Also combined with a Transient Designer or shaping tools within Battery, you can get a great idea of whats going on a microscopic level. It doesn’t magically make thin bass sound awesome, but its a great step forward when considering levels and compression. This allows you to actually see the attack and/or release of your kick drum and bass, so you can match them evenly with a lot less effort. Waveforms do not lie as long as you understand how to read and use the feedback.
Ears > feedback always, but Smexoscope is a readout of the actual waveform output in absolute real-time. Some stuff can show up very very high (sharp leads, crashes, snare rolls,etc) on the spectrum but it’s barely reading -20db on the fader and its fitting in the mix just fine. This tool is more valuable to me over a spectrum analyzer, because often spectrum analyzers flat out lie and it’s not an accurate indication of truly how much sound is in the given spectrum. Music is still part science like it or not.
Until then realistically not too many people have an amazingly perfect air-tight mixing space so we often look for visual feedback tools like this to aid things. I know people say “blah blah use your ears’, but again unless you are mixing in a professional studio you might not be able to hear absolutely everything as it’s happening. My next investment is foam diamonds, bass traps and removal of a wall. A subwoofer in this room is going to be problematic since the shape and position is just really awkward. Recently I was having issues with matching kicks and bass in volume because my ears were not really used to my new monitor setup. I read about this plugin a lot on producer forums as “OMG USEFUL” and I never thought too much of it to be honest. Here’s some things that are a must in my mixes. I have some higher priced toys and software, but I’ve found in the past few months that a few free tools have the made the ultimate best use out of these weapons of Techno destruction.
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