Electronic Musician

Spectrum analyzers

Voxengo SPAN Free

It’s likely already in your plugins folder, and it’s well and truly the one to beat, so how does the world’s favourite freeware plugin compare to the other analysers in this round-up?

SPAN is legendary for many reasons, including spectrum smoothing, custom resizing, True Peak reading and LUFS metering, mid/side, multichannel analysis with channel grouping, A/B-ing and loads more besides. For most situations, though, you’ll

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