I'm surprised by how much people seem to be swayed by garish UIs. And on day the plugins might just stop working and bugger all your old projects. I don't know if its all internally reliable with things like phase correlation. mastering plugins like Fabfilter and iZotope Ozone available in the market. Trouble with freeware stuff and plugins for the master chain, for me anyway, is that ramming in loads of random 3rd party software is just risky. The AMEK EQ 200 plugin is a complete 7-band EQ, with 5 parametric bands. Live's Multiband compressor is just that, again I have no reason to think any free-ware is better. If you want to do 12 dB of compression in your limiter stage maybe you need to rethink your mixing.ĮQ-wise I have no reason to think any freeware is going to better EQ8. Live's limiter isn't awesome but if you use it within small compression ranges is good enough. What you should look for is some good metering software first, span is pretty good (incidentally Izotope charge an even bigger amount for their metering add-ons which seem pretty good). The 'mastering reverb' is just.'reverb' and the spatializier stuff is superficial coloured distortion. Also the package seems to be designed and marketed for people to just throw up a few presets and vacuum pack their tracks, which Ozone isn't very good at. It is really just EQ, MB compression and a limiter, none of which are that good.

At the risk of saying something controversial.

Ozone 5 plugin