Is Ozone 11 WORTH IT? Will These NEW Features Change Mastering Forever?

[@rundajulesproductions7735]

Pretty cool. I get that you think you don't need the vocal balance feature, but that might be because you are already a Mastering Engineer. For people who aren't, it might be helpful. And even for people who know how to set levels properly it can help when you are using preset genre, or custom targets. I record my own vocals and just like everybody thinks their own voice sounds weird on a phone message, I have a bias when mixing my own voice over a track as opposed to another vocalist. Bottom line is even if you can't turn it off by default, you can still turn it off after it calculates its suggestions. Nice tracks! They sound really good and it's refreshing to see you get excited about the artists you work with.

[@jonathanojeda2144]

For your interview, I’m really curious about the relationship of upward compression, soft clip, and transient emphasis to character and gain, especially with regards to distortion and loudness. Thanks!

[@panorama_mastering]

Great suggestion!

[@panorama_mastering]

For the first time on this channel I've had to delete a comment; A direct call or endorsement to piracy / stealing.

[@gaashmusic]

yeah this tool is NUTS! This video made me wanna buy this lol crazy how far Ozone has gone through the years

[@ProducerStefanSchnabel]

Thanks for your great video! Thank you for your mega effort and the really deep represent Ozone. I am now firmly on board as a new subscriber of your channel! Top quality and expertise!

[@panorama_mastering]

Glad it was helpful! Welcome to the party ;)

[@KonkaBass]

Honestly the last three versions of ozone have barely added anything and I'd been really struggling to see the worth in even upgrading but this one actually looks meaningful and Powerful

[@huberttorzewski]

Ozone 10 was worth it for the great sounding clipper (and it has its own sound which you can't reproduce elsewhere) and a stabilizer module in cut mode. The rest was kinda meh but these 2 features were amazing and I use them all the time. Ozone 11 on the other hand feels too overhyped with a new features which are unnecessary in 9 out of 10 situations. Transient and sustain mode seems like the biggest and the most meaningful update. I see a lot of use cases for them in mixing especially (not so much in mastering but maybe sometimes it will be usable). But the price for the upgrade is too expensive right now.. I'll wait for a bigger discount.

[@fcmas]

"Barely" is incredibly subjective. Clarity, stem-specific processing, transient/sustain-focused processing, upwards compression, and delta monitor are a massive upgrade in ability from even version 10

[@--legion]

No standalone? More fool them.

[@Illiyinmusic]

until the force you to because they dont do legacy products

[@TheBelse]

Well explained ..thank you ...yeah looks good ..place is going stems crazy. Big love.

[@davidasher22]

I’ve been beta testing Ozone 11 too and I frickin’ love it! I guess it’s out now?

[@panorama_mastering]

Spot on! IT'S OUT

[@Catandbeats]

Gain match is also brilliant ;)

[@Barncore]

Actually I have something I'd love you to ask the Ozone guy about. I don't know if it's possible in Ozone 11 yet, but in Ozone 10 you could only input 1 song as a reference into the master assistant. I'd love to be able to feed Ozone like 5-10 songs and it averages out the elements and masters based on that. I dunno if that's part of their philosophy or not to be able to have it read multiple tracks, but I'd love you to fish a bit in that area. Right now you can choose profiles based on genre. It'd be so cool to create your own profiles based on multiple songs you've fed it yourself. Train your own profiles 🤯

[@You-ud2fp]

Mastering the mix - reference

[@Barncore]

@@You-ud2fp No that doesn't do it

[@OfficialADONISMusic-bv3qe]

You can do that in tonal balance. Just create a custom tonal balance and drag amd drop the songs you want to average out into tonal balance.

[@sampetterclaeson]

Thanks for this amazing video! So inspiring and you're such a good, engineer, educator and creator!!

[@cainomusic]

Thank you for this valuable information. So very much appreciated 🙏🏼

[@PharaohLawLess1]

I remember when I bought Ozone 3 which came on a cd rom at Sam Ash many years ago Lol

[@panorama_mastering]

the good ol' green interface

[@PharaohLawLess1]

@@panorama_mastering Lol yep

[@Illiyinmusic]

My thing is i can get a better EQ, Saturator, Limiter, the same price..or even cheaper.. most of the tools are corrective tools..if you mix you dont really need it..if you master for other people it can be really handy.

[@billpodolak7754]

Nailed it with this video!! Amazing demos🔥🔥🔥

[@manuelleivatalledo615]

Hi! I just got Ozone 11 and I wanted to ask them, how did they manage to make the maximizer so transparent and straight forward? I no longer use the SIR clip + Pro L2 bc the maximizer ALONE managed to get my track to -7 with no audible compromise at all!

[@panorama_mastering]

I have your answer ;) kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6rcZ2Vvbt6KoaM

[@ampersand64]

does distortion in the delta channel really correlate 100% with distortion in the signal?

[@panorama_mastering]

Not necesserily; it shows the difference signal; so what is being taken away; so often it can sound much harsher than what the actual artefacts truely are; however; it's a good reference check becuase you can audition the tonality of the delta to assess if it's taking away more transient, more top end, more low end etc.

[@ampersand64]

@@panorama_mastering thanks for the reply. This confirms I understood it correctly. Some compressors' delta signal can sound real crunchy, like Kotelnikov, while remaining super clean

[@Dj_Leoguerrero]

Brilliant info man, i really aprecciate it !

[@mybullacount]

Can you use this tool for mixing? Specifically I play solo piano music so I dont have to worry about multiple stems

[@panorama_mastering]

You could! I have been using stabilizer for sibilance control when mixing :)

[@donnas8408]

That’s all you use this for mixing? I would think you could use this in all kinds of ways for mixing know? By the way your break down is the best one posted so far don’t take offense,. But when you see a mixing engineer, having orgasms over their own mix over songs especially some of the songs that sound average as a song and singers are average it’s kind of a turn off. But other than that your personality is great and think you break down is this plug-in the best. So congrats 🎉

[@JohnEnergy2012]

Can this be used for live broadcast processing?

[@TheJMC-Music]

Do they have a vintage mastering assistant or has that been scrapped ?

[@nedim_guitar]

I'm a rock guy (in a broad sense), but those tracks you've got there were really good!

[@beatkellermusic]

Most important question for my workflow: Is the standalone application back?

[@panorama_mastering]

I don't beleive so!

[@MaxRayMusic]

Is it worth the upgrade from ozone 10 as I just purchased 10 recently?

[@richertz]

It’s a shame I bought the lot and it’s going to cost me loads to upgrade…. Think I’ll pass on Izotope for a while.

[@dennisballance]

I just bought music production suite 5 a few weeks ago and got an email to upgrade to 6 for $49.

[@richertz]

@@dennisballance that’s nice I didn’t get anything and bought it a few months ago.

[@MaxRayMusic]

@dennisballance I purchased suite 5 about 9 months ago and they want 230$ for my upgrade to suite 6

[@richertz]

@@MaxRayMusic I thought I just posted saying that I prefer using Fabfilter these days. Not sure if that got removed? will try again just in case...

[@theBassBurnout]

Well presented man. More of these! ❤ma man

[@panorama_mastering]

Thanks! Will do!

[@CanaldoRonan]

Awesome vídeo song on 8:30 is sick, track id please?

[@panorama_mastering]

Coup De Grace ~ Dugong Jr

[@brianmartin7710]

Thanx for so many cool Tips !

[@panorama_mastering]

My pleasure! Glad you like them!

[@HiLoMusic]

this was a very good vid man

[@panorama_mastering]

thanks mate!

[@bigstewdio]

Hi Nicholas, we’re you paid by izotope for this video? No problem if you were but I always like to know up front. Apologies if you clarified it somewhere in the video and I missed it.

[@panorama_mastering]

Good question. Absolutely not. I made this on my own accord (no affilate link either) just genuinely have enjoyed using this and watching the development of the product over the past 6 months behind the scenes.

[@bigstewdio]

@@panorama_mastering thanks for the clarification and, based on that, I did watch the whole video. Interesting information but I'm going to admit that it did leave me somewhat confused as to whether this was a review or just a walkthrough of features. But what confused me most of all was whether you are using this as your mastering chain (and have been for a while) or whether you are using the individual plugins that you've talked about many time in this channel, e.g. your recent tier list video where most of them weren't Ozone modules. I'm not trying to imply anything here, I'm genuinely trying to understand your toolset because if Ozone 11 is a significantly better mastering chain than all the individual plugins it may just mean I'm going to have to demo it.

[@BrassicaMusic]

Sold!

[@NoNoNoNoYoureWrong]

Having bought the entire Ozone 10 suite, this upsets me quite a bit. Coupled with the lack of discount for OZ10 users. I wish they'd publish the updates they plan on doing, because I would have just waited the extra......what, 3 days or whatever its basically been since OZ10 released, ha.

[@andrew_nayes]

Pluginboutique always has a discount on Ozone 11 Advanced when you upgrade from "Music Production Suite 4 or 5 or Ozone 9 or 10 Advanced". Strange if Izotope does not have this discount on their own sites?

[@zenluiz]

Damn... I just upgraded to MPS 5.2 two weeks ago!

[@KodzinBeats]

For anyone who bought it in August mssg them you will get a free Upgrade. If not the upgrade price on Plugin Boutique is 50€ if you bought it in August.

[@MR_Cellarpop]

Thanks :)

[@fcmas]

Another fellow beta tester. Enjoyed every bit of it's progression. They knocked it out the park!

[@eaccin]

I just wonder why upgrade is so expensive...

[@Barncore]

Gotta appease them shareholders somehow

[@eaccin]

@@Barncore stopped at V9

[@panorama_mastering]

I'm not sure what the upgrade structure is;

[@natureambience1388]

I just bought ozone 10 advance last year. The upgrade price is crazy

[@panorama_mastering]

What is the upgrade price?

[@Martin-lw8qb]

01:20 track id?

[@4ever4g0tten]

Wow😳

[@cecilia_mackie]

That’s sweet! Feel free to reach out.

[@frattuncbas]

Elevate worth it.

[@VEGAN-X]

WAVES UPDATE PLAN SEEMS ABOUT RIGHT

[@TheAlburp]

yee m8

[@cecilia_mackie]

So cool! Shall we connect?

[@panorama_mastering]

Sure no worries! Feel free to email me;

[@DaveChips]

I officially feel outdated now xD

[@jimmygigga6819]

Consider turn off the background cartoon music while you're speaking. It distracts from what your message.

[@livewarp]

What’s new is that support no longer exists. An AI bot that understands nothing, a “create ticket bot that never completes, this is what you are buying into, beware! Expensive without support!!!

[@panorama_mastering]

That's disappointing to hear. When did you create the ticket?

[@livewarp]

@@panorama_mastering I’ve tried to create a ticket from various devices, it just crashes, there is no one listening, it’s a sign of things to come.

[@lonelystranger57]

A craft for those who know nothing about audio processing (like the author of this video). Absolutely unusable shit for real sound engineers.🙂

[@panorama_mastering]

I'm confused by this comment; but more than happy to welcome constructive critism; Is there anything that you can point to that I got wrong on the facts of audio processing, And is there anything that you can point to that might make this unusable for some engineers?

[@Mikraver]

Has Nicholas been AI-ed during those 6 months? His speech sounds as if it was generated ))

[@compoundaudio]

Woi

[@Limit5482]

Ozone 5 had a sound that was kind of cool. This is getting dumb….but good for mastering engineers because now people are going to make their music even worse with all this junk 👍

[@You-ud2fp]

Only those who have no idea what they are doing lol

[@Limit5482]

@@You-ud2fp unfortunately most don’t know when to stop or start actually

[@mohokios]

@@You-ud2fp having an idea or not... Ozone isn't the way going with... when i was totally unaware of how things are working, before educating myself on how doing things in a correct way or at least getting some decent results... Ozone was like "PURE Fking magic" .... now it's just rotting inside the plugins folder.. :P if someone has an idea what he's doing, probably has found other plugins that adding way much more on the table while mixing or mastering... cheaper to use, or even with a much better upgrade plan when and if needed than what Izotope offers... Ozone anymore doesn't worth it...

[@odmusicman]

It seems every time someone demo's a mixing tool or technique, the songs they use are all the same robot singers and looped beats that have decimated song quality so we end up listening to how features work on horribly crappy songs . Not sure why these songs types are picked, they are intolerable to listen to. Perhaps because this is what the top ten Spotify horror show sounds like.

[@JamesColah]

Totally agree. The music is sickening and so over compressed! There are no dynamics! (y)

[@cecilia_mackie]

That's awesome! Let's be friends.