Im looking for something to visually show me the audio spectrum of my tracks...

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Totally agree with Mo Facta. I use frequency/spectrum analysis tools as a diagnostic aid and also to aid with set up of live sound systems/rooms. It's pretty rare that it would come out during a mix.

...which brings me to another point. The display on most frequency analysis tools isn't very informative when used on ordinary programme material. Most of the time I'd use such a tool, it's to compare an input (white noise, pink noise, single frequency burst, whatever) to the output. Barring a specific test signal, most music is best judged by ear!

Bob
 
miroslav said:
That was my original point..."close your eyes and use your ears"...I look at the screen all the time too, but I do find it's "ear opening" to look away from the screen (or close your eyes, turn off the computer monitor, hang posters over them :D ...whatever works), because then you are really listening instead of letting the sound become secondary to the visual cues...
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I just love your concept. I plug my ears at Motor Vehicles so I can pass my eye test without my glasses.:laughings::laughings::laughings:
 
NYMorningstar said:
I just love your concept. I plug my ears at Motor Vehicles so I can pass my eye test without my glasses.:laughings::laughings::laughings:
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DUH.... :rolleyes:

One thing has nothing to do with the other, don't you get it?

On a DAW you use your eyes...you can't work on a DAW without using your eyes, but you are *ALSO* using your ears, and of the two senses, I would think when dealing with audio, your hearing is much more important than what you are seeing on the DAW screen.
You get that...right?

For a Motor Vehicle eye test...hearing doesn't even come into the equation.
You might as well plug your mouth when taking an eye test! :laughings: :laughings: :laughings:
 
miroslav said:
DUH.... :rolleyes:

One thing has nothing to do with the other, don't you get it?...
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I'm sorry I was trying to interject a little humor to 'your' concept which I agree with.

I have to disagree with this statement however because seeing and hearing are related especially in terms of focus.


Oh no, he wants me to shut my eyes and he's going to focus too. :laughings::laughings::laughings:
 
Seeing and hearing ARE related and that's why it's important to find a way to ignore the screen sometimes. When you listen to music on a CD or your iPod you have no visual clues--but seeing a waveform on the screen or numbers on a control can persuade your brain to hear things that aren't there--or not hear things that are.
 
NYMorningstar said:
I'm sorry I was trying to interject a little humor to 'your' concept which I agree with.

I have to disagree with this statement however because seeing and hearing are related especially in terms of focus.


Oh no, he wants me to shut my eyes and he's going to focus too. :laughings::laughings::laughings:
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Sounded like you were not in agreement, and I just didn't get the connection you were making (even for a joke :D), because when you take an eye test....there are NO aural cues involved, so plugging your ears wouldn't make much difference AFA "focus", whereas with a DAW you are constantly getting visual cues as you try to listen, and I do think visual cues often tend to win out, which is why looking away from the screen helps you focus your ears.
 
I like the span to figure out when I have radical peaks on certain frequencies. I can't listen and go - oh that's a 4kHz spike... So I use span. Also helps me to make sure I am not getting too much sub frequency that muddies everything up but I don't always seem to notice until I check the graph.
 
arcadeko said:
I like the span to figure out when I have radical peaks on certain frequencies. I can't listen and go - oh that's a 4kHz spike... So I use span. Also helps me to make sure I am not getting too much sub frequency that muddies everything up but I don't always seem to notice until I check the graph.
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So train yourself to listen and identify a 4 kHz spike. It's not that hard. It just takes time. There are learning aids out there. Quiztones is a fun site to start with.

If you can't identify a problem with your ear, seeing the problem with your eyes becomes very dangerous...because the sound might not be a problem at all. You might have just killed the interesting part of the sound while thinking you were fixing something.
 
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