Audio Analysis Tips

(Work-in-progress). Article with tips and tricks for analyzing audio.

When Blue Mangoo Software released their Compressor Audio Unit, they shared a number of insights about analyzing distortion and aliasing in the thread Blue Mangoo Compressor.

Here are some highlights. There is a lot of gold buried in the forum thread.

@Blue_Mangoo advises: A 100 Hz sine wave for checking the analog style saturation effects on bass sounds. “If you are searching for aliasing artefacts in compressors you would want to have the test signal somewhere between 6 KHz and 18 KHz.”

This post about how to set up a spectrum analyzer and spot aliasing should make its way into the current article.

Useful Tools:

• The AudioCheck.net signal generator is useful for generating tones for analysis.
• Izotope RX6 or RX7 (Windows/MAC software with free demo
• SpectrumView (iOS) by Oxford Wave Research Ltd.