diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index cd177824a..cc1e99add 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2008-06-14	Tobias Doerffel	<tobydox/at/users/dot/sourceforge/dot/net>
 
+	* plugins/spectrum_analyzer/spectrum_analyzer.cpp:
+	don't apply window-function to data as this seems to make things only
+	even worse
+
 	* plugins/spectrum_analyzer/log_x_axis.png:
 	* plugins/spectrum_analyzer/log_y_axis.png:
 	* plugins/spectrum_analyzer/background.png:
diff --git a/plugins/spectrum_analyzer/spectrum_analyzer.cpp b/plugins/spectrum_analyzer/spectrum_analyzer.cpp
index 3f3f960a5..d02e98cd0 100644
--- a/plugins/spectrum_analyzer/spectrum_analyzer.cpp
+++ b/plugins/spectrum_analyzer/spectrum_analyzer.cpp
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ bool spectrumAnalyzer::processAudioBuffer( sampleFrame * _buf,
 	}
 
 
-	hanming( m_buffer, BUFFER_SIZE, HAMMING );
+//	hanming( m_buffer, BUFFER_SIZE, HAMMING );
 
 	const sample_rate_t sr = engine::getMixer()->processingSampleRate();
 	const int LOWEST_FREQ = 0;
diff --git a/plugins/spectrum_analyzer/spectrumanalyzer_controls.cpp b/plugins/spectrum_analyzer/spectrumanalyzer_controls.cpp
index f618986b4..45077e4b9 100644
--- a/plugins/spectrum_analyzer/spectrumanalyzer_controls.cpp
+++ b/plugins/spectrum_analyzer/spectrumanalyzer_controls.cpp
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ spectrumAnalyzerControls::spectrumAnalyzerControls( spectrumAnalyzer * _eff ) :
 	m_effect( _eff ),
 	m_linearSpec( FALSE, this, tr( "Linear spectrum" ) ),
 	m_linearYAxis( FALSE, this, tr( "Linear Y-axis" ) ),
-	m_channelMode( spectrumAnalyzer::MergeChannels, spectrumAnalyzer::MergeChannels, spectrumAnalyzer::RightChannel, this, tr( "Channel mode" ) )
+	m_channelMode( spectrumAnalyzer::MergeChannels,
+			spectrumAnalyzer::MergeChannels,
+			spectrumAnalyzer::RightChannel,
+						this, tr( "Channel mode" ) )
 {
 }