Tonal Balance Control 3

Get your tracks on target

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Take Tonal Balance Control 3 for a spin and compare your tracks to pro references.
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M1 Apple silicon support. View specs for Mac and Windows.
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All-in-one referencing for professional mixes

Every mix is a journey. Meet your guide: Tonal Balance Control 3. Compare your audio to 30+ genre targets, capture your own from anywhere, blend them to create your perfect reference, and tweak to taste with built-in processing and seamless Ozone and Neutron integration. It’s never been easier to raise your tracks to pro standards.

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A sense check for your sound

See how your tracks stack up against the pros with the classic tonal balance meter, and easily see how your audio strays from the target with the brand-new Leveled View. Then, complete the picture with TBC’s three new meters: visualize vocals with Vocal Balance to confidently sit them in the sweet spot, analyze energy and impact with Dynamics, and assess immersion with Stereo Width.

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Capture inspiration anywhere

Got a go-to reference track or a gold standard you wish you’d mixed? Turn any audio into your guide with the new standalone desktop app, letting you capture targets from any source like Spotify or YouTube. And inside your DAW, instantly capture live audio to create new targets – letting you save the profile of full tracks or mix elements for later, or easily compare songs across an album.

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Pick your target, or make your own

Dive into the redesigned Target Library to match your style with 30+ genre and subgenre curves – from classic hip hop to punk rock to K-pop. Can’t find the exact target you want, or want something tailored from targets you’ve captured? The new Target Blender has your back, letting you create custom references by combining any two targets in your library. Box-ready or blended, the choice is yours.

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See it, shape it, ship it

Make instant tonal tweaks with TBC 3’s new built in Hybrid EQ, featuring static and dynamic nodes – a perfect combo with the new Leveled View to quickly close the gap to your targets. No need to jump between multiple plugins, now you can make the adjustments you need directly from the Tonal Balance Control GUI.

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Integration with Ozone and Neutron

See something in Tonal Balance Control that makes you want to revisit your mixing and mastering decisions? For deeper editing, connect to Ozone and Neutron EQs directly within TBC, or load your custom targets into Ozone and Neutron’s Assistants to balance your track with iZotope’s full mixing and mastering toolkits.

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System Requirements

Operating Systems:

  • Mac: macOS Sonoma (14.7.x), macOS Sequoia (15.7.x), macOS Tahoe (26.1.x)*
    * Supported on Intel Macs & Apple silicon Macs (Apple M-series chips) in Rosetta 2 & native.
  • Windows: Windows 10 (22H2), Windows 11 (24H2)

Plugin Formats:

AAX, AU, VST3. All plugins are 64-bit only.

Note: VST2 format is no longer supported.

Supported Hosts:

Logic 11 - 12, Pro Tools 2025, Ableton Live 12, Studio One 7, Fender Studio Pro 8, FL Studio 25, Cubase 15, Nuendo 14, REAPER 7, Audition CC 2025, Premiere CC 2025