Welcome back to the course. In this lesson, we'll explore two critical aspects of mastering and Ozone 11 master assistant and referencing setting up master assistant, master assistant is designed to be your second set of A I powered ears. It will analyze your track and offer an objective suggestion to help you achieve a professional sounding master. This is a fantastic tool for beginners to get a real understanding of the mastering process. For an expert. The master assistant will provide a valuable second opinion and a faster set up. It's also a great way to master quickly. If you're looking for a quick turnaround for demos and things like that to use master assistant, simply click on the button, find the loudest part of your track and hit play Ozone 11 will then analyze your track. The master assistant comes with a set of 10 drama targets that have been built from the latest chart topping hits. When the target is selected, the assistant will match your song's tonal balance, vocal bal...

ance, width, dynamics and loudness to the average of those songs you can also generate and save your own custom targets for mastering assistant based on reference song files on your computer to do this, go to the plus button where the targets are and find your audio file reference, track turn or balance target. The tonal balance target is all about achieving the right balance of frequencies in your mix. It's like having a sonic blueprint to guide your adjustments. Ozone 11 visually represents the tonal balance of your mix compared to the target. If your mix falls short in certain frequency errors, you'll see it clearly. The blue line represents the tonal balance of your target. While the white line is the tonal balance of your track displayed in real time drawing playback. So now let's select genre over here and select the pop target genre. Now let's play the track back and see the difference. You can see the blue line changes as I change the target to represent a different drummer or custom track next up is the loudness target. This is crucial for ensuring your master reaches the desired loudness level. Master assistant will analyze the loudness of your target and set the maximizer module which is ozone eleven's limiter to match that target. You then have the option to increase or decrease the maximizer gain by up to four DB. When the output level is set to full scale, the maximizer output level will be set to minus 0.1 DB full scale, which is intended as a good output level for most masters. By the way, full scale, typically refers to the maximum digital amplitude level. An audio signal can reach without clipping or distortion. When the output level is set to full scale in a maximizer module in ozone 11, it means that the audio level will be set to minus 0. DB four scale which is just below the absolute maximum level to ensure that the audio remains clean and distortion free. This setting is commonly used for mastering to achieve a professional pristine sound. When the output level is set to streaming, the output level is set to minus one DB with true peak limiting enabled. Also true peak refers to the highest momentary level that an audio signal reaches during its wave form. It considers inter sample peaks that might occur when the audio is converted from digital to analog or drawing other processing steps. True peak measurements ensures that the audio doesn't exceed the maximum level helping to prevent clipping and distortion in the final output. It's an important consideration for ensuring audio quality and preventing issues especially in broadcast and streaming where audio levels must meet specific standards. Vocal balance master balance will separate the vocals using A I and analysis phase. Adjusting the vocal balance will make the vocals quieter or louder in the master rebalance module. If the initial track analysis deems the vocal a good level in comparison with the target, it will not add a master rebalance module to the chain and the vocal balance section will be grayed out with a tick extras target. The extras is all about the finer details where those nuances can make a big difference. It includes dynamics, width, clarity and stability and there will be more information of what these mean later on in the course, adjusting these extras will make changes in their respective modules. It's a nice middle ground between a detailed mastering session where you might pay close attention to each parameter in each module and a quick master to a target. It's a fantastic way to ensure your master not only sounds good but also captures the subtleties of professional mixes. Moving on to the referencing process referencing is all about comparing your mix to professionally mastered tracks. It helps you ensure your master stacks up to industry standards. You'll want to have a reference track in mind. Click on the reference button and load your reference track. Ozone will automatically analyze it and compare it to your mix. You can then switch between your mix and a reference track to hear the differences. I'm just going to turn the gain down of this reference track with this gain slider here. So it's a similar level to our track. I just can't. This A B comparison is a powerful way to pinpoint areas that need improvement. Using this tool will game match your master to the reference track as well as for easy comparison. Ozone 11 allows up to 10 reference tracks and we can add more reference tracks by pressing this button here. When tracks are initially loaded into the reference panel handles will appear overlaid on the waveform display. The handles represent boundaries of predetermined loop points. The loop boundaries are placed on similar segments detected in the track. By default, the segments will be named with a letter which will be ABC D or E. You can adjust the loop segment length by clicking and dragging the region's selector handles left or right. You can rename the loop segments by clicking on the text above the loop segment. And here you can rename the loot segment. You can insert a loop by right clicking on the waveform where you would like to add a new loop and select insert loop from the menu. You can remove loops by right clicking on a loop segment and select remove loop from the menu. And you can select a loop for playback by simply clicking anywhere within a loop segment. Before we wrap up. This lesson, here are some tips and best practices for using Master assistant effectively. First of all, trust your ears, while master assistant provides viable suggestions, always trust your ears and use your judgment to make final adjustments, repeat or go over. Don't be afraid to run master assistant multiple times with different targets to explore different creative directions. Customization. Master assistant isn't set in stone. You can always tweak the settings that suggest to match your vision reference. Often referencing isn't a one time thing. Keep going back to your reference track throughout the mastering process to stay on track. OK. So we're now at the end of this video and there you have it a comprehensive overview of master assistant and referencing in Ozone 11. These tools are your allies in achieving professional level masters. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one.

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