Referencing With VOXENGO SPAN - VST2, VST3 and Audio Unit AU

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Today I am showing you how to properly use reference tracks in mixing and production to help get your sound to a pro level. We are going to do this by referencing with Voxengo SPAN, a free tool that can help compare our tracks to professional mixes! I'll show you haw to do this with Voxengo Span VOXENGO SPAN - VST2, VST3 and Audio Unit AU. I'm using Ableton Live, but all of these techniques and principles are applicable to Logic, Cubase, Reason, FL Studio, Studio One, Bitwig and all other popular DAW's.

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Contents:
00:00​​​ Intro
01:07​​​ Referencing
02:10​​​ Routing
03:25​​​ Track Selection
05:05​​​ Loudness Matching
07:30​​​ Where To Reference
09:47​​​ Setting Up SPAN
13:54​​​ Referencing With SPAN
19:30​​​ Mid / Side Comparison
20:42 Using A Rough Mix
22:15 Other Referencing Plugins
11:51 Download The Project Files
15:31 Watch this Next

I am a DJ, producer and Engineer living in Berlin. Music That I have made for myself and my clients has been released on labels including Toolroom, Spinnin, Defected, Mother Recordings, Saved, 8bit, Warner, Realm, Solotoko, Glasgow Underground and many more.

Whether you make tracks like Fisher, Solardo, Chris Lake, Camelphat, Artbat, UMEK, Solomun, Purple Disco Machine, Claptone or John Summit you can learn something from this video. And make sure you check out my other music production tutorials.

[jlproductions]

How Come you do -8db lufs? Is it for a specific streaming service? I always thought for spotify it had to be -14db lufs. What are your thoughts about that?

[jpb]

Finally someone with a work around for the VST3 version! Thank you dude!

[dannyramirez]

Thank you Dilby you just answered my former question about SPAN and finding the sidechain dropdown! I’m studying your video now. Cheers from Sacramento, California! :) House Music Forever!

[dj_Davepz]

Legendary, I'm glad you have refreshed this one again, D.

[Rik-mnpf]

Such a great teacher. This video is invaluable, can’t wait for when you’re in Toronto. Cheers

[AnthonyHuttley]

Excellent video as always, Dilby.

Another really great referencing tool I started using recently is Oszilloz Megascope, by Schultz Audio. It's a bit expensive, (a bit cheaper on black Friday) but such a great tool for keeping an eye on where things are overlapping, or summing in a problematic way.

[Dutimus]

Very helpful Dilby! When you were doing this track on the vid were you doing a mixdown or mastering a song? Reason why I ask is because you're already at 0db. Also, with your headphones are you using a Harman Curve? Thanks again my friend.

[revlow]

Thanks for showing your settings! have you looked at TDR prism for the same purpose? It better displays types of perception etc so for example it has the spectrum under “human” energy perception which I found super useful, and can use average/lufs/peak over eachother and get in depth info

[markthomas]

Excellent tutorial. Thanks for sharing.

[benjaminfrazer-synnott]

I have been waiting for this video, was wondering my my referencing never quite works out

[micky]

Really helpful, thanks man, great vid 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[philth_spector]

Does anyone know why the option to sidechain isn't showing up when I drop this onto my master track in ableton?

[TGB-Editing]

can you explain, why you look on the lufs instead of the true peak when leveling the reference track. I am wondering because lufs can be different from genre to genre and i know that some artist have heavy compressions which also effect lufs

[danielribeiro]

Thanks man, I tried to adjust span and somehow I got addition shpes in the background like copy of those same waves. Do you know how to deactivate that? Thanks Daniel UPDATE: I managed to remove one layer thru correct settings. 😂

[meryb]

I hope it’s about music production Referencing not only mixing 🎉

[victorarrudadj]

Dilby, I have a question, I saw you hitting the -6, -9 of gain reduction in the limiter, this is not a problem for your master?

[sgg]

I have the free version VST3 but it doesn't give the option for more than 2 on the input routing.
Is this only available for VST2?
If so is there a link to download the VST2 version?
The Voxengo site only has the VST3 available.