The ozone master assistant is tricky because it utilizes all those smart spectral processing modules, trying to match your audio to various curves or profiles - e.g. stabilizer, clarity, impact, spectral shaper... These are very good and capable, especially in combination with transient/sustain and stem separation, but can often mess with the groove in your tracks. You can imagine it pushing up and down when percussion is playing and changing the feel which, in my experience, can happen even when used quite subtly. Also, if there's a need for this in your own music, you are better off going back to the mix and adjusting there, instead of doing stem processing, etc.
So, weirdly, I think Ozone 11 is ideal if you're either a beginner and cannot do our own mixing/mastering to a satisfactory degree or if you're actually a professional working on other people's music. In the latter case, if you would only have the stereo file to work on, Ozone would be a phenomenal toolbox of modules capable of extracting, manipulating, and repairing parts within the track.
Despite how powerful it is, if it were your own track, you would always be better off going back to the mixing project and fixing things there if you know what you're doing.
The fundamental tools, like eq, compression, imager, etc. are as you know already there in Ozone 9, the difference is mostly in these advanced modules, stem and transient/sustain processing.
Just my opinion, of course.
So, weirdly, I think Ozone 11 is ideal if you're either a beginner and cannot do our own mixing/mastering to a satisfactory degree or if you're actually a professional working on other people's music. In the latter case, if you would only have the stereo file to work on, Ozone would be a phenomenal toolbox of modules capable of extracting, manipulating, and repairing parts within the track.
Despite how powerful it is, if it were your own track, you would always be better off going back to the mixing project and fixing things there if you know what you're doing.
The fundamental tools, like eq, compression, imager, etc. are as you know already there in Ozone 9, the difference is mostly in these advanced modules, stem and transient/sustain processing.
Just my opinion, of course.
Statistics: Posted by Opaque — Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:33 am