Note the colored lines beneath the waveform, which accurately depict the song’s structure. The Master Assistant feature helps create a starting point on your master. However, that didn’t stop me from loading a recent mix into Ozone and taking a crack at mastering it. Full disclosure My mastering experience prior to this review comprised loading up an instance of Waves Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain, applying a preset and playing with the settings from there. Since Ozone is primarily (though by no means solely) aimed at mastering engineers, the plugin features a host of options for manipulating a finished stereo mix, with all elements in place and no stems to adjust.

It features a series of EQ, compression, saturation and limiting modules meant to be used in a mastering chain - putting the final touches on your audio before it hits streaming platforms or physical media. Ozone is first and foremost a mastering suite. But, in addition to being an engineer, I am also a musician, so I was excited to try out the Ozone suite for myself.

I have always been impressed by RX’s ability to improve poor location sound but was unfamiliar with the company’s more music-focused products. The company has been on my radar for a number of years now, having used the RX suite extensively for clean up and restoration of production audio. And with it, iZotope hopes to provide a comprehensive package of tools to streamline the audio engineer’s workflow. Izotope is back with its latest release, Ozone 9.

Mastering with ozone 9