

Streaming prepares your music for an average loudness for streaming services like Spotify or Apple Music. Master Assistant does the same thing with three different choices: Streaming This helps them understand what processing needs to be done to the track to frame it for the delivery format. Mastering engineers usually start each project by setting up their limiter first. This question affects settings in the Maximizer (Ozone’s Limiter) specifically. Master Assistant starts by presenting a simple question: “What are you going for?” Once finished, you can see the parameters and educate yourself by dissecting each module’s settings or bypassing each module to hear the differences.

Unlike auto-mastering services, Master Assistant shows you the changes it’s made to your audio and even informs you about the steps it goes through to make those changes. Ozone 8’s Master Assistant aims to demystify some of the aspects of mastering like achieving loudness without compromising the fidelity of your music, or balancing your entire track so that the low end is punchy and controlled. The steps engineers go through to ensure that music is prepared to distribute to the world is often described as a “dark art” that requires years and years of experience to execute.

Not only does Master Assistant provide you with a way to get going, it can also educate you on some of the decisions that are made at the beginning of the process. Master Assistant is an intelligent assistant in Ozone 8 that helps you achieve a starting point for mastering your music.
