Another copy of this EQ is added into the “one plugin to rule them all”- version, and goes under the name of “Post EQ”. An unfortunate drawback is that you can´t load and save snapshots of the matching EQ anymore, which is something I can´t find any possible reason to justify. I´m still figuring out the best way to use the awesome matching EQ, and have been having educational fun with comparing my masters with some other tracks I like.
There´s also a very handy feature called “Alt solo”, which lets you solo any frequency area currently at your mouse pointer. The EQ can be used for stereo, L/R and M/S treatment and you can choose between analog and digital modes, of which the digital has even sharper option available labeled as “surgical”. One could even think it´s too subtle, but it´s fixed by adding a wider Q-value. Clearly made for rather surgical cleaning than adding any extra to the sound, it´s working as intended and is very subtle if needed. Most likely! The EQ is precise, and hasn´t changed much since Ozone 5. However, I´m not sure if I should blame it on myself. It took me two days to realize that you can actually drag the dB-scale in order to move the desired EQ point even higher in gain. Let´s hope it will be fixed in the future! MODULES The only drawback I found was that it takes sometimes a bit too long to load in front even with a powerful DAW which makes the hastier of us to click the plugin again only to see it close itself the moment it appears. It´s easily navigable, the tooltips are well-presented and extremely handy (also for a professional, mind you) and the overall experience feels very smooth once it´s up and running. In fact, many manufacturers should pay attention how it should be done especially when mousing over a function.
For me, a clear and functioning user interface is a very important part of the software, and once again iZotope hasn´t failed me on that. Any of the previous users will feel like home right away, while the newcomer will easily adapt quickly to the settings panel.
USER INTERFACEĬontinuing with the overhauled interface presented in Ozone 6, there are not many changes around this time. And the results were very pleasing indeed. As I am most into producing metal music, I used a ripped 192 kbps Mp3 (!!) from a Swedish black metal band Watain and a 24- bit wave from a Finnish black metal band Draugnim´s unmastered song from their upcoming album and used them as my main sources of audio. While the regular version will most likely fill your basic needs, the advanced version has so much packed under its hood it feels like a steal.
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Full feature comparison can be found HERE. Following the traditional iZotope way, it can be acquired in two different ways: one being the regular all-in-one plugin with all the basic modules and the other is the advanced version sporting a quite lot of very useful extra tools of which each of them can also be used as a separate insert for any channel. Ozone 7 is the newest version of iZotope´s mastering and mix post- processing tool.