Too bad it doesn't do 3D waterfall... been looking for something like that. I currently use a really expensive suite that was designed for rotating machinery... at the top left. With 3D waterfall you can see spectral shapes (things like attack, sustain, decay,etc) over time. Really nice for looking at things like kick drums ...
And my one VU Meter in the middle...
It does one of the best spectragrams I've ever seen. The red thing next to the right speaker is the Winkie Blinkie - basically a Lissajous (what TC calls "... a cloud") . The Tek on the far right is also in Lissajous/XY mode.
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Lissajous displays were critical in vinyl mastering... The "Cloud" TC mentions is actually a vectorscope using the horizontal and vertical for measuring phase - Old TV broadcast/production studios and dowstream had them; they were used for setting the color since the chroma is phase modulated on the baseband video. If you've ever seen colorbars and wondered what they were for:
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... once you see an NTSC Vectorscope it'll make sense, since the targets on it represent the colors:
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you'd use a timebase corrector to get the chroma correct. It was a joke with engineers that NTSC actually stood for:
Never
The
Same
Color
since the demoding of the chroma phase was done using the color burst on the front porch of the vid signal. All due to the 1960's desire to make it compatible with old black and white TV's...
So for audio this is what the patterns will mean - from Larry Boden's bible on disc mastering:
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One thing I don't like about TC is them just killing off the Powercore platform. Had one of the nicest multibands I've ever used. Spent $1,700 on the thing plus thousands more for the plugins, and now it sits as paperweight.