avoid paying the extra $9,770 to live on campus because I need to pay for Graduate school if I want to become a Speech Pathologist or Audiologist. There are so many graduates and friends that I have talked to that have tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in college debt to get a diploma and then to not be able to pay the money back because it will take them 30-40 years because they are not working in their field and have other expenses as they get older. Normally, it takes the average college student 30 years to pay back their loan and the student pays thousands of dollars in interest they could use to buy a house, invest in their children, or their familes future. One of my friends is going to school in Oklahoma and the University she attends gives her little to no financial aid, she is going to

Explain that wearing the aids as often and as consistently as possible is essential to speech and language development for the child. The hearing aids provide access to sounds for the child and without this stimulation speech and language development will be negatively impacted. Auditory input is needed to help the child to learn to listen, if the aids are not being used and the auditory pathways of the brain are not being stimulated then the child will eventually lose that ability. The quality of the signal in the hearing aids is directly related to the child’s speech intelligibility. A high quality auditory input provides a better opportunity for learning and better speech intelligibility. Full access is important for children who are learning

What do you think when you hear sound? Do you think of the old tale that says if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make any noise? Or do not question it and move on with life. Believe it or not sound is everywhere. Sound works in many different ways, to fully understand it, let's break it down into three main pieces. First of all sound is energy, next sound can change, Lastly to hear and to understand are two different things.

Attending college gives the student a considerable amount of knowledge before entering their career. Pursuing a bachelor’s degree usually takes four years for the average student. During these years, students are studying all aspects and information about their future career

These jobs are simply producing music for whoever will pay you for it. Most current producers were or are musicians or vocalists themselves, and that is how they started out. Once one begins to gain experience and acquiring connections then he or she can commence moving into higher employment positions and working with a larger and more experienced group of artists, therefore rendering a larger paycheck. Recording studio engineer and recording industry executive are two goal positions that every upcoming producer wants to reach. These jobs pay generously and can be looked at as target points of success. This career path is not definite or guaranteed, but it is a good idea of what one should expect if he or she is aspiring to be a producer.

Before I can achieve a degree, I must commit to my studies. Education is the strongest foundation in any career. As it stands, I have taken interior design, architecture, and all levels of art including AP studio art, which I am currently enrolled in. My Advanced placement and honors classes have

After graduation my ideal plan would be to go into an industry career. I want to get into an engineering-related job first to provide myself with some experience in that aspect of the field. I want to be selective in choosing the company that I begin my career with. I want to ensure that the company that I choose has a program related that aids in helping their employees get advanced degrees. During my first year in my career I want

Keeping itself as the largest music industry in the whole world, the music industry in the United States has different organizations and associations which represent different roles in the music industry and serve different purposes, constructing a structure of checks and balances. American record labels and distributors got RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), the domestic representative of the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) in America, to represent them and monitor and review relevant laws, regulations and policies on their behalf, and to take actions to protect their intellectual property rights. Music publishers got Harry Fox to issue mechanical licenses on behalf of a publisher, making sure users pay for use of these licenses, and accounts to the publisher. To represent the interests of both recording artists and record labels, SoundExchange was initially created in 2000 as a division of the RIAA, which became an independent non-profit organization to collects and distributes royalties earned by artists through various platforms. While SoundExchange works on behalf of record companies and artists, PROs (Performing Rights Organization) in the United States ASCAP, BMI and SESAC work on behalf of music publishers and songwriters when a song is publicly broadcasted, as they collect fees from establishments that play music in television, radio, clubs, restaurants, websites, or other broadcasting systems, which they then pay to their

I have successfully earned a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from SUNY, University at Buffalo in September 2013, which opened avenues for me and led me to my first full-time job. Since graduation, I’ve been on a ceaseless path of learning from working as a Quality Engineer for a small manufacturing company called HDM Hydraulics to where I am now as an R&D Quality Engineer for New Product Development at Medtronic. My academic pursuits continued even after starting