Please tell me what is supposed to happen when I press the TAB key and then left-mouse-click on the green line in select mode? I did this and nothing happened!

What will happen is the focus of the gain cursor will change from one plot to another. That is, when you first use it the trace that the gain cursor attaches itself to is the green one. If you press the tab key once while the left mouse button is down the gain cursor switches to the yellow trace (peak power) and if you press it again it switches to the red trace (geometric mean of the two). Note that it will only change focus while the left mouse button is down and you are using the gain cursor. There is a minor issue of the crosshair not actually updating correctly on some versions of windows that needs resolving but it you move the mouse after pressing the tab key it should show up on the next trace.

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What the Pro's are Saying

Overall, although it's still initially harder to get to grips with than some rival 'EQ ripper' utilities, I still prefer Harbal, with its more considered approach to improving the final sound of an audio track, the detail of its manual and tutorials, and its helpful on-line user forum hosted by Har-Bal's professional mastering and research engineers. It's a serious tool that can teach you a lot about why your mixes don't sound like commercial tracks, at the same time as improving them.

- Martin Walker, Sound On Sound Magazine, July 2004

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Mastering Tutorial

The following is a mastering tutorial explaining many tips, tricks and audio mastering secrets. There are a number of methods used to accomplish harmonic balancing or spectral correction. Your tracks will sound their best when they are first processed in Har-Bal before any digital eq or multiband compression/limiting is applied.

FAQ's

Is Har-Bal a stand alone application? If not, what kind of plug-in is it?

It is a standalone application that works on sound files (wide range of supported file formats). As a standalone application it has certain capabilities that would simply not be possible as a plugin and that is why we developed it as a standalone application. We are intent on creating a plugin version of the software though as a plugin it will have significantly different functionality than Har-Bal proper. We cannot go into much more detail than that, as far as the plugin version is concerned, because development work on that line is very much in it's infancy.