5 incredible Mastering Hacks you NEED TO KNOW in iZotope Ozone 10

Hacks, Tips, Tricks, whatever you'd like to call them, here's 5 as they pertain to iZotope Ozone 10.

Some of these tips are Ozone 10 specific, some of them are just generally good mastering tips. Hope you enjoy and learn something awesome!

[SeriousTipStudio]

The end of my battery going dead for the last tip caused me to unsubscribe.
I was watching this for a friend who was thinking about getting Ozone 10.
But trying to trick someone into watching more of your video was a turn-off for me.
I will still share this video with him but I am done here.
Thanks, anyway for the information.

[dennissiren]

I just purchased Ozone 10, hope to learn this before my ears go...over 70. I was glued to every word, great delivery. This is the first of my reference videos...well done

[MrJamesGeary]

Listen to this man folks. If you know you know

[GodEmperor_]

Imaging paying $200 to a mastering engineer and all they did was hit A.I. assistant 😂😂

[EGMUSIKOFFICIAL]

I love the: Do the master and then run the assistant tip! I find myself leaning on the Assistant ALOT as I am fairly new to mastering and learning my way through the modules Ozone 10 provides, great info!!

[khayree]

as an audio engineer, I am now very interested in learning to master my own music using Ozone 10. You are killing it.!

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thank you !!

[nizao]

“Good music and a good master sound feel like magic" I can't agree more

[CreateIV]

I'd love a more in depth tutorial for tip #4. How you specifically use this EQ technique in Ozone to quickly sound like a record.

[skip]

Superb. Some really great tips, here. My favorite? – Ozone EQ shelf shapes, and the idea of an entire battery of shelves!

[Unibabble]

I have found that the O10 master assistant helps me identify potential issues with my mixes. When I'm happy with the mix, I run it and look at the EQ adjustments (static and dynamic) that it comes up with. If I see any big adjustments, I solo the band(s) to see what's affected, then go back into my mix. Sometimes there is some masking going on, sometimes it's a monitoring blind spot in my room (it's treated pretty well, but it's a tricky space) so I recheck the mix with headphones. Sometimes it's just an obvious problem I hadn't noticed, and sometimes it's just an aesthetic choice that I wanted.

[caseyhayes]

LOOOOVE the video!! The tip with using EQ shelves in Ozone 10 is a game-changer! Can get a much better master simply by using the eq in all shelves mode with the 4 different shelf types! Really appreciate your helping out the little guys! Great stuff!! Thanks a bunch!

[itbe]

Oh man! The Stabilizer bit. Awesome tip! It seemed pretty vague, but looking at it this way is huge! Thank you!

[mastersimz]

The stabilizer tip is one I’ll be using more often. Thanks 🙏🏽

[philipdubnick]

I have not yet upgraded to Ozone 10, but as of Ozone 9 I have occasionally used the “Mastering Assistant” in a sort of similar way as what you are describing with the new ‘stabiliser’ component.

What I mean is that once I have the mix on it’s feet and I’m pretty happy, I will run mastering assistant and look in particular at where the dynamic eq is being deployed. I do this because I know the dynamic eq is being used by the mastering assistant algorithm to reign in any build ups that might cause the maximising limiter to work harder than might be preferable. It can act as a helpful second pair of ears (as you noted) that points me towards build ups that might benefit from a little tweak.

I also look at whether or not the M.A. does or doesn’t employ the multi band to reign in the low end. If it doesn’t then generally my low end balance is in pretty good shape. If it does employ the multiband for the low end, I view that as an indicator that I might want to go back into the mix and resolve any issues.

[kgomotsolehlongwane]

Thanks for even recommending an order to put the effects in. Very Helpful!!!!

[billpodolak]

Great video! My favorite tip was #5 man vs machine. An interesting tip that I think could have been included is using the real time gain-matching and gain matched bypass to avoid “louder is better” bias

[owenlimjiajun]

This is gold! I like the concept how to analyse the Stabilizer and nice to know the unique curve of the Ozone EQ ! Looking for more video from this channel!

[bagheeramusic]

I started 6 month ago with mastering for myself and my friends.
Two weeks ago I've bought Ozone10 to improve my mastering and it was so insane!

Thank you for your tips!
They improved my results!

[logosthegod]

As an artist who's (slowly) learning how to master, Ozone 10 has been a huge help but have found the assistant to be much less useful than the presets. I usually click through the presets and then work backwards from there lol. Def not top tier mastering but it's incredibly useful to see how each plugin, in their particular order affects the track. Also thanks for the tip about less is more, often forget that especially with the number of tools Ozone has.

[michaelhonormusic]

I copied your chain and settings and played around with them on my latest mastering. Wow what a difference, sounds much better then Ozones A.I suggestions. You really helped step up my mastering, thank you.