If you mix, THROUGH it, you make adjustments that leave no surprises at the end of the record. In some ways, if used correctly, it allows one to hear what a final, mastered mix will sound like WHILE MIXING. This is not really a cheat, although it could be thought of as that. I do take him both "with" and "without" Ozone mixes by the way, just to give him a choice and to not be rude.lol.īecause I really understand mastering, I leave a little room for mastering, even with Ozone. Yet he does make them even better, just a touch better, but nonetheless.better. My mastering engineer here in LA won last yrs grammy and several other grammies for mastering engineer of the year.Īnd he inevitably chooses my Ozone mix and jokes with me that the mixes sound so good, he feels like he has to work hard to "contribute". This must be done with much discretion of course as, if you are not careful, you leave nothing for a real mastering engineer to do. OK, well, to save time, I will just dull the high end on the acoustics and the other 8/10ths of my mix has been improved!!įrom that point on, Ozone stays on and I continue to mix. Perhaps it makes 8/10ths of the mix I AM IN THE MIDDLE OF, sound absolutely fabulous, but the acoustic guitars now sound too bright. I might find a preset that really tightens the bottom end or shines the top, (or does both). Somewhere along the line, I end up turning it on and it is as if it becomes a bit of a mixing short cut. So presets for me have been great starting points.Īnd finally, often, I end up mixing THROUGH Ozone. It took me a LONG time to learn to use the compressor on Ozone, damn if it's not really intuitive!!.lol So, as you use it, tweeking it more and more, later "presets", start to have certain treatments, for example, on Bass, that you remember you liked. I might like for example, what a certain song did to the bass.Īlso, Ozone is one of those programs that takes awhile to learn well. Well, they are not weird if you cycle through them, paying attention to what you like and what you don't like and then REDUCE the aspects you do NOT like.Īfter awhile, you remember certain pre sets, just as you like your 3 presets. IMHO, BTW, presets in a mastering suite are really weird things.
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