On Friday 02 April 2010 03:30:22 Ken Restivo wrote:
I'm mixing away, and at times I want to LOOK
at the spectrum of a sound--
my ears are not yet well-developed enough for me to say "oh, that lump
is at about 420Hz, and there's another at 3172Hz...", and sitting here
sweeping with a parametric EQ seems prone to inaccuracy.
But sweeping through frequencies with the parametric is probably the only
way to learn it. Looking at a spectrum analyser is fun but it teaches your
eyes, not your ears.
And I think most people want music for their ears, not music for the
eyes...
Is there a LADSPA or LV2 spectrum analyzer,
similar to the one that's in
JAMIN? And/or, is there a standalone JACK spectrum analyzer-- less
heavyweight than JAMIN-- that I could use as a client, and just patch it
in and out of tracks to view them?
japa is great. You can even use it to set up the pa. For that it has pink
and white noise generators built in... But you have to be aware of the
bass- changing effect of the update-interval...
What are the implications of setting up with an empty room and playing to a
full room?