The Commercial Sound
Ozone 3 includes all the tools you need to master the
commercial sound in seconds. Professionally designed
presets and the acclaimed Ozone Mastering Guide walk
you step by step through making radio-ready masters.
The process of mastering ranges from correcting
mistakes made in the mix to preparing a recording for
target listening environments. Like a final coat of
polish, mastering makes the difference between a good
sounding mix and a professional sounding master.
Ozone includes integrated tools for each step of the
process: add broad equalization to balance the tone,
multiband compression to control the dynamics,
harmonic excitation to inject punch and sparkle,
stereo imaging to sculpt the sound stage, loudness
maximization to raise the level of the entire track
to the standard for commercial use, and dither to
maintain every last bit of quality. Since Ozone was
designed to address the mastering process, all the
components work together to help you put that final
professional sound on a project. With Ozone 3, be
prepared to love your sound.
Professionally Designed Presets
Ozone 3 ships with a wide array of presets for many
mastering situations. Get immediate results by
auditioning several presets to find the closest fit.
Spend less time tweaking and more time producing. For
more control, mix and match preset settings using the
advanced preset manager. Visit the iZotope web site,
and learn tricks of mastering from the presets and
Mastering Guide.
7 Plug-ins in 1 Integrated Interface
Mastering requires a specific set of tools, and Ozone
3 has them all. Rather than a bundle of separate
plug-ins, Ozone 3 is a single integrated system. This
integration allows for a logical, optimized interface
and superior sound quality not possible with a chain
of independent plug-ins. With extensive metering, an
integrated preset system, and full undo history,
Ozone surpasses standard .plug-inŸ expectations to
streamline workflow, save time, and keep you focused
on creative work.
Analog Modeling
Ozone is the result of extensive research in analog
modeling. Ozone provides compression, equalization,
and harmonic excitation that recreate the behavior
exhibited by analog equipment. Analog processing has
certain nonlinear aspects that a mathematician would
consider "wrong" but sound better musically. Any
analog equalizer, for example, applies a small phase
delay to the sound. These types of .imperfectionsŸ
provide the analog characteristics of warmth,
sparkle, depth, and an overall pleasing sound. Ozone
captures the essence of analog gear to deliver sweet
sounding masters.
Digital Precision
While analog modeling can provide a pleasant
character or .colorizationŸ to the sound, in some
situations precise or .transparentŸ signal processing
is desired. For example, you may wish to equalize or
notch out a frequency without introducing the phase
delay inherent in analog filters. For these
applications, Ozone provides a digital, linear phase
equalizer and crossover for a level of surgical
precision not possible in analog hardware.
64-bit Audio Processing
When processing audio, Ozone can perform thousands of
calculations on a single sample. In a digital system,
each of these calculations has a finite accuracy,
limited by the number of bits used in the
calculation. To avoid rounding errors from
interfering with the audible portion of the audio,
Ozone performs each calculation using 64 bits. Can
you hear 64 bits? No, but that.s the point. The
rounding errors (inherent not just in Ozone but in
any digital system) are pushed down into the
inaudible range with Ozone.
Usability Enhancements: Undo and History
Ever have a late night recording session only to wake
up in the morning with a tinny, horrible-sounding
master? Audio fatigue is a real problem, and in this
situation you would have to scrap the work and re
-master the track. Ozone 3 addresses this problem
with the ability to undo any and all parameter
changes . even between sessions! As you tweak
controls, each movement is captured and displayed in
the History list. To hear a previous setting, simply
click up the list to the point you want to audition.
When working with mastering effects, perhaps most
notably EQ and dynamics, it.s very easy to get
accustomed to the .newŸ sound and overdo the effect.
The History list lets you quickly jump back for
comparisons to refresh your .auditory memoryŸ.
Key Features
complete professional mastering solution
64-bit internal processing
combines analog modeling warmth & digital linear
-phase precision
intuitive graphical user interface
extensive graphical metering
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