Career Options for a Sound Engineer

Sound Engineering involves all technical and artistic elements required to manipulate the reproduced sound for any medium. It may be called an amalgamation of craft and science. One of the reasons why this faculty was not popular till recently is that this being an artistic profession, technical evaluation and gradation becomes complicated and education for this faculty is not widely available in India.

A Sound Engineer is required for sound reproduction, be it a television show, music concert, conference or a film. Each of these sub-branches requires specialisation. The basic knowledge about sound being the same, application tools differ as per the branch. Here are some popular specialisations:

Music Engineering

In this faculty, the engineer is in-charge of recording and monitoring the song or music production. Recording different acoustic as well as electronic instruments. Producing electronic music within the computer workstation, mixing several tracks recorded, and finally mastering it as per delivery formats.

 Sound Design

Sound is an important character of any film. Imagine seeing a film without sound! A Sound director in a film is in-charge of recording all dialogues, ambience effects, stock effects and foley effects. The Film mixer is the person who at the final stage mixes all these elements in surround to be delivered with the film.

Live Sound

With the boom in the business of events, live sound reinforcement has been an attractive option for lots of sound engineers. Every musical concert or an event requires quality reproduction of sound for the audience. This engineer is in charge of the delivery of sound to the audience be it in an auditorium or open air concert with 10,000 audience.

Television shows

In this era of reality television shows, there is a huge need of qualified sound engineers. Every musical show on television or a daily soap requires qualified sound engineers.

Way to becoming a qualified professional

Wondering where to study all these courses and get yourself trained? Well, Soundideaz Academy has derived a course, which will introduce all these faculties to the student during his basic course. This course at Soundideaz is designed to give knowledge, which is practically applicable and needed on a day-to-day basis, striving to hone the artistic element of an individual.

Other than learning the techniques and craft, stress management and effective communication is vital to success in this competitive field. With this understanding, SoundideaZ Academy provides a Personality development Module along with the regular classes.

Equipped with state-of the art facilities and experienced faculty including industry professionals sharing their vast experience with the class, the students also get to visit live sessions be it studio or live concerts or the shooting floors. They get exposed to the real world while learning.

Placement Guarantee?

Let's set the expectations right. Most of the time, a course or certificate does not ensure you a job in this business as this industry works purely on talent. And clearly, SoundideaZ does not make any claims of placement guarantee for its students. But what it does is empower its students in such a way that it boasts a track record of 98 % placements with its alumni involved in quality productions and making a mark in the industry.