very minimal changes but this will make a big difference when played in clubs with loudspeakers. very nice tutorial here.

After watching this video, I went to buy Ozone 8 and apply what you taught but my screen's brightness made me realise I was raised in the dark supported by my elders. Man, I swear never to tell this...

TAKE NOTE: when adjusting dB, they go in increments of 3. So for example; if something was -4dB and you wanted to make it twice as loud, -1dB would be double, then 2dB would be double that, so on and so forth.

Respect to all mastering guys - 'cause my ears cant hear difference :(

You can use the Ozone 8 for monitoring RMS/LUFS for your referance tracks as well. You can choose which track to audition at the I/O tab above "Peak" above the volume faders to the right of the UI :) This way you don't need to use the bx_meter.

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I have been thinking about getting Ozone 8 for a while but I was just intimidated by how complex it looks, but you have helped me understand it! You’ve earned yourself a sub!

A good starting point is the beginning. Thinking about what you want to happen.

Post a tutorial on mixing vocal harmonies and vocal processing.

That’s an awesome version there.... hands down it is proper and efficient

Appreciate the time spent! Just bounced another track via Ozone. I subscribed as well.

I always knew there was a distinct difference between my tracks and commercially published tracks... this whole time I've been killing myself trying to get the perfect mix while this entire time I wasn't mastering!

Props to you Sean for your patience!

Great tutorial! I'm finding the Imager sounds more like an EQ than a stereo widening tool. Moving the faders up accentuates those frequencies making them louder, not just wider.

THE SONG SLAPS SEAN

Great job dude, I think reference tracks are more dry and there is more presence in the mid high, but i prefer your sound much more!

Back on my last album, I still used the TC Electronics Finalizer 96K. I am seriously considering the Ozone 8 for the tools to help with referencing. Mastering an entire album can be draining and serious ear fatigue. Embrace the technology, don't hate!

God bless you brother, its nice to see u, doing what u love, may god keep on blessing you to teach us all. cause im looking to learn how to mix and master my own songs, aswell. so thank you for this, we keep in touch , your brpther from The netherlands

Thank you for this very quick ozone 8 mastering guideline!

Nice Ozone 8 video walkthrough!

I'm not really a commenter but I got to say I like that flow fits your voice (wise guy flow) keep moving forward

Nice methodical and well-paced walkthrough. Thanks!

This helped a lot, thank you. Those beats are crazy btw.

tip for anyone new to mastering - it's only subtle changes you should make! if the mix is whack don't go to the mastering stage! and avoid trying to 'fix' bad takes when recording! #mixnotfix

Sean Divine smh never cease to amaze me 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 Good stuff my friend!

The more I watch your vids the better my sound gets! Quick question: what type of CPU do you use? I’m looking to start streaming live videos myself and I’m also starting to edit on premier. I def need an upgrade but don’t know what specs I should shoot for on a new CPU. Trying to stick with Apple but idk if 16g of Ram is enough for a full time producer...thoughts? A studio tour vid would be clutch! Cheers !

It's weird slowly watching a engineers job being taken, but then again it's nice to be able to everything on your own.

That song sounds amazing

Fantastic video, Sean. Great first look at mastering in Ozone Advanced. Great info and presentation style. 'Preciate it man.

Fantastic. Thank you!

Great video! I’ll have to upgrade to Ozone 8, I’ve been using 7. Love that reference feature.

Sean Devine, thank you Master

Thanks brother!

oh my god that's insane! thanks to help a lot of my projects :)

great tutorial. just wish there was a liiiiiiitle more detail towards the end in what we were looking at around the 7:40 mark to the end--with the logic meter and the double Ozone meters. Thanks.

Very useful thanks ... lots of useful learning tips.

The guy is trying to tell you he about to hurt himself in the song and you sitting here trying to give us mix video....CALL THAT RAPPER AND GIVE HIM A HUG BEFORE HE LOSE HIS DAMN MIND!

Convinced brutha! I was going back and forth between this and Wavelab Pro 9, but I have the early version of Izotope and feel like I can get around much better there. I knew by first name alone you were gonna be probably at genius level or close...and you are!lol Off to Sweetwater to order!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Good tutorial video!

Great tutorial man! Thank you! Track sounds dope too!

great tutorial cants wait to get the 8

Highs are a bit harsh/fatiguing to my hears on this track. The increased stereo separation and tape harmonics helped the sound quite a bit. The outro clip didn't seem to have the same high end harshness that it did during the tutorial. Nice explanations.

So, I just got started learning about mastering. I want to know a couple things. I understand that -6dB in headroom is ideal. I also learned that a bit lower than that, around -8 or -10 is also acceptable to be able to master comfortably. I did also want to ask some questions from people that are more mastering friendly than I am. I wanted to know the reason behind distortion? I seem to get a hiss of distortion here and there. My track is never screaming and clipping, it’s just certain spots. I go back to the mix and I fix things, and come back to the mastering to find that the levels that were clipping are now too low and inaudible. I know this probably sounds stupid, but I really want to learn the key to mastering. I know the first thing is a good mix, which I try my best to do. I pan, use EQ to clear out dirty or clashing frequencies, compress only when needed, don’t overcompress, and I always make sure that effects such as reverb and delay are using according to each track, I don’t use the same reverb preset for two different types of track. I hear people doing loud, wide and huge masters with only software, such as Ozone, UAD and T Racks, and Logic and Pro Tools etc. . But other people tell me that in order to get that real sound there has to be some hardware involved. Can someone, anyone help? I’m open to all criticism. Note: I’ve always been a composer and songwriter and have arranged music for the past 5 years, but I just now want to learn to do better mixing and mastering for myself. Like I said, open to all comments and all critique, I need all the advice I can get.

Thankyou for the Knowledge Sean. You are the MAN!!!! :)

Awesome vid, Sean! Thank you and keep on going!

Try playing the video at 1.25x...song sounds really good at that speed! Thanks for the helpful video. :)

thanks for a tip man

Excelente aportación hermano. Muchísimas gracias. Un abrazo.

Thank you

What I don't understand about mastering with ozone is while starting with Master assistant. When selecting reference track, do we have to upload the reference track in the DAW that we are going to work on the mastering. Because, during master assistant, we have to some parts of the audio so that the software will analyze it to start. In this video, the reference track used and the track to be mastered sounds same to me. The reference track is what is being mastered here. I may be wrong.

Thanks, i'm always looking for mastering tips for my music :)

Really well made track!

Thank you for the Vid bro, it helped out a lot!!!

Oh, also Sean. What is the most optimal effect chain order when mastering? I know some say to go off preferences, but what are some effects that have to always be in the same place in the effect chain? I’ve heard a limiter should always go last. What else should I know about izotope’s chain order? Thank you!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH !

thaaaaaaank you!

U can Learn Threshold in Maximizer

✌🏼love this plugin, just updated it from elements to advanced

Cool . Thanks for the help

Heyyy Sean. We went to college together. Nice tutorial!

This is amazing!

Nice work dude

Great ! Thank you

The reference tracks are just bringing so much loudness war.

My window is a box with numbers and a scroll bar. How do I change this?

Thanks for Sharing bro 👍

great video keep up the good work.

cool......thanks for video.....informative !!

Latest is the IRC LL

The cool part is matching tracks.

Dude. Your videos are always top notch Man. I’m always referencing to them for knowledge. I have a question. I'm extremely new to this. I noticed the Imager for izotope has dots that that are showing red on that little graph (I guess we can call it that.) that shows the width of the frequencies. I'm not sure what that means.

Could of used the threshold learn at the end there with a target to show off that new feature.

amazing. i got my hands on Ozone 8 now. quick question for you sean... is there a real world scenario when mastering where you combined using Ozone 8 and Waves plugins? If you were to do so, in which order would you apply these plugins in your mastering chain for the most optimum result? thx always bossman !

Thanks for the help!

I dont know if I do something wrong :O I use the master assistent, but every time the master assistant creates the same preset (raise bass, lower the highs). On every single song i tested it out. For test reasons i disabled all synths which play the higher frequenzies (so only a piano and the bass was left) and still the assistent lowerd the high (which wasnt even existent) and boosted my bass.

hello did you compare the T-Racks 5 and OZONE 8 and tell us your opinion please thanks in advance

Hi Sean, quick question: I noticed you kept the the ceiling at 0.0dB on the maximizer (with true peak enabled), but your song RMS was around -6.0. I've read that you should AT LEAST keep the ceiling at -1.0dB true peak when putting your song on services like Spotify or iTunes, especially if your song is that loud. I also read (from Spotify's website) that your true peak should be -2.0 if your song is louder than -14.0 LUFS. I guess my question is this: why did you keep the ceiling at 0.0dB in the video? Is that where the ceiling should be normally? Great video by the way! Thanks!

thanks you so much man

When looking for reference tracks to use, are you looking more for artists that have a great sound overall, OR for artists that are similar in genre and also have a good sound?

Really useful, thanks

Great video, thank You kindly :) How does one go about adding reference tracks please?

sry but whats the difference between ozones maximizer and limiter? and how much ceiling do i need - does this vary for streaming services?

Hey thanks for this !!

Not all heroes wear capes

Thank you bro !!!!!!!!

It would be cool to get a tutorial like this using Ozone STANDARD instead of advanced. Lot of us can't afford to go with the advanced version & frankly those extras seem cool but not super necessary.. nice for those who have them, but as I keep looking for a mastering tutorial on Ozone 8 Standard, guess what... they are hard af to find!

Do I bounce the track with Gain match on?

That was a really good video

thanks you!

Great tutorial. Thanks. Would love to see a video on comparing the Neve sound to the API and the SSl sound. Thanks.

i hope everyone uses this video..

its awesome with a reference track ..... but why just equalizer and dynamic equalizer ... why not the stereo for example ? but its awesome really, i found my perfect reference track :)

thank you from thailand

great video but that beat is fireee

Good mix and mastering man. I notice that it seems to always make similar cuts on the dynamic EQ...always drastic cuts around the same frequencies. It seems like there must be something under the hood that most of us are missing or the module is broken. I have to admit, sometimes Ozone has a brain fart on its suggested settings and does some weird stuff like completely cut everything below 20kHz with a low-cut filter where I don't hear anything...I think it's a bug or something. Anyway, one question: How come you don't use a linear phase EQ on the master bus? I don't think Ozone 8 advertises that it using a linear phase EQ as the final EQ in the mastering chain. If it is just a minimum phase EQ then Ozone (EDIT) WOULD be good for mastering a song that was recorded with multi-microphone positioned instruments because of the pre-ringing from the linear phase Eq. Edit 2: reading this again...It really doesn't even matter because most of us that actually master our own songs, already own LinPh EQs.and other mastering tools.

Hey Sean, can you explain how to add songs for the Reference tracks?

Good stuff man...

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i have Logic Pro X will this be compatible?

Hi.. Sean.. I like your videos.. so amazing. Nice lesson.

Do I have to put the instrumental and the vocal in the channel or just the vocal ???