Sound engineering

Does sound engineering have a future and can someone find a job in such a field? I took a signal processing course and I enjoyed it very much but it seems all available jobs in tech are web/mobile or data. I wanted to know what's your opinion on sound engeering generally and if you can recommend any books for it.

>>59736 if u like low level c++ programming then yes there are definitely jobs out there writing drivers / compositing software and such also since its quite a niche field you can sometimes get paid pretty well depending on who you work for

Can you put down a dispenser and hit it with a wrench? If so there's always a job for that if you can't find a sound engineering specific job.

>>59736 My friend did a masters in the US in sound and has a 6 figure job in Netflix now

i took a signal processing course too, fell in love with signal processing and went into an audio engineering program, only to realize that i actually hated working with audio. a lot of the jobs felt very... aesthetically-driven, since many are tied to the music industry? e.g. writing plugins for dsps. here's the course description for the upper-level audio signal processing course i took: > Introduction to digital audio effects and applications. Parametric filters, shelving filters, time-varying filters. Delay structures, delay-based audio effects. Dynamics processing, non-linear processing. Spatial effects, 3D audio, reverberation. Time segment processing, pitch shifting, time stretching. Time-frequency processing, phase vocoder. all this? kinda hated it. :VVV so, i switched over to image/video engineering, i.e. computer vision. scratched the same signal processing itch, but the work was a lot more fun for me. felt like there was a lot more variety out there job-wise, too, what with the overlap with data analysis/deep learning, etc. now i work mainly with python and such.

>>61298 >intro those are simply "effect/plugins" you would learn if you're into music production. sound engineering is more of a good thing if you already have music background but it's a wide subject. worst part is there's a lot of bloated compression (gain compression) in music industry these days and less of those you mentioned from that course. there's also the lack of open source-ness of such tools like there's only 2 ways to do pitch shift that's widely available and everyone uses that "one" pitch correction program for anything. music market has a lot of money but more of it comes from hardware engineering (in which case you can repack cheap chips/codec/driver fresh from Shenzhen and resell them to unwitting "audiophiles" at 10000.0x the price).