Isotope Ozone 3 or Liquid Mix?

[paolo topaz]

I've been trying out the demo fo Isotope Ozone 3 over the last few days and I am pretty pleased with the results. Just using the some of the presets seems to give a nice punchy limited sound.

I've had a chance to try out Liquid mix with it's interface and so far I can't seem to feel the benefit ad much as I could see straight away with Ozone.

When I loaded up Liquid mix at first it was set to 32 channels in the Liquid Mix manager and Ableton just locked up at 3500%cpu once it was loaded from the audio units section into a midi chaneel that I wanted to try out the compression and eq presets on, once i had changed the setting to two channels in the lIquid mix manager window I could load and run Liquid mix without any problems and begin to tweak the presets in order to process the synth of choice but I haven't ben able to change the sound as drastically as I thought.

Does anyone have both and which would they choose? considering Liquid Mix is almost twice the price will be a factor too.

Also what's your preffered method of running Liquid mix in Live? do you just run multiple instances across channels that need compression or eq that Lives devices can't provide?

any advice would be great

many thanks

Paolo

[roach808]

I own both, and I think its safe to say that my Ozone isn't gonna get that much use anymore since I got my liquid mix. The Liquid is a real monster within itself. U can use afew different comp types for mastering but also the EQ models are badass as well. My 2cents tho.

[paolo topaz]

cheers for your reply roach 808, sorry to be a pain but could you expand on how you use Liquid mix within Live?

do you use it on each channel or just the master and do you use it alongside any other devices(eg. eq8)?

thanks


Paolo

[NorthernMonkey]

I've also got both, I say go with the Liquid Mix, I run it across whatever channel requires compression/eq, and as it's off-board dsp, running 16 stereo instances has little or no effect on cpu. Although saying that, I'm a huge fan of Waves, so I tend to use a mixture. I think with the Liquid Mix the EQ is spot on, the compression is very good but some of the emulations tend to sound the same.

[anti-banausic]

Does anyone have both and which would they choose? considering Liquid Mix is almost twice the price will be a factor too.

I don't have both, but where are you looking for this price difference? Just interested because wherever I look it is more like 4 times more expensive?

[paolo topaz]

the isotope bundle has Ozone 3, Trash and another plug in from Isotope, it's 420 euro whereas the Liquid mix is 749.

[v00d00ppl]

liquidmix...its a good bang for your buck. and it wont strain your cpu.

[roach808]

cheers for your reply roach 808, sorry to be a pain but could you expand on how you use Liquid mix within Live?

do you use it on each channel or just the master and do you use it alongside any other devices(eg. eq8)?

thanks

Paolo

I have been using it on each channel to beef up the softsynth action, but then I tend to use either the SSL Mixbuss comp model, or the Manley Slam model on the overall mix.

yeah nice thing it that u can run lots of plugin on it, and it doest really do much the CPU.