Blue Cat's FreqAnalyst Multi

During mixing and mastering sessions, EQing is a vital process, because it enables you to boost the sound frequencies that work and eliminate the ones that can potentially ruin a track. This can help you eliminate sounds that may bother the listener (like clashing instruments) or make other sounds stand out more.

While most digital audio workstations comes with decent EQ tools, you should also consider employing the help of a visual companion. That is the role of a spectral analyzer plugin; even though some EQ tools already give you a visual representation of the frequency spectrum, a good spectral analyzer will allow a more complex view over all the frequencies of a track.

Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Multi is an example of a complex spectrum analyzer. As its name suggests, it allows you to analyze multiple audio tracks at the same time in order to compare their spectrum. It also offers you control over many analysis parameters, such as threshold and envelope.

As soon as you launch the plugin, you can give each curve a name, so you don’t have any problems keeping track of them. Blue Cat’s FreqAnalyst Multi features a colorful interface, where you can easily zoom on any part of the spectrum which you wish to analyze closely.