What tells the story of your performance? Possibly a recording of it. However, not all recordings are created equal! Why?
Recording and therefore, reproducing audio, is not a given. Yes, it could be set to automatic, but even then, it will require some monitoring.
The "audio engineer" will be the artist behind this particular part of the concept, and will essentially tell the story to the masses. In the days where no audio/sound could be recorded, musical pieces had to be played over and over again if needed. Now, very inexpensively, one could have a performance stored for an indefinite amount of time in the future.
Just like you may identify you favorite musician with a specific sound of interpretation, improvisation style, composition approach, etc., an "audio engineer" uses her/his ears in order to add that final touch to the performance. And this happens usually in real time, and whether or not the performance is getting recorded.
It really all begins with the sound check.
Although the audio engineer may be tracking and mixing live, it may be after the fact, where she/he could use her/his ears in order to make everything come together. Sometimes taken for granted, the audio engineer will use any technology available in order to convey a final product according to production specs. Even if the performance requires no after the fact mixing, capturing it to begin with, required some sort of engineering support.
Therefore, form the mic to the mixing board to the hard drive, the sound engineer gives shape to a performance just like another band member. Without their support reaching the masses would have a direct correlation to venue capacity.
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