Audio Mixing
Audio Mixing: Balance tracks for the intended playback context. Review format, audience, recording conditions, reference sound, stems, and rights and produce a mix checklist and version notes.
--- name: audio-music-audio-mixing description: Use for audio mixing when asked to balance tracks for the intended playback context; produce a mix checklist and version notes. license: MIT metadata: author: Thrive category: audio-music --- # Audio Mixing ## When to use Use this skill for audio mixing when you need to balance tracks for the intended playback context. The expected result is a mix checklist and version notes. ## Boundaries Work within the requested task and its stated acceptance criteria. Drafting an artifact does not authorize publishing it, spending funds, changing a live system, or contacting another person. Identify any such action separately before taking it. ## Inputs Inspect format, audience, recording conditions, reference sound, stems, and rights. Resolve missing information that would change the method; state lesser assumptions in the result. ## Method 1. **Diagnose.** Collect stems or recordings, target playback platform, references, sample rate, loudness target, and rights. 2. **Decide.** Design an arrangement or edit that supports the intended listening experience. 3. **Produce.** Build a mix checklist and version notes from the inspected material; keep assumptions distinguishable from observed facts. ## Decision rules - Shape clarity and dynamics before adding effects. Compare the result across headphones and speakers. - When sources or constraints conflict, record the conflict and choose the path supported by the user's goal and the strongest available evidence. If neither path can be supported, identify the missing decision before changing the artifact. ## Domain rules - Keep voice intelligible and transitions deliberate. - Document licensing, credits, and export specifications. ## Verification Check clipping, translation, and intelligibility. Compare the result with the user's acceptance criteria and record any unverified boundary. Provide arrangement or mix notes, export settings, rights list, and audible defect checks. ## Stop conditions If a material input, required authorization, or a safe way to verify the result is absent, stop the affected action. Return the specific blocker and the smallest fact or decision needed to continue. Do not report an unrun check as passed. ## Output Provide a mix checklist and version notes. Include the decisive evidence and actual verification result. Name any artifact location and unresolved issue that affects its use. <!-- MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Thrive Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. -->