We briefly discussed mastering your own music in a previous article, but Ozone can help you finish music that rivals the job done in an expensive studio, all from the comfort of your own home or professional studio. I'm just playing through the entire track to see how close/off my changes come and averaging out.Ozone by iZotope is a suite of music production plugins and tools particularly suited for mastering music. And obviously, depending on where you are during playback affects things as well. but what I've found is that it takes time for Tonal Balance to register your EQ changes, as it's analyzing your playback in realtime. I've only started to scratch the surface, so I might be a poor choice to respond. Is it based on feedback/resonance or what?īTW, There is a free PDF on the iZotope site about Mastering and about Dithering also. The one thing I do not understand is how the Tonal Balance works it takes an absolute age to get the curves down at which point you are after taking them down too much and it takes an age to get them back up at with point its too much and on and on. May aswell keep this thread for ozone 8 tips i'd say a few people got it. The RE exciters were not an alternative for me, neither was the Mclass stereo imager. The way I see it is there wasn't really a RE alternative for this anyway. We'll see how that works out.Įxcept for the Ozone stuff I will only use REs instead of VSTs so hopefully I'll be ok. I've been missing a good exciter in Reason for a long time so that's what I'd like to use on some individual channels. Maybe it'll be lighter on the DSP that way.

Since it's the advanced version I'm hoping that I can put a couple of individual effects here and there in the mix, instead of using the whole suite. But if that's too DSP heavy then I can always export to another project and use it there. I know some people have strong opinions about that but that would fit my workflow best. The best thing for me would be to be able to put it on the master bus in the actual song project. Tried Ozone 7 in Reason 10 at a friends place and it seemed to work alright, no stuttering or other problems. Well I went ahead and bought Ozone 8 Advanced from PluginDiscount for $338 (seemed to be the cheapest deal I could find, about €100 less then the sale price in the Propellerhead Shop) and then saw some negative comments here that it's very DSP heavy in Reason.

Ozone 8 advanced