

By optimizing your workstation for mastering, your tools and ears are able to make more accurate and reliable mastering decisions that better translate to the outside world. Remember, one of the main goals of mastering is translatability-that your music sounds good and translates well across a wide range of playback systems, formats and environments. Prep your workstation & DAW for masteringĮspecially if you have a multipurpose production room where everything from songwriting, recording to mixing takes place, it’s important to prep and calibrate your workstation and DAW for mastering. Here we’ll walk you through a simple 10 step-by-step process to help you achieve a great-sounding master in Ozone with the help of Master Assistant and Ozone’s built-in mastering presets.įollow along with your copy of Ozone, iZotope’s mastering plug-in.ġ. But with this great power comes great responsibility. From this optimized starting chain, you can then adjust every setting with precision to take your music to its final polished, mastered sound.ĭIY mastering with Ozone is now more accessible and intuitive than ever thanks to Master Assistant and its ability to construct an optimized starting chain for your mastering session. However, baked into Ozone lies the power of AI and machine-learning to help you jumpstart your mastering workflow.

iZotope has released various levels of mastering guides here on the Learn site. But with patience and critical listening, learning the art of mastering can be very fulfilling and empowering-whether you’re the artist, producer or engineer. After all, we’re talking about the final stage of the production before your music hits the marketplace. It’s easy to be intimidated by the mastering process.
