Nugen Audio

Direct
Approach
SpecTrend
$20
Designed to help you reference
your mix to a pink noise signal,
which descends by 3dB per
octave, SpecTrend gives you a
mission to ‘fit it into the
rectangle’ to get yourself a
well-balanced mix, with any
frequency bands that are over/
undercooked appearing in red
or blue. Green is your achingly
simple target here.
Plus, you can reference to
white noise if you prefer, and
play (inaudible but displayed)
white noise or pink noise
signals. There’s a low-end 3dB
boost too, if you’re going
bass-heavy. It’s a simple plugin
that uses a well-known rule of
thumb to give you a simple
mixing mission.
directap.com
VERDICT 7.9
Gramotech
GT Analyser
FREE
With an FFT, stereo correlation
and dual metering system, GT
Analyser gives you a choice of
Spectrum analysers
Interrogate your frequency spectrum with this range of
visualisers that come in all shapes and sizes. Or just,
y’know… get SPAN
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
just need to drop it onto a channel and start ogling it – after that,
you’re hooked on the simple, to-the-point visuals. For those who
want to dive further into SPAN – or at least customise the default
green colour-scheme – there’s plenty for you to get through in its
Settings window.
Yes, SPAN’s looking slightly dated but not by a huge amount,
and with a feature set you simply cannot argue with, this is still the
best free spectrum analyser out there. It’s a great advertisement for
SPAN Plus ($45), which adds even more features.
voxengo.com
VERDICT 9.2
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