I think the difficulty in audio engineering is in the fact that audio and music in particular are such cultural constructions. Take a modern dance track back a

I think the difficulty in audio engineering is in the fact that audio and music in particular are such cultural constructions. Take a modern dance track back a thousand years and it wouldn't be a hit; it would probably get you killed as a witch. No wonder Autotune is so hard to get "right". When you find the loudest frequency and map it to a note, it is most definitely the note in question (in the mathematical sense). But cultural and stylistic expectations of the human brain might not agree with the math. That's why I think somewhat surprisingly audio engineering will be a human career as long as music will be a human art. You can't say that about many automatable professions.