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

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.

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

Listen to this man folks. If you know you know

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.

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!!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

I always hated mastering. That’s just me, i just want to create. But I took the plunge and bought ozone 10 because I was tired of relying on other people - now, I can’t get enough. I have a lot of questions and a million others I didn’t even know I had. This video was extremely helpful and I’m greatly appreciative. You got yourself another sub.

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!

THIS Guy is educationally hilarious !!!!! holy tictok did he bait us with that little bonus tip towards the end good marketing I must say!!!

I found that Ozone brightens up my tracks too much, but I do like the clarity and instrument separation improvements. I usually make small adjustments to the assistant's choices and also turn the Ozone down globally in the master track until it gets a little darker.

i've been watching countless vids just to hear someone talk about the stabilizer. i've realized it's been wrecking certain parts of my songs with my stabilizer settings, and this vid confirmed it.

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!

That EQ tip is golden

I saw one guy from Izotope who suggested putting the Maximizer first in the chain to then feed to the dynamics and eq. He’d explained something about getting the levels prepared for the ready of the chain being an important step in some cases.

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.

Great tips. I recently got Ozone 10 and it really is a help when it comes to eq and multiband compression. I just let the assistant run and see potential problems in the mix. However, manual tweeking is required or even complete manual mastering if i want the best possible result. Ozone 10 is great to save time but of course cannot replace a good manual master

I just used the trial of ozone not being a mastering pro and very budget. Well my track now sounds alive. Though I thought it was good before, it now sounds amazing. So considering pulling my song which gets released in 2 days and uploading this one.

This is a great video and I appreciate all of the thought and effort that went into it. Most viewers have no idea how much energy goes into creating a video like this but are always ready to pounce if there is one element that they disagree with. I'm with you, brother. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and perspective.

what about oversampling? I use Reaper for mastering since it's known for the transparency of the sound prossessing and the option to oversampling any plugin. it is a game changer, I tested Ozone9 and 10 with diffrent oversampling setting and the difference in clarity in the overall spectrum is very obviose

I don’t own Ozone 10. I’m still using Ozone 5. So what I’ll do is EQ match my master to a reference and apply it up to 5% if it has anything to offer. Beginning my chain with Tape saturation as opposed to EQ’ing into it has been a nice adjustment. Results seem cleaner and less time consuming.

AWESOME tips. The part about turning off stablizer hit home for me. I use mastering assistant as a starting point a lot and now realize how often it's incorrectly turning up stuff during certain parts of the arrangement.

Great video Will. I dug Ozone 9 out of the toolbox yesterday to give it a whirl and was really impressed with the results. That Vintage Tape module is nice but it's the ease and speed of use that really impressed me.

Don't forget that as other VST also Stabilizer can be automated, so it can work only in certain parts and be completely disabled in other... also you can use 2 instances and in certain parts use for example all purpose algorithm and in other parts use genre specific

The stabiliser tip is awesome. I tried removing it from my chain and it was night and day - I’m now wondering who would ever want to use it other than for underscore or sync music…

Thoughtful, honest and highly informative. For a beginner this was a great boost up in understanding Thank you!

Love the 5 tips, I use Ozone 10 Pro and those are great tips I will put into practice. I’m using master assistant more now that I have audio lens to check professional references

Tip number 6, because it confirmed how Great this video was .. !!!

Thanks for the information. Quite helpful. Will try to use your tips when I will master my next record.

Really great content -over your steps especially spending 30 mins on a master - I’ve just discovered your channel and now subscribed

For the stabilizer you can always use automation to lower the amount of stabilization

good stuff! i haven't used ozone in ages! i may dust it off. i'm on 9 because 10 just didn't seem like THAT much of an upgrade and i rarely use it anymore. I've been using smart limit, master desk, and pro L2 a lot more in my mastering chain (rarely all of them). I have like 10-15 plugins in my mastering chain and often only use about 4-5 of them. but having those options to just turn on/off is so helpful. a bunch of EQs to more or less do what you demonstrated with the ozone EQ, a tape emulation if i want it, the 2 limiters i mentioned earlier, and a compressor (api 2500), and most recently added magic processors/clippers (the oven/looptrotter sat2rate). I often end up going with a Bax EQ to limiter 1 (used more as a clipper) to another EQ to a final limiter for extra volume. but sometimes it needs a bit more love and i love having those options.

Very cool, thanks (as I freeze the video during your Ozone setup) :) Hey, you should run your VO through Ozone, needs some better range bro !

which of the five mastering suggestions did you find most useful? 1 less is more 2 how to use the stabilizer 3 order of operation 4 cc ozone 10 eq speed hack 5 man versus machine I found less is more helpful to me, because as an audio engineer, I have never mastered my own music, I have always sent it to a mastering professional. I have been using ozone only for a few hours, mastering four songs that I mixed less is more has already saved me time and headache. how do use a stabilizer helped because I probably would’ve left it on as a processing tool instead of using it to analyze what’s taking place in my mix order of operation. Again, invaluable to me as a mastering novice. ozone 10 EQ speed hack who doesn’t want to have their music sound like a record without spending a week doing it. Man versus machine AI is a great learning tool, and as you said, we can look and see what choices it made, and learn a lot from it. The great thing is we still drive the ship. For anyone learning to master all five of your tips are invaluable. Thank you again.

Very helpful video. I got ozone 10 and took your recommendations and much much better now.

Thanks for making the knowledge accessible.

One hell of a mastering chain👏

I'm new to mastering my own songs.This video of yours is really helpful. I am using Cubase Pro12 and initially acquired Izotope Nectar /O10/Neutron Elements. I have now got the full O10 and Nectar. Im thinking that I don't need the full Neutron. Also acquired RX 10 and Neoverb. Enough to keep me occupied for the time being. Thank you.😊

thank you...the tip about mastering first before using the assistant was helpful

Lots of great takeaways for someone relatively new like myself who dabbles in mastering mostly out of necessity. The concept of zero sum compromise makes sense but I never thought of it in those terms before. Also definitely going to try the chain you suggested, though I'm still left wondering what the benefit of unlimited maximizers would be - or even two or three. I'd love to hear an explanation for this.

Awesome vid. not the best at mixing and Ive been using the assistant lately but pulling the levels it comes up with down. I'm going to take your advice and use it to compare and adjust my mixes accordingly.

Useful video, as you say master it with your ears first, they didn't have all these gizmos in 1950s. I think the ' loudness wars' has given rise to these products. I've been mastering a tune recently by ear alone and numerous quality speakers and headphones to see how it translates to them all. Ozone has 'checked' my mix and overall sound by about 2% and reigned in just a few peaky bits. It most certainly hasn't created my sound. Lots of tiny adjustments to individual notes have balanced/ levelled up the overall sound. I don't use the sliders on my mixing desk so much but go into the actual notes in specific parts to make things go up or down(volume)or left and right(panning). Very time consuming but definitely works and highlights and low lights things giving a very nice stereo image.As many of you will have found just tweaking up or down a slider on the desk can off balance the whole mix. I am inspired by Alan Parsons mixing, having listened to his projects from my youth . For all young people mixing up to date tunes, sit back and listen to Alan Parsons dynamics, extraordinary how it's all in check.

Love your no nonsense get right to it approach, many could learn from your attitude! Straight to the point, new to Ozone 10 I will refer to this video often I am sure. I'm subscribed so keep up the good work! (All the way from UK!)

amazing video. loved it

I know about Ozone since it's birth, but what the steps from 6:30 really opened my eyes! Tnx a ton :)

I found the lineup of the plugins the most helpful..

From an audio engineer from Berklee & IAR (NYC) - great video & please make more.

I Use the learn in full mono. Then adjust the master width. That's what I've tried that works incredible

All of them, thanks! And the 6th one too.

Incredible value thank you for sharing your experience

Agree re stabilizer. Tried it last week and loved the sound for a few seconds "here and there" within the song but by the end my ears felt fatigued because it seemed to make the whole song so scary bright all the way through.

I would really love to hear more in depth what you mean by ozone's EQ being able to quickly make the song sound like a record. Like which EQ's are being modeled here and what the old school tricks with them are. Seriously, I would pay to learn more about that.

The ending is Gold

Very good tips as always!! 👍👍

Great tips, worthwhile content. Thank you!

Which one should be the final limiter? Vintage from ozone or Fab Filter L2?

This was very valuable to me, thank you

I love this. Such great, honest advice!

Loved your comments on the stabilizer. As someone in stuff, I just finished mastering a track and had been trying ozone 10 master assistant, I reverted back to ozone 9 because I had tried using the stabilizer and it was just weird. So appreciate your thoughts on how to get value out of it - seeing what it’s trying to do and then doing that in a stable way.

Paid $ 50 for Ozone 10 Elements and Izotope Neoverb. Ran my mix thru Ozone 10 without tweaking anything after it « scanned » my song and … Boom… Got way better and tighter in seconds. My client just went « wow ! » … Perfect ! Crazy thing.

I just bought Ozone 10. I haven’t even had a chance to open it. I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing (lol), but I will eventually.

Strong finish! 😂 Was this April Fools? Love your tips. Thank you for your generosity in lifting the curtain for those starting out.

Great information! I’m following. Thank you.

Wow, great video, thank you!

Such a helpful tutorial! Much appreciated!

lets go!

I strongly agree that using Ozone assistant as a second source of opinion, where AI provides a template for a better mastering result but totally depending on it means I'm creating a copy of template, which is the opposite of creative what everyone wants to pursue.

Man I loved this video so much🎉

Yo! You Funny! I Love It! Wheres Part Two With The Gold Info Cause This Info Was Worth It.

Wonderful Reflexion 🏆💯

Match your mix eq to Pink noise preset only from 1k to 10k !and see the curves that is adding adjusting the match fader until eq reaches no more than 3db at the highest boost! Listen/compare!! You either bring those frequencies in the mix or you like what you’re hearing and leave it alone!

Helpful video! I haven’t liked the impact module, so turn that down to

Great advice. Thanks!

would love a preset for 'remastering older cd's. Like MaxQ (Ollie Olson and Michael Hutchence). a bit of Eq, little compression, nothing crazy, just make them sound a bit more modern..maybe do a video?

Hey, I like this format like u'r limiter vid. Great content!

Do you have any thoughts on phase (or other) issues introduced by using multiband processing like Ozone Dynamics and KClip? Would love to see a video on that, or just know what your thoughts might be! Thanks for the great content

Great video! About to upgrade my ozone to version 10! I’ve been trying to stay on top of the future by seeing what audio companies are working with A.I., let me know if you have any recommendations!

great video i always go with EQ 1st never really use limited i don't use the Stabilizer at all i agree less is more i only mix and master for Dynamics i love how they respected the music back in the day and it was about the song 1st so i really take that Approach and never mix or master for loudness i mean you don't even see videos on RU-vid showing how to mix or master for Dynamics which is sad anyway good video u have a video that explains why you ordered your chain like that?

Omg i liked it and instantly i got a huge brain 🤯

Thanks for this video. Great help ....

6:32 I thought for a second it said "Start polishing your turd" lol

You are so smart !! Thank you

Thanks you for share this great tipz. be bless

Thank You

Hi! I've set up several instances of Ozone 10 bus presets on some of my group and subgroup tracks in Cubase 12 for a large orchestral template. When they're active, my latency and usage meter or close to 70% (with all 300 instrument tracks disabled). When they're off it jumps back to closer to 0 latency. What can I adjust in Ozone 10 to reduce this dramatic latency cost?

Thanks for the Tips And Tricks!!!

Some demonstration of the EQ all as shelves would be interesting to see

great channel thank you

Great video

I am a little confused. After you make your master when you put the master onto a new channel and then use Ozone 10 AI to analyze your mix why don’t you use the unmastered version and see what ozone does and compare the two? Thank you.

Can you do an updated studio tour?

How about automating the Stabilizer to work normal in the Chorus and then with less amounts in the Verse or at just the Frequencies that it needs?