User Manual

Mastering Modules
OZONE 7 | MASTERING MODULES
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Maximizer
Ozone’s Maximizer is a digital peak limiter. It allows you to create an overall louder or fuller master by
limiting the dynamic range and boosting the perceived overall level of the mix.
Ozone’s acclaimed IRC (Intelligent Release Control) technology lets you boost the overall level of your
mixes without sacrificing dynamics and clarity. The Maximizer applies to the entire bandwidth of the
mix; it is not a multiband eect.
Key Features
• Intelligent limiting modes provide amazing results, greatly reducing pumping on transients and
letting you get louder, fuller mixes without unwanted artifacts.
• Character control helps you fine-tune the Maximizer’s response perfectly to your source
material.
• Gain Reduction display provides valuable visual feedback of gain reduction.
• Interactive Threshold/Ceiling control allows you to adjust the amount of limiting in visual relation
to the level of the incoming signal.
• Stereo Unlink feature allows you to limit the left and right channels independently.
• Transient Emphasis feature allows you to preserve transients through the limiting process.
Limiting Modes
Four separate limiting modes are available; they work as follows:
IRC I
This mode provides intelligent digital loudness maximization of the signal. It does this by analyzing
the source material and applying limiting in a psychoacoustically pleasing manner, reacting quickly to
transients (to prevent pumping) and reacting more slowly to steady bass tones (to prevent distortion).
IRC II
Similar to Intelligent mode (above), but this mode is optimized to preserve transients even more, so
they sound sharper and clearer in the output signal, even when aggressive limiting is taking place.