Kostein,
I'm wondering if its possible to use all of the same tools in Ozone 5, but in the Axefx. I ask because I always aim for a more polished/recording guitar sound for live playing. Looking at the Ozone website, I see these effects: maximizer, equalizer, reverb, dither, exciter, dynamics and stereo imaging. While the controls on Ozone are a little more intense than the Axe, pretty much everything here can be done with effects blocks. Correct?
Maybe to a slight degree, but these effects are all multiband in Ozone. What that means is that you can completely change the way each effect is applied to different ranges of frequencies. For example, more compression on everything below 80hz or more excitation on frequencies over 8khz. This gives you a massive amount of control, which is cannot be equaled in the various effects blocks of the Axe. Even the multiband compressor in the Axe is very basic (though still good) compared to the one in Ozone.
Something else that's really cool in Ozone is that you can "match" eq's, sort of like the tone match in the Axe. So, create a mix, play it through Ozone, and it will take a snapshot of the overall eq spectrum. Do the same for a song from your favorite band. You end up with 2 snapshots and you then can "match" your mix to the eq of the other mix. It's not perfect, and usually still needs a bit of tweaking, but it still has helped me get the eq of my final mix to sound a lot more professional.