How much do you guys use Izotope in mixes?

To tell you the truth, I have the WHOLE Izotope suite and haven't used a single piece of it.  I bought it during one of those weird "buy the old version for 10$ and get the upgrade for 50$" things they had going on, which saved me a TON of money on the whole bundle, but now there's like 40 versions of the plugs in my folder and some work and some don't and I haven't been interested enough to try to sort it all out because it was such a pain to get it all installed and licensed.  IIRC, each plug needed a different license or file or something and it was just a huge hassle.

That’s annoying. I only have an older version of ozone but their plugin manager seems to work ok (product portal?) to keep everything sorted.

Interested how people are using the individual bits and pieces also. Recently the maximizer won the shootout for a drum bus that needed more transparent crest factor reducing.

While I do find their whole website/plugin authorization thing annoying, I love their stuff. Neutron has some fantastic modules. Sometimes if I’m working on a larger project and I don’t have time to mess around dialing in each track, I’ll use track assistant to get me in the ballpark quickly. I tweak from there. Ozone is always on my master buss. There are some great tools in there. I also love the free vinyl plug. Vocal doubler is rad(not sure if it was free). That’s about all I use. I have the whole suite though. Just never found a use for nectar or trash. Nectar seems to overdo it and trash is just too many options for basic saturation. I still have version 8 of everything. Next time I have to upgrade my computer I’ll grab whatever the latest version of neutron and ozone are.

I use their vocal doubler sometimes and the free noise reduction every once and awhile. Know people who love their mastering suite but I find it too distracting and I’m not an ME anyway.
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i use spectral denoise on occasion, but that's it. I only have RX and had bought Neutron when it first came out but that's all i've got.

I probably have anywhere from 1 to 4 instances of izotope plugins on every mix. I don't use all of their plugins, but I do find their RX stuff extremely helpful for polishing turds/poorly recorded vocals. I love the Ozone dynamic EQ and Exciter which is great for saturating only the high end or only the mids of something.

I don't find myself using Izotope or Ozone for rudimentary mix decisions, but rather to fix a piece of audio or enhance it in some way that I can't really do with my normal plugin/hardware selections. I think they come in real handy for audio editing purposes. The Mastering Rebalance plugin actually has come in very handy in awkward situations, where I'd otherwise have nothing else to use.

I haven't dabbled much with Neutron or Nectar, but I want to mess with them more. There are just so many damn plugins haha!

Ozone only on master bus? Or elsewhere.

I did a mix of a live recording last night for a wedding band client releasing a teaser video. The board mix they sent had zero life. Tried Ozone Exciter on drum bus and it really worked like a charm to liven up a very well played but not well recorded drum part.

Then I figured hey, let's do some gated reverb (the song was David Bowie's Let's Dance) and again... how about Neutron gate? 

That's what got me on this.

I use it all over the place. Mostly on the master...It's a powerful tool and has taken me a while to really learn the ins and outs. Don't care what anyone else says, the AI stuff is awesome if you use it as intended - an assistant. You wouldn't let an assistant make final decisions - so let it get you in the ball park and then tweak. Big time saver.

I've found putting stabilzer on vocals after/before my EQ really works well. Sometimes I'll let it boost and cut, sometimes cut. Use it at like 50%. The imager is pretty cool too. You can just slap it on something and use it like a one knob widener, or use multi band. Clarity is nice too. Tonal Balance has been awesome to visualize the frequency curve of the song. It has really pointed out some things where my ears were deceiving me. The multiband AI dynamic EQ is awesome too. I've found it to be pretty accurate in controlling resonances and low mid bloom.

Last time I checked, their install / management program was SOOOO ANNNNOYING that I just dumped the license and never use them.  For me it's got to be quick, it's got to be logical, it's got to be intuitive without reading a manual, it's got to be streamlined (NI is a great example of streamlined, although there's plenty I don't like about them too), and it's got to be rock solid - or it never gets used.

Yeah, this was my issue too. Honestly I still can't figure out why I can't get the individual Nectar modules authorized. I just gave up on that. It's still messy.

The Sculptor on vocals is very interesting!! Finding it useful for this particular track

I actually got into Izotope for RX but I could never really get the stuff to work as well as I remember seeing it work for a producer buddy who blew my mind with it. Maybe the lite version is too light. I'm still on RX 8 and even the modules it comes with (like de-click) never seem to do what they say they will do... e.g., remove clicks.

Also possibly I suck at using them.