Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Download Voxengo SPAN: voxengo.com/product/span
Dan Worrall SPAN tutorial: youtube.com/watch?v=iZrWMv02tlA&
AHEE SPAN Tutorial: youtube.com/watch?v=lEWr5UJMqUA&
In this tutorial we cover the spectrum analyzer plugin, Voxengo SPAN. It’s one of the most ubiquitous and useful freeware plugins out there for visual mixing. Here’s our game plan:
0:00 Start
0:39 Why you should use visual mixing tools
0:49 Problems with room acoustics
1:26 The filtration effect
2:54 iZotope Matching EQ
5:26 How to set up your DAW & session
6:16 Aligning the drop of your master & the reference tracks
7:00 Why it’s critical to use the VST2 version of SPAN
7:35 Why the manual doesn’t help
7:58 How to dial in SPANs settings
8:27 How to activate infinite averaging for the spectrum
9:07 Setting up the channel routing, groups, & sidechain input
10:09 Renaming the groups
10:29 How to route audio into the sidechain input in Ableton Live 10
10:53 Configuring the second spectrum
11:25 How to underlay one spectrum with another
12:37 How to use this information to improve your mixes & masters
13:10 Comparing 2 masters in SPAN
14:39 Why you shouldn’t only use this technique
15:25 Don’t get your track to match the spectrum of a reference track exactly
15:59 Why this technique works so well for mixing the low end / bass of your track
16:30 Why you should compare your track to a group of similar reference tracks
#voxengospan #mixingtutorial #spectrumanalyzer
✅ Try All our Courses for FREE: warpacademy.com/free-trial-2
Download Voxengo SPAN: voxengo.com/product/span
Dan Worrall SPAN tutorial: youtube.com/watch?v=iZrWMv02tlA&
AHEE SPAN Tutorial: youtube.com/watch?v=lEWr5UJMqUA&
In this tutorial we cover the spectrum analyzer plugin, Voxengo SPAN. It’s one of the most ubiquitous and useful freeware plugins out there for visual mixing. Here’s our game plan:
0:00 Start
0:39 Why you should use visual mixing tools
0:49 Problems with room acoustics
1:26 The filtration effect
2:54 iZotope Matching EQ
5:26 How to set up your DAW & session
6:16 Aligning the drop of your master & the reference tracks
7:00 Why it’s critical to use the VST2 version of SPAN
7:35 Why the manual doesn’t help
7:58 How to dial in SPANs settings
8:27 How to activate infinite averaging for the spectrum
9:07 Setting up the channel routing, groups, & sidechain input
10:09 Renaming the groups
10:29 How to route audio into the sidechain input in Ableton Live 10
10:53 Configuring the second spectrum
11:25 How to underlay one spectrum with another
12:37 How to use this information to improve your mixes & masters
13:10 Comparing 2 masters in SPAN
14:39 Why you shouldn’t only use this technique
15:25 Don’t get your track to match the spectrum of a reference track exactly
15:59 Why this technique works so well for mixing the low end / bass of your track
16:30 Why you should compare your track to a group of similar reference tracks
#voxengospan #mixingtutorial #spectrumanalyzer
