Has anyone had experience with Izotope Ozone mastering tools?
09-Jan-2025 | 10:17 AM
I've been using Ozone 5 for sometime, and found it's what I need, but I also tried Ozone 11 at a friends studio, and it seems Izotope have rebuilt it from the ground up and it's more complicated than version 5, one needs a college degree to use it.
Im using Ozone 11 since a few weeks. It IS more complex than version 5, and also than version 8 that i was using before... But i dont have any college degree too ! I spent some time trying... failing and failing again until it gets more friendly. The modules are quite the same as before and there's some quite effective assistant analysis now. There's also a bunch of videos on YT to learn the step by step... The most important is the final result, and Ozone 11 really delivers (from those few weeks experience...).
I use Ozone 10. I let the AI leed me. I tweak it mildly afterwards backing off the louldness feature in the chain. I think choosing Rock, Jazz or what ever makes a differance. I do have some electronic background that helps.
from verson 4 too 11 ill be blunt the ai stuff is a bag of shite or **** or **** or well you get the point . 9 seems to be my fave 10 just drives me insaine and 11 is all about the ai **** its usefful if you can master its tweeking there are now other options out there if you want other options
@AlHughson Nothing really inparticular, just curious as to what mastering software others use and if they do use Ozone, what is their experiences with it?
I've been using version 5 for quite a long time, and prefer version 5 over 11. I like my music to be crisp and clean, so I use the presets instead of manually fiddling around and taking weeks and even months to get things perfect.
