Eric Reuter

Associate Professor

Affiliated Departments

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Eric Reuter divides his time between teaching and consulting. He has taught courses in acoustics and audio at Berklee College of Music for 25 years. He joined the faculty for Berklee Online in 2011 to write and teach acoustics. Reuter operates an acoustical consulting firm in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he specializes in architectural and environmental acoustics. He is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and board-certified by the Institute of Noise Control Engineering. He is active in his professional community, having served as president of the National Council of Acoustical Consultants and chair of Architectural Acoustics for ASA. He is the current chair of ASA's panel on public policy. In his free time, Reuter enjoys flying his tiny airplane and playing with model trains.

Courses Taught (2)

Architectural Acoustics

LMSC-209

Principles of Audio Electronics

LMSC-210

Career Highlights

Principal, Reuter Associates, LLC
Board-Certified Member, Institute of Noise Control Engineering
Member, Acoustical Society of America
Member, National Council of Acoustical Consultants
Member and Past Boston Section chair, Audio Engineering Society

In Their Own Words

"I'm laid-back, but I make sure that the students get their work done and take away from class what they need to. I'm really committed to getting as many students as I can to succeed. I try to pay attention to the progress they're making and to make myself available. I try to explain things the way that I wish that they had been explained to me. There are so many things that I didn't understand until I was working in the industry, and there are things I didn't understand until I sat down and tried to put a lesson plan together—that I didn't fully grasp until I had to explain it to someone else."

"Outside of Berklee, I'm a live engineer and acoustician, and I integrate these experiences into my classes. The reality is that there aren't enough jobs in recording studios. It's a really difficult world. So I try to introduce other possibilities. There are a lot of jobs in audio that aren't 'recording engineer' or 'producer.' And the things that you need to know, or that are useful to know, are very similar for a lot of these various careers—live sound or location recording, or even acoustics to some extent. These other jobs are viable and respectable. I think it's our responsibility to present those as options."

"I think one of the biggest challenges that I face teaching introductory technical courses is convincing the students that it's important to understand these things even though they'll never specifically be asked to do them when they're working as an engineer or a producer—to calculate a waveform or a gain stage. It's likely that nobody's going to ask them to do this math. But there are things that they will understand because they've gone through this exercise. There are concepts that they'll remember as they go forward that are important."