This is essentially an adaptive mastering EQ that constantly updates its own response curve in real-time to match the input signal to any of the ten genre-based Tonal Balance targets called on by the Mastering Assistant (see below) – ‘Country’, ‘EDM’, ‘Jazz’, ‘Pop’, etc – or the generic ‘All-Purpose’ option. With Oeksound’s Soothe 2 resonance-suppressing auto-EQ plugin proving so phenomenally successful, iZotope have, rather smartly, come up with their own take on the concept in Ozone 10’s new Stabilizer module. The update also at last checks the Apple Silicon-native box (yay!) and – due to lack of interest, apparently – drops the standalone version, meaning you can only use Ozone 10 and its individual modules as plugins in your DAW or audio editor (boo!). What we are getting, though, are two new modules (Advanced edition only), additional features to two existing modules, and a complete overhaul of Master Assistant, all designed to maintain Ozone’s well-deserved reputation for delivering professional results through minimal user input. In general terms, of course, this is still the same Ozone we know and love, offering a powerful roster of processing modules for the creation of custom mastering chains, with the reference-targeting Master Assistant automatically setting up a genre-derived starting point if required – we don’t expect any change to those fundamentals. In its goal of democratising the esoteric engineering processes traditionally involved in mastering, Ozone has always gone out of its way to make dynamics, EQ, stereo imaging and all the rest of it as approachable and intuitive as possible, without compromising flexibility or sonic performance – and v10 continues down that path. IZotope has just released the tenth full version of their industry- and home studio-standard software mastering suite, Ozone, and this week, Ronan Macdonald has been busy diving in to give us his initial impressions of the new modules and improvements…
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