Izotope Alloy 2

Started by LeeVGuitar, August 17, 2012, 01:22:49 AM

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LeeVGuitar

There have been some incredible experiences from those who have downloaded and used the 10 day free trial offered by Izotope of their new mastering program called:

Alloy 2

I intend to download it and try it out when I'm ready. Unfortunately, I am not currently ready for a final mixdown of anything...besides the Dimensional Portal recording and that will not be an adequate test of the full range of what this program can do for final mixdowns.

I'm hoping some of you here will give this program a try and let me know if you feel it's worth the current sale price of $149.00.

Supposedly, it will give our recordings a final mix as though we had them processed at a multi-million-dollar recording studio

Supposedly, this is the missing link to mastering a home recording that will finally give us all the ability to never feel any need to have a multi-million-dollar recording studio do a final mix of what we produce

So, it's a free 10 day trial. What do you think?

http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/alloy/index.asp?hs12

Elantric

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Izotope stuff goes on sale all the time - so there is no hurry.
The best Mastering Tool remains your ears.
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LeeVGuitar

Hey, thanks for that link! 

Supposedly, Alloy 2 is fantastic. I'll be testing it myself soon

LeeVGuitar

I just felt that since this particular forum is for those who share their compositions it would be the best forum to get personal reviews from those who create music. After all, I hear Alloy 2 was just released a couple of days ago and there is no guarantee it will still stay at the same $149.00 dollar price after the beginning of September.

LPHovercraft

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Just a quick note - Alloy is primarily a channel strip plugin. It is not a mastering plugin, per se. (I developed presets for the first version of Alloy) That said, you can get the same general behavior because of the same core DSP being used - the difference is often in the details.

You can create a dual-compression signal chain in Alloy that is not possible in Ozone (unless you daisy chain two Dynamics instances in your host using Ozone 5 Advanced individual plugins - then again, the signal routing inside Alloy is more flexible). Likewise, there are no MBIT+ dithering features in Alloy. There are numerous examples of where the Venn diagram diverges between the two enough to beg the clarification.

One nice thing about them working together is the meter tap in Alloy allows Ozone metering to switch through all of the channels where Alloy is inserted. Tonight I'm going through my Cubase template to add Alloy 2 to each of my Group channels (with Ozone 5 on the main bus) in order to update my mixing workspace for 'cycling' through each bus using iZotope's spiffy metering. Great stuff.

You *can* do pre-mastering  with Alloy - just the same way you can master through a console by re-routing the tracks through a pair of channel strips to use the native modifiers and controls. It's just that it often requires *more* and *more precise* control than most channel ops offer.



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Houston Haynes - LPHovercraft

LeeVGuitar

Thanks for your intelligent input

I now have access to these two different mastering programs

Can anyone tell me which they feel is the better program?

iZotope Introduces Mastering Essentials

http://www.izotope.com/press/1.20.2012_iZotope%20Introduces%20Mastering%20Essentials.asp

Sound Forge™ Pro 10 Mastering Effects Bundle 2

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/soundforge/izotope

LeeVGuitar

Well, so far I am indeed inspired to 'SUPERCHARGE' my new Mixcraft Pro Studio 6 DAW with Alloy 2. Yes, Alloy 2 on sale costs as much as the entire DAW, but if it's really going to make that much of a difference then when I FINALLY format my new RokBox computer I want my Mixcraft DAW to be...

((( SUPERCHARGED!!! )))

My New RokBox Computer:

http://pcaudiolabs.com/rokbox_i7-techspecs.asp

LPHovercraft

Well - for sure you should try the trial version to see off it's worth the investment to you. I believe it runs for 10 days fully functional then it switches to 'demo mode' where it drops signal every few seconds. Ten days is more than enough time to make an informed decision.
Houston Haynes - LPHovercraft

LeeVGuitar

Thanks so much for your input. An "applause" thou shalt have!   ;D