My free gift to the world!

After hearing the bazillionth mix massacred by Ozone, I've decided to create my own starter preset. If you're fool enough to try your own mastering, this preset is far better starting point than the "extra-widened excitened stimulator w/ double-reverse bass boost" presets that are supplied with Ozone. I've also enclosed a instructional .pdf file. Note that the Ozone preset is an ".xml". file. Just save the file to your Ozone presets folder.

I've also uploaded my personal Sonar mixing template. Each channel has its own EQ setting (which you can save to your presets menu) and I have a variety of reverb send setups.

I won't guarantee that any of these things will work at all for your particular song, but at least you'll gain a glimpse into my insane mind! Whaddaya want for nothing?

Enjoy!

Jonas' free templates

What a guy that Jonas is!

FWIW, my recommendation for home-mastering is to put the whole mix through several stages of BBE, a brick wall limiter, and a guitar emulator set to "British Funk" for that extra bit of tube warmth.

















And that's a lie.

LOL!!!!

Yup, that should do it

ORIGINAL: yep

What a guy that Jonas is!

FWIW, my recommendation for home-mastering is to put the whole mix through several stages of BBE, a brick wall limiter, and a guitar emulator set to "British Funk" for that extra bit of tube warmth.

















And that's a lie.

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cAPS

Thanks so much...your eq/mastering suggestions are always the bomb...

I used the eq settings on my current project....I'll post it when I'm done...

Thanks again!

Such a generous gift, Jonas, to the masses who cannot mix, let alone try their hand at mastering. That is like getting the cart before the cart isn't it?!

Oh well.... To each their own.

ORIGINAL: chaz
Such a generous gift, Jonas, to the masses who cannot mix, let alone try their hand at mastering. That is like getting the cart before the cart isn't it?!
Oh well.... To each their own.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing indeed! If nothing else it'll cause people to slightly rethink their personal workflow and hear things slightly differently than they have done in the past.

I want to reiterate that what I have provided (especially the track EQ settings) are just suggested points of departure. They're certainly not a "one size fits all" solution.

If I contribute to averting just one more Ozone sonic disaster the world will be a better place .

ORIGINAL: bubblefish
thanks for the template jonas
just one question when i try to install it it all opens up fine except the long reverb bus : sonitusfx reverb.
with this it says "cakewalk missing plugin stand in"
Ps. did you ever get your FTP site working?

I just posted a .pdf picture of what the Sonitus long reverb settings.

The FTP location is up and running, but I'm running into glitches with my web page as an unintended byproduct. I'll get this ironed out if it kills me!

ORIGINAL: jsaras

ORIGINAL: chaz
Such a generous gift, Jonas, to the masses who cannot mix, let alone try their hand at mastering. That is like getting the cart before the cart isn't it?!
Oh well.... To each their own.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing indeed! If nothing else it'll cause people to slightly rethink their personal workflow and hear things slightly differently than they have done in the past.

I want to reiterate that what I have provided (especially the track EQ settings) are just suggested points of departure. They're certainly not a "one size fits all" solution.

If I contribute to averting just one more Ozone sonic disaster the world will be a better place .

True, but again.... If they cannot mix in the first place, all this will do is just add to the size of the disaster already at hand.

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I use Waves/Sound Forge/DSP, but appreciate the effort.

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Mark in Vegas

Thank You!
I've been using Ozone for a while, however I kept feeling that I could get better results with it, and this gave me the missing info that I've been needing.

When I'm rich and famous I'll look you up!

Fred

FWIW, I have to once again offer my advice against "mastering" one's own recordings, other than the tuck-and-tail, set-the-levels-and-burn-to-CD thing....

If you can hear that your mix needs work, why would you not go back and fix the mix instead of trying to fix it with Ozone?

Not to knock Ozone, which I think is a great plug, but like mlockett said, I think there's a lot of people just using plugins because they have them.

Careful listening to mic placement, gain structures, levels, eq, compression, effects settings, edits, and arrangement can make a cassete portastudio turn out some killer records. A million dollars worth of gear and effects, badly used, will make crap sound like heavily-processed crap.

Sorry, I know I'm a broken record around here...

Best regards,
yep

Thanks Jonas.........for this post and the one you made a while back about the
KRK ST8's .... I just got a pair and they are perfect... i said perfect !!!!

Mark F.