Some Frequently asked Audio Engineer Interview Question are
Where do you see the organization headed in the next few years?
What advancement job opportunities does this position have within the
organization?
What are the important priorities of the department this job position
belongs to?
What challenges face someone in this job position?
What are the important things you would look for in a person for this
position?
http://www.examplesof.com/interview_questions/

Greg wrote:

> Under what circumstances would a digital volume control be a bad idea?

For guitar amps that go to 11!

"londonman13" <verbindende_leute@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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>>
>>Will you be the interviewer or the interviewee?
> I will be the interviewee! Thanks all for the input to this thread.

As it happens, I'm conducting some interviews for audio
engineers this coming Friday.

I will now be particularly watchful for someone who
doesn't really know his stuff, especially if called, "Chris".

I've a list of searching questions prepared, but I know you'll
understand if I choose not to share them with you in this
forum.

>On Mar 24, 10:54=A0am, "londonman13" <verbindende_le...@yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>> All,
>> I have an audio engineer interview coming up this Friday. Can anyone
>> recommend any good questions they have come across? Hope this makes for
a
>> good reference thread for future interviewees as well. Here are some
>> questions I have come across from previous interviews (I'm a fresh out
>> grad, so these might be easy for all you experienced folks out there):
>>
>> - What is the bit-depth of CD quality audio? And what is its dynamic
>> range?
>> - Explain 'dither'
>> - What is dBSPL?
>> - Differences between FIR and IIR filters
>> - Explain the auditory masking phenomenon.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> -Chris
>
>Will you be the interviewer or the interviewee?
>

I will be the interviewee! Thanks all for the input to this thread. 
-Chris

On Mar 24, 2:19&#4294967295;pm, HardySpicer <gyansor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What is an audio engineer? Do you mean a design engineer or some
> technician who sits mixing records?

it's one and/or the other.

at least that's what it appears to be at the AES.  (but some of these
"technicians" are also hard-core sound artists.  sorta like Harry
Shearer.)

r b-j

On Mar 24, 10:54&#4294967295;am, "londonman13" <verbindende_le...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> All,
> I have an audio engineer interview coming up this Friday. Can anyone
> recommend any good questions they have come across? Hope this makes for a
> good reference thread for future interviewees as well. Here are some
> questions I have come across from previous interviews (I'm a fresh out
> grad, so these might be easy for all you experienced folks out there):
>
> - What is the bit-depth of CD quality audio? And what is its dynamic
> range?
> - Explain 'dither'
> - What is dBSPL?
> - Differences between FIR and IIR filters
> - Explain the auditory masking phenomenon.
>
> Cheers!
> -Chris

Will you be the interviewer or the interviewee?

Tim Wescott wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:54:50 -0500, londonman13 wrote:
> 
>> All,
>> I have an audio engineer interview coming up this Friday. Can anyone
>> recommend any good questions they have come across? Hope this makes for
>> a good reference thread for future interviewees as well. Here are some
>> questions I have come across from previous interviews (I'm a fresh out
>> grad, so these might be easy for all you experienced folks out there):
>>
>> - What is the bit-depth of CD quality audio? And what is its dynamic
>> range?
>> - Explain 'dither'
>> - What is dBSPL?
>> - Differences between FIR and IIR filters - Explain the auditory masking
>> phenomenon.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> -Chris
> 
> You shouldn't worry too much about specific questions, because there are 
> too many possible to answer them all.
> 
> Instead, you should think of ways that you can answer questions that you 
> don't know well, and still come out looking ahead.  (Hint: you're not 
> talking to the press, so don't ever evade.  Start by saying "I don't 
> know".  Then say what you _think_ the answer is, then say how you would 
> go about finding out the answer so you could get your work done).

When I interviewed at RCA Labs, it was known that I had dome background 
in audio, and one of my interviewers was a Group Leader in Olson's 
acoustics lab. One of the questions he threw at me involved the 
calibration of a phono cartridge's frequency response. I said I didn't 
know, that I had relied on the maker's spec sheet. He pressed me. 
"Suppose you had to calibrate one. What would you do?" I concocted a 
scheme that involved a microscope and other instruments that seemed like 
it might work, and we went on to other areas.

After I was hired, he told me that he had tried my scheme, and that 
while not as convenient as commercial practice, it was probably more 
accurate. So yes: improvise, but say so.

Jerry
-- 
Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
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On Mar 25, 3:54&#4294967295;am, "londonman13" <verbindende_le...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> All,
> I have an audio engineer interview coming up this Friday. Can anyone
> recommend any good questions they have come across? Hope this makes for a
> good reference thread for future interviewees as well. Here are some
> questions I have come across from previous interviews (I'm a fresh out
> grad, so these might be easy for all you experienced folks out there):
>
> - What is the bit-depth of CD quality audio? And what is its dynamic
> range?
> - Explain 'dither'
> - What is dBSPL?
> - Differences between FIR and IIR filters
> - Explain the auditory masking phenomenon.
>
> Cheers!
> -Chris

What is an audio engineer? Do you mean a design engineer or some
technician who sits mixing records?

>I have an audio engineer interview coming up this Friday. Can anyone
>recommend any good questions they have come across? 

Since all digital interfaces transfer data perfectly (otherwise
computers wouldn't work), can you offer some explanations as to why
interfaces sound different?

Does upsampling an existing 44100Hz/16bit signal to 96000Hz/24bit
increase "resolution"?

Why might a linear phase filter be undesirable in audio?

Why might FFT-based filtering be a bad idea in equipment that is used
for monitoring live performances?

What is the difference between "lossy" compression, like MP3, and
lossless compression, like MLP or FLAC?

Many modern dynamic range compressor/limiters, when operating upon
44100Hz input signals, always upsample to 88200Hz or 96000Hz before
compressing or limiting.  Why?

Under what circumstances would a digital volume control be a bad idea?

Why might two pieces of equipment that use exactly the same analog to
digital converters, DSPs, and digital to analog converters, sound very
different?

On Mar 24, 12:59&#4294967295;pm, Greg Berchin <gberc...@comicast.net.invalid>
wrote:

Greg, you might want to set your computer clock to daylight savings.
either that or we got a star-trek time loop phenomenon going here.

gimme a call when you feel like it.

L8r,

r b-j