A second pair
of ears.
Every Kelvinmoor plugin has a SCAN button. It listens, measures and proposes a starting point, and it tells you why. You stay the engineer.
- 1
Listen
Press SCAN and play the part that matters: the loudest chorus, the busiest bar, the take with the most s sounds. SCAN listens for five to twenty seconds, or follows your playback.
- 2
Measure
It measures what an engineer would check first: loudness, dynamics, where the energy sits across the spectrum, the harsh peaks, the sibilance, the key, the tempo, the width.
- 3
Recommend
It proposes settings for that plugin and that material, each with a one-line reason. Apply them with one click, compare with A/B, undo if you disagree.
Specific, not magic.
SCAN does not say "warmer". It says what it heard and what it changed, in numbers you can check against your own ears.
Play the loudest part of the performance for about ten seconds.
- Source
- Vocal
- Integrated
- −18.4 LUFS
- Loudness range
- 9 LU
- Crest factor
- 13.6 dB
Recommended
- Peak Reduction 48: about 4 dB of average leveling
- Gain +4.0 dB: matched to the reduction, so the level stays put
- Emphasis 18 %: the cell reacts a bit more to harsh top end
- Memory 45 %: a release that follows the phrasing
Example readout. The values depend on your material.
Play the song with your vocal for about twelve seconds.
- Beat loudness
- −9.8 LUFS
- Beat density
- 3.4 onsets per second
- Beat low end
- +7.0 dB over 1 kHz
- Beat ambience
- 30 %
Recommended
- Sit +2.5 dB: the vocal will sit 2.5 dB above the beat
- 808 Room 61 %: heavy low end in the beat, so the vocal’s low mids make room for it
- Space 35 %, matched to the beat’s ambience
- Moor 70 %, Glue 40 %
Example readout. The values depend on your material.
What it measures.
Each plugin reads only what matters to its job. A de-esser cares about sibilance; a maximizer cares about loudness and true peak; a vocal suite reads almost everything.
- Loudness (LUFS)
- Integrated, short-term and range: how loud it is and how much it moves.
- Crest factor
- Peak against average. Tells a compressor how hard to work and how fast.
- Spectrum by band
- Where the energy is, from sub to air, compared with a balanced reference.
- Tilt
- Whether the whole thing leans dark or bright.
- Sibilance
- Where the s sounds sit and how far they jump above the voice.
- Resonances
- Narrow peaks that ring: boxy, nasal, harsh, sharp. With frequency and size.
- Pitch range and key
- Lowest and highest notes, the likely key, and how sure it is.
- Transients
- How many hits per second and how sharp they are.
- Low end
- How much energy is below 120 Hz and whether it is centered.
- Stereo width
- Correlation and width, band by band.
What SCAN won't do.
- It won't decide the sound of your record. It proposes a place to start.
- It won't change anything until you press Apply, and Undo puts it all back.
- It won't send your audio anywhere. The analysis runs inside the plugin, on your computer.
- It won't make a bad take good. It will tell you what is in it.
Try it on your own track.
Every plugin runs fully for 7 days, SCAN included.