I've been doing this for a long time, and one of the surprisingly difficult questions to answer is: What do you do? I can say I'm a sound engineer. Or an audio engineer. Recording engineer. Producer. Music producer. Depending on who I'm talking to, those terms can mean completely different things. Usually, I just say I work in music production. But even that doesn't really answer the question. So let's start with a deceptively simple question: What does a sound engineer actua