TASK 4 audio round 3: mic mute icon + top-center REC sign + voice-filter to-do — the mic bar gained a second 16px clickable glyph (microphone, red + slash when muted) between the meter and the speaker so both mute toggles sit adjacent with spacing, reusing the same ToggleMicMuteCommand handler (no VM/code-behind change); the top-center LIVE badge became an always-visible REC sign driven by new VM props (RecDotBrush/RecTextBrush/RecDotOpacity/IsLivePrivate): dark gray dot + dim REC offline, bright red + REC + elapsed while live, darker red when live with a private stream (driven by the dialog's chosen StreamVisibility; the stream service still forces public — ship step 7), pulsing while live; LiveIndicatorVisible/LivePulseOpacity removed; task 22 queued (bass boost, treble, noise suppression, compressor on the mic channel, KISS, always on); HANDOFF documents the mic status contract (red until a mic resource actually connects) — 169 tests passing, 0 warnings

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 - `ViewModelBase.SetProperty<T>()` for property change notifications
 - `RelayCommand` for all button actions; commands gate on state (e.g. Start only when Offline). **Typed `CommandParameter`s — no stringly-typed command tokens:** menu items that pick a source type pass the enum value itself (`CommandParameter="{x:Static models:SourceType.DisplayCapture}"`), so a typo breaks the build instead of silently adding an Image; `AddSource` still falls back to `Enum.TryParse<SourceType>(..., true)` for safety. The webcam item is its own `AddWebcamCommand` (it greys out via `CanAddWebcamToActiveScene` and isn't a `SourceType` — webcams are `WebcamSceneConfig`, not `Source` rows)
-- **Audio is KISS by rule** — the whole of audio is *one knob*: **desktop/game audio is automatic** (WASAPI loopback from the default output at unity, zero UI — "it just is"); the **mic is the creator's only audio control** — sound meter + mute button + volume slider (`MicVolume`, defaults to 0.8) all sit together on the footer's top line, CENTERED beneath the preview panel. Meter: 288px, muted slate track (`#3a3b52`) with ruler graduations and muted yellow/red zone tints at 60%/80%; fill = green → yellow → red via `MeterFillWidth`/`MeterBrush`; the meter is a **READ-ONLY realtime level display** — it shows the live input level scaled by the volume (raising the volume moves ambient noise up the bar), NOT the volume setting: the fill is `Math.Min(1, AudioLevelMeter.ToDisplay(AudioLevel) * MicVolume)` — `ToDisplay` maps the raw linear RMS onto a −60..0 dBFS display scale, because real speech sits around −40..−20 dBFS (0.01..0.1 linear) which would leave a flat scale dead (`AudioLevel` is fed by the audio mixer once capture lands, 0 with no input) and 0 while muted. While the volume slider is being dragged the bar previews the slider position (`SetVolumeAdjusting`, from `PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown/Up` + `LostMouseCapture` handlers) so the creator sees where they're setting it; on release it returns to the live level — with no input it bounces back to 0, exactly as it does today. Clicking the meter does nothing; **clicking the MIC label opens the mic picker** (`OpenMicPickerCommand`), and the picked voice source name (`MicSourceName`) is shown left-justified INSIDE the meter bar (FontSize 10, ellipsized to the bar) — the fill runs at 75% opacity so the text and the ruler markings stay visible through it. Mute (`ToggleMicMuteCommand`/`MicMuted`) is a plain clickable speaker icon (`MicSpeaker_MouseLeftButtonUp` code-behind handler — not a Button, `Stretch="Uniform"` so the glyph is never clipped) that swaps to a red do-not-symbol (slashed speaker) when muted. **The slider and the speaker can never disagree:** `MicMuted` is read-only, derived from `MicVolume == 0` — sliding the volume off flips the speaker to muted (storing the prior level in `_volumeBeforeMute`), sliding it up from 0 clears the mute indicator (and the stored level); the speaker button just runs the volume to 0 or restores it (default 0.8 if unknown). Muting zeroes the meter; **unmuting flashes the meter to the restored position for ~300ms** (`BeginVolumeFlash`/`EndVolumeFlash` on a DispatcherTimer, cancelled if the slider is grabbed) before it returns to the live level. Line 2 of the footer holds everything else: stream stats (bitrate/fps/dropped/duration/health) on the left, quality dropdown + gear on the right. The slider is a slim dimensional style in `Themes/Controls.xaml` (gradient track, beveled green fill on a 5px pill, gloss-sphere thumb with drop shadow — deliberately NOT flat). No device pickers (never show device names — no "install a device you didn't know existed"), no filter stacks, no monitoring, no routing — OBS's confusion (dynamic mixer, unintuitive names, four required filters) is deliberately absent. A production-ready mic chain (high-pass → noise gate → compressor) will be applied invisibly in the mixer, unconfigurable. Capture runs only while live (privacy indicator stays off otherwise). Capture pipeline = `IAudioSource` seam + NAudio `WasapiCapture`/`WasapiLoopbackCapture` + `AudioMixer` (pending — the UI is in place now). The connected account's avatar/name shows in the top bar next to Start Stream (`AccountAvatarUrl`/`AccountDisplayName` via `SyncConnectedAccount`), so the creator always sees WHICH account will go live.
+- **Audio is KISS by rule** — the whole of audio is *one knob*: **desktop/game audio is automatic** (WASAPI loopback from the default output at unity, zero UI — "it just is"); the **mic is the creator's only audio control** — sound meter + mute button + volume slider (`MicVolume`, defaults to 0.8) all sit together on the footer's top line, CENTERED beneath the preview panel. Meter: 288px, muted slate track (`#3a3b52`) with ruler graduations and muted yellow/red zone tints at 60%/80%; fill = green → yellow → red via `MeterFillWidth`/`MeterBrush`; the meter is a **READ-ONLY realtime level display** — it shows the live input level scaled by the volume (raising the volume moves ambient noise up the bar), NOT the volume setting: the fill is `Math.Min(1, AudioLevelMeter.ToDisplay(AudioLevel) * MicVolume)` — `ToDisplay` maps the raw linear RMS onto a −60..0 dBFS display scale, because real speech sits around −40..−20 dBFS (0.01..0.1 linear) which would leave a flat scale dead (`AudioLevel` is fed by the audio mixer once capture lands, 0 with no input) and 0 while muted. While the volume slider is being dragged the bar previews the slider position (`SetVolumeAdjusting`, from `PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown/Up` + `LostMouseCapture` handlers) so the creator sees where they're setting it; on release it returns to the live level — with no input it bounces back to 0, exactly as it does today. Clicking the meter does nothing; **clicking the MIC label opens the mic picker** (`OpenMicPickerCommand`), and the picked voice source name (`MicSourceName`) is shown left-justified INSIDE the meter bar (FontSize 10, ellipsized to the bar) — the fill runs at 75% opacity so the text and the ruler markings stay visible through it. Mute (`ToggleMicMuteCommand`/`MicMuted`) is a plain clickable speaker icon (`MicSpeaker_MouseLeftButtonUp` code-behind handler — not a Button, `Stretch="Uniform"` so the glyph is never clipped) that swaps to a red do-not-symbol (slashed speaker) when muted. **The slider and the speaker can never disagree:** `MicMuted` is read-only, derived from `MicVolume == 0` — sliding the volume off flips the speaker to muted (storing the prior level in `_volumeBeforeMute`), sliding it up from 0 clears the mute indicator (and the stored level); the speaker button just runs the volume to 0 or restores it (default 0.8 if unknown). Muting zeroes the meter; **unmuting flashes the meter to the restored position for ~300ms** (`BeginVolumeFlash`/`EndVolumeFlash` on a DispatcherTimer, cancelled if the slider is grabbed) before it returns to the live level. Line 2 of the footer holds everything else: stream stats (bitrate/fps/dropped/duration/health) on the left, quality dropdown + gear on the right. The slider is a slim dimensional style in `Themes/Controls.xaml` (gradient track, beveled green fill on a 5px pill, gloss-sphere thumb with drop shadow — deliberately NOT flat). No device pickers (never show device names — no "install a device you didn't know existed"), no filter stacks, no monitoring, no routing — OBS's confusion (dynamic mixer, unintuitive names, four required filters) is deliberately absent. A production-ready mic chain (high-pass → noise gate → compressor) will be applied invisibly in the mixer, unconfigurable. Capture runs only while live (privacy indicator stays off otherwise). Capture pipeline = `IAudioSource` seam + NAudio `WasapiCapture`/`WasapiLoopbackCapture` + `AudioMixer` (pending — the UI is in place now). **Mic mute icon (2026-08-13):** a second 16px clickable glyph — a microphone, red + slash when muted — sits **between the meter and the speaker** (both mutes adjacent, spacing between the icons) and reuses the same `MicSpeaker_MouseLeftButtonUp` → `ToggleMicMuteCommand` handler. **REC sign (2026-08-13):** the top-center indicator is an **always-visible REC chip** (`RecDotBrush`/`RecTextBrush`/`RecDotOpacity`/`IsLivePrivate`) — dark gray dot + dim "REC" offline, bright red (#e94560) while live, darker red (#8f1f1f) when live with a **private** stream (driven by the dialog's chosen `StreamVisibility`; the stream service still forces public — see TASK 4 ship step 7); the dot pulses while live, and the elapsed timer shows only when live. The connected account's avatar/name shows in the top bar next to Start Stream (`AccountAvatarUrl`/`AccountDisplayName` via `SyncConnectedAccount`), so the creator always sees WHICH account will go live.
 - ViewModels are constructed in XAML (`<vm:MainViewModel/>` as DataContext)
 - Services are currently instantiated in MainViewModel's constructor — no DI container yet
 - Layout persists to SQLite (`Microsoft.Data.Sqlite`); scenes/sources/asset bytes stored in the DB, asset identity is a SHA-256 content hash (1:M reuse, no file paths — assets are always available)