So is using an analyzer cheating???

[Ben Johnson]

When you go through your favorite cds, finding sections where instruments are "solo'd", you take a look at it with PAZ and compare it to your own recording of that particular instrument. Of course you still use and trust your ears at the end of the day, but is it all that bad to get some "hints" from professional recordings?

 

[elmuchoescadawg]

Not at all. Whether you use an analyser or not you get "hints" from professional recordings anyway. Its just another way of listening to and being influenced by albums you like

 

[Jaymz]

Im not very familar with the PAZ as of yet. Does it show up certain peak frequencies of the recordings or something?

 

[Ben Johnson]

Im not very familar with the PAZ as of yet. Does it show up certain peak frequencies of the recordings or something?

It gives you the full spectrum frequency response of whatever you "run through it".

 

[everybody's x]

the caveman who looked up from chewing the fur off of his freshly killed dinner probably thought the other caveman was "cheating" when he saw him skin his dinner with a stone knife.

So he fucked with him for a bit then starved to death.

Use whatever tool you have available, there is no "cheating"

 

[metalkingdom]

Use whatever tool you have available, there is no "cheating"

Word. SSL's (with the plasma meters) come with a RTA function.

 

[Suicide_As_Alibi]

If you're recording a band, your job is to make them sound as good as possible with the tools you have to hand - and looking at the frequency repsonse of your mix is hardly up there with auto-tuning the crap out of a tone deaf singer.

Steve

 

[Mr. Brokenamp]

what's paz a spectrum analyzer?

 

[::XeS::]

If you ear a solo'd part in a cd, it's post-mix and post-mastered sound...so, if you are mixing your instrument, it's not a real comparison.....yes, you can find some reference/tips from that but not a real a/b situation..
My opinion

 

[futurism]

theres 2 tools to do this automatically

you feed it a reference, then you feed it your signal, and it automatically adjusts eq filters to make your signal match the reference

one is old and made by steinberg, and its called freefilter I think
the other I cant even remember what its called, but it seemed better, for ages there was only a 16 bit version but now theres 24
maybe someone esle can help with its name, it could run standalone or as a plugin

 

[Ermz]

No it's not cheating. However I found my mixes improved when I stopped relying on the Analyzer and started leaning more towards my ear.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

No such thing as cheating if the goal is to come up with a bitchin soundin tune!