All This Music Jargon!

The sound engineering community has its own language. They use technical jargon to communicate on a level that is more practical and more efficient for them. The problem is trying to communicate with people who don't know what an oscillating track is, or what it means to lay down tracks simultaneously. Sound and recording engineers spend a lot of time communicating with the musicians themselves, meaning that sound engineers need to know how to speak is musical terms at well.

I think it really comes in handy to know how to read music in terms of chords and keys when it comes to working with the artists. Recording engineers take what sounds good already and makes it sound great. That means that the engineers are kind of like artists themselves!