All the way from the start I could feel it in my heart like... hey what's going on out there I'm Sean
Divine hope you all are doing well today we're taking a look at the brand-new
ozone 9 advanced mastering suite from iZotope I have been using this almost
exclusively for mastering over the past few weeks I was on the beta team shout
out to everybody who was on that team providing feedback and working through
some of the bugs to get it ready for the release but by the time you're seeing
this video it will be available for all you guys to check out and I'm excited
for you to be able to utilize some of these new modules there's some
groundbreaking stuff in here so let's go ahead and dive right in the first thing
that we want to take a look at is the newly improved master assistant so if
you're looking to get a nice suggestion and starting point for building your
mastering chains you're gonna see we've got a couple of changes here the first
thing is that we're able to actually select the type of modules that we want
those Ozone 9 to build the chain with so if we want to use the modern modules for
that type of sound we can choose that or if you want to get more of the vintage
character using just the vintage modules we can go that route as well the cool
thing over here with loudness and EQ is we now have an option to actually load
in a reference file that Ozone 9 will then use to match the loudness as well
as the EQ curves let's say that you know I'm mastering a project and I've already
mastered one song which is this one I've loaded in and we want to try to match
levels and as well as that EQ curve as best as possible then we'll just choose
that master as our reference obviously destination streaming and CD once again
but so what we're going to do is just play this back from the loudest point
and click Next and let's just hear what Ozone 9 Advanced comes up with
all right so just playing back what Ozone 9 came up with in the master
assistant pretty good I'm looking at our meters and we've got some nice
competitive LUFS levels we're right at around -1 on the ceiling true
peak which is good for streaming so yes some nice stuff here it did a pretty
nice little boost here at 1k see what else it did on the dynamic EQ again a
good starting point we're not gonna rely on that today but I just wanted to show
you guys so we'll actually leave the Maximizer for the most part I'm gonna
make a couple of adjustments change the IRC mode and then I'm gonna dial this
back just so we've got some more room to work with in terms of what we're gonna
be adding first let's take a look at one of the new modules which is low end focus
and you'll see we can adjust our low-end band or whatever band we want to focus
on let's just say we're gonna go from about I don't know 40 to 150 ish
somewhere in there and then down here we have a contrast control and then we have
punchy and smooth so depending on what you're trying to kind of remedy or
accentuate you can select that but let's just say punchy you know I want to get
more punch out of this kick so I'm gonna go ahead and let's just listen to what
we've got selected in this band
okay now let's go down here I'm gonna click listen to this module and this
will show us what we're introducing to this signal so you can hear we're
getting some nice transient frontend on that kick we can adjust the gain of that
turn it up or down
we're getting a nice punch in that kick and also some warmth in the baseline so
we'll just leave that parked for now and let's go ahead and select our vintage
tape I still use this module this is one of
the best tape modules out there that's included with ozone has not changed in
ozone 9 but hey don't mess up a good thing right I'm gonna go ahead and just
turn our tape bias this way a little bit you'll notice in the tape module if we
go towards this direction with a positive bias we're gonna get a darker
sound versus if we go this way we're gonna get more brightness I just want to
add a little bit of Sheen and just get that tape flavor
just a little bit of shimmer up there the dynamic EQ has changed quite a bit
in terms of the GUI it's so much easier to get around a lot more usable you'll
see if we select this band then we're gonna have our controls up here for a
threshold we can adjust the cue right there and then obviously just moving
this up or down for the gain but this is just a lot easier a dynamic EQ module
compared to the older version so I'm hearing a kind of problematic area of
this track some of the esses were slightly harsh up towards 6k so let's
just set a dynamic band here to attenuate that a bit
and then let's set another band down here there's a little bit of harshness
just in these these lows, low mids yeah so just the resonant frequencies in the
guitar and some of the vocals were clashing just a bit so we'll pull that
back
let's do a little bit of excitement up here from about 7k up to about 11 K
bring out the brightness of some of those cymbals and a little bit of the
vocal I selected the tape mode there just to give us a little bit of sheen up
there bring out those cymbals a bit definitely going to widen the stereo
field a little bit so let's take a look at the imager so you're gonna notice
that right now these bands are grayed out it gives us the option to actually
create the bands so let's go up here and the first one let's just say from 120
and below I like to try to anchor that low end and then we'll create another
one going up - let's just say about 1k and we'll do this one from 1k - about
3.5K well I'll tell you what we'll move these up let's do this
one from 5.5K and up and this one from about 2k up to 6K so I
do want to point out I've been amazed after doing some of my videos with ozone
8 how many people think that you have to turn on this stereoize control for the
imager to work so just to give you an example for those of you out there who
haven't been listening as closely let's just select this band up here notice
stereoize is off and I'm gonna center this just keep an eye over here on our vector
scope and you'll notice it's working
let's widen the highs a little bit all right so we've got a nice stereo spread
there that's sounding pretty good let's go back to our Maximizer and I'm just
gonna set our target level to you know something more like minus 12 minus 11
which is what the other master that we had was
so last but not least I want to show you one of the things that I was most
excited about which is a new module in ozone 9 advanced called master rebalance
and this is pretty revolutionary stuff so let's just move this over here you're
gonna see we've got 3 different selections here we've got vocals bass
and drums and then just the gain control so very simple but what this allows you
to do is let's just say that the vocals of the mix that we got for the master
they were just a little bit too loud so sometimes you're just gonna as a
mastering engineer be like well now I've got to try to do dynamic EQ some other
kind of dynamics processing to get that vocal down which is just not ideal
because again I don't have the multi tracks to master with this is just the
the mixed wav so with master rebalance we can just go in here and adjust the
gain of this vocal control surprisingly it will not affect anything else and
I've listened to this many times and have been pretty astonished at how
transparent it is listen to this closely
this is so powerful because you know again if you get a mix where the vocal
just needs to be brought back just a little bit but you don't want to be you
know kind of going backwards and trying to mess with the rest of the mix yeah
this is a great way to do it move on to the bass let's check that out I was
bringing the bass down but it wasn't touching the kick because it keeps that
separated with the drums so let's go to drums now
pretty simple in terms of the execution but very very effective and this is
going to be an invaluable tool for mastering engineers everywhere who are
getting you know just mixed wavs and obviously we don't have the multi tracks
it's just very easy to jump in here and do that with master rebalance so
something that I'm gonna be using quite a bit and saving me a lot of headache
that is a quick look at the brand new ozone 9 advanced from iZotope taking a
look at the new modules the low end focus as well as the master rebalance
both very powerful mastering tools ozone 9 really takes everything up a notch
it's much more polished you can check it out on izotope's website I will put a
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