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…

Introduction

Mixing audio can seem like a black art. There are millions of tips around the internet on how to do this or that to create a great mix. And I'm sure you've seen just as many tutorials by the masters as I have. The problem is that 99.9% of these are based on some minute little trick to handle this tiny little situation, or it's using gear you don't have to fix problems you also don't have.

The truth of the matter is that there's far too much information on the specifics, but not enough on the…