Audi-Graph Software

[saxhound]

I stumbled across this link on that "other" forum.

http://www.audi-graph.com/index.php

An interesting concept for working on refining your tone. Pretty affordable as well.

[pete]

Intriguing, but a tad pricey.

[tictactux]

A free alternative is the Sound Color Analyzer and Tuner at http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~tuner/tuner_e.html (scroll down about a third of that page).

[saxhound]

The part that I found interesting was the ability to show the overtones and harmonics. If you know that player xxx that you are trying to emulate has a certain sound profile, then you can try to shape and match that sound with some meaningful visual cues. Or, if you are having trouble hitting the third or fourth partial in an overtone series, working to bring that out while playing the fundamental might trigger that "aha" moment.

I'm not sure how well it works, but I am intrigued. It does sound like having a good quality USB mic is a must.

[hakukani]

Any freeware frequency analyzer does about the same thing. I us AudioXplorer on my Mac.

When the audigraph creator was on that other site, I kept asking him questions, and he pretty much ignored me. I hate being ignored