How to post visual displays of audio sound patterns on iWeb

I would like to post side-by-side "visual displays" of two audio tracks, to show the difference in recorded sound waves for a piece recorded in two different sound environments, on iWeb.
Is it possible to post a still shot of the side-by-side track graphics, or video displays of real-time sound waves (like that available in Tunes), using GarageBand?

I'm not sure I understand what you want to do. You can display a high resolution picture of the waveform of one region at a time in GB by double-clicking it. But of course you can take two screenshots of your two tracks and post them side by side.

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