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The Clarity Module and Low End Focus Module

Lesson 10 from: Mastering Music with iZotope Ozone 11

Tomas George

The Clarity Module and Low End Focus Module

Lesson 10 from: Mastering Music with iZotope Ozone 11

Tomas George

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10. The Clarity Module and Low End Focus Module

Lesson Info

The Clarity Module and Low End Focus Module

Welcome to this next lesson in this lesson. We'll delve into two essential modules for mastering the clarity module and the low end focus module. These modules are instrumental in shaping the tonal balance and sonic character of your audio ensuring it sounds clear, detailed and impactful. We'll explore what each module does and provide guidance on how to use them effectively. What does the clarity module do? The clarity module is all about enhancing the midrange and higher frequency detail in your audio. Its primary function is to introduce harmonic saturation as well as turn resonances to a specific frequency band towards a specific target. This can add warmth, brightness and clarity to your audio. It's particularly useful for bringing out details in instruments and vocals increases the tracks perceived loudness at the exact same LFs. How to use the clarity module, select frequency bands start by identifying the frequency bands where you want to enhance clarity. This can vary dependin...

g on the audio material and your creative goals amount, adjust the exciter amount to control a level of harmonic saturation, be subtle in your adjustments as too much excitation can lead to unwanted artifacts at the maximum amount level, the maximum gain that clarity can boost or cut is six B tilt. This adjusts the flat target that the module is adjusting towards positive values, makes the target brighter while negative values makes it darker attack. This controls how quickly the module responds to incoming audio fast attacks will saturate and tame transients. I found that if the attack is too fast, drums can sound over saturated and lose their punch release. This controls how quickly the module returns to its original value. Fast release times can sound more aggressive and upfront. As saturation is quickly applied and removed in a matter of milliseconds, slow release times, create a much more smooth sounding tone. What does the low end focus module do? The low end focus module is designed to shape and tighten the low end of your audio and it offers the following tightening and shaping. This module allows you to precisely control low frequencies ensuring they are well defined and not muddy or boomy. It can be especially useful for genres where clean and powerful low end is crucial such as EDM or hip hop sub harmonic generator. The low end focus module also generates sub harmonics to add depth and impact to low frequencies making them more prominent without overwhelming the mix. How to use the low end focus module. Let's first look at frequency range, begin by selecting the frequency range you wish to focus on this begins on the mix and the specific issues you want to address mode puncher uses faster response time to emphasize transient content. This mode is useful for targeting the kick smooth use the slow response times to enhance the sustained content. This is useful for targeting sustain based instruments. Contrast, this behaves like an expander or compressor positive values increase the differences between the low level signals and high level signals. This brings out the transients in the low end and is useful for giving your kick more punch, negative values, reduce the differences between low level signals and high level signals. This essentially compresses the low end and blurs the base, the transients will lose their punch but the low end will feel smoother and more consistent. So let's go back to the punching mode and then play the trap back and adjust this contrast setting gain. This sets the amount of makeup gain applied to the frequency band. After the contrast has taken place, the achieving clarity and impact in mastering, achieving clarity and impact is a delicate balancing act. The clarity module helps bring out the details and enhances the brightness, making your audio clearer and more detailed. Meanwhile, the low end focus mode tightens and shapes the low end and in depth and power to create an impactful sound. OK. So in this lesson, we've explored the clarity mode and low end focus module in ozone 11, these modules play a crucial role in mastering ensuring your audio sounds clear, detailed and impactful Ok, so that's the end of this video. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one.

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