SECRET WEAPON - Psyscope PRO 

Shaperbox is pretty cool, but I was only using this LFO style side chain as an easy example for demonstration. Psyscope Pro has four other displays (spectral etc.) to make it easy to compare signals in realtime. It's perfect when you're "multing" a bass, or layering kick drums as you can display up to 16 tracks. My favourite technique is putting a Psyscope before a compressor and another after the compressor. You can loop a kick drum and see the effect of the attack/release settings in realtime at the same time as you're sidechaining the bass - it feels like cheating! 😎

@@mixphantom0101 Understood. Another thing I do with shaperbox is I draw the volume envelope to control the volume what otherwise would be difficult if using a compressor, so volumeshaper is really good for that if one has to fix issues. Anyhow visualization is very good to learn from.

I have to downvote shaperbox. They call their system "sidechaining" when in fact there is no sidechain input, it is automated ducking. When I was just starting, this wasted a few hours of my life, never to be returned.

Yes. Psycope is a great visual aid for fine tuning.

I have the basic Melodyne but never use it as VariAudio is far more powerful. But, I should do a tutorial with VariAudio to show some advanced techniques I use.

@@mixphantom0101 yes, please do Mark. I've ben using VariAudio too for many years. I love your insights and experience, so I would probaly learn something new! 😎👍

It does... but this scope makes it easy to see what you're doing with any envelope follower, compressor or "shape changing" plugins. Plus, I think you can have up to 16 layers displayed... so useful for stacked bass and stacked kicks/snares.

Yep...

​@@mixphantom0101hi, I'm not seeing the grid lines on mine. It only shows the waveform but not the grid to show the zero crossing when you peak