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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 closet
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-in. 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 .imperfections. 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 .colorization.
to the sound, in some situations precise or .transparent. 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 .new. sound and
overdo the effect. The History list lets you quickly jump back for
comparisons to refresh your .auditory memory..
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