The Grandeur & Maximizer (Ozone)

Question

I understand that during my "mastering" stage with Ozone for solo piano I don't want to make any creasy moves for not ruining the sound , so I use only Maximizer to bring up loudness (and I want to do it very gently). I use IRC IV (Trasient) as I understand from docs that it's the most delicate. No soft clipping, no upward compression. I'm raising the Gain knob trying to get close to -14 LUFS (-1 true peak) for YouTube.

My problem is with Gain reduction indicator. it shows some digits in blue  sometimes, but mostly so quickly that I don't even see the digit. May be there is somewhere (and I didn't find it) "history chart", so after listening to a track I could take a look and see all spikes and their gain reduction values? I just can't beleive that such advanced tool as Ozone  doesn't have that and I have to sit and stare trying to catch what it tells me.

Thanks in advance.

Anatoliy · Answer

Yeah, but there is no any measurement grid. I see those dips, but have no idea how many reduction just happened. Or I can change something somewhere in configs to turn on the grid?

chatgpt directed me toward L2 with my question. I guess it's an obvious idea to have those squares with numbers, if it hit even my had, and I have no any experience in this field. Do hope that I can turn on something like that somewhere in Ozone.

Jeremy_NI · Answer

Ozone displays this history through the scrolling waveform visualizer at the top of the module, where a blue trace line represents gain reduction in real-time. Instead of looking at the flickering numeric readout, watch how that blue line "dips" into the gray waveform; those dips represent the exact timing and depth of every spike the Maximizer is catching.

Anatoliy · Answer

here is a screenshot if it can help somehow