User Manual

Mastering Modules
OZONE 7 | MASTERING MODULES
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Key Features
• With minimal controls to shape, enhance, and even completely redefine your mix, Vintage
Compressor gives your music authentic vintage character.
• Flexible feedback compression modeling tailors attack and release shapes depending on your
material.
• Program dependent release times mean longer release times for a transparent sound on vocals
with no pumping and fast release times to keep drums sounding tight and natural.
• An editable detection filter with highpass, mid peak, and high shelf nodes.
• Automatic gain compensation provides automatic makeup gain, and also allows you to easily
compare your mix with and without dynamics processing applied.
Threshold
Adjust the threshold of the compressor to set the point where the dynamics processing takes place.
Since some modes have a soft knee, mild compression may occur below this point too.
Threshold Meter
The Threshold meter displays gain reduction as it is taking place with level meters.
The two outer meters display the levels of the incoming signal, and as gain reduction begins to take
place, a gain reduction meter appears in red between the two level bars.
Ratio
Sets the amount of attenuation to be applied to the signal once it has passed the threshold. Higher
ratios will result in more extreme compression.
Attack and Release
Adjust the attack and release controls to set how quickly the Vintage Compressor reacts to audio that
crosses the threshold.
Attack determines how quickly the Vintage Compressor reacts when the threshold is reached.
Release determines the amount of time before the Vintage Compressor returns the level to normal
once the signal is no longer above the threshold. This control sets the release time for transients; for
sustained compression, the release time will be significantly longer.
Mode
The Mode selector adjusts the signal-dependent, internal ballistics of the Vintage Compressor and
consequently changes its overall sonic character to suit the type of sound you’re looking for.
• Sharp: Provides crisp dynamics and a greater emphasis on transients while the body of the
signal is kept under control.
• Balanced: Gives a signal-dependent balance between dynamics preservation and overall
enhancement to the body of the signal.
• Smooth: Aptly named, Smooth mode smoothes out transient and dynamic material but
enhances and brings out the rest of the signal leading to a thicker and fuller sound.