1. Sound Engineering By Alejandro Lopez

2. What Theme Does It Fall in? Falls into the theme of Communication Communication involves learning to easily communicate with others Other careers in Communication include public relations, marketing, TV/radio producing, and sales

3. Basic Tasks of a Sound Engineer Using control consoles to sync and equalize prerecorded sounds with visual actions Recording speech, music, and other sounds on recording media Separating instruments, vocals, and other sounds

4. What to Do in Order to Prepare Level of education can vary from a high school diploma to a bachelor’s degree Some careers in this field require training in vocational school Some employees may need one or two years of training, both on-the-job and with other experienced workers

5. Colleges/Programs to Help Prepare Some careers in sound engineering only require a high school diploma Associate’s degree programs focusing on electronics, acoustics, sound mixing, etc. Bachelor’s degree programs committed to a career in conducting acoustic principle studies or creating new sound processing innovations

6. The Future of Sound Engineering This career field is said to be growing slower than the average career field It is estimated that the career field will steadily grow by at least 8% within the next several years Achieving a high position in sound engineering will take more training and skills, for the competition is fierce

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