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Izotope Ozone all the way!!

Ozone is OK and the metering is actually excellent.

But when you use some really NICE plugins, such as Sonalksis EQs/compressors and PSP Mastercomp or Neon, Sonnox or Liquid Mix or UAD-1 EQs and compressors etc, (or even Waves, spit, ) you should be able to tell that you're now in the Serie A of plugins as opposed to the upper end of Serie B, which Ozone is.

Subjectively of course, and IMHO.

Ozone is good value for it's money though.

evon wrote:In fine art, does the artist give out his paintings to be mastered?

In a way they do, actually. In the audio domain, mastering is preparing the mix for an optimal output via a certain medium (CD, radio, stream...). In fine arts, the original artists usually don't control the process of publishing their work in different mediums, for example in photographic art publications. In order to get the best result, it's the job of experienced professionals to go through the needed color control processes, etc, so that the actual artwork really leaps at you from the pages ...

Compared to audio, of course it isn't the same thing -- but as far as these analogies go, there's still a point to it.

A dedicated mastering studio, is in my mastering chain

Not doing it myself...think its to tricky, and my knowledge on that subject is not that good.

+ the master studio where my tunes go to, have decent stuff, good speakers, mucho knowledge, and a nice analog and digital mastering desk. which i can't affort


Oh yea.... this guy is funky (not the one i am going to tho)
But its nice to see how they work there:
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=PpidqcG7sSo

I totally agree with you both