hey what's going on out there I'm Sean Divine hope you all are doing well in this tutorial
I'm excited to share with you a very cool new tool from iZotope it's called Audiolens
and I've been getting a ton of questions from you all out there wondering how I'm
able to measure audio coming straight out of Spotify or Apple Music or any of these
other services or any audio I'm playing on my computer for that matter and I'm able to
measure lufs and perceived loudness and some other things there well up to this point I've
been using Hardware in the clarity M as well as a pretty complicated routing setup with my rme ufx
good news with audiolens you don't need any of that and it will measure any system audio it's
a standalone application and then we can create targets for things like lufs stereo width for
Dynamics EQ all of that and then we can import that easily into ozone and match that Target for
any of these references so really powerful but also very easy to use so let's go and dive in
so we've got the audiolens application open now one thing to note if you're on a Mac there is
one small utility an extra piece of software that you do need to install before this will work and
before your system will be able to pass audio to audio lens so make sure and get that installed but
now we just need to find what audio we want to reference anything that we can play back on our
computer and in this case I know a lot of you out there are on Spotify and you're listening to the
top songs across the world or whatever genre you prefer and you're trying to match some of those
songs in terms of the mastering and getting your music to compete so first things first I do want
to note that if you want these to be as accurate as possible you do need to go into preferences
for Spotify or any of your other services and turn off normalize volume because audio lens
will take into account that level you also want to make sure that your volume is turned all the
way up now here to talk about the loudness Wars but again if you want to measure this according
to how these Masters are being delivered then turn normalize volume off once that's done just
go pick the song that you want to reference and in this case I'm just going to play back one of
my tracks so I'm going to hit play and then we're going to go back to audio lens and click capture
you want to capture at least eight seconds that's going to allow audio lens to do its thing and get
something accurate so once we've measured that we can just name this and let's just say we want to
call this Christian rap this is our Target for here and we click save now when I jump into the
Daw let's say in my Case Logic and I've got ozone 10 on my master we want to First just
go ahead and just relearn or go through the master assistant in Ozone so we're going to
run that really quick on this song here that we're trying to get to match this uh Target
Master assistant in Ozone 10 has now built a chain for us however now we want to click on this icon
here on our targets and you're gonna see that Target that we created here in audio lens any of
these that we save automatically show up here in Ozone so if I just click that Christian rap Target
click that and then it's going to adjust and rebuild our mastering chain
according to that Target and let's play that back and let's see where our loudness is here
God in my Lane don't get it twisted I'm still broken but thank God I never be the same yeah yeah
yeah
so I'm getting a reading of you know minus nine minus 10 but tonally I think we're
really really close to that song that we measured here let's just play that back
very very close there in terms of levels and tone I mean for mastering this is really
indispensable to be able to do this so if you've been one of those out there who's
been trying to reference songs directly out of these audio streaming services create a
Target and then quickly get them into your Daw so that you can try to match that this
is very very powerful stuff I'll add a link to the izotope audiolens software if you have any
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