Imagine having captured a live concert with one microphone and the singer constantly moving across the scene. It allows you to correct and change instrument levels without needing the original tracks. Ozone 9’s Master Rebalance is a good example of how that works out. Ozone 9 builds further on the philosophy of giving users a well-sounding head start and then allowing them to stamp the audio master with their skills and signature, which, with a sound engineer who knows their trade, gives much better results than you’ll ever get out of one-knob-cures-all tools. The former will often like the time savings the neural-engine driven Assistant affords them, while the latter know they can always start over again if they mess up in the process down the pipeline. Professional sound engineers and enthusiasts who have a grasp of the mastering basics will love the Assistant that was introduced in previous versions. Ozone 9 is all about improving a mix to the point of perfection and doing it as quickly as possible with a modular interface that helps to chop up the mastering process into easily digestible pieces. Erik Vlietinck takes it for a test run to see if the company is still working its Voodoo magic! Review: iZotope's Ozone is now on version 9.

Izotope master assistant