Perhaps too good to be free, SPAN can do K-System metering, and includes a correlation meter as well as comprehensive spectrum analysis options. Best of all, though, you can overlay mid and side spectrums for really detailed information about stereo width. TT Dynamic Range Meter makes it possible to provide releases size 4.17 MB In January 2009, The Pleasurize Music Foundation launched a wide-ranging initiative for ending the 'Loudness War' being waged by successive music releases. There are many incredibly powerful delay VST plugins available, and all DAWs will come with one or two decent delay tools. However, if you’re not ready to reach for your wallet just yet, there are a great selection of free delay plugins that are capable of creating fantastic-sounding delay effects similar to commercial plugins. It is interesting to note that many users find the free SPAN to be just as capable as the SPAN Plus for their needs. But that is more a testament to the excellence of the free plug-in than it is a criticism of SPAN Plus. SPAN Plus is an excellent spectrum analyzer plug-in in more ways than one. But you can also use VST plugins (for some people it can be more convenient). We have searched deep deep inside deep deep down inside into the web, to find the best free VST plugins for audio analysis, here’s the selection: 1) Spectrum Analysis. 1.1) Voxengo SPAN. This spectrum analyzer uses FFT to display the signal frequency in real time.

Youlean Loudness Meter

YouLean is featured prominently on my master bus. This plugin will give you real-time updates as to the integrated, momentary, and short term LUFS value during playback. It’s also very useful for keeping your True Peak levels in check.

Free Vst Vu Meters

As you can see on the right hand side of the below screenshot, YouLean actually plots a graph showing the historical LUFS vales of the song.

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Brainworx bx_meter

This isn’t a loudness meter as such. It’s a dynamic range meter that uses basic units such as peak and RMS. It’s floating dynamic section is a very good indicator of where on the scale the energy of the song is at any given moment. It is especially useful if you are using the K-System for monitoring and serves as a guide to knowing the dynamics of the song you are mastering. The RMS meter can be calibrated to various frequency weightings as to get a better idea of the loudness relative to full scale as opposed to just simple RMS which is very sensitive to bass.

MLoudnessAnalyzer

A very sophisticated loudness meter that allows you to set a ‘target loudness’ which the meters respond to allowing to visually achieve your LUFS goal. It even features a PLR meter. PLR is Peak to Loudness Ratio, the difference between the integrated LUFS and peak value. PLR is good to know when optimising for loudness normalised streaming platforms.

Klanghelm VUMT

Based on the design of classic VU meters of their time. I personally use this as slow RMS meter, very useful for balancing the louder parts of songs within the context of album mastering. It even features a mono maker for summing everything below a given frequency to mono.

Voxengo SPAN (Stereo Mastering Setting)

This one is always good to look at when you have slight doubts or need validation of the general distribution of energy over the frequency spectrum. Generally speaking, you are looking for a reasonably flat response here rolling off at around 8k. However, this is a huge generalisation and should not be forced out of a given mix if there is energy lacking in some frequency domains. Use it as a reference. The same goes for all meters for that matter.

Orban Loudness Meter

Sometimes I get to the goal quite quickly without the use of meters. Orban is unique in the sense that it’s not actually a plug-in. It’s in fact an app that allows you to get your loudness and true peak levels from a printed mix or master. This saves time as I don’t have to play the song through just to know my LUFS values and such. Good for just checking the numbers after the fact and for comparing tracks.

Meterplugs

Ian Shepherd and the good people at Meterplugs have created a solid range of metering plugins that go way beyond yesteryear’s familiar standards. Their flagship plugins include Dynameter and Perception, helping you find the right balance between loud and dynamic, the sweetspot if you will.

Your Stock Meter

It’s very likely that your DAW features it’s own meters. They will likely give you peak and RMS readings at least. As with all of these plugins, it’s best to start using them with real material and learning how they respond to various types of music. I often drag things from my iTunes library to see what it looks like through the meters I use. /sir-vst-plugin.html. This helps me paint a picture of what to work towards, especially when using reference tracks.

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