

This might be important for your decision making, as you can audition modules to decide if they will change your workflow radically enough, in either the Standard or Advanced incarnation.

iZotope’s take on this is very helpful indeed in the first instance, you can take advantage of a 10-day trial, allowing you to literally take Ozone for a test drive.

Given that Ozone exists in either the Standard or Advanced editions, it’s nice to have the option to adapt to your budget, or sign up for a try-out. Stabilizer is another new offering, which is a smart form of EQ, particularly useful in terms of eliminating EQ spikes. It’s perfect for bringing out the punch of the drums, while allowing you to hone the frequency bands being effected. The Impact module is the first of these, which is designed to enhance rhythm elements. The more expensive Advanced edition benefits from an extended collection of modules, which includes some new additions. For example, there are plenty of saturated colours, styled from within the Vintage realm, embracing limiting, compression, EQ and Tape Saturation. Using the Ozone Assistant may well yield other elements to add to the sonic-fest, but these can be easily auditioned and tweaked to suit your desired sound. The mere combination of these modules is more than enough to generate a highly effective mastered output, reducing rogue frequencies, boosting sweet spots, managing dynamics or widening the stereo image. It’s pretty much identical to the more usual view from Ozone 9, allowing the signal chain’s building blocks to be altered in greater detail, while also offering a useful, concise flow diagram of the modules in-line.īeing the Standard edition, the common elements are all available, from the basic Equalisers to the exceptionally useful Dynamic EQ, Maximizer and Imager. This can also be displayed in a slightly more exacting form, by way of switching to the Detailed view. The Assistant view displays the main elements, but in a highly desirable and visual way, making it very easy to tweak the main components in your signal path.
