Visual tools for mixing sound

If you have a small studio, or if you’re still learning to trust your ears when listening to a mix, visual aides are really helpful. The frequency analyzer is a budget producer's best friend. The phase scope is also quite useful. But why stop there? Lissajous curves are big fun! Here's a roundup of basic spectrum analyzers and some specialties.

How to Draw Mushrooms on an Oscilloscope

Better than Chladni Plates. DIY-crew read the manual over here.

Vi Hart ~ Twelve Tones

There is hope for humanity! Certain musicians are still able to think. Check out Vi Hart on YouTube for the finest in musical numerology.

Kandinsky style visualizations

Numbercult is a music & visualization 'project' from Glasgow. It looks very Kandinsky.

An Eyeful of Sound

Synaesthetic people don't need video clips or visuals they just use their brains.

Music visualization in fine style

Michal Levy is a synesthetically sensitive animator/visual artist/jazz musician from Israel. She visualizes music in a Kandinsky-like style. See those yellow trumpets shimmering :)

Bye bye Avatar ~ now let's move on to 3D holographic sound please!

Moving holograms are here, or should be here in about six years. When they arrive virtual porn will never be the same again..

Wave patterns and sonic baubles

What does sound look like? It depends who you ask. Here are some answers from scientists like Ernst Chladni and Thomas Rossing and also some pretty pictures from vibe-ologists like Hans Jenny and Dr. Masaru Emoto.