Mastering Audio

What are the purposes of mastering? Choose 3 correct answers.

• To make the track more translatable to all different kinds of speakers.

• To make a song “sound like” other professional songs on the market

• To make the track louder

• To balance each tracks frequencies

One of the tools used in mastering is..

• Saturation

• Stereo enhancer

• Reverb

• Flanger

Why do mastering engineers exist?

• To give you a set of fresh ears.

• To analyze your tracks

• To change how you mix

• To prepare your mix for release

Some of the steps to go through before mastering are...

• Optimize your space

• Finish your mix

• Check the levels

• Create a mix bus

What is the right tool to fix the tone of your tracks?

• EQ

• Compression

• Saturation

• Limiter

What is the purpose of adding saturation to your mix?

• To make the mix sound fuller, more intense and exciting.

• To compress only a specific frequency range

• To add distortion to your mix

• To help the song to sound wider and more separated than before.

Where do you add a limiter?

• The last plugin in your signal chain.

• The first plugin in your signal chain.

• On master bus

• Before compression

What is the purpose of a limiter?

• To prevent sounds from going above the set threshold.

• To make the song feels louder than the reference track

• To compress specific frequencies

• To create distortion

What is the purpose of multiband compression?

• To compress only a specific frequency range

• To limit only a specific frequency range

• To cut only a specific frequency range

• To boost only a specific frequency range

What is the industry standard audio resolution?

• 16bits at 44.1khz

• 32bits at 48 khz

• 24 bits at 44.1 khz

• 16 bits at 48 khz