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Just noticed the frequency scale for Plot Spectrum is missing the grid line for 10 KHz.

The grid lines are drawn dynamically according to the sample rate of the audio that is being analysed and how big the display is.
For more grid lines, resize the Plot Spectrum window so that it is bigger.

As I change the size of the plot, various tics and axis labels appear and disappear (e.g. 9300Hz, 9400Hz, 11000Hz, 12000Hz), but there's never even a tic for 10000Hz. It actually gets a bit confusing at some scales where the missing 10KHz tic is flanked by tics for nearby frequencies. IMO every decade (10^integer) value should always have a gridline even if there's no room for the label. The spacing makes it clear that it's a decade boundary, and the user tends to assume the last gridline before the longer space to the next one is a decade. OOPS - just noticed the 11Hz gridline. I'd have preferred that one to be just a tic, but at least the decade gridlines are a different color. Using 'K' instead of '000' from 10000Hz up would reduce crowding of the labels if that's an option in the formatting.

DickN wrote:Using 'K' instead of '000' from 10000Hz up would reduce crowding of the labels if that's an option in the formatting.

For frequencies above 1000Hz it would also be easier to read as kHz. However, on the logarithmic scale there's a lot of values below 1kHz and I don't know whether it's possible to have a mix of Hz and kHz. If it's not possible to mix units then I think that Hz is better than kHz.