So audio engineering is like producing? Sorry if that's totally wrong, I'm a bit lost on what all this means.

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audio engineering is like producing, but more in depth if you will

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In most genres outside of EDM... the "producer" is the person who oversees the studio process with a band or artist in the studio, they aren't necessarily the ones actually placing the mics and recording and stuff... they're sort of the director. The audio engineer is the one who focuses on the technical aspect of the studio recording (i.e. mic placement, recording level etc...) In EDM these two roles are basically merged into one: "producer"

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NYU is very good! UCLA and USC have some nice programs too depends on what field of audio engineering you want to go into.

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