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Will Hanlon · March 11th, 2007, 09:16 PM

Is there a program that will show the frequences in your audio clip? Just thinking such a program might help me sort out some troublesome noises/frequencies.

Glenn Davidson · March 11th, 2007, 09:33 PM

Not sure what software you are using. There are various plug-ins for this purpose. My Pro-tools, for example, has an Waves Psychoacoustic Analyzer that displays frequency spectrum in real time.

Will Hanlon · March 11th, 2007, 10:05 PM

I'm using Vegas.

Seth Bloombaum · March 11th, 2007, 11:55 PM

Izotope Ozone is a very nice mastering plugin that is available in a direct-x version, which shows up as a vegas plugin. It incidently has a frequency display monitor in its eq section (it is about 6 modules, the volume maximizer is awesome). izotope.com.

One quick way to find an offending freq is to pull up Vegas' native track eq, select one of the middle bands, narrow the spread, then grab the whatchacallit, you know, the little round dot with the number in it and boost it up all the way. Now, sweep it left and right until the bad freq is really emphasized. Fine tune it, now go to the numbers section in the lower right, and turn that +12db into a -6 or so, and see what it sounds like. This is much easier to do than to write about, just grab it an sweep it, with it boosted bad stuff really pops out.

Bill Ravens · March 12th, 2007, 07:45 AM

If you're looking for a fast fourier transform kind of oscilloscope, something to show the frequency domain instead of the temporal domain, there's a number of freebie fft's available as VST plugins. here's one
http://mdsp.smartelectronix.com/ffttools/

March 11th, 2007, 09:16 PM	#1
Will Hanlon Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 148	Frequency Monitor Is there a program that will show the frequences in your audio clip? Just thinking such a program might help me sort out some troublesome noises/frequencies.

March 11th, 2007, 09:33 PM	#2
Glenn Davidson Major Player Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Nevada City, California Posts: 499	Not sure what software you are using. There are various plug-ins for this purpose. My Pro-tools, for example, has an Waves Psychoacoustic Analyzer that displays frequency spectrum in real time.

March 11th, 2007, 10:05 PM	#3
Will Hanlon Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 148	I'm using Vegas.

March 11th, 2007, 11:55 PM	#4
Seth Bloombaum Inner Circle Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,420	Izotope Ozone is a very nice mastering plugin that is available in a direct-x version, which shows up as a vegas plugin. It incidently has a frequency display monitor in its eq section (it is about 6 modules, the volume maximizer is awesome). izotope.com. One quick way to find an offending freq is to pull up Vegas' native track eq, select one of the middle bands, narrow the spread, then grab the whatchacallit, you know, the little round dot with the number in it and boost it up all the way. Now, sweep it left and right until the bad freq is really emphasized. Fine tune it, now go to the numbers section in the lower right, and turn that +12db into a -6 or so, and see what it sounds like. This is much easier to do than to write about, just grab it an sweep it, with it boosted bad stuff really pops out.

March 12th, 2007, 07:45 AM	#5
Bill Ravens Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: santa fe, nm Posts: 3,264 Images: 10	If you're looking for a fast fourier transform kind of oscilloscope, something to show the frequency domain instead of the temporal domain, there's a number of freebie fft's available as VST plugins. here's one http://mdsp.smartelectronix.com/ffttools/