

Ozone is a good tool for beginners but can also help advanced level engineers to come up with well-mastered projects. You can use EQ, pre and post-compression, saturation, and limiter plugins to make your music sound like how you want it. Ozone is a popular mastering suite among independent artists that offers you plenty of tools to work with. This plugin guide will help you find the best plugins to use for your music in 2020. Finding the right mastering plugins for your type of music can be tricky and sometimes pricey. And last but not least I used the Maximizer to give it some volume.When you have finished mixing your vocals and beats, you need the right mastering to make your tracks sound professional.Next, I used a multi band compressor for some transparent compression.Then I used gentle high and low shelf filters to boost the lows and the high’s.First I did a bit of EQ, filtering out some of the super low’s and super high’s.What’s doing the heavy lifting is iZotope’s Ozone 7.On the master channel I have the Glue Compressor compressing just a dB or 2, nothing major.I used it as an insert to put the keys in a larger space.

Then I used the Slate Digital Verbsuite Classics Reverb Plugin powered by LiquidSonics.This time I used the tape plugin for wow and flutter, it almost gave it a chorus effect and made the keys wider in a nonlinear way. First in line is the Universal Audio Ampex ATR.After I was done processing the signal, I did some light side chain compression against the kick to help the kick stay present in the mix.I used the Waves L1 Limiter at the end of the signal chain to level out the peaks just a bit.So I compressed the low’s just a bit and pushed up the gain. I wanted a bigger low end, but controlled. Then I used the Waves C4 Multiband Parametric Compressor.I pushed into it pretty hard, but this time it’s not in parallel mode, because I wanted a good amount of tape character. Universal Audio Studer A800 was the first plugin I used.Since I’m using “analog” modeled plugins, it’s important to have good headroom. An important note: I used a utility plugin to drop the level -10dB before hitting any plugin.The samples sounded pretty well treated, so I didn’t feel the need to process them individually. I did not do any processing on individual channels.Then I used the Glue Compressor in Ableton, which is made by Cytomic to glue things together.I pushed the tape plugin pretty hard, but it’s 40/60 parallel mode. Then I used a Universal Audio Studer A800 for some tape saturation and compression.First I used the Soundtoys Decapitator for saturation to make it a bit dirty.I grouped the Kick, Hi Hat Loop and Claps.The samples are downloaded from Hope you guys find it useful! Have fun making great music! Ableton Live Mixing Tips: Funk Beat, Analog Vibes In this video I go over the processing I did on this funk beat.
