chrisharris
King of Bling
I need to explain. For many years, I ran all of my audio from my computer to an outboard Equalizer, then to an amp that powered passive JBL monitors. I recently got active monitors again, so I gave my son the amp and the EQ and the speakers.
Well, the EQ unit had an anciet, but pretty cool little spectrum analyzer on it. I think it was a 10 band EQ per channel, and the display was like an LED...hell, let me look for a pic...
Wow, I can't believe it, but I found a picture of it online. Here was the EQ unit and its spectrum display
That's exactly what I used to have. As an aside, it was a really nice EQ, even though I obviously ran it in bypass mode for mixing, I loved it for personal listening. If it wouldn't break my son's heart, I'd just take it back, but that would be shitty, lol.
So here's my question: I would like some kind of software program that could run independent of a DAW. My intended use is for things like listening to mixes in the MP3 clinic or (more importantly) when I hear mixes anywhere online that I really like in terms of sonic return, I guess I just want to be able to look at the music through an analyzer without having to download the song and bring it into a DAW and then running voxengo span or something on it.
Does such a thing exist? Should I just break my son's heart?
Oh, and before anybody mentions it, the Analyzer in Winamp is about as helpful as putting Windows Media Player on one of those screensaver presets that bounces to the music, lol. It's too small, too random, and it has huge lag.
Something Exactly like the Voxengo Span would be perfect if I didn't have to run it from other software. I guess i'm looking for some kind of software (not a plugin) that just displays whatever happens to be going through my soundcard/interface.
Well, the EQ unit had an anciet, but pretty cool little spectrum analyzer on it. I think it was a 10 band EQ per channel, and the display was like an LED...hell, let me look for a pic...
Wow, I can't believe it, but I found a picture of it online. Here was the EQ unit and its spectrum display
That's exactly what I used to have. As an aside, it was a really nice EQ, even though I obviously ran it in bypass mode for mixing, I loved it for personal listening. If it wouldn't break my son's heart, I'd just take it back, but that would be shitty, lol.
So here's my question: I would like some kind of software program that could run independent of a DAW. My intended use is for things like listening to mixes in the MP3 clinic or (more importantly) when I hear mixes anywhere online that I really like in terms of sonic return, I guess I just want to be able to look at the music through an analyzer without having to download the song and bring it into a DAW and then running voxengo span or something on it.
Does such a thing exist? Should I just break my son's heart?
Oh, and before anybody mentions it, the Analyzer in Winamp is about as helpful as putting Windows Media Player on one of those screensaver presets that bounces to the music, lol. It's too small, too random, and it has huge lag.
Something Exactly like the Voxengo Span would be perfect if I didn't have to run it from other software. I guess i'm looking for some kind of software (not a plugin) that just displays whatever happens to be going through my soundcard/interface.
