mac spectrum analyzer?

donbray · Post by **donbray** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 6:56 am

I was visiting a friend who uses adobe audition on windows. I found out that it has a really great spectrum analyzer that proves to be a very useful tool.
My question is does anybody know of a good mac spectrum analyzer? I'd prefer one that you can make really big so you can see the details. The few I've found seem to be a static size that you can't expand.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Don

daniel.sneed · Post by **daniel.sneed** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:07 am

By all means, the best one is SpectraFoo from MetricHalo, but cost some 400 $ basic version, and 800 $ complete.

Demo versions are available on their site.

logo80 · Post by **logo80** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:20 am

Audacity is free and gives a spectrum analyzer, for real time the old project audioxplorer gives interesting results.
Regards, Lorenzo

jrdmcdnld · Post by **jrdmcdnld** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 9:48 am

Ozone is $199, it has a fairly usefull spectrum analyzer as well as other things.

donbray · Post by **donbray** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:55 am

Wow it's amazing. Replies from France and Italy and somewhere else all making their way here to snowy old Canada so quickly.
Thanks one and all.
One question about Spectrafoo. Do I need the basic or full version. I'm going to use it to make eq decisions from time to time and to compare mics to see what they do with different frequencies. I don't trust these old ears.
Thanks again
Don

daniel.sneed · Post by **daniel.sneed** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:18 am

The basic SpectraFoo offers an extremely accurate and reliable analyser.

You can choose integration time, even very long ones like 15sec.
You can choose from octave to 1/24 octave definition.

It can display 4 analyses at once, in 4 colours.

When I need to read 2 at once, I just insert a +10dB trim somewhere in the second audio path.

The complete version offers other tools like recording for time alignement and other stuffs.

ImotU · Post by **ImotU** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 12:00 am

Why not Smaart from SiaSoft. Demo (beta) available for OSX. That‘s the one.

Macinbowl · Post by **Macinbowl** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 6:45 pm

ImotU wrote:Demo (beta) available for OSX.

Really?? Where did you find it? I can't see where it is on the SiaSoft website...

Mat

daniel.sneed · Post by **daniel.sneed** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 2:31 am

Hi donbray !
Your ears are one of your best music parts and investments, so is your heart. Treat them faithfully and kindly.
A good analyser will help in sharing what belongs to each, music and physic, whatsoever.

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