【 Weak current College 】 sound industry survival guide---Power By 【 China power house network 】

China is the world's largest audio products production base
China audio technology behind at least 20 years abroad
This is not a contradiction in terms, not deceive ourselves that this is a fact, therefore, can be said that the Chinese audio in nearly ten years of development have walked into the absolute product era, instead of the advanced technology of the times. This is the situation, or necessity?
When you step into our industry, you will find our industry survival are at a very utilitarian, this reality we can accept?
We will need to think and sound industry and our live what's meaningful, you entered the Hi-Fi industry just to bring home the bacon or want to make a world of your industry's survival is because hobby or career development? society in constant progress, high tech, high intelligence, high consumption, fast-paced, substance of life, although unable to reveal the essence of sound industry's survival, but it will bring us a lot of inspiration and tell us what industry in various social vices you must face.
Popular harvest moon: a clear understanding of the industry, the purpose of life is not a "should" instead of "must"!
To do this, we need to look at some of the current industry survive forever repeat concept. More or less, or deep or shallow can help us better understand the audio industry, and we found itself in human nature, survival, survival capability, flaw, which make up the solution.
1/technology and survival
Modern sound, technology is the core of the product, the technology is a brand that is engaged in the relevant working technicians survival. This technology not only directly on a product and technical staff work closely with the application. The concept underlines the technology will always be people-oriented, and clearly tell us of the importance of the technology industry.
2, resources, and survival
The resource is actually a combination of information and knowledge, they are indispensable, that means you have the information, but your knowledge is limited, you cannot form the ultimate resource accumulation. On the contrary, for the same reason. So whether you work in the audio industry which areas should be aware of resources requires an ongoing accumulation process. Resource accumulation has two important factors: one is "Exchange", a "learning".
Sound industry resources specifically classified as: development resources (product development technology), production resources (plant), human resources (industry talents), resources (various brands of understanding), the technical resources (applications), market resources (target customers and demand).
Resources in the audio industry's actual meaning? resources not money, but more valuable than money, it's in the industry has become a special commodity????? The most popular, most sought after commodity. It has the functions of the investment and the survival of the chips.
3. skills and survival
1: System Connector problem: feeling beginner friend on this most fundamental lack of understanding of the issues, often encounter problems occur in the connector, such as balanced and unbalanced connections; welding quality caused by bad; wire and connectors; wire phase sequence lead; different input and output interface level impedance matching issues; wiring unreasonable due to noise. These are the most basic technical problems, I think the beginner friend needs in this area to give more attention to, in a project of the construction process, these may be small, but many of the major problems encountered in the late because all from these trifles.
Question 2: level control: most of the devices to work correctly, are very attention system running smoothly, but I think many of my friends have not really aware of the problem, often the devices connected to is powered on, but didn't notice the different devices have different input sensitivity level and input and output impedance, which needs to carefully read the manual of the device, and then correct according to the specification of requirements for the correct level settings to ensure the equipment's normal working condition. Many device burned down reasons, most of all because of an incorrect level control.
3: listening skills training: a lot of debugging debugging or sound device without the correct analysis of listening, many friends and lack of exercise, not correctly distinguish between what sound is correct. After all, most of my friends did not complete and precise measuring instrument, the sound of the various instruments of correct understanding and resolution is very critical. Without the correct listening resolution is not possible to properly debugged a sound system, imagine you confused SAX and trumpet tone differences on how to debug a good device?
4: the pursuit of new and unusual, the neglect of basic skills: some people really like the pursuit of high-tech equipment, but lack the necessary basic skills, such as basic English skills. Many high-tech equipment does have a very high performance and functionality, but needs to have enough basic technology infrastructure and related English level to guarantee that the device has a good performance. For example, many digital audio device, it is the basis of applications from those old-fashioned analog equipment, analog devices is simple, but it did contain the most professional single performance, if the application of simulation equipment is not enough clear understanding, it is not possible to play with these high-tech digital devices. I think many of my friends may in actual use also can't compressor, effects or actuators such device how to debug, not to mention how regulation can let them play.
5: the blind pursuit of brand, ignore the actual models of quality: a famous audio brand, have different specifications and sound indicators of product, is not to say that the first-class brand of all series of products have excellent quality, too much focus on brand while neglecting the specific model of quality, often because the blind worship or confidence resulting in unnecessary losses, for example, the same is EV products, X-ARRAY series and the quality of the FORCE series is a world of difference. In the use of brand-name equipment of low-grade products, be sure to carefully analyze its actual technology performance, and correctApplication.
6: one-sided exaggerate the role of computer-aided design: many of my friends think you have the EASE of software has a strong design ability, fact, EASE, computer-aided design software, just as the designers of accessibility, it can't give you any active design ideas and design as a result, only faithful implementation of the designer's design concepts and analysis of the results of the design of the designer. In audio engineering design, the EASE or other similar software can only serve as a tool to represent the level of design and the design results in incorrect, to improve their level of design is that the accumulation of daily work experience. A great designer only pencils can produce great works, but a perfect construction workers only in strict accordance with the requirements for construction designers. Excessive worship design software, is the worship of construction machinery at the expense of designers.
In fact, the sound system is a very strong technical system and need a lot of complex knowledge structure, in my opinion, to serious, scientific, objective working attitude, combined with the concept of market economy, coupled with a strict construction of quality management and debugging tools, auxiliary to artistic tuning techniques, you will create a good sound engineering.
Sound engineering technicians the ability:
1, music literacy: on music theory there is a certain degree of understanding correctly grasp various musical instruments and vocal sound control.
2. acoustic theory basics: according to the specific requirements of the present project, with the mastery of acoustic theory put forward reasonable solutions.
3. English: English can understand equipment and functional direction on its own development is very good.
4. the device can ability: on a variety of audio equipment are fully aware of and understand their characteristics and how to know what requirements will need to use the signals what device to process, understand the guarantee system security work correctly configured.
5, a sober mind: can remember what you did in each tuning, clearly know the device's signal flow, failures or accidents, at any time, you can adjust to the need for adjustment of the device.
6, peaceful mentality: construction site equipment, cooperation unit the aluminum is more, the tight schedule, tasks, people will have some impatient mood, people are impatient when fallible, so to have peace of mind.
7. good communication and comprehension: needs and engineering personnel, cooperation unit the aluminum, yanzhi staff and managers have adequate communication, have good communication skills and comprehension can avoid many mistakes from occurring.
8. rapid response capacity: in practical application process inevitably there are all kinds of problems, technicians need at first time quickly identify the problem and resolved.
9. responsibility: professional audio equipment is generally more expensive, technicians have an obligation on those devices correctly and safely, because of the neglect of equipment damaged is unforgivable.
PostScript:
In the audio industry, is not a short time to grow. This growth process you may have experienced buying accessories, welding connectors, no belts to climb the shelves, remove the Gong silk, moving speakers, listen to the man command logging phase, learning machine, English, works or performances of night, dinner box, when punching bag, microphone cable stage la, microphone, connect device, Hey El on the microphone, hands-on simple debugging device with small single-and small-scale leasing, the performance had pulled out, who ran the goods, and so on, when the device has a certain understanding and can begin to operate independently, when you realize domestic industry development of change, this almost? 2 years.
In this second year, if you are more concerned about the development of the industry, you will find the process of growing up, the birth of the new device continuously, new technologies emerge, new design philosophy continues to produce, if the underlying missed good, if only remain in their familiar with some devices, if unfortunate growth in number of curing mode development company, often growing bottlenecks that unfortunate presence. Do you have a certain experience, there is a certain technology, there is a certain degree of popularity, wants you to know some in the industry colleagues in person, to know some so-called "authority" and the "master", is a recognized colleagues, layman's a little envious, relatives and friends of some praise, be somewhat famous in the outside, but because of this, you have probably forgotten how to make themselves more quickly. Usually in 2 ~ 3 years we play called "mental break during the weaning period" in the industry.
Luckily, you don't be hoodwinked, your industry, successfully passed the "mental fault cow" industry, bedside put English Dictionary, began seriously studying acoustic contact design software, testing software, explore the principle and application of digital products, learn about the reverberation time and latency issues, experiences of dressing filtering, calculation of sound radiation angle, find brand equipment technology applications, try to design programmes, analysis of a variety of imported brands, make more friends, begins to fall into the boring and complex mapping, function, electrical calculation, measuring application, configuration, and so on. Growing up, you will be responsible for the stage microphone line ran errands, Lala role slowly become the site design and operation of the technical staff, it will cost you many more years? at least 4 years, and in this 4 years plus the preceding 3 years, that is 7 years. In the past seven years, you may in some areas can dudangyimian, but you have the entire industry may only have 10% of the skill. With 10% of the skill, can run Lake mixed to eat. Typically in these four years, we play called "world psychology broken during the weaning period."
During this period, if a performance is not the ideal company to survive, will find themselves affected by money, family, development and other factors limit, so you want to wander about and Lakes???? " Fly ". Wings hard not hard, your own self-knowledge, also have their own way of life is measured. But to understand?????? " People in the world, it can not get the knife ". You will find that our industry environment very real, very cruel, technology usually with some just want to get tickets and those who depend on the mouth to eat. When you accidentally stepped on their tails, you'll slowly be marginalized by the "isolation". Wise to JJ 's, you might accidentally into theSuch a group, keep the rot to industry technological application development. This survival wrong?! wrong are focused on technology, technology. Silent. .....
7 years, you get nothing, and lost? if you are a person engaged in the technology of sound.
Please don't give up your mind, learn! glad you can seen the articles written by us, we have been in this industry to survive, and everyone else, constantly connected solutions for new knowledge grow, occasionally looking through day, has also been found to have knowledge on Pu brought about by the ignorance and helplessness, of course, be able to see your progress is also a kind of comfort. Living in the same industry, this is not easy. Therefore, we expect you to have more communication, continuous improvement, because maybe you know knowledge, others do not understand, and others know that you did not know, in this case, the more we sincere, technology is no national boundaries, not to mention the fact we live in a small circle in the country. Conflict of interest is the merchant's business, please do not put the money into technical communication, the mentality of some swing more smooth, will find in fact we play technology audio in mutual respect but happy.