Universal Audio just announced they teamed up with world famous mastering engineer Bob Katz (“Mastering Audio – The Art and the Science“) to release the Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Plug-in for the UAD-Platforms.  K-Stereo allows to enhance the stereo depth and the imaging of mixes.

The patented K-Stereo uses

“elements of the Haas effect and other psychoacoustic principles, the plug-in transparently enhances existing ambience and early reflections without adding artificial reverb or changing the ratio of center elements to side elements.”

Features

• ambience recovery and stereo processing tool, (created and patented by Bob Katz)
• extracts ambient cues from source material, adding natural depth and width to the stereo field
• intended for fixing busy or “narrow” mixes at the mastering stage
• 3-band Ambience Filter EQ for shaping the effect
• Mid/Side gain controls to adjust the center-to-side balance
• Left/Right Gain controls for final stereo image balancing and leveling
• lots of custom user presets created by Bob himself

Price and Availability

K-Stereo is part of the just released UAD-Software v6.3.2. K-Stereo’s pricetag is US$199.

Ooo Dooh

More information to be found at UAD’s lair, check it regularly for special offers. They come more often than you would expect ;-)

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