ListenHub
Sonnox ListenHub lets you easily compare your mixes to professional references from Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, or local files. Check frequency balance, dynamics, stereo width, and loudness to ensure your mix shines on any platform.
Description
ListenHub is your essential referencing tool, seamlessly comparing your mix to professional standards from streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, or your local files. It removes the guesswork in achieving commercial quality, letting you A/B test with ease and precision. Designed to help you craft a well-balanced sound, ListenHub isolates specific frequency bands and levels out loudness, allowing for fair, consistent comparisons that highlight where your mix needs adjustments. The built-in loudness and stereo width monitors ensure your mix holds up across playback systems. ListenHub’s intuitive interface simplifies referencing, saving time while providing critical insights for a polished, professional sound.
Stay Competitive with Professional References
In today’s production world, referencing your mix against commercial tracks is essential. But setting it up can be time-consuming—juggling multiple plugins, downloading files, or dealing with expensive hardware.
ListenHub makes it effortless. Instantly A/B compare your mix with reference tracks from streaming platforms or local files and get precise feedback on how your mix holds up. With tools to isolate frequencies, check stereo width, and monitor dynamics, ListenHub helps you make smarter, faster decisions—all from one place.
Enhance Your Listening Experience
It's easy to lose perspective when you’ve been mixing for hours. ListenHub gives you the perceptual reset you need, helping you hear your mix with fresh ears. With stepped volume controls for consistent listening levels, and intuitive loudness and spectral meters, you’ll keep your mix balanced—even when your ears start to fatigue.
Key Features
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Instantly A/B Reference Tracks
Stream reference tracks directly from Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, or local storage. No more time wasted importing tracks into your DAW—hear how your mix stands up against streaming-normalised tracks.
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Precision Frequency Band Isolation
Great mixes are all about the details. ListenHub lets you solo frequency ranges—low-end, mids, or highs—and compare them to your reference tracks. Fine-tune your kick and bass relationship, ensure your highs sparkle without getting harsh, and easily adjust every detail.
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Level Matching for Fair Comparisons
Don’t let loudness bias mislead you. With ListenHub’s Match Input Loudness, your mix and reference track are automatically levelled, so you can make accurate, unbiased comparisons and informed mixing decisions.
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Dynamics & Stereo Monitoring
Your mix’s punch and liveliness are just as important as its spectral balance. ListenHub compares your mix’s loudness and dynamic range with reference tracks, helping you keep your mix engaging without sacrificing dynamics.
This software is truly incredible, especially since I can run it off an iPad which allows me to get some insights that I used to do with plugins and various virtual setups in the DAW itself. Koen Heldens (XXXTentacion, Beyonce, Rihanna, J-Lo, Dr. Dre)
Here’s why it’s a must-have tool:
- Multiple inputs: Reference system audio, DAW files, or in-process mixes.
- Stream tracks: Access music from Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Tidal, or local files.
- Output switching: Easily toggle between monitors or headphones.
- Host AU plugins: Apply room correction or simulation software on any output.
- Frequency & channel solo: Isolate frequency ranges or check mono compatibility and stereo width.
- Auto level-matching: Automatically correct loudness differences between reference tracks.
- Stepped volume control: Ensures consistent, repeatable listening levels.
- Auto-mute: Protect your ears and speakers from sudden loud bursts.
- LUFS metering: Keep your mix dynamic and competitive.
ListenHub is an absolute beauty to work with, it’s so easy to use, and there’s nothing on the market that even comes close. Trust me when I say ListenHub is going to be a game-changer. Tyrone 'Cross Bone T' Harris (The Anchoress, Maverick Sabre, Verb T)
Seamless Workflow Integration
Use ListenHub as a zero-latency plugin inside your DAW or as a system-wide app to control all your audio. You can also host AU plugins like Sonarworks SoundID or Slate VSX, ensuring your mix translates perfectly across different monitors or headphones—without manual profile switching.
ListenHub fills a void that not many people realise is there. It's become an indispensable tool. Robbie Dwyer (Freelance Producer and Lecturer at the Univerity of Winchester)
Compatibility
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Try a free demoSpecifications in detail
- LicensingSonnox ListenHub offers 2 activations per licence you buy.
You can authorise your plug-in directly to your computer, an iLok USB device* or to iLok Cloud**.
* iLok2 and iLok3 devices are supported
** iLok Cloud requires a constant active internet connection
NOTE: ListenHub is a Mac OS only product and is not available for other operating systems
AAX
- Pro Tools version:11 and above
- Format:AAX Native
- OS Compatibility:macOS: X 10.13 or later
Audio Units
- OS Compatibility:macOS: X 10.13 or later
VST3
- OS compatibility:macOS: X 10.13 or later
Remote Application
- OS compatibility:Sonnox ListenHub comes with a free remote application for both iPhone, iPad and Android devices. This can be downloaded from Apple's App Store or on the Google Play store.
iOS 9.3 and above
iPad OS 13 and above
Android 9 (Pie) and above
Latency
- Plug-inThe Sonnox ListenHub plug-in is zero latency in all formats.
- Desktop AppThe latency of the Sonnox ListenHub desktop app depends on a variety of factors, such as FX chain buffer size and the latency of plugins inserted into the FX chain.