Is the Audio Engineering Field Dead?

[PhonZhi]

I remember bout 10 years ago (after realizing what an audio engineer was) i was thinking hard about going to school to learn. Read up on it and i what i came away was that unless your BIGTIME and got experience and a portfolio to match that most have a 2nd job. That dream faded away quickly. Nowadays i cant imagine there really being that much of a demand for audio engineers on the music side since everybody and they mama makin music in their basements and easily uploading them to Youtube. I see ads and commercials for audio schools and wonder how well audio engineers are eating in 2015. Anybody got the inside scoop on that field?

 

[L&HH]

Ehh, I don't know if I agree. Everybody any they mamma want to make music yeah but everybody and they mamma can't make radio quality sounding music. And if you want to get on, your shyt needs to sound good. It'd be like saying the photography industry is dying because everybody and they mamma has a 8 megapixel iphone 6 and takes pictures.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Good quality mixing and mastering still matters. Maybe there is a loss of work for tracking/recording in studio sessions but post production is still sought after.

 

[UpAndComing]

Acoustic Engineering >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Audio Engineering

 

[Insensitive]

Ehh, I don't know if I agree. Everybody any they mamma want to make music yeah but everybody and they mamma can't make radio quality sounding music. And if you want to get on, your shyt needs to sound good. It'd be like saying the photography industry is dying because everybody and they mamma has a 8 megapixel iphone 6 and takes pictures.

This ^^^
Everyone may have access to the same tools but you aren't paying them
because they can access the same tools, you're paying them for their knowledge and experience.

 

[Professor K.]

I'm planning to go to school for it so I hope not.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Ehh, I don't know if I agree. Everybody any they mamma want to make music yeah but everybody and they mamma can't make radio quality sounding music. And if you want to get on, your shyt needs to sound good. It'd be like saying the photography industry is dying because everybody and they mamma has a 8 megapixel iphone 6 and takes pictures.

Well, Try Me quality is horrible! So, idk if it matters as much but still an edge.

 

[CanesMiamiLakers]

I don't know if the audio engineer doesn't matte, these new songs sound amazing. I'm always amazed at how good Kevin gates and Future sound

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

I remember bout 10 years ago (after realizing what an audio engineer was) i was thinking hard about going to school to learn. Read up on it and i what i came away was that unless your BIGTIME and got experience and a portfolio to match that most have a 2nd job. That dream faded away quickly. Nowadays i cant imagine there really being that much of a demand for audio engineers on the music side since everybody and they mama makin music in their basements and easily uploading them to Youtube. I see ads and commercials for audio schools and wonder how well audio engineers are eating in 2015. Anybody got the inside scoop on that field?

I will say look forward to doing a lot of free work just get in the industry and move to LA. You're in ATL but LA still leads in recording overall.

 

[L&HH]

Well, Try Me quality is horrible! So, idk if it matters as much but still an edge.

Songs like Try Me and Hot nikka can get away with it initially because they're passable enough and go viral but idk for Try Me but Hot nikka they had to remix and master once they sent it to radio. They got in touch with Jahlil Beats so he can send them the stems and all that.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Songs like Try Me and Hot nikka can get away with it initially because they're passable enough and go viral but idk for Try Me but Hot nikka they had to remix and master once they sent it to radio. They got in touch with Jahlil Beats so he can send them the stems and all that.

I heard it on the radio when I got picked up one evening and I was likehow the fukk?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Acoustic Engineering >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Audio Engineering

difference?

 

[RichYung]

Drake and Abel's shyt be sounding GODLY. So damn crisp.

 

[UpAndComing]

difference?

Acoustic Engineering is way more hands on. Audio Engineering is just music studio work

Acoustic Eng., you can do sound design on Sports Stadiums, Theaters, learn how to soundproof a room, making headphones, stereos, etc
It's basically a combination of Physics, Music, and Sound
It's a discipline of Mechanical Engineering. Mech Eng is my major, and I plan to go into Acoustics after I graduate

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

I remember bout 10 years ago (after realizing what an audio engineer was) i was thinking hard about going to school to learn. Read up on it and i what i came away was that unless your BIGTIME and got experience and a portfolio to match that most have a 2nd job. That dream faded away quickly. Nowadays i cant imagine there really being that much of a demand for audio engineers on the music side since everybody and they mama makin music in their basements and easily uploading them to Youtube. I see ads and commercials for audio schools and wonder how well audio engineers are eating in 2015. Anybody got the inside scoop on that field?

To this, actually there is more of a demand than before just probably a surplus of "qualified" engineer. Qualified doesn't equate to talent. One engineer cannot engineer everything and needs rest so there's room but if is a marathon to work with the big dogs, though.