Engineer Relationship Type

1 Description
2 Link Phrases
3 Attributes
4 Guidelines
5 Examples

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This relationship type belongs to the Engineer Relationship Class.
This relationship type has the following relationship subtypes:

Description

This describes an engineer who performed a general engineering role. This is the most generic engineering relationship type. It should only be used when one of the other relationship types of the Engineer Relationship Class would not apply.

Link Phrases

Artist engineered Release
Release was engineered by Artist
Artist engineered Recording
Recording was engineered by Artist

Attributes

“start date”

This indicates the date the engineer first worked on engineering the recording.

“end date”

This indicates the date the engineer last worked on engineering the recording.

“additional”

This indicates a minor or subsidiary engineering role.

“associate”

This indicates a less experienced engineer, who works under the direction of a more experienced engineer.

“assistant”

This indicates a less experienced, or first-time engineer, who works under the direction of a more experienced engineer.

“co”

This indicates that the person collaborated in their engineering duties, with another engineer or with the performing artist, either of whom should then also be given a co-engineer credit.

“instrument”

This indicates specific instruments which were engineered.

“vocal”

This indicates specific vocals which were engineered.

Guidelines

Do not infer attributes.

Though it may seem logical that, if a work has two or more engineers, they are co-engineers, this is incorrect. Engineer, Additional Engineer, Associate Engineer, Co-engineer, and Executive Engineer are five distinct job titles. If a release has two people credited as "Engineer", then they each held the Engineer title, not the Co-engineer title. The same is true for "additional", "associate", and "executive". Inferred attributes for this relationship type can only result in incorrect relationships. Therefore, credit the relationship only as it appears on the liner, without interpretation.

If multiple instruments and/or vocals are applicable, they should be indicated as multiple instrument and/or vocal attributes to the same relationship, not indicated one at a time in multiple relationships.

In many cases, the Audio Engineer, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mix Engineer, Recording Engineer, Sound Engineer and/or Programmer relationship types should be used instead. If the Engineer relationship type is either Balance Engineer or Tonmeister, the generic Engineer relationship type should be used, and not one of the more specific Engineer relationship types. For details, see the Prefer Specific Relationship Types guideline.