Audio mastering


Audio mastering is the last stage of music production where you add the finishing touches to your overall mix. Check out our resources below to learn the tools and techniques involved in preparing your mix for publishing.

Getting Started with Ozone 8

Getting Started with Ozone 8

This article references previous versions of Ozone. Learn about the latest Ozone and its powerful new features like Master Rebalance, Low End Focus, and...

Why iZotope Created the Tonal Balance Control Plug-in

Why iZotope Created the Tonal Balance Control Plug-in

What is tonal balance, and how do I tell whether my mix has it? This is probably a question most musicians and audio engineers have asked at one point or...

5 Ways to Use Parallel Processing in Music Production

5 Ways to Use Parallel Processing in Music Production

This article references previous versions of Ozone. Learn about the latest Ozone and its powerful new features like Master Rebalance, Low...

5 Songs That Are Brilliantly Mixed and Mastered

5 Songs That Are Brilliantly Mixed and Mastered

Everything that’s happened before the mixing and mastering processes affects the ways engineers can manipulate sound: the instruments’ unique tones,...

What Is Spectral Shaping?

What Is Spectral Shaping?

This article references previous versions of Ozone. Learn about the latest Ozone and its powerful new features like Master Rebalance, Low End Focus, and...

Adam Ayan

Adam Ayan

Dizzy Gillespie once said, "It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play," and the same could easily be said of mastering. To be able to take a...

Tony Visconti Waxes Poetic About The Fairchild Compressor

Tony Visconti Waxes Poetic About The Fairchild Compressor

Legendary David Bowie producer Tony Visconti talks about the Fairchild Compressor Producer, arranger, musician, mixer, exemplary collaborator—Tony Visconti is...

Using Greg Calbi Presets to Achieve Audio Mastering Perfection

Using Greg Calbi Presets to Achieve Audio Mastering Perfection

This article references previous versions of Ozone. Learn about the latest Ozone and its powerful new features like Master Rebalance, Low End Focus, and...

Mastering the Mix: It’s All About the Blend, an Interview with Greg Calbi

Mastering the Mix: It’s All About the Blend, an Interview with Greg Calbi

Senior mastering engineer Greg Calbi talks about the music legends he’s worked with and the method he has used to optimize sound quality on more than...

Reinhold Mack

Reinhold Mack

Engineer and Producer Reinhold Mack is best known for his work producing the legendary rock band, Queen, as well as his work with Extreme and Black Sabbath....

Jonathan Wyner

Jonathan Wyner

iZotope stopped by the M Works Mastering studio founded and run by the award-winning, GRAMMY-nominated Jonathan Wyner to learn about the art of mastering....