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A standard compressor or stereo widener can be a useful tool for processing your mix. The 
possibilities become even more interesting when you’re working with multiband effects. With 

multiband effects, you can apply processing to individual bands or frequency regions of the 

mix. This means that you can choose to compress just the dynamics of the bass region of a 

mix, or just widen the stereo image of the midrange. 
 

Ozone includes three multiband effects: A multiband dynamics processor, a multiband stereo 

imaging control, and a multiband harmonic exciter. To get the most out of these effects, it’s 
useful to first take a second to consider the multiband concept and how to setup multiband 

cutoffs for your mix. 

 
Multiband effects have been around for many years in hardware. Engineers realized long ago 

that they could filter the bass of a mix with an equalizer, route the filtered output of the 

equalizer through a compressor, and then mix the output of the compressor back into the mix. 

Software plug-ins eliminate a lot of the wiring complexities of using multiband effects, but still 
present design challenges of their own. A multiband effect is essentially splitting your mix into 

frequency regions, processing them independently, and then combining them back together 

again. In order to sound natural, the design must carefully compensate for how the bands are 
split apart and recombined. Ozone has been developed to perform multiband processing with 

extremely tight phase coherence, which means that you have the power of multiband 

processing while retaining a natural transparent sound. 
 

 

 
Before diving into the effects themselves, the first step is to listen to your mix and determine 

where to set the band crossover points. Load up a mix and switch to one of the multiband 

modules (Multiband Harmonic Exciter, for example) 
 

 

 

At the top of the screen you can see a spectrum divided into four bands. The vertical lines 

 

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