The Ozone 11 video walkthroughs are getting better, bit by bit, but, guys, let’s go all-in. Let’s work with a track where the listener doesn’t have to mentally sift through reverb to hear what’s happening. Let’s use a track whose mix isn’t already good. Let’s review the modules and their controls in-depth to rescue a mix. I don’t think anyone who is interested in this sort of content is going to stick around just because it features an over-produced sample track with a catchy melody or riff. We’re here to make a difference- to improve on something- while trying to make sense of all the controls available in Ozone 11. Make us a playlist with a 30m video on each module, each of which explores and reveals the intent and effect of all of the module’s controls. Top it off with a 30m summary lesson that draws upon the punch lines from each of the previous segment videos to pull it all together. This “How to master a song from start to finish in 2024” video is a step in the right direction-and better (more in-depth) than anything I’ve seen on Ozone 11 before-but let’s move the needle a bit further, away from entertainment and more toward education.
@@walterdeminicis737 Admittedly so, but exaggeration can be useful as a teaching/learning tool, and that's really the point here: how does Ozone 11 work its magic, and how do you use its levers and dials to achieve that efficiently ?
Totalny agree with 'Let’s work with a track where the listener doesn’t have to mentally sift through reverb to hear what’s happening. Let’s use a track whose mix isn’t already good. Let’s review the modules and their controls in-depth'
I always like to throw the Vintage Limiter on the end of the chain regardless of the outcome, and use either the Fast and Compressed preset, or the Hard and Punchy, (then adjust accordingly)..for metal mixes it just pumps it up.The Stem Focus trick is something I never thought of. I've always thought that the limitation of Master Rebalance was that you can only adjust the volume of one of the faders, and not all, but if I throw another instance of Rebalance before the mothership, I'll be able to adjust more than just the one instrument? It would be nice to see a more hard rock/metal track being worked on...great vid! 🤘
Really great tutorial! What's the recommended workflow for mastering a full amlbum vs single tracks? Does one master each track to each of their specific needs, or master the full album in one long session? Or something else? Thanks!
Just upgraded, so thanks for great info. Best tutorial so far. Also, great vibe from the track you're mastering. Half the time, I don't like the music being mastered and have to bail early! Haha
The clarity module is my favorite, i use it mostly for mixing. I would really really like the option to have it full range instead of limited at 300hz.
Would you recommend using this for dj mixes (especially vinyl where frequencies tend to be less tamed and different for each track in mix)? Thank you for tutorial!
Ozone 11 is amazing. My only criticism is that it feels very much tailored to streaming consumption, with the emphasis on bright, punchy output, which sounds amazing, but is fatiguing over an album length of material.
Everytime run the smart assistant, the dynamic EQ oicks those same two freq that it draws down and then it puts a shelf up high. Every single time. So if that is to allow the maximizer to work more efficiently and it dies it every single time anyway, why not build that into the maximizer and have that as a controllable feature? It seams odd to have that as a default setting that AI ways applies to one module that helps another module? Maybe just buold it in to Maximizer so the dynamic Eq can be used for your music and not a different modules efficiency.
While we know that many people have grown to love and rely on this app, the usage analytics showed that only 3% of Ozone users were using the standalone application. Meanwhile, adding new features and maintaining existing code in both the standalone app and Ozone plugins proved to be a large burden slowing down our development teams. support.izotope.com/hc/en-us/articles/7192108885533-Ozone-Standalone-Application-Discontinued
@@EdgarRoock27:03 for me. It sounds really muddy and unbalanced. I’ve gotten good results w Ozone before-the presenter is great, but this was truly a bad example.
I have a lot of fantastic plugins in addition to ozone 11. Would you add things like smooth2, a shadow hills, etc - things pros use - to add richer harmonics or will that cause more problems? Can you achieve harmonic analog richness with just Ozone? I’m on the fence! Thanks.
I want to use Ozone 10 for de-click and De- hum. If I have mouth sounds like smacking in my audio book tracks, can Ozone 11 do the same kind of cleanup of the tracks?
You can take iZotope products for a 10-day test drive to demo all features and hear how they work for your sound. www.izotope.com/en/products/ozone.html
Never used Ozone had no idea it was not its own program guess its assumed to know this before attempting to instal 10 times in a 2 day period as YOU will not see an icon to open or even basic heads up that thier plugins to be accessed thru a daw. This would be great for a beginers guide or even ads or hell inside the install as it just says finish and nothing happens all the folders are empty and there is no way to start it up. Well now after a few days of trying to figure out what i did wrong,, I did nothing wrong but be daft of never hearing of Ozone til now or any understanding that their addons as feel IZO has a few negative marks against them now that my time was wasted, due to lack of instructions and over kill of previous install tutorial that led me to believe it was going to be way more complicated. Thats all.
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@@iZotopeOfficial Thanks, I tried several things including the import feature but it repeatedly gave the wrong file type error. I just did it manually but opening both versions of Ozone and re-entering each setting one at a time.
This doesn’t seem like a great example of mastering - the mastered track is very trebly and a bit tinny. After hearing the original I was expecting the master to have dealt with the excessive brightness and added some warmth, but instead it became more bright and harsh, whilst obviously also louder and punchier. I’m left quite confused by mastering videos - most of the time it’s difficult to hear any difference coz the changes are so subtle, but this is the complete opposite
I too was expecting more clarity in the master….but it’s as if the vocals remained buried in the mix and the rest of the track got bright ….almost irritatingly….none the less it was definitely a more polished feel.
Hmmm….im not sure that I wouldn’t just run into the exact same problems with no solution all over again working in Ozone….its basically just another multi-band processing thing with a limiter that raises the mid band when you adjust the clarity up. You’re basically doing what I do except in ozone instead of another device. Yeah, I don’t think this is the answer for me. I’m glad you did this video though. I find the best result I’ve achieved so far is by using SELECTIVE band compression rather than multi-band compression…..I mean….it does sound great but definitely something like the TOMO Lisa compressor almost gives more control in selected areas.
Horrible mixed track and the track sucked. Can you please do a track that is techno or melodic techno. Tired of selecting always bad music. May be do a Rap song...same old boring music.
Hello, Excuse my ignorance.. I loved this video but I haven't seen at any point (maybe I missed it) where you specify or select your "ideal" LUFT (14, 12, 10, 9, 5...) or the one requested by the respective platforms? Or does OZONE decide? Thanks in advance and excuse my English. Greetings!
Thank you Sam. I have Ozone 11. I compose mostly classical music. Is the Mastering Assistant useful for this type of music or is it a little “overkill”. Thanks again, great video.
That was a really good walkthrough. I really appreciated the exploratory style. And it didn't hurt that the example track didn't make me want to scream.
Really great vid! One question.. why not bring the vocals or drums upon the mix stage rather than on the master? I feel there may be a quality downside to this?
The reason for this is because in some cases, the mastering engineer only gets a “2 track” export. They may not have the stems or project files. So music rebalance gives mastering engineers the ability to make tweaks even though they only have a single wav file. Changing in the mixing phase is always the best option, but not always possible.
Hello, very useful video, thank you for this. :-) could you please also do the detailed walkthrough video where you mix and master whole song and all tracks by just using iZotope plugins? Guitars, drums, bass, vocals etc? :-) this would be very helpful.
Thanks for this. Would you be able to share what your album mastering process is with these tools? I haven't seen much made recently with the trend being singles, and albums and EPs don't get the same kind of cohesive plugin use as mastering on singles tutorials do.
I don't really get the big onus on reference tracks at the mastering stage. I would think if I wanted my track to sound a certain way I would try to integrate that in to my mix. Seems like 'sows ear' syndrome to me. I would listen to the track and see what would enhance it on its own merits.But I may be missing something here.
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I appreciate the update. Maximizer has changed so much it threw me That's why I came here initially. I like the way that the Assistant has access to the levels in the modules for sound shaping without leaving it, though I am very comfortable with going into manual mode. Nice tip on Soft clip vs Limiter and how finding a balance is key. I was unaware of the Insight module and when I added it to my output chain I was surprised that it was full screen width and I cannot shrink it. So it is a bit cumbersome in my Mac OS Ventura. I plan to update to Sonoma soon and perhaps that will be resolved there? IDK. Overall a great overview touching on a lot of things. I may have been surprised by you not mentioning that the Maximizer is now a very different interface (from 10) and this is why and how it is improved because of it. But I understand this is not about Ozone 10 it is about what is in Ozone 11. Having the Ability to focus on certain aspects such as vocals, bass or drums in a separate Instance on Ozone in the chain is a very good use of this technology. Nice job. Thank you.
There's alot to unpack in Ozone 11 and you've done a masterful job (sorry,couldn't help myself) in clearly explaining so much information. Thank you!!!
If the mix "wasn't bang on" then it should be nowhere near then mastering stage. Mastering should be purely about optimising levels and any slight EQ issues for the cut or streaming and NOT remixing levels pan etc. Sorry but Mix and mastering engineers are two separate skill sets and jobs.
This really helped I didn't know Ozone 11 did all this stuff. Wonderful
Always very clear, handy and userful videos, Sam!
The Ozone 11 video walkthroughs are getting better, bit by bit, but, guys, let’s go all-in. Let’s work with a track where the listener doesn’t have to mentally sift through reverb to hear what’s happening. Let’s use a track whose mix isn’t already good. Let’s review the modules and their controls in-depth to rescue a mix. I don’t think anyone who is interested in this sort of content is going to stick around just because it features an over-produced sample track with a catchy melody or riff. We’re here to make a difference- to improve on something- while trying to make sense of all the controls available in Ozone 11. Make us a playlist with a 30m video on each module, each of which explores and reveals the intent and effect of all of the module’s controls. Top it off with a 30m summary lesson that draws upon the punch lines from each of the previous segment videos to pull it all together. This “How to master a song from start to finish in 2024” video is a step in the right direction-and better (more in-depth) than anything I’ve seen on Ozone 11 before-but let’s move the needle a bit further, away from entertainment and more toward education.
My kingdom for an iZotope video that isn't about pop music. Not once have they done a video working on orchestral film score.
You are not supposed to rescue a mix with mastering or master a bad mix in the first place XD
I think the "rescue the mix" idea is a great one. Every mix doesn't come out a masterpiece so a real-world fix-it tutorial would be excellent.
@@walterdeminicis737 Admittedly so, but exaggeration can be useful as a teaching/learning tool, and that's really the point here: how does Ozone 11 work its magic, and how do you use its levers and dials to achieve that efficiently ?
Totalny agree with 'Let’s work with a track where the listener doesn’t have to mentally sift through reverb to hear what’s happening. Let’s use a track whose mix isn’t already good. Let’s review the modules and their controls in-depth'
This was really a really good!!! Thank you! 🔥
really helpful to me as a beginner. Thanks alot
Sounds good to me👍🏾
I always like to throw the Vintage Limiter on the end of the chain regardless of the outcome, and use either the Fast and Compressed preset, or the Hard and Punchy, (then adjust accordingly)..for metal mixes it just pumps it up.The Stem Focus trick is something I never thought of. I've always thought that the limitation of Master Rebalance was that you can only adjust the volume of one of the faders, and not all, but if I throw another instance of Rebalance before the mothership, I'll be able to adjust more than just the one instrument? It would be nice to see a more hard rock/metal track being worked on...great vid! 🤘
Very informative video!
Really great tutorial! What's the recommended workflow for mastering a full amlbum vs single tracks? Does one master each track to each of their specific needs, or master the full album in one long session? Or something else? Thanks!
Just upgraded, so thanks for great info. Best tutorial so far. Also, great vibe from the track you're mastering. Half the time, I don't like the music being mastered and have to bail early! Haha
The clarity module is my favorite, i use it mostly for mixing. I would really really like the option to have it full range instead of limited at 300hz.
maybe the Exciter module can do the trick for you?
No that's not the same. What Clarity does is quite unique.
This is amazing!
Thanks for this really nice video. I would love to see, how you would master a track differently for a Vinyl in Ozone.
I only use ozone, it was really perfect
Would appreciate an updated version of this video. Ozone 11 no longer runs as a stand alone application.
I'm using all the plugins in cubase.
Yes indeed very useful!
At least in one of your videos Sam, could you pleas say "Winter is comming!"? Thank you.
Nice video. But why matter a new mixdown wav file instead of in the mastering buss in Logic? That is, why create an extra file?
cpu load reduction is my guess
Would you recommend using this for dj mixes (especially vinyl where frequencies tend to be less tamed and different for each track in mix)? Thank you for tutorial!
Ozone 11 is amazing.
My only criticism is that it feels very much tailored to streaming consumption, with the emphasis on bright, punchy output, which sounds amazing, but is fatiguing over an album length of material.
Everytime run the smart assistant, the dynamic EQ oicks those same two freq that it draws down and then it puts a shelf up high. Every single time. So if that is to allow the maximizer to work more efficiently and it dies it every single time anyway, why not build that into the maximizer and have that as a controllable feature? It seams odd to have that as a default setting that AI ways applies to one module that helps another module? Maybe just buold it in to Maximizer so the dynamic Eq can be used for your music and not a different modules efficiency.
Good video
Q: do you know why 10 & 11 got rid of the standalone, and the ability to add all the Metadata info?
While we know that many people have grown to love and rely on this app, the usage analytics showed that only 3% of Ozone users were using the standalone application. Meanwhile, adding new features and maintaining existing code in both the standalone app and Ozone plugins proved to be a large burden slowing down our development teams.
support.izotope.com/hc/en-us/articles/7192108885533-Ozone-Standalone-Application-Discontinued
I always add a limiter on master fader on mx to-1db (premaster). you don't?
I notice the LUFS is getting louder and louder these day. can you talk a little bit more in this area!
The song sounds distorted before any processing. Maybe that wasn't the best choice for this demonstration.
The waveform at 1:26 looks fine and I don't hear the distortion. Timestamp?
@@EdgarRoock27:03 for me. It sounds really muddy and unbalanced.
I’ve gotten good results w Ozone before-the presenter is great, but this was truly a bad example.
@@YungstarProdThat's after processing, but yeah, there may be some distortion there.
I completely agree ☝🏾 I thought I was the only one hearing it
I have a lot of fantastic plugins in addition to ozone 11. Would you add things like smooth2, a shadow hills, etc - things pros use - to add richer harmonics or will that cause more problems? Can you achieve harmonic analog richness with just Ozone? I’m on the fence! Thanks.
any chance of the extra $50 coupon you were doing at xmas? Looking to upgrade my ozone but missed the deal
well that was cool.... upgrade from 9-11 only cost $72. thank you who ever was listening. 💫💫💫
Hello! I produce reggae. Do you have any examples of how to work with Ozone 11 in terms of the music form? I can't find any examples online
It has reggae presets. I've used them and its very good. Plus you can always use Audiolens for a specific sound
I want to use Ozone 10 for de-click and De- hum. If I have mouth sounds like smacking in my audio book tracks, can Ozone 11 do the same kind of cleanup of the tracks?
You can take iZotope products for a 10-day test drive to demo all features and hear how they work for your sound. www.izotope.com/en/products/ozone.html
Never used Ozone had no idea it was not its own program guess its assumed to know this before attempting to instal 10 times in a 2 day period as YOU will not see an icon to open or even basic heads up that thier plugins to be accessed thru a daw. This would be great for a beginers guide or even ads or hell inside the install as it just says finish and nothing happens all the folders are empty and there is no way to start it up. Well now after a few days of trying to figure out what i did wrong,, I did nothing wrong but be daft of never hearing of Ozone til now or any understanding that their addons as feel IZO has a few negative marks against them now that my time was wasted, due to lack of instructions and over kill of previous install tutorial that led me to believe it was going to be way more complicated. Thats all.
Please, subtitles! tks!
Should be up now!
Your plugins are great. Please add 3d interface to new products. It is much more interesting to work with him. (づ｡◕‿◕｡)づ
How do you import Ozone 10 user presets into Ozone 11 without getting any error?
Ozone presets are generally compatible one version across. The best way to transfer those is to save a preset in the Preset Manager of that plug-in, which will appear as an .xml file. For further information, please check out this article. If you need further help, please contact our customer support: support.izotope.com/hc/en-us/articles/6658247071761-Transferring-plug-in-settings-to-a-new-version-Preset-Transfer
@@iZotopeOfficial Thanks, I tried several things including the import feature but it repeatedly gave the wrong file type error. I just did it manually but opening both versions of Ozone and re-entering each setting one at a time.
Ion like how they took away the album assembly n standalone in general. I still fvxz wit Ozone 9 bcuz of dat.
This doesn’t seem like a great example of mastering - the mastered track is very trebly and a bit tinny. After hearing the original I was expecting the master to have dealt with the excessive brightness and added some warmth, but instead it became more bright and harsh, whilst obviously also louder and punchier. I’m left quite confused by mastering videos - most of the time it’s difficult to hear any difference coz the changes are so subtle, but this is the complete opposite
I too was expecting more clarity in the master….but it’s as if the vocals remained buried in the mix and the rest of the track got bright ….almost irritatingly….none the less it was definitely a more polished feel.
All these Ozone 11 videos are made with midi instruments... wish i could see these with real instruments. So yeah this is great but so static.
Legend in portuguese Please!
Is this the advanced version??
This demo is using the advanced version, yes.
@@YungstarProd Thanks
25:16 hmm, couldn't he have done the same thing by adding an EQ & selecting Mid channel? 🤨🤔
Hmmm….im not sure that I wouldn’t just run into the exact same problems with no solution all over again working in Ozone….its basically just another multi-band processing thing with a limiter that raises the mid band when you adjust the clarity up. You’re basically doing what I do except in ozone instead of another device. Yeah, I don’t think this is the answer for me. I’m glad you did this video though. I find the best result I’ve achieved so far is by using SELECTIVE band compression rather than multi-band compression…..I mean….it does sound great but definitely something like the TOMO Lisa compressor almost gives more control in selected areas.
The AI tool always sounds terrible, it's much better to try out different presets to build your own chain of plugins.
Horrible mixed track and the track sucked. Can you please do a track that is techno or melodic techno. Tired of selecting always bad music. May be do a Rap song...same old boring music.
As Eminem said, nobody listens to techno
I couldn't tell what the stabilizer was doing. eyes closed. headphones on 😭
Lovely Video for beginners of Ozone!
Thank You Very much and all the best from Vienna!
:D
Hello, Excuse my ignorance.. I loved this video but I haven't seen at any point (maybe I missed it) where you specify or select your "ideal" LUFT (14, 12, 10, 9, 5...) or the one requested by the respective platforms? Or does OZONE decide? Thanks in advance and excuse my English. Greetings!
that reeverb sounded overcompressed to me, also gain match when you A B so we can get a honest comparison
Great video. Professionally presented and logically explained. Love to see these detailed walkthoughs again with more genres, particularly rock.
Was the example song made with Suno song generator? Besides that, great information, I still learn some new things! :)
Thank you Sam. I have Ozone 11. I compose mostly classical music. Is the Mastering Assistant useful for this type of music or is it a little “overkill”. Thanks again, great video.
Is this the standard or elements version?
Anything in Ozone 11 that takes out a electric buzz ?
This video helps a bunch...
I didn't know Andy Serkis could master! Great video sir.
Very useful! Thank you, Sam!
That was a really good walkthrough. I really appreciated the exploratory style. And it didn't hurt that the example track didn't make me want to scream.
Is the artist listed? I didn't see it. Anyway, nice mid-90s vibe like Cranberries. I miss that genre.
Really great vid! One question.. why not bring the vocals or drums upon the mix stage rather than on the master? I feel there may be a quality downside to this?
The reason for this is because in some cases, the mastering engineer only gets a “2 track” export. They may not have the stems or project files. So music rebalance gives mastering engineers the ability to make tweaks even though they only have a single wav file. Changing in the mixing phase is always the best option, but not always possible.
Grande! Bel video
Master!
…destroyers!
The over head light did you real dirty on the thumbnail
Someone was not looking happy!
oh, that's very good information, thanks a lot man.
keep 💯
Whenever I try to cut the high mid my songs sounds scratchy
Zone in we will be.
This was Great!!!!
Hello, very useful video, thank you for this. :-) could you please also do the detailed walkthrough video where you mix and master whole song and all tracks by just using iZotope plugins? Guitars, drums, bass, vocals etc? :-) this would be very helpful.
It is all relative and personal: to me the master has too much volume and HF.
Thanks for this. Would you be able to share what your album mastering process is with these tools? I haven't seen much made recently with the trend being singles, and albums and EPs don't get the same kind of cohesive plugin use as mastering on singles tutorials do.
Great Video. Thank you. How do you do the mastering for a complete CD or Album with Ozone.11?
I don't really get the big onus on reference tracks at the mastering stage. I would think if I wanted my track to sound a certain way I would try to integrate that in to my mix. Seems like 'sows ear' syndrome to me. I would listen to the track and see what would enhance it on its own merits.But I may be missing something here.
Masterclas! Thanks Sam!!!
I want to buy Ozone 11, but I am facing problem in purchasing. I don't have an international card.I am from India, is there any other solution?
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Excellent video, Sam!
24:20 cant this be done with nectar?
Dark Web Radio?
This was amazing.
I appreciate the update. Maximizer has changed so much it threw me That's why I came here initially. I like the way that the Assistant has access to the levels in the modules for sound shaping without leaving it, though I am very comfortable with going into manual mode. Nice tip on Soft clip vs Limiter and how finding a balance is key. I was unaware of the Insight module and when I added it to my output chain I was surprised that it was full screen width and I cannot shrink it. So it is a bit cumbersome in my Mac OS Ventura. I plan to update to Sonoma soon and perhaps that will be resolved there? IDK. Overall a great overview touching on a lot of things. I may have been surprised by you not mentioning that the Maximizer is now a very different interface (from 10) and this is why and how it is improved because of it. But I understand this is not about Ozone 10 it is about what is in Ozone 11. Having the Ability to focus on certain aspects such as vocals, bass or drums in a separate Instance on Ozone in the chain is a very good use of this technology. Nice job. Thank you.
There's alot to unpack in Ozone 11 and you've done a masterful job (sorry,couldn't help myself) in clearly explaining so much information. Thank you!!!
If the mix "wasn't bang on" then it should be nowhere near then mastering stage. Mastering should be purely about optimising levels and any slight EQ issues for the cut or streaming and NOT remixing levels pan etc. Sorry but Mix and mastering engineers are two separate skill sets and jobs.
Welcome to the real world, where sometimes mastering engineers have to work with what they're given, even if the mix sucks.
The final mix is not good at 27:03. It gets muddy very quickly and I hear a bit of distortion.
I agree
Very Good tutorial 👍🏾