Expose 2 - really accurate or misleading? Official Audio and own audio tested

[Caine123]

i got Expose 1 for a very cheap price, i think 10 bucks or so many years ago, now it wasnt starting so i isntalled the demo of Expose 2 and it started well.

then i put ober 10 exports from me in the, nearly all were having great results, woohooo, but nearly all had more or less spots with phase issues. i listened to ALL these tracks in MONO with headphones and cannot hear any phasing. or if so, very small not hearable?

then i put in some so called professional mastered? songs from various people and i WAS shocked, they mostly had even MORE issues, not only phase issues.

now i doubt this tool is any good at all?

[aberration123]

From what I've heard over my short period in producing... I wouldn't be surprised if what the tool is telling you is true, some people just crank out tracks regardless. Phase issues where? only real problem would be down low. Phasing elsewhere sometimes can't/not worried/be avoided, after all "phaser flanger effects exist"

[TIMT]

Yeah, probably true. probably from people abusing MID/SIDE IME. using a 2nd or more order higpass to "tighten up the bottom end"will uncouple the stereo difference from the sum pretty quick if it's not linear phase, and it most often isn't. phasey stereo images is the norm these days, so probably not inaccurate or misleading. just people not generally giving a shit/ a status quo of rubbish monitors, headphones, as well as people just doing things to complete some sort of production tips checklist. always get stuff in these days where it just seems like every single decision was based on some flavour of the month Youtube producers advice being incorporated without actually listening if it benefited the material.

You'd need to elaborate on what the other issues are to see if they are also common, or errors from Exposes analysis. if we are talking ISP,s and clipping, then probably not an error either. also really normal, but i really don't care about ISPS if i am honest for the stuff i mix and work with. still not using ISP limiters and likely never will. they all soften the leading edge of transients from what i am assuming is the look-ahead on the ones i tried.

[MogwaiBoy]

I like Expose for a quick glance at what my stats (LUFS, True Peak, dynamics) are on a track or tracks (or sections of tracks), and for A/B level-matched comparison between 2 exports of the same track. It's really good for blindtesting actually as you can close your eyes and just down arrow between the 2 files seamlessly without any gap in the audio - and the auto level matching is spot on.

Not sold on the Compare EQ though but glad they finally fixed it so it doesn't keep popping up all the time when you don't want it to (stays minimised). And it doesn't seem to be showing large bumps in the low mids/mids on literally everything (including commercial music) you put in it, like it seemed to before - maybe they refined that.

This is a really useful app that's fast and easy to use - was cheap too.