RSR504 - Bill Podolak - Q&A with iZotope
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 155 minutes
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My guest today is Bill Podolak, a Senior Product Manager at iZotope by Native Instruments. Bill has had the privilege of managing the past two versions of Ozone 10 and 11 along with RX 11 and their new Catalyst Series - Plasma, Aurora, and Cascadia. He is also a musician and music producer and makes tracks in his spare time. His wife is also a singer-songwriter, and they make music together. Thank you to Dave Godowsky for the introduction!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by Isotope, Native Instruments, |
| 0:06.5 | Adam Audio, and S-A-E Institute, Nashville. |
| 0:10.4 | You're hearing my voice right now mixed through Isotope, R-X, Ozone, and Neutron on atom-audio monitors and headphones. |
| 0:19.7 | Please check out our awesome sponsors |
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| 0:26.5 | and leave us a comment. |
| 0:27.8 | It's a great way for you to help support this show. |
| 0:30.3 | Now get ready to rock. |
| 0:31.9 | When we were doing the research for Rosen 11, |
| 0:34.0 | I actually posted on a mastering Facebook forum. |
| 0:38.3 | I was like, you know, what makes a mix really hard to master? |
| 0:41.3 | And one of the best responses, you know, was like when instruments have sort of a conflicting tone, |
| 0:49.3 | for example, you might have a vocal that's too bright, but a snare drum that's too dark. |
| 0:56.0 | And so you can't boost with just a typical mastering EQ, even midside, like they're probably both in the middle. |
| 1:03.0 | So, you know, what I brought to the team was, okay, we have this, you know, stem separation, machine learning DSP already in master rebalance, and that's just doing gain. |
| 1:13.6 | So, you know, we figured out, let's take it a step further and not let you just change the gain of these stems, |
| 1:20.6 | but really change any aspect of the stem that you could possibly imagine using all of the tools in ozone. |
| 1:38.0 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:41.1 | I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the |
| 1:47.4 | recording studio. Native Instruments supercharges your music production with Complete 15 |
| 1:57.9 | featuring Contact 8 new machine hardware integration and cutting-edge synth samples and effects. |
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