User Manual

General Functions
OZONE 7 | GENERAL FUNCTIONS
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Audio Audition Section
Ozone’s audition section is located underneath the master stereo
meters on the right-hand side of the screen.
It provides a useful set of tools for monitoring the master stereo
signal, and works as follows:
Bypass
Click this button to bypass all processing, from all modules, on the
audio signal. The graphical interface for the modules will turn a light
grey as a reminder that these modules are not in the signal path.
The bypass control provides a handy “one-click comparison” tool,
where you can quickly compare how your song sounds with and without the processing that you
have added using Ozone. You can always make sure, with a single click, that the processing you have
added is improving your audio as desired.
Auto-Match Gain
Clicking on the “ear” icon underneath the master I/O meters activates the Automatically Match
Eective Gain When Bypassed feature.
When Ozone is on there are many modules such as the multiband dynamics and loudness maximizer
that can aect the overall or perceived loudness of the mix. This makes it very hard to compare
“Ozone on” to “Ozone bypassed.”
The “Automatically Match Eective Gain When Bypassed” feature solves this problem. Ozone
determines how much perceived gain is being added by all of the active Ozone modules and then
automatically adds this amount of gain when Ozone is put into bypass mode. You can bypass Ozone,
and the gain is automatically adjusted so that when you A/B Ozone on and o, the apparent volume is
the same.
This gain processing is the only processing that is applied when Ozone is bypassed, and it is of course
only applied when Ozone is actually bypassed.
Note: In the plug-in version of Ozone, this may not work if you use the host application to bypass
Ozone. If the host application reports that it is bypassed, it will work and the Bypass button in Ozone
will automatically depress accordingly.
If the host does not report that it is bypassed, Ozone doesn’t know and therefore cannot apply the
“gain when bypassed.”
Mono
Click on the Mono button to have Ozone collapse the stereo signal to mono, allowing you to check
your song for mono compatibility.
It is always important to check any stereo material for mono compatibility, and make sure that any
processing you have done does not cause any elements of your mix to “cancel out” and disappear
when listening in mono.