diff --git a/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineTrackHeader.test.tsx b/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineTrackHeader.test.tsx
index 3516d68c2..54a5d971c 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineTrackHeader.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineTrackHeader.test.tsx
@@ -855,5 +855,31 @@ describe("TimelineTrackHeader", () => {
       expect(pointer(view.host)).not.toBeNull();
       act(() => view.root.unmount());
     });
+
+    // The header is a 48px column of exactly TWO lines — what the row is, then
+    // what you can do to it. The group pointer used to render as a sibling of
+    // both, making a third: 17 + 24 + 24 + gaps in a 48px box, which
+    // `justify-center` then spilled evenly out of the top and bottom. The name
+    // rode 10px above its own row and the pointer collided with the row below.
+    it("keeps the group pointer on the control line, not a third row", () => {
+      enabledCanaries.add("audio-fx-rack");
+      enabledCanaries.add("audio-groups");
+      const view = renderHeader({
+        keyframeClip: VOICE,
+        trackElements: [VOICE, VOICE_2],
+        clipCount: 2,
+        animations: [],
+        expanded: false,
+        isAudioTrack: true,
+      });
+      const header = view.host.querySelector<HTMLElement>('[role="rowheader"]');
+      expect(header?.children).toHaveLength(2);
+      // And it is on the second line, beside the visibility control.
+      const controlLine = header?.children[1];
+      expect(
+        controlLine?.querySelector('button[aria-label="Effects — group these clips first"]'),
+      ).not.toBeNull();
+      act(() => view.root.unmount());
+    });
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineTrackHeader.tsx b/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineTrackHeader.tsx
index 5dde42b56..9cfbc061e 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineTrackHeader.tsx
+++ b/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineTrackHeader.tsx
@@ -561,6 +561,29 @@ export function TimelineTrackHeader({
                     onOpenRack={() => openClipFxRack(singleAudioClip)}
                   />
                 )}
+                {/* The rack shelf is `audio-fx-rack`; the group-pointer variant WRITES
+                  a group, so it needs `audio-groups` too — without it a user outside
+                  that canary could create a group and then have no UI to manage it. */}
+                {clipCount > 1 &&
+                  !isTrackGrouped &&
+                  (isAudioTrack ? canGroupWholeTrack : isVideoWithAudioTrack) &&
+                  isCanaryEnabled("audio-fx-rack") &&
+                  isCanaryEnabled("audio-groups") && (
+                    <TimelineFxButton
+                      variant="group-pointer"
+                      clipCount={trackElements.length}
+                      defaultLabel={trackLabel}
+                      // Groups are audio-only in v1 (§1.4). A video track showing no
+                      // button at all is the silent limit §5 forbids, so it gets the
+                      // button and a reason instead.
+                      refusal={
+                        isAudioTrack
+                          ? undefined
+                          : "Video audio can't be grouped yet — only audio clips can join a group."
+                      }
+                      onGroupClips={groupUngroupedClips}
+                    />
+                  )}
                 {/* The lane disclosure, on the row's own layout rather than by
                     swapping it for a keyframe-layer row. */}
                 {disclosable && (
@@ -574,29 +597,6 @@ export function TimelineTrackHeader({
               </>
             }
           />
-          {/* The rack shelf is `audio-fx-rack`; the group-pointer variant WRITES
-              a group, so it needs `audio-groups` too — without it a user outside
-              that canary could create a group and then have no UI to manage it. */}
-          {clipCount > 1 &&
-            !isTrackGrouped &&
-            (isAudioTrack ? canGroupWholeTrack : isVideoWithAudioTrack) &&
-            isCanaryEnabled("audio-fx-rack") &&
-            isCanaryEnabled("audio-groups") && (
-              <TimelineFxButton
-                variant="group-pointer"
-                clipCount={trackElements.length}
-                defaultLabel={trackLabel}
-                // Groups are audio-only in v1 (§1.4). A video track showing no
-                // button at all is the silent limit §5 forbids, so it gets the
-                // button and a reason instead.
-                refusal={
-                  isAudioTrack
-                    ? undefined
-                    : "Video audio can't be grouped yet — only audio clips can join a group."
-                }
-                onGroupClips={groupUngroupedClips}
-              />
-            )}
         </>
       ) : (
         <>