What makes a good sound engineer ?

Here are just some aspects that I've come across the few years that I've been in the business.
Sound engineering is basically service provided to the customer. You offer your expertise for a certain amount of money and be some kind of transparent medium between the artist and the sound on tape. You have to have your own ideas which to present to the customer when needed, but follow THEIR ideas and think of the best way to record them.



What makes a good sound engineer ?  

* Good ears
* Reliability is everything
* Good understanding of electric equipment in general and especially sound recording equipment
* Ability to make field repairs, if possible
* Very good knowledge of how to interact with HUMANS
   - The movie-making species.
* Patient mind and will to always try something new
* Good self-discipline to keep gear in good shape

At Sound Engineering Academy we train our students to develop a career nurture their talents to become a creative and dedicated person in the field of Audio Engineering. The job of a Sound Engineer requires updated technical knowledge in the latest sound related equipment and a good discipline to keep gear in good shape. With the year long training in Sound Engineering Academy we impart those much needed skills to excel in the world of digital media.

Visit our website www.seaindia.in for more details about the academy and the courses offered by the insitution. Get trained for the most amazing yet a much demanding career opportunity for the most prestigious name in Sound Engineering Training in India. We are ISO as well as IGNOU certified.

Project Oriented Exam On Live Sound Reinforcement At SEA

Students of SEA February 2011 batch went through a challenging project on live sound reinforcement. The total batch was divided into six sub groups. With in a time frame of Just 50mins, each sub group did the Sound Installation, Sound Check & System Calibration, Programme Execution & Uninstallation. All the equipments used were new to the students as we will not use any in house equipments for projects. This is to identify our students capability to cope up with new pro-audio equipment's. The five piece band who had the performance really rocked the campus. Great Experience and our students once again proved their professional competency.

Images of students going through a live sound reinforcement project.

  

 

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Latest invention In Sound : Flat Flexible Speakers that Produce a Clear Sound

 A loudspeaker, which is less than 0.25mm thick, is the latest invention in technologypresented by engineers from University of Warwick. The device is flexible and can be easily hung up a wall in an apartment or, due to its specific technique of producing sound, it can be used as a way of making clear public announcements in different places, such as, for example passenger terminals. Besides being extremely lightweight, this latest technological invention does not require huge investments. Slim and flexible, such speakers can be installed in ceiling tiles or inside vehicles.

Warwick Audio Technologies, is a spin-out company that says its device generates planar directional sound waves in public places. These waves project further than sound produced by usual speakers. Engineers dubbed their latest invention Flat, Flexible Loudspeaker (FFL). According to the company's CEO, Steve Couchman, the revolutionary speaker could completely replace the conventional speakers that are nowadays used in homes, cars and public places such as passenger terminals and shopping centers.

"Audio visual companies are investigating its use as point of sale posters for smart audio messaging and car manufacturers are particularly interested in it for its light weight and thinness," he said.
The flexible speaker works by transforming an electric signal into sound. In conventional speakers the signal is used to produce a varying magnetic field that vibrates a mechanical cone, thus making the sound. However, the technology behind the flexible speaker connects thin, conducting and insulating, materials that create a flexible laminate. When an electrical signal excites the laminate, it vibrates, so generating sound.

Learn To Listen The Music

Usually the music is played while we clean the house or wash clothes. It is in the background, but we do not actually listen to it. To really enjoy 'good' music of any genre we must really listen to it. Sit down, have a cup of coffee or a drink of choice, and listen. You will be amazed at how enjoyable this can be.

Listen to music that might be new to you, or that you wished you could understand. Try a light opera, or perhaps an instrumental music. Do not think of anything else. This is a time to listen, enjoy and relax. You are going to try to develop a mental map of the music.

Understand that in musical composition, there are three main technical ideas:
-o- Repetition
-o- Variation
-o- New Melodies

Listen, and try to notice whether what you are hearing is the same as what you have previously heard in the same piece. Identify the elements:

Learn that the introduction, or beginning of a piece is always new. There is very often also something new very near the end. Locate passages that you find especially rewarding. Are these passages repetitions, variations, or new? If they are variations, can you realize what it was that was varied?5

Listen once more to the same passage. This time, pay attention to what brings the music to these passages. Listen to as many details as you can.
-o- Colors
-o- Balances
-o- Textures of the different sounds of which music is composed.

Try to isolate specific details:
-o- Rhythms, whether in the foreground or background, that seem to interact
-o- Short melodic figures, either in the principal melody
 -o- Accompaniment.


Listen again, narrowing your focus: listen only to the bass, if there is one. Notice things in the bass that seem alive, pregnant with meaning. Notice all the details you previously noticed by switching your attention from one to the other.

Develop your mental map of the characters, actors and energies that combine to create music. If these steps are correctly followed, the result will be a panoramic expansion of your musical experience, which may be likened to listening in color.