Izotope plugins?

hat · Post by **hat** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:19 am

Just curious if anyone's had a go at these yet? They look interesting and have received seemingly good reviews all around. I was waiting for PSP plugs to be Intel-ready but it's taking a while, iZotope Ozone piqued my interest when recently downloading their Vinyl plugin. I will download a few demos tomorrow when I get home, but some user reviews are always welcome. Thanks!

www.izotope.com

Johnisfaster · Post by **Johnisfaster** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:27 am

ozone is seriously heavy on cpu but it sounds amazing. I wouldn't use it as my only mastering plug but I do love it for the multiband harmonic exciter and the multiband stereo seperator both of those can add huge amounts of dimension to your music.
I don't like it's reverb at all, and I don't usually touch it's compression and eq, but I love the multiband excter and stereo seperator to death.

the other stuff is totally quality though it's just not my cup of tea really, for compression I usually just go with lives compressor or blockfish. and for reverb I find myself using black water reverb alot even though it's not the best in the world I find myself using it over and over.

aqua_tek · Post by **aqua_tek** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:22 am

wow. blockfish and the other "fish" plugins look very interesting. i'll give them a try. thanks!

glitchrock-buddha · Post by **glitchrock-buddha** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:33 am

Johnisfaster wrote:ozone is seriously heavy on cpu but it sounds amazing. I wouldn't use it as my only mastering plug but I do love it for the multiband harmonic exciter and the multiband stereo seperator both of those can add huge amounts of dimension to your music.
I don't like it's reverb at all, and I don't usually touch it's compression and eq, but I love the multiband excter and stereo seperator to death.

the other stuff is totally quality though it's just not my cup of tea really, for compression I usually just go with lives compressor or blockfish. and for reverb I find myself using black water reverb alot even though it's not the best in the world I find myself using it over and over.

What is it about the multiband comp/eq you don't like?

I love the multiband compression in trash, and the filters.

I really want to buy trash, however I can pick up the whole pack (spectron/ozone/trash) from a local store for about about 130 bucks more than just trash. not even. pretty good for ozone/spectron. But I don't really care about spectron as I'll have NI spectral delay when it goes UB.

I've thrown ozone over a track, and just stepped through the presets, but it usually made it sound worse. However the mix was sounding pretty good anyways, so it was a bad choice to test ozone on probably.

I'm gonna keep testing it but I'm so short on time (usually type from school on break). Trying to decide wether to pick up the package.

grb

detroitechno · Post by **detroitechno** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:07 am

iZotope... great stuff man. Quality if you ask me! Decent priced, I'm not into flashy GUI's but they do look pretty cool.

I'd say go for them..

dm_hawk · Post by **dm_hawk** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:34 am

i'm quite happy with ozone. it's the best thing i know of below waves' price range.

Machinesworking · Post by **Machinesworking** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:05 am

I currently am trying to find a copy of the Izotope bundle (Trash, Ozone, and Spectron) for less than $299, which seems to be the fixed price. If I can't find it for less, I'll end up buying it.
Honestly I end up just using PSP Vintage Warmer, and a decent multiband EQ for mastering, Ozone to me anyway works really well on revitalizing dead sounding audio. I tend to take clips of audio from old tapes, movies, and other not so great sources as far as clarity. Ozone has worked well on that. Also, Trash is nice.

Anyway, yeah, I recommend Izotope kit, I'm about to buy it myself!

glitchrock-buddha · Post by **glitchrock-buddha** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:18 am

Well I've been playing around with the demo of ozone some more, and I'm really liking it now. It really made some of my tracks sound much better. Some of my tracks didn't benefit from it at all, but every track is different, and needs something different on the master (If anything at all).

And I'm pretty happy with the multiband comp as well. Also, The reverb can be used in interesting ways I've noticed, like if you insert ozone just on a drum track for example.

I think I'll definitely be grabbing the izotope bundle. What a smoking deal.

I'm also thinking the combination of trash and ozone could work wonders on tracks for the master, used subtly. A little tape/tube saturation before heading into ozone could be a killer combo.

I'm all excited now, I've found some nice icing on cake for the sound Im going after. Shit, now I definitely won't be able to afford sampler.

grb

muscleandhate · Post by **muscleandhate** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:33 am

They rinse out your CPU for real. Despite that, they are excellent plugins. I have demo versions but haven't really had a decent look at them yet.

chrs · Post by **chrs** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:22 am

I've bought the bundle and it is worth every single penny. OZone really does do a number on your CPU, but I never use it during production - only after I've finished my mixdown. I find myself using Trash frequently as well. It's pretty much my one-stop-shop for treating guitars (both acoustic and electric), and it sounds great when used really lightly on vocals. Try throwing one of the Bass presets over a funky house bassline, and I'm sure you'll be really pleased with the results.
I haven't had a chance to fool around with Spectron as much as I should (because I paid for it!) but from what I've experienced it has a really great and intricate delay. I'm a fan

loophead · Post by **loophead** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:02 pm

Buy the package. Spectron does things NI does not. Trash is my most used plugin (Guitar and Stick). Ozone is the best mastering plug IMHO and gets LOTS of use here as a 'channel strip'. These are of the highest quality and very fun.

Electix88 · Post by **Electix88** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:35 pm

I would be very curios how many pro mastering houses are using these plug-ins.

hat · Post by **hat** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:36 am

Electix88 wrote:I would be very curios how many pro mastering houses are using these plug-ins.

Pro mastering houses do not generally use plugins, so there is no point in hoping for a fair comparison. Pro mastering houses use hardware eq's and compressors/limiters, the expensive kind we dream about, in acoustically treated rooms graced with top-notch monitors. While we can muck about disussing Waves, URS, PSP or even Izotope to get better sounding recordings in our budget home/commercial studios, a mastering house claiming to use such plugs would make me run the other way. If I am paying for mastering, I want to hear hardware and it's circuitry do it's thing to my mixes.

"We will use Izotope stuff on your mix..." is not a pro mastering house.

jeskola · Post by **jeskola** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:15 pm

If your doing "dance music" the dance setting with stereo widener and high end excitier is a wicked starting point to add a "professional" sheen to your mix.