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I have to say I have not ever had results like you describe with T-Racks unless the Comp/Limiter settings were extreme- to call it "completely unusable" would be a diservice to this product IMO- my 2 ciggadies. Ozone sounds cool- cheers for the heads up- Cliff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan El-Bizri" <ssrndpty@hotmail.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 4:15 PM Subject: Re: CD Mastering Windows Software > Hi all, > > Long time no see. > > > I just found a new mastering plug-in that I'm probably going to start > using. > > It's by Izotope and the plug-in is named Ozone. > > http://www.thedirectxfiles.com/manufacturers/iz_ozone.htm. The sound > quality > > is awesome (it uses 64-bit processing) and it features a paragraphic >EQ, > > loudness maximizer, multiband dynamics, multiband stereo imager (keep the > > bass tight, spread the harmonics, etc), multiband harmonic exciter, a > > mastering reverb, and spectrum and phase meters all in one plug-in. I > really > > like the interface, you'll need to see it to understand. > > > > I agree. This is the best all-in-one mastering tool I've seen yet - >forget > T-rex, (which sounds awful IMHO - so much pumping and wobbliness - > completely unusable). If you have the cpu for it, it's currently the last > word in mastering. It's almost more intuitive, though nothing about > multiband compression and eq will ever be completely devoid of some fumbling > around in the dark for me :> > > > My only complaint is that it's really processor intensive, and I can only > > run 4 or 5 of its effects simultaneously in SONAR on my decrepit >Pentium > II > > - 333 MHz with 384 MB of RAM. I'm running SONAR on a system under its > > minimum requirements so I guess I shouldn't complain. > > > > Yes - it's a total hog, but that's to be expected - you are running the > equivalent of 8 64-bit plugins back-to-back. Ouch. > > You say you are mastering in sonar. I assume you are you mixing down first? > > I would recomend using an offline editor, such as sound forge, to use all > the processes at once. Using my almost similarly decrepit dual PII 400, I > take snippets of the song, stuff them together to make a shorter, newer file > with representative portions of each part plus any trouble spots, master > that file, and then master the original with the same settings. > > Jonathan >