diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/ladspa-plugins/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/ladspa-plugins/default.nix
index fe8e9f323a57..491a18bba3ea 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/ladspa-plugins/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/ladspa-plugins/default.nix
@@ -1,18 +1,28 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, autoreconfHook, automake, fftw, ladspaH, libxml2, pkg-config
-, perlPackages }:
+{ lib
+, stdenv
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, autoreconfHook
+, automake
+, fftw
+, ladspaH
+, libxml2
+, pkg-config
+, perlPackages
+}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "swh-plugins";
   version = "0.4.17";
 
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/swh/ladspa/archive/v${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1rqwh8xrw6hnp69dg4gy336bfbfpmbx4fjrk0nb8ypjcxkz91c6i";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "swh";
+    repo = "ladspa";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "sha256-eOtIhNcuItREUShI8JRlBVKfMfovpdfIYu+m37v4KLE=";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkg-config ];
-  buildInputs = [ fftw ladspaH libxml2 perlPackages.perl  perlPackages.XMLParser ];
+  buildInputs = [ fftw ladspaH libxml2 perlPackages.perl perlPackages.XMLParser ];
 
   patchPhase = ''
     patchShebangs .