First listen to the auto-trimmed take-94 mix. The verdict on the sum itself is good
("great mix itself its clean") which clears the record-bus routing of suspicion: 12
orbits summed with a flat -16 dB keeps the balance he actually performed.
The correction is the valuable half. He flagged the silence around 18 min as "not
normal, a bad transition — in a real mixing work wed cut it proper and fade or at
least trim most". That silence WAS detected and reported by take-lens, and survived
anyway: SILENT_RUN_S was 20 s and all three surviving gaps measured 17 s, 18 s and
11 s. A threshold chosen so the trimmer could never eat a musical break had become a
threshold that preserves every bad transition instead.
Two rules extracted, both more general than this take: clamp long silences to a short
breath rather than choosing between keeping all of it and removing all of it; and fade
every cut seam, because every removal this tool has made so far was a butt-join.
Also logged: the stretches he heard as "stuck in loops" are precisely the `loop` kind
the classifier already flags and deliberately does not auto-cut.
