2025 Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Music Technology Advanced COMPONENT 4: Producing and Analysing Combined Question Paper & Final Marking Scheme

2025 Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Music Technology Advanced COMPONENT 4: Producing and Analysing Combined Question
Paper & Final Marking Scheme

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Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE
Wednesday 4 June 2025
9MT0/41
Morning (Time: 2 hours 15 minutes plus Paper
10 minutes setting up time) reference

Music Technology  


Advanced
COMPONENT 4: Producing and Analysing


You must have: Pearson audio/MIDI files, headphones or monitor Total Marks
speakers, digital audio workstation (DAW) and MIDI keyboard.



Setting up time
• Open a new project in your DAW using 16 bit/44.1 kHz sample rate.
Save the project as ‘comp4_your candidate number’ (e.g. comp4_1234) in the folder
designated by your centre.
•• Set the metronome to 80 bpm.
Import ‘bass.wav’ to a new track in your DAW, aligned with the beginning of bar 1.
• Ensure that the bass guitar is audible and plays in time with the metronome. The bass guitar
begins bar 2, beat 1.
• You must not open the paper until instructed to do so by the invigilator.
Instructions

•• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name, centre number and candidate number.

•• Answer all questions.
Answer the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
Save your audio files for Questions 1, 2, 3 and 5 within the 2 hours 15 minutes examination time.
• You must ensure that the left and right earpieces of your headphones are worn correctly.
Access to a calculator or calculator software is not permitted.
• Access to the internet or local network is not permitted.
Information
•• The total mark for this paper is 105.
The marks for each question are shown in brackets P72986A
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Turn over

, SECTION A
Answer ALL questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided.




DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA
Some questions must be answered with a cross in a box . If you change your mind about an
answer, put a line through the box and then mark your new answer with a cross .

Question 1 is about the bass guitar and acoustic guitar parts.
1 Listen to the bass guitar part you have imported.
(a) (i) Identify how the bass guitar was captured.
(1)

A Ambient microphone
B Close microphone
C DI

D MIDI
(ii) Give two characteristics of the bass guitar that support your answer in part (a)(i).




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