Hey all,
 
I'm not sure if iZotope has their own forums (probably) but I figured I'd post here first since you guys are my people.
 
Anyway, something I've noticed recently. Usually when I'm mastering a song, I put Ozone on the master bus (did it with 5 and now with 6, but this issue happens either way), get it to how I want it to sound and export the master bus. What I've noticed is if I have the waveform preview on, it's SO big that it pretty much looks like a big full rectangle the whole way across except during the breakdowns of the songs. However, when I export the song and load the wav back up to play, it looks nothing like that and looks more accurately how the wave really should be looking all dynamic and everything... Everything sounds great... It's just a weird little thing that makes a little hard to know whether or not my ears are correct in what they're hearing, since what I'm seeing looks really bad haha. I was thinking maybe it's a setting I might have changed with how Sonar displays the waveform preview on the busses?
 
Any idea?
 
Thanks!

polarbear
Hey all,
 
I'm not sure if iZotope has their own forums (probably) but I figured I'd post here first since you guys are my people.
 
Anyway, something I've noticed recently. Usually when I'm mastering a song, I put Ozone on the master bus (did it with 5 and now with 6, but this issue happens either way), get it to how I want it to sound and export the master bus. What I've noticed is if I have the waveform preview on, it's SO big that it pretty much looks like a big full rectangle the whole way across except during the breakdowns of the songs. However, when I export the song and load the wav back up to play, it looks nothing like that and looks more accurately how the wave really should be looking all dynamic and everything... Everything sounds great... It's just a weird little thing that makes a little hard to know whether or not my ears are correct in what they're hearing, since what I'm seeing looks really bad haha. I was thinking maybe it's a setting I might have changed with how Sonar displays the waveform preview on the busses?
 
Any idea?
 
Thanks!

I don't think this is an Ozone issue. Just a guess, but if you go to the Master track with Waveform Preview ON, you should be able to left click on the dB scale just to the left of the track waveform. Adjust the scale until the waveform is below the compliance level or in other words that it fits without clipping.
 
Hope this is helpful.
Walt
 

There you go. That was exactly it. I figured it was something like that, like the view or zoom or something. Cuase yea it was just a straight brick even thought it was sounding great haha.
 
Almost done with album #2. So Excited :-)

polarbear, I hope you don't mind my piggybacking a question in your thread, My question is to Ozone users using version 6..... When using Ozone do you prefer using the stand alone mode to master or insert it as a plug in on a song? I've used it in stand alone mode but was wondering if there are benefits using it on the master bus of a song. Thx, ken

You know I'm not sure what the pros/cons of using the stand alone version is, but for me, it's a matter of laziness. If I happen to decide "oh I should pull out that sound there, or I should raise that track there" while I'm mastering, I don't want to have to export a whole new wav file for the stand alone. And since my computer can handle doing it all in real time with Ozone on the master bus of my open project file in Sonar, I just do it that way.

If you use it as a VST within Sonar you have the Pro Channel too. Otherwise it shouldn't matter much.