Sound Engineering Technicians

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations · Job Skills & Competencies · SOC 27-4014 · 391 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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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.

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.

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.

sandeco/mira-animator

Transforma o texto de uma história (normalmente infantil) numa animação narrada no Mira: cenas com câmera e clima, atores em SVG, narração, música e QR para o celular. Use em /mira-history, "anima essa história", "história animada", "conto animado" ou conto colado pedindo animação. Num deck dela (tem mira/historia.js), também gera o vídeo mp4 da história (inclusive para WhatsApp) e prompt de música para o Suno. Vídeo de deck comum é do /mira-slide-to-video. Não é para explicar conceito nem slide comum.

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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.

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.

sandeco/mira-animator

Transforma o texto de uma história (normalmente infantil) numa animação narrada no Mira: cenas com câmera e clima, atores em SVG, narração, música e QR para o celular. Use em /mira-history, "anima essa história", "história animada", "conto animado" ou conto colado pedindo animação. Num deck dela (tem mira/historia.js), também gera o vídeo mp4 da história (inclusive para WhatsApp) e prompt de música para o Suno. Vídeo de deck comum é do /mira-slide-to-video. Não é para explicar conceito nem slide comum.

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.

diegosouzapw/awesome-omni-skills

Game Audio Principles workflow skill. Use this skill when the user needs game audio principles, including sound design, music integration, adaptive audio systems, spatial audio, and practical runtime audio planning. Preserve upstream workflow intent, copied support files, and provenance when handing off or merging.

diegosouzapw/awesome-omni-skills

Game Audio Principles workflow skill. Use this skill when the user needs practical game-audio guidance for sound design, music integration, adaptive systems, spatial audio, performance, and accessibility while preserving upstream provenance and workflow intent.

nexus-research-lab/nexus

Six-player Werewolf rules for a permanent Agent host, with the user choosing to join the randomized player pool or spectate.

higgsfield-audio

dsm5e/aso-tracker

Use when the user asks about audio in Higgsfield videos, needs to add dialogue or lip-sync, wants sound effects or ambient sound in generated video, asks about music or BGM in output, or is using any audio-capable model (Kling 3.0, Seedance 1.5 Pro, Seedance 2.0, Veo 3/3.1, Grok Imagine Video). Also use when the user's prompt would benefit from audio direction but they haven't mentioned it.

music-production-master

swaylq/master-skill

音乐制作 / 混音 (音乐制作 / 混音 (Music Production & Mixing) — 录音棚与卧室工作室里把一首歌从编曲/录音/编程做到混音/母带成品的工程+艺术认知操作系统，面向制作人(producer)、混音师(mixing engineer)、母带工程师(mastering engineer)、beatmaker、唱作人/bedroom producer，以及想入行/服务这行(录音棚、plugin 厂商、sample 公司)的视角。覆盖: (a) 第一性张力 — **服务歌曲/情绪 (serve the song / emotion-first: 技术只为打动人，'if it sounds good it is good'，用耳朵不用眼睛) ⇄ 技术正确/工程纪律 (technical correctness: gain staging 增益结构、headroom 余量、相位 phase、监听校准、LUFS 响度规范)**; **黄金耳朵/直觉混音 (mix by ears, reference-driven, 不看分析仪) ⇄ 看表/分析仪/规则 (mix by metrics: EQ 曲线、频谱仪 spectrum analyzer、相关计 correlation meter)**; **少即是多/减法混音 (subtractive, 'less is more', 录好源头 = 混音成功一半) ⇄ 重度处理/'we'll fix it in the mix' (heavy processing, 后期补救)**; **In-the-box 全数字 (ITB: DAW + 插件，召回方便，bedroom 可达专业) ⇄ 模拟硬件/outboard (analog console + 硬件，'mojo'/谐波染色 vs 召回噩梦)**; **人性化/groove/不完美 (humanize, push/pull, 'the feel') ⇄ 量化/网格/修音 (quantize to grid, pitch-correct, 'in the pocket' 靠编辑)**; (b) 核心工作流 / pipeline (最标准、最易蒸高质量+CLI 化) — 编曲制作 arrangement/production → 录音/编程 tracking/programming → 编辑 editin

striderZA/OpenCodeGameStudios

Orchestrate audio team: audio-director + sound-designer + technical-artist + gameplay-programmer for full audio pipeline from direction to implementation.