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iZotope Insight

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Insight is an enhanced component plug-in version of iZotope's Ozone 5 Advanced Mastering plug-in's Meter Bridge. Owners of Ozone 5 Advanced are invited to download it and receive a full, free authorization for it.

I use Insight as I have used Ozone 5 Advanced's Meter Bridge for audio analysis, metering, and investigating worrisome audio problems I encounter during my mixing process. Insight provides deeper information using a more visual-rich display that includes: peak meters, loudness meters, a loudness history graph, stereo phase vector scope, surround scope, 2D/3D spectrograms, and a spectrum analyzer.

Technical information and issues not necessarily heard during music mixing are are made visible instantly on Insight's customizable and fully scalable floating window. In addition, Insight adds metering calibrated to the new broadcast loudness standard BS.1770-1/2/3 already in effect in Europe--a derivation of those standards will be used in the CALM Act.

The CALM Act or Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (HR 1084/S) will be mandated in the U.S. by the Federal Communications Commission starting in 2013.

Insight will do immediate loudness calculation and true peak detection, loudness calculation over time, and a faster than real-time offline loudness calculation if required for checking compliance to broadcast standards.

For TV/Film/Music mixing, there are advanced visualization and spatialization displays for detecting problems using the innovative new Surround Scope and the 3D Spectrogram. There are real-time color-coded alerts with user-defined settings and presets.

I like the built-in presets that provide instant calibration to whatever standard(s) I might be asked to conform to in the future. I don't mix masters for commercial release, broadcast use, iTunes Mastering or for surround sound without Insight. Of course as standards come & go or change, iZotope would append Insight to include them within the next update.

Insight sells for $499 or it's free to existing Ozone 5 Advanced Customers. To learn more about Insight, please visit www.izotope.com/insight.



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