i mean, you never have anything positive to say.. you seem to only correct people.
Allow me to correct you
. You're right, you haven't been around here long, otherwise you'd know that I have positively and correctly helped more people here than you've even met in your lifetime. If you actually bothered to research that first, by actually checking my history here before you jumped to your conclusion, you'd know that and wouldn't be making an ass out of yourself here and now.
And if this BBS (which is, BTW, what this is and what it is called. Even the software that runs this board is called "vBulletin", which is meant to stand for "virtual bulletin board") weren't populated with so many people for whom a lack of knowledge on the subject was not an impediment to them posting their erroneous opinions anyway, there wouldn't have to be so much correcting to be done.
very bad analogy
The analogy is right on.
The fact is that an FFT spectrogram can't tell anyone how something sounds or is supposed to sound any more than a brightness or color histogram of a photograph can tell you how a picture looks or is supposed to look.
It's just like looking at the waveform display in your audio editor timeline. The main difference is that the waveform is displaying overall relative amplitude instead of amplitude by frequency. It gives you *some* information, but it can't tell you by looking at it what it actually sounds like, or whether it sounds the way you want it to sound or not.
How long have you been doing this?
Once again, if you did your own homework you'd know that, as my bio is all over this BBS as well as on my website. I built my first home studio around 1979, and have been doing the independent recording thing since then. I also worked as a hardware/software developer and troubleshooter in the professional audio/video industry (music, television and movies) for several years in the 90s, and have worked semi-pro audio and video and web production ever since.
but you don't have to be a jerk about it XD
Unlike the nice, kind, diplomatic gentleman you're being right now,right?
If assholes like you actually knew what you were talking about before you stepped in front of your keyboard, assholes like me wouldn't need to be such assholes.
G.