How Do You Become A Sound Engineer?
A list of things that will guide you on a path toward being a sound engineer. Start working with sound equipment: • Select a school to teach you what you want to know. Something like LA Recording Workshop if you want recording, or even your local community college might have a theatre or music program with a concentration in sound. • If you can’t go to a school, or are too young for college, go to a recording studio or local theatre (not a movie theatre, a live action theatre) and try to make friends with the sound crew. Tell them you’re interested in what they do, and ask if you can hang out and watch them work. • Pick up the Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook. Read it. Later, when you gain more experience, read it again. • Become familiar with different kinds of sound gear, do research on the internet, check out the websites of sound companies. • Learn to use different audio editing software, including ProTools, Cubase, Reason, Digital Performer, Live, or Logic. Several of these pro
