Mar 09, 2004 07:24 pm Well, from my understanding of it, Ozoneis intented just as a mastering tool, not to be used on individual tracks.
From what I have read, Ozone is a very CPU intensive plug to that may have somthing to do with your drop-outs.
Izotope Ozone/Mastering Question
Posted on Mar 09, 2004 04:00 pm
vdalehubbard
Lost for words with all to say.
Contributor Since: Sep 12, 2003
Howdy
I just recently got Izotope Ozone 3.01 and all I have to say is..."woo!" It has done more professional clearing up of my recordings in a matter of a little playing with it then I have in my whole time mixing. Now, I got a question. Do you suggest just using other plugins to do EQ's, Compressing, etc. and then use Ozone just to do the final mastering? Because, I tried using Ozone on all my tracks (about 14 tracks in all) and with my AMD 3200+ processor, it just locks up. But my processor and 512 of RAM should have no problem. Maybe my soundcard I'm using to listen with (SB Gamer!) can't handle it? My Delta 1010 should be coming this week, think that will fix this?. So, what do you suggest?
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Mar 09, 2004 07:24 pm Well, from my understanding of it, Ozoneis intented just as a mastering tool, not to be used on individual tracks.
From what I have read, Ozone is a very CPU intensive plug to that may have somthing to do with your drop-outs.
Mar 09, 2004 07:53 pm i just used it for offline final mastering. no cpu problems if you do that. get your tracks sounding as good as you can, then run the ozone plugin offline--i.e., not while the song is playing. export those results as a final file.
Mar 09, 2004 08:17 pm lol, you used 14 instances of Ozone 3 and wondered why your PC locked up?
Ozone is a mastering effect, and a DX effect at that (which are not as efficient as VST effects) - my P4 2.8Ghz, 1o24Mb can do about 8 instances before getting a touch wobbly.
Mar 09, 2004 08:36 pm Yeah Ozone is a bit CPU intensive for using in multi-track. I have started using it for my drum tracks in multi-track, it seems to work better than the built in effects of AA and it's more convienient than applying the effects individually.
Dan
Mar 09, 2004 09:36 pm Yes VdaleHubbard,
(Man I gotta figgure out a nickname for your nickname!) Ozone is intended to be a final mastering tool. And yes, I use other plugs (those within Cubase SX in my case) for individual track work prior to, and during the mix down phase. You could use Ozone on a single track to "precondition" the track for mixing, i.e. load one track in software and create a new .wav file using ozone and then use that new file as one track in a mix. The concept with Ozone is create a mix first, then load the mixed interleaved stereo track in your software and use ozone for the next step.. premastering. The term mastering applies to picking a order for tracks in the album, choosing delays between cuts on the album...etc.
A real macro explanation might be: Use the mixing stage to get everything playing well together on each song. Use premastering (ozone fits in here) to make each song "shine". Use mastering to make the songs work well together on an album. The trick for me was to play with Ozone for a long time to understand just what could be done in the premastering stage, and how to make a mix that would yeild itself to that process. Kinda a backwards learning effort as I had created a number of mixes prior to doing premastering. I don't have it down pat yet either. Sometimes I will be premastering and realize that my mix is defective somehow and have to remix per results of premastering. Hope that makes some kinda sense. Horse, cart, chicken, egg, cross the road or wait for the light? Regardless, yes as mentioned above, Ozone takes a lot of horsepower to run on one .wav file. Runing 14 instances of Ozone simultainiously would bring a lot of hourses to their knees!
Mar 09, 2004 09:57 pm jues - Had 10 going at once for about a minute! WoOT! Beat That!!
Walt - Thanks, that makes total sense.
Appreciate it, Ozone is something that I can't live without now. Just not on every track :)
Mar 09, 2004 10:13 pm his nickname shall be v-dale. as in virtual dale.
Mar 09, 2004 10:15 pm Yup VDH, Gotta say it took my recordings from technicaly correct to Wowzer! Folks ears started perkin up when I started to get the hang of it.
Mar 09, 2004 10:16 pm Oops, sorry Forty, you beat me to the punch! Besides I like yours better. I hereby amend VDH to V-dale in my last post. Here yee here yee.
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