Plug-In Recovers And Boosts Natural Ambience Of Recorded Sources

"The K-Stereo plug-in gives mastering engineers an easy, organic-sounding solution for excessively small mixes or mixes that need more space and depth -- from classical to jazz, rock, or hip-hop," said Bob Katz. "Because we're effectively 'pulling out' the ambience that's already in the recording, the results sound much more natural. I'm happy to be working with UA to bring K-Stereo to the UAD platform."

Designed for critical 2-track mastering or post-production applications, the K-Stereo plug-in offers a "do-no-harm" approach to adding depth and width to busy or narrow-sounding mixes. Using 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.

Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Plug-In Features:

• Unique ambience recovery and stereo processing tool, created and patented by famed mastering engineer Bob Katz
• Extracts ambient cues from the source material, naturally adding depth and width to the stereo field
• Perfect for fixing busy or "narrow" mixes at the mastering stage
• 3-band Ambience Filter EQ for further shaping the effect
• Mid/Side gain controls available to adjust the center-to-side balance
• Left/Right Gain controls for final stereo image balancing and leveling
• Custom user presets created by Bob Katz

Pricing and Availability:
Available as part of the upcoming UAD Software v6.3.2 release, scheduled for early November, the Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Plug-In will be available for $199 US via UA's Online Store.

More information:

• UAD-2 Powered Plug-Ins platform

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