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Ozone 10 - Your Secret Weapon for Perfect EDM Mastering

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro

      3:33

    • 2.

      1. Listen & Analyze

      2:37

    • 3.

      2. Rebalance

      1:23

    • 4.

      3. EQ

      4:30

    • 5.

      4. Dynamics

      2:14

    • 6.

      5. Impact

      4:49

    • 7.

      6. Dynamic EQ

      4:00

    • 8.

      7. Imager

      2:33

    • 9.

      8. Match EQ

      1:58

    • 10.

      9. Maximizer

      5:32

    • 11.

      10. Before & After Manual Mastering

      1:19

    • 12.

      11. Master Assistant & Comparison

      13:24

    • 13.

      Outro

      0:26

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In this course, you will learn how to master an EDM track using only Ozone 10, a powerful mastering plugin developed by iZotope. You will discover how to identify what your track needs to sound better and how to use the tools provided by Ozone 10 to achieve a professional-sounding result.

The course will cover two different approaches to mastering, the manual chain, and using the mix assistant. You will learn how to use Ozone 10's tools, including the Equalizer, Maximizer, Exciter, Imager, and Vintage modules, to enhance your track's overall sound quality.

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced producer, this course will provide you with valuable information on perfecting your track and giving it the final touch that it may be missing. You will also learn insider tips and tricks from the instructor, who has years of experience mastering EDM tracks with Ozone 10.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills and knowledge to confidently master your own EDM tracks using Ozone 10, saving you time and frustration in the process. So, if you're ready to take your tracks to the next level, join us and let's master together!

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1. Intro: Are you tired of spending countless hours trying to mass of uranium tracks only to be left without the result that you really wanted. Well, get ready to take your tracks to the next level. Because in this course I'm going to tissue muscle, an idiom truck using only awesome. You don't believe me? Well, in this course we made it possible to make a truck, but sounds like this isn't meant to ferret. So she was always have the cleaning dishes, everything to stat and then create machine. Once you put it on head tones, listen. In every words him still be bowed. Every line gets closer to the bar. She tries that the sharps or flats into this isn't meant to ferret. So she was always have the cleaning dishes, everything to start and create machine. Once a slave, listen. In every words him still be bird. Gets closer to the CEJ steps. That only with ozone ten years, I can say that mass has never been easier with other tenant. You can achieve a greater result in number 1 h. And in this course, we are going to learn how to recognize what attract mates sound better and fix some mistakes that you might hear. How to use the tools from the ozone ten on your mastering chain and many more that you are going to discover. We're also going to use two ways of mastering the manual chain where I will show you how I mustered my track without the help from the mixing assistant and with a mixer system. In addition, I will share with you my insider tips and tricks. So you can utilize awesome tense, powerful tools to achieve the perfect sound for the track, whether you are a beginner or an experienced producer. I guarantee you that this course will give you valuable information about perfecting your truck and giving this final touch that it might have been missing. So if you're ready to create professional sounding Indian masters, join me in this course and let's master together your next song. 2. 1. Listen & Analyze: Now let's go and start with our first step. We're going to let the truck play. And then we're going to recognize if we find here some mistakes and what we can do to fix them. She was always happy cleaning dishes every day to start and create machine. Once a slave. Codes listen. Every word seems to be Byrd who every line gets closer to the bar. She tries that. Gets closer. Okay, so now that we hear the track, what can focus here on the chorus to hear exactly, because the chorus is the loudest part of the track. If we concentrate there and we got our mixed good there, it will sound also like 90 per cent good. Oliver the track. So let's go and listen carefully right now. Only the four 8 bar, the first 8 bar, and decide what needs to be fixed. Okay, I can hear right away that this class here that we got on, this ones here are a bit louder than the rest. You can see also here from the pigs that it's a bit louder. So we can go and fix this thing. And also can hear that the vocals are a little bit louder in comparison with the rest of the track. 3. 2. Rebalance: So how are we going to start? Let's go here aren't known. Awesome. And our first step is going to use the master rebalance. As I already mentioned, the awesome ten has some artificial density inside that can recognize where the gaps are and we can go and take them down a little bit. So let's start. My opinion, the watercolor wash little bit, two large yard. And you can see that right now. After again outlet minus for the base. And let's go on bypass it to here what it does. It's truck one. So Jones, listen. Every words him still be Byrd who gets closer. It's really like how it sounds right now. It sounds like more glute in my opinion because the vocals don't come out as loud as it already was. 4. 3. EQ: Now that we have the vocals fixed, Let's go on our next step, which is going to be doing, we're going to use the equalizer here and we're going to take this dirtiness that we already mentioned. Let's go and find it. Let's go again on the course. Okay, I find the first part is somewhere that they're on 221 hz and let's take it out a little bit. Let's go on our next part. I find this one a little bit irritating. These frequencies here near 582 hz. Let's make the queue also a bit wider. And let's take this out. I can also hear some here on the highs on 6768 somewhere there. It's going to send, well, it was here on 535000, 300 hz. So let's go and take it down again. Well, we're not always taken down so much. We're just going like minus one -1.6. We don't want to change so much a track that as it is right now, if you remember earlier, I mentioned that if you change from analog to digital, you're not going to introduce any facing. So this is also really important to choose the digital right now. And let's try to find some other frequencies. I can also use some frequencies here on ten K and here are not so well. Take them down. It's also made, make the QL bit wider. And let's have a listen now how it is with our new EQ. It seems to be Byrd who gets closer to the bar. I can hear right away now, that's sounds much cleaner. But for some people that don't have so much experience with might be a bit difficult. 5. 4. Dynamics: Let's go on our next step. We are going to choose here the dynamics, and we're going to use the compressor to take out a bit this big peak that regard here on our track that happens from our club. So if you go here and let play, you can hear that this peak here, this big peaks happen only with the club carbon. And we can do that. We can attenuate these pig little bit with our compressor. We are not going to use a multiband compressor here. We're just going to compress jars little bit the truck to glue it. Let's go and choose it a quick attack because we want to compress this transits that we already mentioned. The ratio here is going to be low. We don't want such a big compressor compression to happen here. And we can go and choose the owner again. How will support this with such a big difference? And you can go and not so much, we can go and our poll cares to draw like minus two, minus three. Here right away that right now the club is not so loud as the other instruments here. Seltzer, more glute right now. 6. 5. Impact: Now that we've fixed some issues that are working here right away, we can go and use the AI tools that awesome then has. We're going to start first with the impact. Here. We're going to leave it on multi-band. Let's go and let it play and press to learn. Now let's go and compress the lows. So in this case I think that the lowest needle bit more expanding and not so much compression because right now I have this feeling that our truck lacks a little bit of the lows. Calvinism, what we did here. I can feel it right now that the truck has more body in it. Let's go here on our next band. We definitely want to compress it. Lets one find the sweet spot. I think we can go into this further. It's also enabled the outer gain. Now let's go into it. In this band. Would definitely want to compress also this band. Now let's go on to the final band. Don't want to read so much. I'll just leave it like this. But now, let's go and have a look on how it is with an a without our impact that we wait here. You can hear right away what's going on. Let's start from the beginning. And I'm going to bypass here the ozone. And I will let you hear from yourself what we have done until now. She was always have the cleaning dishes every detail starting with she brought on listen every words. I'm still be Byrd who gets closer to the search bar. I really like how it sounds right now. For me, it sounds much more professional because the truck right now is more blue than screener. 7. 6. Dynamic EQ: But I can still hear some things on our frequencies. And I think I'm going to use now the dynamic EQ. And I'm going to attenuate again some frequencies that I think they can be fixed. I find these frequencies here on 177 hz are a bit dirty because of the baseline that we got here. Let's go and swallow. And here also, I can hear right away that there are some frequencies from the kick. Every time the kid comes down. Right now we're using some dynamic EQ to fix this issue. I would suggest to you also not to go. I've seen a lot of people going like really crazy here on the cure. I would highly recommend not to do that because right now it might sound that is a filter there. So if you widen the securely bit, it will sound much more natural. Now let's go and find the other spot that we think. I can hear something here. So let's go and put down. Let's go and find our next point. I think I can get some air. Right now. It doesn't seem something like is so much irritating. Maybe he'll, we can take out just some small frequency. Some go here and let's go like -0.5 or some like this. Now let's go and listen how it is width and without the dynamic EQ, I am pretty sure that the difference will not be so easy to hear. But for me, I can hear right away from my experience that now we have much, much, much cleaner sound. 8. 7. Imager: Now our next step is to go and choose the imager. And we do the same thing again, four bonds. Okay, Now we have here, our low band here. And I want, I, I tend to make my trucks on the low frequencies, a lot of mono. So for that reason, I'm not going to leave it like it is right now on 100. I'm going to push it back here on 120. And we're going to make it a little bit more monarch here. But not so much we can do. We can go here and we can recover sides. Now we can go into this frequency spectrum. You can make an adjustment. Well either because we want also to help this wide baseline a little bit here from this higher frequencies. And we can also boost a little bit more on this frequency spectrum. In general is the EDM music has a lot of white frequencies. So that means we can go also if you are making also this spectrum here, it'd be the wider. Let's have a listen now heightened width and without the imager. Here also the ones who brought on Jones, listen. What we have done up to now. Every line gets closer to the j, the chunks of friends, it's really big. You can also by yourself. So let's go now on our next step. 9. 8. Match EQ: Next step is going to include the Match EQ. And if you go here you have two options. You have the option to capture a photo reference track, but you have an option here if you go and choose the pink noise, this is going to be the capture. And then you can apply this pink noise on your track. It depends also what you really want. But if you don't know what pink noise mixing is, you can go and search it and then you will understand a little bit better what it really does. Okay, so now we have this suggestion here. We have a small boost here on this frequencies above, below 50 hz. Somewhere there. We have a little bit deep here on 60 hz and 100 hz. Then we got here, also a little bit boasting from this frequencies. And then while a lot of boosting the higher frequency. So that means right now our mix was really good and we are not applying so much queuing here. You can go and boasted if you want a bit more, we can here and let's decide what we're going to apply here. Let's have a listen. Hold is width and without much coup. She was always have cleaning dishes every day to start and then create machines. Once a slave. 10. 9. Maximizer: Now our next step is going to be to use the maximizer. As we already mentioned, we have a lot of options here, but I tend to go with the IRC three and I tend to use, sorry, I tend to go here and I tend to use the modern one because I liked the sound of it. It'll be better. But remember the IRC four requires a lot of power from your computer. So if you cannot go here, you can go and choose the other one. So let's go and say to the maximizer, we want the threshold to be at -14, which is the standard for Spotify. And then we can hit Learn threshold. And let's go here and choose only the chorus because we want the loudest part to be triggered from a maximizer. Okay, So right now we have this HDFS in case you don't see that, you can click here and you can choose short-term and stereo. I always go here into the earlier phase, the short elegant fast because I know that this is the most accurate in my opinion. And then we can go, we are seeing that the limiter works, but we're not changing so much here the track, because we're done here. If I go and I can see right away that we have a big dip in here. So let's put it back on my screen. Okay, so this is the suggestion from the maximizer. And always don't forget that the Spotify needs a minus one dB ceiling. There's also a trick here that you want to use if you want the soft goods, as we already mentioned right now we're hitting that -15. That's going to be right now it's much larger than -12. Right now we're hitting the -14. I felt books written by your panelists here also the whole track from the beginning. And let's decide if it needs any more changes. To favorites. She was always have the cleaning dishes every day to create machine. Once brought on. Listen every words. I'm still be bowed her every line gets closer to the bar. Okay, So also if you want, you can go and hit the minus eight and put it on -0.1. Let's go and test it. How the sound is going to be. What's odd? It's going to be a little bit loud right now. Let's also here from the beginning. She was always have the cleaning dishes, everything to start and then create machines. Cones, listen. Every word seems to be bowed. Her. Every line gets closer to it. Hi. I can hear just a little bit of distortion. So you can go and you can pull this off clip rarely bit down your leg, e.g. on -20. And now we have a really, really, really loud track. You can go and push it a bit further, but I wouldn't suggest that. 11. 10. Before & After Manual Mastering: Let's go and listen now what we really change here on the track and click the gain much so that we are not judging the traffic only from the, from the loudness. Let's have a listen how it is with and without. She was always have the cleaning dishes every day. She was sad and she knows she wants to throw it on. Listening. In every words I'm stupid, but who gets closer to the, well, the difference is really big in my opinion and you're going to hear it right away. When we use the Ozone on our truck, the truck becomes much more glute and much more coherent. 12. 11. Master Assistant & Comparison: We must have been charged with the manual way. Let's go and make a small experiment and try to master the track on the master assistance. So we're going to duplicate the track. Here again, take it out, delete everything, and choose again the chorus. And let's see what the master assistance suggest. Just press will learn and it played. Okay. So right now, the Master System found that the truck is in EDM track. And if I go here we have a lot of things. Let's go and compare the settings from the master assistant, my manual chain. Let's go one by one. Here we got the equalizer. The first thing that happens here is the equalizer. Then it's going to compare it with our equalizer. Here we have a big difference, in my opinion. E.g. we have a small dip here and these frequencies. And if you go and check the track here, there is a small dip here in these frequencies and a little bit both here in this frequencies. It also boosters the higher frequencies here. The master assistant that's going to compare. Our next is going to be the dynamics in my chain. Let's see. Okay, here we don't have any dynamics. Let's go and compare the impact. The impact is here is a little bit the same. I can say. The frequencies here we had 120 on the assistant. Here we got on 199. We've got three. For k. Here, we got to, here we got ten, and here we've got 12. So the difference is there on those frequency spectrum. Here. The difference also is from the sink. And here we have an envelope on 100 MS. The boosted, we have a little bit bushier on the low frequencies. And here, again the same. Here we got almost the same like months 34 here, my 34, -23 and -32. Here we've got the minus ten -22. So our mixing here, our tool, the settings, what we get here on the impact, we're almost identical to the settings that we got from the Master System. Let's go and compare our next one. This is the dynamic EQ. We got bigger dips here. Here we got on 444 hz, we got on 5,356 hz. And also a little bit more deep here on the high frequencies. And in comparison with our dynamic accuse, it's much different. Let's go now and compare the imager. Here. The imager here it comes through with earlier in comparison with my chain. Here we got such a really big difference. Here we got, I don't know why. A lot of times the ozone tends to put the stereo, the low frequencies in this leg, so much terror. And to say the truth, I don't agree with it with this one at fault. Because here we've got the baseline and we get also the cake. We don't want it to be somewhat sorts sterile. So if I were you and I saw this thing coming up, I wouldn't leave it like it is, I would just go here, put on zero because it might be a small bugger. I don't know. For me, it doesn't make any sense. Let's go here on our next one here we've got our Might. My setting was on 13. Here we've got 38. Also here we got 120. 120 also for me to k, 3.4, we've got 12 k. Here, we've got ten K. And here we see a big boost younger sterile fields for this frequency spectrum. Here we see almost the same for this frequency spectrum. And here we have the assistance suggests that it should be a little bit wider here on this frequency spectrum. We've got also almost the same recover sites. I want to 0.8 and here it is on free. And let's go here on our next. Next is the much skew. We don't have any magic you right now, here. And the stabilizer, Let's see. I don't have any stabilizer, okay, as it seems, I didn't use any stabilizer in this mixing session. But let's say if I use this one, I will go here and choose the stabilizer and put it almost here after the small changes that I did. Well as the dynamics, I will just put it here. And let's say that I didn't use these tools. Put them back again for the maximizer again. For the game much back again. And let's have a listen how I would use it in this case. I can see that works here, liquid. But because the mixing was already really close, we don't have such a big difference here. Going to put here, tomorrow. Starts moving much quicker. Also mediums. I'm going to insert the same payment of transient tool of a listen. Right now it becomes a bit brighter in my opinion, when you would have someone who liked so much for this together. Once again, if I were you, I would just use it not so much infrastructure because this truck was really good. So if I were you, I would use this on the track right now. But I would not apply such big amount because the truck is already lag. Okay. It has some flows, but it makes sounds much better right now. So if e.g. let's say I didn't know how to do this muscle balance, the equalizer and the dynamics. I would put this one at the beginning. And then you will see, right now it will go, the movement will be much bigger. Let's take it out because two signatures, I wouldn't use this one on my mixing right now. Let's put back everything again. Again, the maximizer. And I'm just going to do a small experiment. I'm going to compare my truck with the muscular system and you can decide which one sounds better. Both of them are going to hit on the -14 and the minus one here ceiling. So let's go and choose this one. Change the name, Let's manual. And so it's also easier for you. Which one worked like? Oh, here we are hitting on my PC. Let's go. The struggle right now also hits the -14. And let's go and bounce both of them. Balance in place. My neural muster. Let's go and do the same thing again for this one. It's going to bounce in place. And let's name this one assistant. Nice. So let's make it a bit easier for you to see. This is the assistant, this is the manual, but one of them down here. Okay. Let's have a look also here to see if we can already see any big differences. So in my opinion, the difference is not so big right now. Our mastering chain and our assistant chain has almost the identical sound. Okay, here in the beginning, I can see that the I system is a bit different. We've got the pixel bit more here. At the beginning. Here we got also a bigger peak here. Again, here on our truck, we get a big peak here and also a little bit here. But in comparison, you can see also from the waveforms that are master chain is not so far away for or the muscle from the muscular system. The question is right now, would you rather spend so much time on the manual mastering or you just put the muscular system and you can see by yourself If it is okay for you or not. So in my opinion, I would try both to say the truth. Not always, but I will try both. And at the end of the day, it's just a matter of taste here, e.g. I. Can see right away that the brake the first year is much louder in comparison with our first solo. This one. Put the solar here. Soon. She was always have the cleaning dishes every machine. Once a slave gets closer to the bar. That's going listen again. She was always have the cleaning dishes every day. You're going to hear also by yourself that if I go and un-solo this one, the assistant here, it's a bit bigger. Kansas waveform because the vocal is a little bit louder, because the system didn't suggest the vocalist bit louder. Now, let's put down with a matter of balance. This is a manual adjustment that I did. So in this case, I find to say the truth might mix much better because I can hear that. It's not so personal, so loud. She was always have the cleaning dishes, everything was sad and then create machine. Once. Brought on. Jones, listen. In every words. I'm still be bowed her every line gets closer to the bar. So guys, in my opinion, in this case, I would choose my manual muster in comparison with the assistant because for me, the final Master is more the final sound that we want to hear on Spotify or on clubs. 13. Outro: Congratulation guys. Now you have learned how to master anything Amtrak using only awesome ten. I hope that this video has been informative and helpful in the problem, your modern skills. But remember guys, always trust your ears and experiment with different settings to achieve the perfect sound for check. And if you want to improve your mastery skills, keep practicing and never stop learning. Thank you for watching and I look forward to seeing you in the next course.