Artificial Intelligence in Mastering | Are You Listening? Season 3, Episode 5

What is artificial intelligence in mastering, and what problems can it solve to help you make better creative decisions in your music? Follow along as iZotope Education Director and professional mastering engineer Jonathan Wyner explores artificial intelligence and machine learning in mastering. Identify what AI tools are out there to help you become a better mastering engineer, learn how to work with machine learning tools in mastering that will help you achieve the sound you’re looking for, and find out when artificial intelligence may not always have the best answer during your mastering sessions.

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:42 About artificial intelligence
1:35 Online automated mastering tools
3:21 Assistive mastering tools
4:11 Master Assistant in Ozone Pro
5:30 What is source separation?
How to use source separation with Music Rebalance in Ozone Pro
8:35 How to separate bass to get clarity in a master
9:26 Where artificial intelligence fails
11:16 What we can learn from machine learning and AI in mastering
13:39 Outro

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[MarnixMohrmannPiano]

I really like how it is emphasized that the master assistant provides a starting point and provides insight into what your mix is lacking/overdoing. Since the assistant was released I used it as such and my mixing improved drastically because of this approach. Great tool!

[delvenhamric]

Yes, teaching is the best way to fully learn something. You need to stay ahead of your students. I also look at presets as learning tools. Don't just use presets or AI, try to understand why they were chosen. Good Job.

[VARVIS_]

I LOVE the mastering assistant. Just sets up so nicely and I can work from there

[Keroser]

THANK YOU!!! I really like the sincerety of these videos. For instance, we have talked about not taking AI or ML for granted and always make our own judgement, we have talked about cases that AI or ML could fail / may not be enough etc etc. They did not aim to blindly sell their feature.

Very good stuff!!!

[insertanynameyouwant]

that dynamic eq to relax the limiter is the thing I wouldn`t come up on my own. How would I find those freqs without the assistant? If I hear freqs I don`t need, I use either static or dynamic Eq but if all freqs are fine... that limiter thing introduced me to a completely new approach

[wadewilliams]

Hi, I remember when you came to Point Blank Music School, 2018 to speak on mastering. Stayed back to talk to you. This series is excellent.

[murraywebster]

Master Assistant is a great way just to see how your mix is for the mastering, if the assistant suggest many eq and extreme dynamic settings then you can be pretty sure the mix needs some serious attention

[hotjamsm]

iZotope really helps a person like me that has trouble hearing high frequencies!

[MusiclyricsByECDaleyC]

Really enjoyed your insights here, truly gave me food for creative thought, thankfully you!

[jarcauco]

Machine learning may help us learn to expanded depths and degrees 🍀

[Skimatik_DnB]

Amazing content as usual 🎯 thank you all at izotope for all you do ✌️💚☯️

[razorgarf]

When will you update Ozone Advanced with the Pro features?? sigh

[djse]

Does the iZotope AI database is always updated with new tracks with each little update or is it something that's locked and is only updated when a new version is release ?

(hinden question in that would be : Could Ozone 9.1 AI assistant gave me a different result than Ozone 9.5 ? or same with RX)

[cmwallace]

Re: Source Separation: why don't mastering engineers just work with stems? Of course you can bus them down and work on a 2mix as if you had only one file, but why limit yourself to just the 2mix instead of giving you more control if necessary?

[garyshirinian]

Hi I've watched some of your videos, thx for sharing.
I have a level issue. After final my music,
The over all volume is lower from other CD's. My levels are good on my Cubase.
What can I do to gain that . Thx

[dirkchurlish]

This guy told me to get HD-600's so I did

[deadlyrobot]

I'm welcoming our overlords, Robots and AI.

[BenzyMan]

hmm .. never went down for this Master Assistant .. i use Ozone like a lot but not this "AI" part of it

[atta]

This is not AI Mastering yet...this is still within the automation will take 20 years + to be so far like writing a program in SW.