Quote Originally Posted by rounser
how do i spot the most prominent freq of that sound is it were the sound peaks?
I agree that there's usually too much freq information dancing around in front of your eyes to make any sense of it in real time, so another option is to view it statically (time on x axis, freq on y axis), and even make your changes statically.
I've never really had a huge problem looking at sound real time. If you can change the length of time it holds the peak for with a marker it's easy enough to spot the overactive peaks. It's easy enough to spot when something isn't right as well, it's just a case of looping a small interval to actually work out where the problem lies.