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The Signal Path

Learn the craft.

A 12-lesson animated audio-engineering series from Lock'n Time — learn the craft, follow the signal path. YouTube launch November 2026.

November 2026

Watch B1–B12 on the Lock'n Time YouTube channel at the November 2026 launch.

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Twelve lessons. One path.

The Signal Path is Lock'n Time's animated series on audio engineering — how sound moves through a room, a desk, and a mix.

  1. B1Before You Touch Anything
  2. B2Microphones I: How They Hear
  3. B3Microphones II: Placement Is Everything
  4. B4The Journey Between: Cables, Connectors, and Balanced Audio
  5. B5Into the Console
  6. B6Side Roads: Buses, Sends, and Routing
  7. B7Shaping Tone: EQ
  8. B8Controlling Dynamics: Compression
  9. B9The Dynamics Family: Gates, Limiters, and De-essers
  10. B10Creating Space: Reverb and Delay
  11. B11Out of the Box: Speakers and Monitoring
  12. B12Gain Structure: The Whole Chain at Once

Look stills

November 2026.

The desk is the proof — curated drawings from The Signal Path. A strip, a fader, then the rest of the path. Twelve lessons. YouTube launch November 2026.

Line drawing of a mixing console with one channel strip brought forward
The desk. — the console, one strip brought forward.
  • A single channel strip with a warm glow at the input
    The channel.
  • A channel strip with the fader and a lit cue in the middle of the path
    The level.
Signal Path series palette — cream, ink, wine, amber, and parchment
The series look.