I’m going to say something to you in a second, and I want you to pay attention to the first picture that pops in to your mind. Are you ready OK, here goes Recording Engineer. What picture did your brain conjure for you I’m betting there was a huge mixing board and a very knowing-looking guy with both arms stretched across it tweaking and pushing scary-looking controls. Was I close

The guy in that image I just described is probably someone who did extremely well in computer science, electrical engineering, and probably some sort of shop class in school. Their vocabulary is peppered with words like impedance and discrete class-A. I hate to throw around such controversial terms as geek or boring, but they may cross your mind. This guy became an audio recording engineer because he loved it! He couldn’t get enough of the sheer splendor of signal-flow, amplification, ohms, power conditioning, instantiation, phase-reversal, co-incident pairing, comb-filtering, wave mechanics, dither, least-significant bits, and other recording terms as well.

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