Tom Dowd Music

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The role of an audio engineer is extremely diverse and has radically changed over the past several decade’s due to many technical advancements and changes to the music industry as well as consumer habits (Persson 2006). B and J Bartleet, authors of Practical recording techniques, (2013 pg.5) have described the role of an audio engineer as being a key player in the creation of music and the engineer’s skills help the artists realize their visions in sound. This is best described in the documentary Sound City (2013), one of the former resident engineer’s, Keith Olsen; describes the role of an audio engineer as ‘The vehicle to get the artist creativity on tape in a way that is accessible to your market’. It is paramount to achieve this by engaging with the artist in a social and mutual manner as well as being professional at the same time. …show more content…
He then goes on to give an example of one of the difficulties regarding the technical limitations with cutting straight to disc on a gramophone acetate record and choosing between 88 -112 lines per inch of cutting to the disc according to the length of the song making sure it wont skip or jump and describes it as ‘A major problem back then’. There was a great difference between then and now as far as recording techniques goes, a lot of music was recorded with a single microphone on a single mono track until the late 40’s. Al Schmitt, one of the engineers in the documentary goes on to recall that they recorded “pretty much with one microphone and moved everyone around and balanced the people in the
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