In this free video tutorial, brought to you with the support of Plugin Alliance, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers explores the settings in the spectrum analyser in Metric AB.

FFT Size And Windowing

Frequency analysers are undoubtedly useful tools but it always strikes me that I take them for granted but what they do is so clever - unpacking the frequencies of a complex sound. Many of us leave the settings at their defaults and this might well be because of their unfamiliarity,

In this free video tutorial, Julian looks at windowing options (Hann, Hamming, Blackman and Bartlett) and FFT size and how these settings affect the display and performance of a spectrum analyser.