Automatically lowering music when dialogue or narration plays.
Ducking lowers the volume of music or background audio whenever a voice is present, so dialogue stays clear, then brings it back up in the gaps. It can be done manually with keyframes or automatically with side-chain compression, and it is essential for clean, intelligible mixes.
Good audio mixing is less about technical perfection and more about making every word clear, every sound purposeful, and the overall loudness consistent from beginning to end.
Music is not decoration — it is a structural tool that shapes rhythm, emotion, and meaning from the first frame to the last.
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