My main complaint with Ozone so far is the stupid names they have for their presets. It's almost like they took a list of nouns and a list of adjectives and randomly mixed and matched them. Exactly, I suspect, how Wrinkle Neck Mules named their band.

The topic goes back to a very astute comment Silvertones John made about a month ago on a similar post. To tell someone "Put on a commercial CD of the same genre and make it sound like that." is like saying "Look at The Mona Lisa and paint like that. If we knew what made it sound "like that" we wouldn't be posting here and working day jobs. We would be mastering engineers.

If you think about the concept that the EQ should be applied to the summed total of the work, then the next logical thought would be that the more tracks you have, the more difficult the interaction is going to be when trying to smooth a bad spot in one track. When the bass on track 2 is hot so you cut some lower end to compensate, that is also going to affect the baritone voice singing the song unless you EQ just the bass track. So I understand the concept of working the whole piece vs individual tracks, but that's why it's called learning.