Introduction

Whether you're organizing a poorly-labeled mix or editing audio tracks in a production, you'll be able to work a lot faster when you understand what a track is at a glance just by seeing its waveform. This is just one of those skills that help experienced audio engineers do what they do, and do it quickly.

But not everyone has spent a few hundred hours editing audio to have those visuals ingrained in memory. Today's blog post feels like a dry topic, so I'll keep it short. But I hope it helps…