[mbself]

How much attention, if any, should be paid to to the spectrum charts available in most audio mastering software?

I have a few recordings I have been tinkering with and have started experimenting with a technique that has been helpful to me and has helped me vastly improve some old cassette transfers and some more recent digital master files from my Zoom H2.

First, I have been using the spectragraph to determine where my recordings are underexposed and where they are overexposed (to use photography terms). I then use that information to slowly sculpt the sound, by chart only, to a near flat graph. Then I let my ears do the work from there. It has been successful for me on my own recordings and I was wondering if anyone else does this, if I am a dimwitted newb who should stop trying, or if this is a standard practice that I have stumbled upon.