Universal Audio UAD Plug-Ins ver.7.5 - Manual (Page 345)

UAD Powered Plug-Ins Manual - 345 - Chapter 35: Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery
CHAPTER 35
Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery
Psychoacoustic Ambience Recovery and Stereo Processor Created by Mastering Engineer Bob Katz
Universal Audio’s Precision K-Stereo™ Ambience Recovery plug-in is a psy-
choacoustic processor conceived and created by famed mastering engineer
Bob Katz. Collaborating with Universal Audio to bring this unique, patented
process to the UAD platform, Bob Katz’s K-Stereo process uses elements of the
Haas effect and other psychoacoustic principles to create a transparent,
phase-accurate “ambience recovery” and stereo enhancement tool. Primarily
designed for critical 2-track mastering applications, Precision K-Stereo ex-
tracts the ambient cues inherent in the source recording and provides features
capable of spreading the uncorrelated ambience around the soundstage, en-
larging the size of the soundstage both deeper and wider. It also increases
the clarity and localization of the source material within its algorithm while in-
creasing the third dimension of the sound. Precision K-Stereo does not have a
sound of its own—it transparently enhances the existing ambience and early
reflections of your sources to breathe new life into busy or narrow-sounding
mixes. Precision K-Stereo enhances the depth and imaging of the instruments
and vocals on your stereo master without adding artificial reverberation, or
changing the ratio of center elements to side elements, thus providing a do-no-
harm approach to finalizing the stereo image of your critical mix source ma-
terial.
Precision K-Stereo Screenshot
Figure 103. The Precision K-Stereo plug-in window