stupid Ozone EQ question

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hey guys,
In ozone when I am doing some DIY mastering and I preview as I am messing with it, in the EQ it ahs those green squigly lines of what the out put EQ is I guess? Am i supposed to try to make up what is missing or too much in the EQ diagram to make it sound the best? Or am i being too hopeful; cuz that would be cool...

T
 
Actually, (sorry!) the thing to do with the EQ is to make it sound better -- there's no magic way of looking at a frequency plot in Ozone and making *all* things sound good. Your ears are your friend! :) In particular, you probably DON'T want to make the line flat -- that would sound especially harsh. Typically, the line slopes down from left to right, but each music piece is different in the details.

That being said, I have found the green plot to be very helpful if I am having a particular problem with a sound -- for example, it lets me see visually that the spike I hear is at 1K, and that makes it quicker for me to dial in the fix. For me, its much quicker than taking a very narrow band eq and sweeping across the region to identify the exact frequency that needs help.

-lee-
 
I tried Ozone 2 recently and, I gotta say, it's a bit of a piece of crap.
It LOOKS awsome. But even with everything turned off in it, it effect
the sound a bit.
I've done a lot of mixing (and my share of mastering, thought I'm no
mastering engineer) and I couldn't get it to do anything more than
destroy the mixes.

my 2 cents...

jef
 
maybe you didnt fool with it enough... i think it rules for a DIY mastering tool

T
 
(not saying you have to agree with me...just sayin you should give it another chance)
 
If you learn to use it...its a great plug-in
Beats the shit outta T-Racks
 
I'm a hardcore software guy, so I found that it was easy to learn and use.
I've logged about 20 hrs on Ozone2 and, because my clients need totally
commercial, professional cd/radio quality mixes, I've found it to be
quite useless to me.

When I'm forced to master something, for what ever reason,
I tend to use Wavelab 4, ME loudness maximiser, Waves C1 and
various eq's, depending on what they're going to do with the masters.
It tends to be a cleaner, more straightforward approach.

The compressor in Ozone isn't very musical. The eq is to heavy handed
compared to Waves or Steingberg mastering edition eq''s.
This is only my opinon, but the stereo widener is just plain crap.
That's not how imaging is achieved in the real world. Ask yourself
what albums actually sound like that. None.
T-racks is also a Band-Aid® on a broken arm.

just my 2 cents.

jef
 
"my clients need totally commercial, professional cd/radio quality mixes"

"Ask yourself what albums actually sound like that"

heh... alright man...

T
 
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