Mastering Tutorial: iZotope Ozone 4 (Using All Modules)

[Lmafilm]

Solid Tutorial Boss. Lots of dropout at the end and some audio clipping (probably because of the mic you're using for the tutorial), but sweet vid overall man. Very helpful. Cheers.

[Ninetrey1993]

Is this 40 as in Noah???? Cause you sound exactly like him

[fordeetv]

@Ninetrey1993 Nope... must have me confused with someone else.

[christophercarlson1]

i took 3 pages of notes on this cuz i dont have internet on my laptop with cubase and izotope

[hducebeatz]

Nice tutorial!!! I sure would like 2 test this badboy out with the beatz I make!!! If u could send the program/keygen...i would appreciate it..hducebeatz@yahoo.com THANKZ!!!

[TheSaxophonGuy]

Make a version 5 tutorial ;)

[fordeetv]

@TheSaxophonGuy When I pickup version 5, I'll make it happen... but currently not on the radar.

[TravelsouthRecords]

thats not how to reach the standard volume of songs today.

[dachimusic]

how can i get the ozone4 plug in or ozone 5?

[fordeetv]

@dachimusic Go to iZotope's website.

[Ossamaharchi]

@dachimusic Hit me on Pm, ( send me your email and i'm gonna give you the program with Keygen then the video to know how you gotta set it ) I got Ozone 4, it working with me

[RDMusak]

Cheers for this mate, really useful! ; )

[RelecDubstep]

going to use this on my next track. my stuff sounds like shit right now lol

[MrLetmedomythang]

Great Tutorial! Under the mastering reverb my correlation will suddenly jump to the 0 to -1 area. You said that was a phase problem, how do I fix it?

[alejandro0p0]

Brilliant tutorial; thank you!

[DaqutaMusic]

Thank you :)

[biggaflex2gs]

YO DUDE I JUST FOLLOWED YOUR VIDEO STEP BY STEP....AND NOW I'M ROCKING THE RIGHT WAY YOO.. i'm soo freakin excited... thanks dude... your the greatest

[fordeetv]

@biggaflex2gs Glad you enjoyed the video Biggaflex2gs!

[MrUtster]

@biggaflex2gs as in psyched or harmonically excited

[OneTheOnlyOne]

At 22:43 He Did The Same Thing Quagmire Does In Family Guy When Hes Talking As A Pilot

[byouno93]

5:31, no you aren't adding harmonics unless you're using the analog mode. Otherwise you're simply turning up the points you were showing.

I find general EQ rules to be unhelpful. There should be a context, not just an general rule to follow for every scenario. Also do final limiting AFTER you do everything else. Otherwise the added information of the EQ and exciter will cause the track to get squashed even more.

[stuartbraybrooke]

Really good video. People are often too casual with things but this is very to the point and clear.

[Miml2010]

How do you save this as a preset or any settings? By the way this was very enlightning.  Thanks.

[DigitalPlayer123]

awesome!!

[SilentJayMuzik]

Good stuff.



[JustcallmeBigdi]

I subscribed , i unsuscribed , then i subscribed again to make sure i really subscribed , nice tutorial take you 

[anirban747]

Great Video.You have another student now :-)

Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

[monxcrib]

Oh my gawd mate, you've just a made unbelievable difference to my approach to mastering. I've used Ozone for more than a year and this just opened my eyes thanks man!!

[fordeetv]

@monxcrib Thanks monxcrib! Glad you enjoyed the tutorial. Hoping to throw another one together in the next week or so!

[Parameterz]

good tut man! learnt a lot

[IMAHOBOtuts]

very great tutorial! i love you so much

[videosongman]

Great breakdown on this plugin (finally someone talked about the reverb in this plugin. I never used it because know one showed me).

[ronriley45]

Thanks for this. I just got Ozone 5 and needed to revist some points of this vst

[C4553L]

wow this tutorial was great! thank you so much

[fordeetv]

@C4553L Thanks bud!

[xxJay8xx]

How do you fix the correlation if it starts to drift into -1?

[fordeetv]

@xxJay8xx I'd start by muting tracks to find out where the problem is. Are there live recorded instruments in your arrangements? Once you isolate the problem, then depending on what type of track(s) is causing the phase problem, there are different ways to address it. Let me know what you find and I can give you some advice on addressing it.

[konjunktion26]

ozone sucks... there are better plugins...

[DiamondValleyMusic]

@konjunktion26 name them bro so we can find them too

[monxcrib]

@konjunktion26 really? better/more affordable plugins than Ozone? really? Like what exactly?

[konjunktion26]

@monxcrib

you act like ozone is the one and only best plugin of all universes but actually ozone is not even good enough to get into the top 50 of the real good advanced mastering plugin charts. you got no idea what mastering is if you protect a toy plugin like ozone. what ozone does is give you a few options to do a mix BUT NOT A MASTERING and its not a serious mastering tool. its just about money making and they make money because a lot naive people believe all kind of silly things

[monxcrib]

@konjunktion26 The fact of the matter is; your ears are the best mastering tools. Mastering for different mediums require a little more experience but having said that you'll be hard pressed to tear Ozone to pieces so I don't believe your top 50 comment. As far as low to mid level mastering available to yr everyday bedroom producer/engineer, you'll be hard pressed to beat Ozone...and yes I include all of Waves and Nomads softwares in there too.

[monxcrib]

@konjunktion26 Save for a pro mastering studio that uses dedicated Tube based mastering equipments and ridiculously expensive processors, you can't EASILY get mastering as good as demonstrated by Ozone. I'm no expert but the ear is the judge here. Oh yea, and the charts too. I can't even begin to count how many artists and bands that vouch for Ozone.

[konjunktion26]

@monxcrib

I just will smile about this cheap mix software called ozone. We audio engineers work with serious mastering plugin bundles like "Waves Mercury Bundle", "Pro Tools", "Flux" and other highly advanced mastering software. If you compare the sonical quality of these plugins with ozones quality, you will come to the conclusion that ozone makes music sound like it got cheap mixed in the 80s.

[byouno93]

@konjunktion26 I've tried both and the algorithms Izotope and Waves use are almost identical with their limiters. If Izotope is making your songs sound like they're from the 80's then you are doing something wrong.

[konjunktion26]

@byouno93

bullshit. comparing izotope with waves is like comparing paper with gold. waves sounds light years better.

[konjunktion26]

@byouno93

waves has over 400 plugins and how much plugins do i get with izotope? just a regular eq with a sound thats ok for fun mixing and what else do i get with izotope? a shit sounding reverb with no options at all to manipulate the sound behaviour and that was it already, but with waves you get already over 50 highest grade mastering reference compressors, sound shaping plugins and eq´s and all kind of "reference mastering plugin of the year" tools... izotope is just a toy.

[byouno93]

@konjunktion26 Somehow I can't see you as a real sound engineer if all you're concerned with the the number of plugins you get with the software. Ozone 5 has more options all the way around but that's not the point. Both softwares effectively create the same HF distortion when limiting, both have linear EQs, and most importantly both have accurate metering. Waves is good and Ozone is good.

[konjunktion26]

@byouno93

you can´t see me as a real audio enginner because i say izotope is a toy? you should start thinking logical. waves is not everything i use. i use flux and blue cat, bomb factory and sonnox, etc - everything better as ozone!!!

[byouno93]

@konjunktion26 Again, for a good master all you really need is a linear phase EQ and a limiter.

The rest is a bunch of commercialized hype. I don't want to argue over which hardware or software is better. I just think it's really ignorant to completely say one is better than the other. Can we at least end it by agreeing that all these software mastering plugins are nothing compared to say an Aphex Dominator II or a Fairchild for the vintage lovers?

[konjunktion26]

@byouno93

i also don´t want to argue with you. i think you are a pretty cool guy with nice interests for plugins and audio engineering, but i didn´t said anything bad about you. see. thats the difference. i also don´t want to make feel bad because you got ozone. i also thought it must be very good but its not really on the same level with the mastering bundles that elite audio engineers use for masterings of albums from madonna, william orbit, moby, autechre and the rest.

[byouno93]

@konjunktion26 to be honest most professional mastering engineers only really need a transparent EQ, limiter and multiband compressor. Just ask Bob Katz.

If you bought Waves, that's great you certainly do have more options but it's like a guy I was interning with once said, "sometimes too many options are bad. People have so many options today with plugins that they sometimes forget to actually learn how to use them properly." Anyways, yeah man wish you the best too.

[hollywoodblow]

Great job!