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 all the all new Ozone 10 Advanced from Izotope we're going to take a look
at the new modules which include the stabilizer which will dynamically match a frequency curve of
a reference or they have measured the top songs across genres we also have a new impact module
which can control expansion and compression in terms of multi-band so you can really dial
in transients and Dynamics across your spectrum there and your master we also have improvements
to existing modules like imager there's an all new recover size mode for those of you who need some
help with your mono compatibility and there's also a great new soft Clipper in the maximizer
section not to mention Master Assistant has been completely overhauled and improved you can match
not only tonal balance of a ref reference but also loudness Imaging Dynamics it can really
target those and get you very very close this is not just a suggestion anymore we're going
to master a track from scratch here today with the new ozone 10 Advance let's take a listen
to my mix this is K-HA Uptown Saturday Night is produced by Bach Beats and then we'll get started
all right so that gives you an idea of the track and I feel like this is a good example because
this song has a lot of different genres kind of mashed in so we can see you know how intelligent
ozone 10 actually is in terms of the curves that it selects because this thing has country rock
hip-hop you know pop all kind of mashed into one we're gonna click the master assistant view up
here which is this tab here and we click that it's going to say waiting for audio and what
we need to do is just go ahead and select the loudest part of our track it's going to measure
about eight seconds to build this suggestion so let's just go here where the the hook starts
so in about 10 seconds there we already have a pretty professional sounding master from my mix
so first we can see what target it's selected and in this case it went ahead and said okay
well this most closely matches rock so we're going to use that for the EQ the stabilizer
the width and the Dynamics right if we wanted to we could select a different curve so let's
say you know ozone didn't really optimize that quite the way we wanted to we could go ahead and
just select hip hop and rap right so let's like that one you'll see we get a very different curve
she had a yeah so obviously with the hip-hop curve you know we get more bass more low end
and not quite as bright a top end as the rock is going to have more of that accentuated low
mid and the highs are going to be a little bit brighter so again you can go through
and select which is going to be best but in my experience you know it does select the
best curve more times than not in the previous versions with Master Assistant it would kind of
give you that suggestion and if you wanted to go in and get your hands dirty make some
adjustments you would have to go in here and you know start tweaking the modules yourself
you've got some convenient controls here in Ozone 10 to immediately make adjustments here
from the assistant view so for example if we are matching that EQ curve that of the target
that it gives us we can then scale that so if we wanted to you know kind of bring that back
yeah we can adjust the strength of that EQ correction accordingly same thing with the
stabilizer we're going to talk more about this in depth but just know that this is dynamically
matching our frequency response to the target curve does some really interesting things in
terms of Dynamics it's also saved my butt already in mastering because I've had some
mixes come to me that have had certain parts of the song that were just not very consistent
so for instance the hook might be a little bit too loud in terms of the vocals but then the
verses felt a little better the stabilizer will just give you a little bit of glue and
in that way I found that to be really useful but if you have a pretty balanced mix in my
opinion less is more with this stabilizer so we can turn that back a little bit now you're
going to notice that we now have width match as well so it's going to match that stereo field
to some of these songs that they measured and again you can scale that accordingly
same with the impact module there and then we also have the maximizer adjustment so if we want
to increase the loudness or decrease you know how much it's pushing that maximizer we can do
so there just to note with the targets you see all our genres there but some of you are going
to say well I don't see my preferred genre or the genre that you work with typically you can
always use your own target so in this case I have another song that I mastered for this artist let's
say we were working on an album and I wanted to kind of match that now this song different style
but if I select that it will then build the chain and build that target based on the reference file
so you can utilize whatever you want there and it will have that target there for you in this graph
we're going to go ahead and stick with this rock target that they have set for us and I'm going to
switch to the detailed View and let's go ahead and talk about the new stable module which is
arguably the biggest addition in terms of new modules we have two modes so the default is the
shape mode and what this is going to do is it's going to have an Adaptive EQ boost and cut across
our Master to match the tonal balance target right so depending on where we set that amount
you're going to be able to visually see those boosts and cuts happening so let's just go here
so in terms of the actual effect of this I found it's just really helpful in giving you some glue
and again giving you some stabilization of the Dynamics making sure that everything is
consistent throughout the mix and depending upon the balance of your mix you know some mixes are
balanced better than others at least the ones that I get for mastering and so a little bit
of this stabilizer can go a long way in terms of giving you that consistency now the other
mode is a cut mode and all this will do is just cut to tame some harshness and resonance so if
we turn that on you're going to see all it's doing is reducing those resonance bumps here
if you're curious about what's going on you can select this Delta button so this
is going to monitor what is actually being attenuated in the case of cut and if you
select shape we can actually monitor what is being cut as well as boosted
to match that curve so let's go ahead and take a listen to what that's doing
so it's taming some of the low end some extreme lows there as well as some of those resonances
but that Delta button just makes it easier to know what you're doing one thing I have
noticed with the stabilizer is that if you have the amount up and you get a little bit
heavy with it it can kind of have a bit of a pumping effect throughout the song depending
on if you have like a quieter section something like that but if you want to
you know smooth that out beyond just adjusting the amount we can go down to speed and you can
either speed that response up or slow it down in terms of How It's stabilizing we also have
a smoothing control so if we adjust that it's going to give us a smoother stabilizing effect
for a track like this with a big low end I could hear that it's obviously cutting some
of that extreme low and the sub but maybe I don't want that to happen especially if
you know hip-hop bass heavy mix I don't really want it to stabilize as much so we
have controls here for lows mids and highs and let's just say I didn't want that to happen I
could just turn the low stabilization all the way down and then just keep the mids
up as well as the highs so it'll just control those finally there is a tame transient so if
we've got some spikes in terms of our Dynamics that'll just kind of tighten things up here
not my preference for this particular song but again can be useful to tame some of those
spikes so moving over to the impact modules we didn't really have a multi-band transient I
adjustment tool and this is exactly what that is so if we go down here we're going to see
crossover points for you know lows low mids High mids and highs and then we can solo those
so if we go up above zero that is going to function as an expander and it's going
to really give us more punch and some sharpness to the transients in that part of our frequency
spectrum now if we go below zero that's going to provide compression or glue we also have a
master amount slider here that will scale the effect of the impact module for all the bands
so when I hit that Delta button once again as with the stabilizer we're hearing the
difference or what is actually being added by the impact module all right so let's talk about a new
update to the imager module and that is this recover sides feature so a lot of you out there
have questions on the channel about maximizing mono compatibility you know if you adjust your
Imaging and reduce width you want to make sure that you still retain the same power the same
presence and impact in mono so it can be a little bit tricky when you're on your stereo
width controls and let's say maybe you have some correlation problems you're trying to fix that
in the master but when you reduce some of these bands in your master you're actually losing some
of that information so what recover sides will do is it will actually add that information back
to the mono signal so that we keep that depth and power this will only become a
active if we reduce any of these bands in width so let's just say we took out a little
bit of low width below about 125 and then we reduced some of the top end and we solo it
so again depending on how much you reduce the width of any of these bands you'll hear
that side information that's then being recovered and then put back
into the signal so let's unsolo that and I'll turn it off and on
that might sound a little bit subtle there but going to be very useful in terms of maintaining
as much depth and Power in our master as possible when we are reducing width and
especially if you're dealing with a mix that has some more inherent phase correlation issues for
those of you who follow the channel you know that the ozone maximizer is one of my favorite
maximizers out there a lot of flexibility some great IRC modes here which matter of
fact I'm going to switch this to transient because that is my personal favorite here in
ozone just gives you a little bit more punch and some better Dynamics there if you have
heavy drums but now we have a cool new soft clip mode now I know some of you know what
soft clipping is but the effect of this is that it's going to give you a bit more of a
lift some saturation in your master and just some thickness if you will so let me just go
ahead and play this back and I will slowly bring up the soft clip so you can hear what happens
we can select light medium or we can go hard if we want to really do some heavy soft clipping there
I've been utilizing this in my own masters and it's just a welcome addition that really takes
things over the top in terms of the maximizer module all right so now that we've looked at
the new modules and some of the new additions here tried out the master assistant I'm gonna go
back and just make some subtle adjustments here just using in my ears as a mastering engineer
just to kind of get this dialed in the way I want it and then we're going to listen back
match now and we're gonna bypass it and then I'll
engage it and we can hear what ozone 10 did for our master
we have checked out the all-new Master assistant here in Ozone 10 Advanced as
well as the new modules stabilizer impact crazy improvements to the imager and the
maximizer and we're just touching the surface there are some other new things under the hood
here with Ozone 10 Advanced comparing this to some of the previous versions you know I felt
like the master assistant was a great kind of starting point at least as a suggestion but
now I feel like with these customization and scale features and the stabilizer as well as
matching width and Dynamics the updated curves as well as the ability to target a reference
this gets you up a lot closer than say ozone 9 Master assistant and then gives you a lot more
control whether you are a beginner trying to get your mixes to sound more professional have
a professional Master to go out so that your music can be heard in the best light possible
or you're a seasoned professional mastering engineer ozone 10 Advanced is going to be a
welcome update for you but let me me know what you think about it are you going to be picking
this up let us know in the comments below if you have any questions about what we did here
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