Ask Video – Audio Mistakes 104: 10 Common Mastering Mistakes (TUTORIAL)

By | November 7, 2025

 

Release Year: 2016
Producer: Ask Video
Producer’s Website: www.askvideo.com/course/audio-mistakes-104-10-common-mastering-mistakes
Author: Joe Albano
Duration: 01:10:00
Type of Material Shared: Video Lesson
Language: English


Description: WARNING: Mastering mistakes can ruin your tracks! Luckily, Joe Albano is here to explain what NOT to do when you master your tracks. Grow! Learn! Make mistakes! Or, better yet, let Joe make them for you!

So many things can go wrong in the mastering process, and some of them begin before you even start. For instance, even something simple like your monitoring setup, which colors everything you hear even before you start any processing, could be leading you astray! But it goes even deeper… there’s EQ management, compression, limiting… So much technology to understand and apply.

Luckily our star trainer and engineer, Joe Albano, is back to help you through the mastering maze with another one of his acclaimed Common Audio Mistake courses. In this course, Joe examines 10 common mistakes that, once you “get” them, you will never let infiltrate your mastering process!

So join Joe Albano and let him make the mistakes for you. We know that it’ll save you a lot of time, money and headaches. Upon completing this course, whether you’re a newbie or a pro, you will look at mastering in a whole new light!

Content :
01 Introduction (04:04)
02 Working in Isolation (05:10)
03 Mixing vs. Mastering Differences (03:54)
04 Monitoring (08:20)
05 Think “Master” not “Mix” (06:22)
06 Managing EQ (08:31)
07 Managing Bands (08:56)
08 Brick Wall Limiting (07:24)
09 Loudness (08:01)
10 Final Check (04:08)
11 Matching (03:44)
12 Wrap-up (00:59)

Sample files: none
Video format: MP4
Video: AVC, 1280×720, 16:9, 30.000 fps, 884 kbps
Audio: AAC, 44.1 kHz, 96.0 kbps, 2 channels



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