thank you. i sprung for an Ozone 11 package last year. have gotten more comfortable finalizing individual tracks, but yeah - this is helpful as the i've only done a couple small groups of songs and the way i was doing it wasn't very efficient.Kniferide wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 12:32 pm I put all songs in their own track, insert Izotope ozone on each song, and put Ozone on the master output. I do 90% of the processing for each song in the Track, and use the insert on the master to do "generic" Glue or whatever term you want to use. My mastering chain of FX rarely includes anything other than Ozone. Sometimes maybe a saturater, but not much else since Ozone has like every tool in it, and I try to be done with anything heavy handed before I get to the "Mastering" stage. I'll Hit my LUFS/Peak target in each track, and the Master Insert is doing very very little. I make regions for each song so sliding them around to try new track orders is easy. I place a 2 sec space between each song as a general rule. I always render out a Full Project and "side A&B" as well as each individual track in MP3 320kbps, Wave 16/44.1, Wave24/48K, and Flac. That is the extent of my mastering procedure. People tend to make too much of what happens in Mastering these days to sell you a bunch of stuff. I say find one tool set like Fab Filter or Izotope etc, that has all the tools and stick with it. When it comes to Mastering I prefer the route of Neutrality.
so the instance of Ozone that you have on the Master chain - are you typically just using the Maximizer module for that one? for the "Glue?"
and is that not throwing off what you already have dialed in for LUFS/Peak target that you already have set for the instances of Ozone that you have on the individual track FX chains?
also, curious what your LUFS/Peak targets are these days? or if it depends on the style of the project you're working on?
also also - the Flight OST sounds great!