If you never seen some of what audio restoration people do with a spectrograph view in Izotope RX, you should check it out. They clean up audio using a process somewhat akin to photoshopping images. The ears are still involved, but it's a very visual process.
I suspect doing it a lot leads to some purposeful synthesia where you can hear things and know what they would look like in a spectrograph.
I suspect doing it a lot leads to some purposeful synthesia where you can hear things and know what they would look like in a spectrograph.
Here's the first example I could find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKNYYR-uUEo