Free or fairly cheap analyzers?

[bryan_kilco]

Title explains exactly what I'm looking for. The stock Reaper one is pretty crap.

I used to have a free version of MAnalyzer, but last I tried it makes you download a bundle and I couldn't ever get it to work.

I'm realizing that maybe I'm at a huge brick wall in my mixing is due to my untreated room. Once I moved about a year ago, everything was different. Thinking about going headphones and decent analyzer tool until I sort out some $ and proper treatment. It's just tough to justify throwing hundreds/thousands of $ into this when it's only a hobby for me and I've never gotten a single paying gig yet.

 

[MetalSound]

voxengo span

 

[anotherpaul]

^ this or easyssp (http://www.kvraudio.com/product/easyssp-by-automatl) if you're on windows.

 

[java]

voxengo span

+1

 

[FIXXXER]

+1 on voxengo span

 

[bryan_kilco]

Wow, for some reason I thought SPAN wasn't free. Thanks dudes.

 

[Terminus]

SPAN is the shit! also Blue Cat has a pretty cool one called FreqAnalyst I used to use before SPAN that has a transparency slider so you can overlay one instance over another and compare spectrums.

http://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Product_FreqAnalyst/

 

[UMF]

I love Span in combination with this: http://sevenphases.wordpress.com/spectrum-analyzer/ ! Like that you can make that thing huge and love the 60 band bars mode. check it out

 

[bryan_kilco]

Awesome! Yeah, I really hate when you can't resize plugins....specifically EQ's and analyzers! I'm going to get down with some of these today.

 

[Fluffbot]

I'm using the Blue Cat analyzer since it's free, and AAX. Two hard things to find haha.