The primary responsibility of a recording engineer is to operate the mixing board, multitrack recorder, and other recording equipment used during a (recording) session. The engineer is a technical specialist who is responsible for translating the artistic vision of the artists and their producer into recorded reality.
Engineers and their assistants must attend to every detail of the recording process, and decisions must be made at each step. The first task in a session is adjusting and placing microphones on the instruments to be recorded. …
