diff --git a/packages/studio/src/components/editor/audioFxSignalPath.test.ts b/packages/studio/src/components/editor/audioFxSignalPath.test.ts
index b1e56ac0a..407a318b0 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/components/editor/audioFxSignalPath.test.ts
+++ b/packages/studio/src/components/editor/audioFxSignalPath.test.ts
@@ -13,9 +13,12 @@ const group = (over: Partial<HfAudioGroup> = {}): HfAudioGroup => ({
 
 describe("audioFxSignalPath", () => {
   // The design doc's §5 mockup, both columns.
+  // Copy taken from the rendered designs, which are more specific than the
+  // ASCII stand-ins in the markdown: "vo-1 and vo-2, together" / "into
+  // Voiceover", not "vo-1, vo-2" / "to Voiceover".
   it("names what a group sums, and sends it to the mix", () => {
     expect(audioFxSignalPath("hf-audio-group", "voiceover", [group()])).toEqual({
-      inLabel: "vo-1, vo-2",
+      inLabel: "vo-1 and vo-2, together",
       outLabel: "to mix",
       subject: "group",
     });
@@ -24,7 +27,7 @@ describe("audioFxSignalPath", () => {
   it("names the group a member feeds, so routing reads from either end", () => {
     expect(audioFxSignalPath("audio", "vo-1", [group()])).toEqual({
       inLabel: "this track",
-      outLabel: "to Voiceover",
+      outLabel: "into Voiceover",
       subject: "track",
     });
   });
diff --git a/packages/studio/src/components/editor/audioFxSignalPath.ts b/packages/studio/src/components/editor/audioFxSignalPath.ts
index 1f9e6ef20..43bc54a4a 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/components/editor/audioFxSignalPath.ts
+++ b/packages/studio/src/components/editor/audioFxSignalPath.ts
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ export const CLIP_SIGNAL_PATH: AudioFxSignalPath = {
  * `groups` is the resolved set from the composition; `elementId` and `tag` come
  * from the selection. Pure so the labels can be asserted without a DOM.
  */
+/** "a", "a and b", "a, b and c" — how the designs read a member list aloud. */
+function joinNatural(items: readonly string[]): string {
+  if (items.length <= 1) return items[0] ?? "";
+  return `${items.slice(0, -1).join(", ")} and ${items[items.length - 1]}`;
+}
+
 export function audioFxSignalPath(
   tag: string | undefined,
   elementId: string | undefined,
@@ -49,11 +55,17 @@ export function audioFxSignalPath(
     // making one, so it must not look like a bug.
     const members = group?.memberIds ?? [];
     return {
-      inLabel: members.length > 0 ? members.join(", ") : "nothing yet",
+      // "vo-1 and vo-2, together" — the rendered design's exact phrasing, not a
+      // comma list. The trailing "together" is the point: it says the group is
+      // ONE signal hearing both, which is the thing two separate copies of a
+      // chain cannot do, and it says it without "sum" or "bus".
+      inLabel: members.length > 0 ? `${joinNatural(members)}, together` : "nothing yet",
       outLabel: "to mix",
       subject: "group",
     };
   }
   const owner = elementId ? groups.find((g) => g.memberIds.includes(elementId)) : undefined;
-  return owner ? { ...CLIP_SIGNAL_PATH, outLabel: `to ${owner.label}` } : CLIP_SIGNAL_PATH;
+  // "into Voiceover", not "to" — a member feeds the group, and the design uses
+  // the preposition that says so.
+  return owner ? { ...CLIP_SIGNAL_PATH, outLabel: `into ${owner.label}` } : CLIP_SIGNAL_PATH;
 }
diff --git a/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineGroupHeader.tsx b/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineGroupHeader.tsx
index 42933344d..d43d407d8 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineGroupHeader.tsx
+++ b/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineGroupHeader.tsx
@@ -117,7 +117,13 @@ export function TimelineGroupHeader({
         <span aria-hidden="true" className="shrink-0 text-[12px] leading-none text-white/50">
           ▤
         </span>
-        <span className="min-w-0 flex-1 truncate font-medium">{label}</span>
+        {/* Struck through, not merely dimmed — the designs are explicit that "a
+            muted track that only looks dim is a track someone re-mutes by
+            accident", and a muted GROUP silences every member at once, so it is
+            the most expensive one to misread. */}
+        <span className={`min-w-0 flex-1 truncate font-medium${hidden ? " line-through" : ""}`}>
+          {label}
+        </span>
         <span
           className="shrink-0 rounded-full bg-white/10 px-1 text-[9px] leading-[14px] tabular-nums text-white/55"
           aria-hidden="true"
diff --git a/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineGroupLaneLabels.tsx b/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineGroupLaneLabels.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c3558b193
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineGroupLaneLabels.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+/**
+ * The label column beside a group's own automation lanes.
+ *
+ * The designs draw a group lane as `▤ Volume   0.42` on an accent rail — and
+ * the rail is load-bearing, not decoration: "Scope is carried by colour, not by
+ * depth — a lane the group owns has an accent rail and names the group; a
+ * clip's lane is neutral." Two lanes both called Volume, doing entirely
+ * different things, otherwise sit eight pixels apart with nothing to tell them
+ * apart.
+ *
+ * The number is the value AT THE PLAYHEAD, not the stored seed: a readout that
+ * showed the seed would stand still while the curve is audibly working.
+ */
+
+import { sampleAutomationLane } from "@hyperframes/core/audio-automation";
+import { automationLaneLabelParts, elementAutomation, elementFxChain } from "./automationLaneData";
+import { AUTOMATION_LANE_H } from "./automationLaneHeight";
+import type { TimelineElement } from "../store/playerStore";
+import { useLivePlayheadTime } from "../../hooks/useLivePlayheadTime";
+
+export function TimelineGroupLaneLabels({
+  groupElement,
+  groupLabel,
+  top,
+  columnWidth,
+  gutterBackground,
+  accentColor,
+}: {
+  /** The group wearing a clip's shape — see `groupAutomationElement`. */
+  groupElement: TimelineElement;
+  groupLabel: string;
+  /** y of the first lane, matching the canvas slot's own offset. */
+  top: number;
+  columnWidth: number;
+  gutterBackground: string;
+  accentColor: string;
+}) {
+  // The LIVE playhead, not the row's `currentTime` prop — that one only moves
+  // on seek, so the readout sat frozen while the curve was audibly working,
+  // which is precisely the failure this number exists to prevent.
+  const currentTime = useLivePlayheadTime();
+  const chain = elementFxChain(groupElement);
+  const lanes = elementAutomation(groupElement).lanes;
+  return (
+    <>
+      {lanes.map((lane, index) => {
+        const parts = automationLaneLabelParts(lane.target, chain);
+        if (!parts) return null;
+        // A group's clock is composition time (§1.3), so the playhead needs no
+        // clip-local rebase here — unlike a clip's lane.
+        const value = sampleAutomationLane(lane, currentTime);
+        return (
+          <div
+            key={lane.target}
+            data-group-lane-label={lane.target}
+            className="absolute left-0 flex items-center gap-1.5 overflow-hidden px-1.5 text-[10px] text-white/65"
+            style={{
+              top: top + index * AUTOMATION_LANE_H,
+              width: columnWidth,
+              height: AUTOMATION_LANE_H,
+              background: gutterBackground,
+              borderLeft: `2px solid ${accentColor}`,
+            }}
+            title={`${groupLabel} · ${parts.param ? `${parts.name} · ${parts.param}` : parts.name}`}
+          >
+            <span aria-hidden="true" className="shrink-0 text-[11px] text-white/40">
+              ▤
+            </span>
+            <span className="flex min-w-0 flex-1 flex-col justify-center leading-tight">
+              <span className="truncate font-mono text-[9px] text-white/70">{parts.name}</span>
+              {parts.param ? (
+                <span className="truncate font-mono text-[9px] text-white/40">{parts.param}</span>
+              ) : null}
+            </span>
+            <span className="shrink-0 font-mono text-[9px] tabular-nums text-white/55">
+              {value.toFixed(2)}
+            </span>
+          </div>
+        );
+      })}
+    </>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineGroupRow.tsx b/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineGroupRow.tsx
index e793aa5f1..4a870b071 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineGroupRow.tsx
+++ b/packages/studio/src/player/components/TimelineGroupRow.tsx
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import { TimelineGroupBusStrip } from "./TimelineGroupBusStrip";
 import { groupAutomationLanes } from "./automationLaneData";
 import { groupAutomationElement } from "./groupAutomationElement";
 import { TimelineAutomationLaneSlot } from "./TimelineAutomationLane";
+import { TimelineGroupLaneLabels } from "./TimelineGroupLaneLabels";
 import { STRIP_H, TRACK_H } from "./timelineLayout";
 import type { UseAutomationLanesResult } from "./useAutomationLanes";
 import { useDomEditSelectionContextOptional } from "../../contexts/DomEditContext";
@@ -202,6 +203,19 @@ export function TimelineGroupRow({
       {/* The group's OWN curves, under the strip. Selected-gated exactly like a
           clip's: the binder writes through the dom-edit selection, so a lane is
           editable once the group is selected — which clicking its name does. */}
+      {/* The label column for those lanes, on the accent rail. Outside the
+          offset content cell below, because the labels belong to the sticky
+          gutter the row header occupies, not to the scrolling canvas. */}
+      {isLaneOpen && (
+        <TimelineGroupLaneLabels
+          groupElement={groupElement}
+          groupLabel={group.label}
+          top={TRACK_H + STRIP_H}
+          columnWidth={contentOrigin >= LABEL_COL_W ? LABEL_COL_W : contentOrigin}
+          gutterBackground={theme.gutterBackground}
+          accentColor={GROUP_LANE_ACCENT}
+        />
+      )}
       {isLaneOpen && (
         // The same offset content cell a track row wraps its lanes in — the
         // slot positions absolutely, so mounted straight on the row it resolved