I think frequency analysis is just another tool. People are most comfortable with things they are familiar with. If I want to make a "classic, Nashville sounding" country song I would want the mix to resemble "the Nasville sound" as close as possible. Frequency analysis helps me to visualize that goal.

Other things I would need to think about are instrumentation, song arrangement and how effects are used. Creating a new Hank Williams sounding song would require a completely different approach than creating a new Blake Shelton sounding country song. Though I haven't looked I'm sure the spectrum slope would be different for each song.

For myself I find the preproduction stage to be the most pleasurable stage of song development. In the beginning there are no boundaries or limitations other than just how creative do you want to be. Anything is possible. The challenge is in duplicating what you planned.


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