Hiya. My Wavelab 11 has been working great until I started using Ozone 10. When using master assistant on Ozone, WL crashes about 50% of times trying to use it. Anyone have the same issue and is there anything to solve this.
Yep. I will message them. But isnt that quite strange mastering plugin Ozone doesnt support mastering software Wavelab? Theres not many programs like WL which is concentrated on mastering. On Cubase it works great, both Steinberg softwares
It kind of ties into the overarching theme that plugin companies have been selling in that mastering is just stereo-bus processing, rather than all the things we as mastering engineers do everyday, which is why we use something like WaveLab as a vehicle to get the job done, and not Cubase, or Pro Tools, or Logic Pro.
this plugin is awsome
you can do a lot of thing on your track, on your wav, the quality is WOW
i have an old version of it and it is very wonderfull, usefull, plenty of good parameter to improve the quality of your sound during mastering
But its indeed strange that a higher latency solves this for you. Audio IO is completely bypassed while rendering, so this should not make a difference.
Probably theres another VST somewhere which causes the crackles? Something in your master track?
Given that there's already an excellent general review of Audiolens + Ozone 10 by user T-O on this forum I figured I'd do something a little differently: is the $25 Audiolens a useful tool on its own or is it only usable in the context of an Ozone 10 master Assistant toolchain?
Not that it's 1-click and you're done, but in a minimum of clicks you can dramatically improve your mastering chain and hear immediate results, then tweak from there. For me, who has to master 2-3 tracks a week, this can translate into a couple of hours' in time savings every week! That's huge - and if you charge a fixed fee for mastering, you've just increased your effective hourly rate with no additional cost your clients!
Professional or amateur, we're all on the same path of constantly trying to improve our ears, our discernment and our knowledge of mastering: looking for ways to recognize common issues and having multiple strategies to mitigate them. The ability to capture a number of reference tracks and then - most importantly - to be able to visualize their spectra and compare to your own tracks' analysis is another "lens" (ha ha) into the music and gives you more data to triangulate your insights.
If you're using Ozone 10+ or Neutron 4+ already, then Audiolens is really a no-brainer, but what if you're using other mastering plugins and don't want to invest in a new suite at this time? Is Audiolens useless?
You can use Audiolens to capture reference profiles, and then, provided you have a means to output your DAW's audio to the system's default internal audio bus, Audiolens will pick it up and superimpose it upon the visual graph of your reference captures! If you have a dual-monitor setup, you can keep Audiolens up on one monitor and tweak your DAW's master signal chain to your heart's content and observe how it matches your reference. Or you can easily switch back and forth to observe the impact of your adjustments in almost real-time.
Thanks to the generous folks at Native Instruments and iZotope, I've now got my own copy of Audiolens + Ozone 10 Advanced and I'm sure it will become a staple for me in my weekly mastering tasks, saving me time and giving me new ways to improve and train my ears! The ability to generate visual reference material AND audio profiles that the Master Assistant can use is clutch and will encourage me to explore more genres and styles due to its frictionless workflow.
Hi guys/gals,
I'm not such a pro at mixing and I'm still learning, despite this I have recorded and mixed a few songs at home which sounds pretty ok to me.
I'm using Cakewalk by Bandlab, I'm now in the phase where I'm trying to understand a few things like Mix balance, stereo width and phase issues.
I downloaded Izotope Ozone Imager (freeware version) and upload it on my Master bus, I was wondering if any of you is using it and would give me some tips.
There are some things that are not quite clear to me.
So I have read and followed pretty much the LCR technique, recommended by lot of mixing engineers, so in my mix (instrumental song), I have drums, bass and lots of guitars with clean and distorted parts.
So where I have only 2 guitars I panned them 100% right and left, when 3 guitars I put 2 on the sides and one in the mid. Bass and drums in the center.
I used a reference track and also there I can hear the guitars 100% or so panned L/R.
I tried to look at the stereo ozone imager graph on the master bus but it's not clear to me what should it looks like, how it is suppose to look?
I understand that the -1/0/1 bar on the right should be between 0 and 1, if it goes to -1 it's out of phase.
If it's out of phase, what should I do to the mix? pan the guitars I put 100% left and right more in the middle? like 60/50 % pan?
If so, that wouldn't follow anymore the LCR technique correct? I want my guitars to be wide.
Out of phase means the instrument is too much panned left and right and so should be panned more in the mid? Am I wrong?
In my mix in the first (clean) part of the song it goes under 0 on the right bar, so it seems out of phase, what should be done to avoid this? again not pan the guitars 100% R/L?
Also the waves I see in the imager left and right should not be larger or the same as the one in the middle? or is it ok?
WHat if one wave on the left end is longer that the one on the right? is it bad?
Could someone please clarify these points?
Here's my mix if someone would like to have a listen.
=sharing
Thanks
I'm finding out the problem step by step and now I think I'm getting closer to the solution!
Indeed the freeG Meter plugin is transforming the mono signal in stereo! The one I had on the master bus was widening all my mix.
If I switch it off the signal goes back to mono.
Now some tracks are also affected by the TH-U amp sim plugin, in some tracks the plugin is active but is not converting it to mono, in some other tracks it is.
Just need to figure out why.
Should the guitar tracks be transformed in stereo by the amp sim plugin? I think yes, because the track resulting out of phase is the one that is in mono (Arpeggio)
yes and no. the center panned stereo phantom image is "essentially the same" as a mono track except that any stereo pan laws in use , phase differences, etc can impact the levels whereas the mono buss/track will enforce a consistent phase and energy level on your mix decisions. a mono pan law in a stereo master field can also be impactful, but you've already addressed any potential phase and level issues by forcing the mono.
No. For this situation, it was far better to protect the integrity of his mix against the possibility of a sloppy mastering job; to master it as much as possible on the mixing end; to maximize loudness, width, and tonal excellence while keeping the transients intact.
If blue really makes us stop and think (even for a split second), then the new blue-on-black color scheme must be intended to make us stop and think as well. Personally, I like this. Stopping and thinking is a vital mindset for mastering, especially in a DIY/home setting.
But unfortunately, some of the old features have been simplified out of existence: Both the dynamic gate and the mastering reverb have left us entirely, most likely because their practical uses are few and far between.
These are three completely different masters, each of them treated in an increasingly aggressive manner. To my ears, each example trumps the harsh, boxy, and narrow qualities of the original master from so many years ago; played against modern Jazz tunes of a similar ilk, all of these examples stand up.
CD and downloads are such an inappropriate product for 2015 anyway. Multimedia discs featuring different mixes and masterings along with videos and other content people could download onto a mobile device or pop in a blu ray player or video game system seems a lot more like something people would buy. One can buy the whole Saw franchise on blu ray for I think $15-$20 at Best Buy. Why would that same consumer then want to spend $15 on a cd with squashed audio and other problems?
Master Rebalance leverages a machine learning algorithm trained to identify different instrument types in atrack. You can use Master Rebalance to make real-time gain adjustments to a selected focus element in yourmaster without needing to adjust stems or individual tracks from the original mix.
I was trying to use my iZotope Ozone plugin's mastering assistant and after it finished auto-mastering, this message popped up (see attached) and crashed Logic. Anyone have any idea what the problem is?
Izotope Ozone = Mastering Preset for instant song finishing perfection! Master your track with the Ozone 8 & 9 standalone application or plugin on your master bus in any DAW! This preset also includes an exclusive 25 minute mastering tutorial video to help you become familiarized with your preset! Ozone Master Sauce is compatible with Ozone 9 and 8 Advanced or newer.
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