Sound Engineering Technicians

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations · Job Skills & Competencies · SOC 27-4014 · 398 skills

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Record speech, music, and other sounds on recording media, using recording equipment.
Confer with producers, performers, and others to determine and achieve the desired sound for a production, such as a musical recording or a film.
Separate instruments, vocals, and other sounds, and combine sounds during the mixing or postproduction stage.

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A bounded sample of popular skills mapped to this occupation, with at most one Skill from each GitHub repository. The complete mapped list follows.

midudev/autoskills

ElevenLabs text-to-speech with 22+ premium voices, multilingual support, and voice tuning via inference.sh CLI. Models: eleven_multilingual_v2 (highest quality), eleven_turbo_v2_5 (low latency), eleven_flash_v2_5 (ultra-fast). Capabilities: text-to-speech, voice selection, stability/style control, 32 languages. Use for: voiceovers, audiobooks, video narration, podcasts, accessibility, IVR. Triggers: elevenlabs, eleven labs, elevenlabs tts, premium tts, professional voice, ai voice, high quality tts, multilingual tts, eleven labs voice, voice generation, natural speech, realistic voice, voice over, speech synthesis

FerroxLabs/wayland

Comprehensive sound design guidance covering Foley recording, SFX creation and layering, ambient soundscape construction, game audio implementation (Wwise, FMOD), film sound design workflows, field recording techniques, sound library management, and the creative process of building sonic worlds. Use when the user asks about sound designer or needs help with related topics. Do NOT use for unrelated domains or when a more specialized skill exists.

sound-effects-design-patterns

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Use this skill when DESIGNING sound effects - deciding what sounds to create, how to layer them, and what character they should have. **Triggers:** "sound effect design", "how to layer SFX", "UI sounds", "impact sound", "weapon sounds", "footsteps", "ambient design". **Pipeline position: DESIGN (1 of 3)** - For synthesis code (numpy/scipy): use `zx-procgen:procedural-sounds` - For quick generation: use `zx-procgen:/generate-sfx` **Load references when:** - Material sound signatures → `references/material-signatures.md` - Layering recipes by category → `references/layering-recipes.md` - Variation strategies → `references/variation-strategies.md`

tadaspetra/loop

Generate music using ElevenLabs Music API. Use when creating instrumental tracks, songs with lyrics, background music, jingles, or any AI-generated music composition. Supports prompt-based generation, composition plans for granular control, and detailed output with metadata.

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midudev/autoskills

ElevenLabs text-to-speech with 22+ premium voices, multilingual support, and voice tuning via inference.sh CLI. Models: eleven_multilingual_v2 (highest quality), eleven_turbo_v2_5 (low latency), eleven_flash_v2_5 (ultra-fast). Capabilities: text-to-speech, voice selection, stability/style control, 32 languages. Use for: voiceovers, audiobooks, video narration, podcasts, accessibility, IVR. Triggers: elevenlabs, eleven labs, elevenlabs tts, premium tts, professional voice, ai voice, high quality tts, multilingual tts, eleven labs voice, voice generation, natural speech, realistic voice, voice over, speech synthesis

FerroxLabs/wayland

Comprehensive sound design guidance covering Foley recording, SFX creation and layering, ambient soundscape construction, game audio implementation (Wwise, FMOD), film sound design workflows, field recording techniques, sound library management, and the creative process of building sonic worlds. Use when the user asks about sound designer or needs help with related topics. Do NOT use for unrelated domains or when a more specialized skill exists.

sound-effects-design-patterns

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Use this skill when DESIGNING sound effects - deciding what sounds to create, how to layer them, and what character they should have. **Triggers:** "sound effect design", "how to layer SFX", "UI sounds", "impact sound", "weapon sounds", "footsteps", "ambient design". **Pipeline position: DESIGN (1 of 3)** - For synthesis code (numpy/scipy): use `zx-procgen:procedural-sounds` - For quick generation: use `zx-procgen:/generate-sfx` **Load references when:** - Material sound signatures → `references/material-signatures.md` - Layering recipes by category → `references/layering-recipes.md` - Variation strategies → `references/variation-strategies.md`

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Create and manipulate sounds through synthesis, sampling, and audio processing for music, film, games, and multimedia. Use for designing custom sounds, synthesizing new timbres, creating sound effects, building audio textures, implementing synthesis techniques (subtractive, FM, wavetable, granular), processing samples, and developing unique sonic identities for creative projects.

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Expert in spatial audio, procedural sound design, game audio middleware, and app UX sound design. Specializes in HRTF/Ambisonics, Wwise/FMOD integration, UI sound design, and adaptive music systems. Activate on 'spatial audio', 'HRTF', 'binaural', 'Wwise', 'FMOD', 'procedural sound', 'footstep system', 'adaptive music', 'UI sounds', 'notification audio', 'sonic branding'. NOT for music composition/production (use DAW), audio post-production for film (linear media), voice cloning/TTS (use voice-audio-engineer), podcast editing (use standard audio editors), or hardware design.

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

This skill should be used when the user asks about "sound direction", "audio style", "sonic identity", "music style", "SFX design", "audio mixing", "soundscape", "audio coherence", "audio design document", or discusses establishing or reviewing audio direction. Provides audio direction framework for sonic coherence.

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Combine multiple voice profiles with weighted mixing to create hybrid voices. Use when relevant to the task.

win31-audio-design

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Expert in Windows 3.1 era sound vocabulary for modern web/mobile apps. Creates satisfying retro UI sounds using CC-licensed 8-bit audio, Web Audio API, and haptic coordination. Activate on 'win31 sounds', 'retro audio', '90s sound effects', 'chimes', 'tada', 'ding', 'satisfying UI sounds'. NOT for modern flat UI sounds, voice synthesis, or music composition.

tadaspetra/loop

Generate music using ElevenLabs Music API. Use when creating instrumental tracks, songs with lyrics, background music, jingles, or any AI-generated music composition. Supports prompt-based generation, composition plans for granular control, and detailed output with metadata.

tadaspetra/loop

Generate sound effects from text descriptions using ElevenLabs. Use when creating sound effects, generating audio textures, producing ambient sounds, cinematic impacts, UI sounds, or any audio that isn't speech. Supports looping, duration control, and prompt influence tuning.

ableton-songwriter

uisato/ableton-mcp-extended

Professional songwriting workflow for Ableton: structured intake, production brief, composition/arrangement execution, plugin-aware instrument loading, quick mix, QA, and revision handoff.

NeverSight/learn-skills.dev

Generate AI music with Producer via AceDataCloud API. Use when creating songs, generating lyrics, extending tracks, creating covers, swapping vocals/instrumentals, replacing song sections, or uploading reference audio. Supports custom lyrics, instrumental-only mode, and multiple creative actions.