BLUE CAT’S FREQ ANALYST

When creating a balance in your mix, there’s absolutely no substitute for what sounds good. But it can sometimes be useful to see what’s going on as well and that’s where a frequency analyser comes in. I use a free plugin called Blue Cat Freq Analyst. It’s well worth placing on your mix bus channel to see which frequency bands are the busiest. The visualisation reacts to your sounds in real time, so you can see where to tweak your instruments, whether it’s equalising your bass region to make up for a lack of low end, or cutting a dominant instrument that’s masking other sounds in the frequency range.