Open Ambience Project has released SHEPPi (Stereo Haas Effect Ping Pong Inverter), a free spatial enhancer plug-in for Windows.

SHEPPi is based on the K-Stereo concepts of Bob Katz, implemented as an open source project:

K-Stereo is a process that literally extracts the inherent ambience, space and depth in a recording and allows you to manipulate it... I know this sounds implausible, but it can be done and there is a solid psychoacoustic (patent pending) basis for the principle. In mastering we often get recordings that are too small, and K-Stereo is one of the best cures for that disease because it does not affect the inherent mix, unlike typical M/S and other such 'widening' techniques. K-Stereo is totally natural and in addition, it improves the clarity and definition of the instruments and vocals as part of the psychoacoustics of the algorithm.

Audio demos are available via the link below.

SHEPPi is available as a free VST effect plug-in for Windows PC, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

via rekkerd

Link:

• The Open Ambience Project

James Lewin
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