# Market evidence report — sound-mastering-engineer

Source: **7 real job ads** (JSearch API, countries: us 7), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-19.
This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is
reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

## Seniority distribution

| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 5 | 71 % |
| n/a | 2 | 29 % |

## Tools — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ableton Live | 4 | 57 % |
| 2 | Pro Tools | 4 | 57 % |
| 3 | Logic Pro X | 3 | 43 % |

## Hard skills — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | audio mastering | 7 | 100 % |
| 2 | audio mixing | 5 | 71 % |
| 3 | acoustic analysis | 3 | 43 % |
| 4 | signal processing | 3 | 43 % |

## Methods — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|

## Responsibilities — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | studio equipment maintenance | 3 | 43 % |

## Regional breakdown

> **Corpus note:** 7 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

### US (us)

**Insufficient evidence** — 7 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

### UK (gb)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

### EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.


## Job title variants in the market

| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Sound Engineer – Mixing & Mastering | 4 |
| Ableton Mastering for EDM Track | 1 |
| AI/Suno Music Mixing, Mastering & Release Prep | 1 |
| Turkish Audio Engineer (Remote) - Mastering & QA | 1 |

Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.