[lilith93]

Originally Posted by Lokasenna

IMO it makes the most sense to have your analyzers "listening" to the same signal that you're hearing, and thus they should typically be the very last thing in your chain. If you want to analyze the snare, just solo the snare.

You can always throw an analyzer into the middle of a track if you need to find out what's screwing up your compressor, etc, but that's more of a temporary, as-needed thing.

I haven't had a chance to recreate my mix template since switching to Linux and can't find the file at the moment, but I was really enjoying a setup like this:

Master    --  Spectrum analyzer, LUFS meter, goniometer
Submaster --  All master effects; limiter, multiband, bus comp, etc.
          --> send to Master
All main buses 
          --> send to Submaster

Another advantage of this setup is that you can easily set up a shortcut to show/hide all of your analysis plugins at once:

SWS: Save current track selection
Track: Unselect all tracks
SWS: Select master track
SWS/S&M: Toggle show all floating FX for selected tracks
SWS: Restore saved track selection

So you send all your tracks to the sub master and from there to the master?