The AES Historical Committee presents a humorous look at what it means to be a recording engineer. "An audio console - It looks very complicated, but you'll understand it better if you think of it as a big radio." =Recording Engineer= An educational filmstrip with synchronized audio, produced by Guidance Associates in 1972, as part of the series "Career Discoveries." The filmstrip centers around sound engineer Bill Brueckner, who worked at Reeves Sound Studios in New York City. Bill's work day described in the filmstrip involved putting the sound together for a TV commercial. The filmstrip shows images of a 1970's sound-for-picture studio in action. Brueckner is shown working in two separate studios at Reeves. The studio where the commercial was made was the more modern studio. The console appears to be custom-made, probably using Langevin faders and internal parts. The second studio shown, where Brueckner is recording a voice-over later in the filmstrip, is older. Visible there are a Fairchild full-track tape machine, an Ampex 300 full-track, plus a very old mono console. To learn more about the AES Historical Committee, please visit: http://www.aes.org/historical/

• published: 09 Jan 2014
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