Precision K-Stereo™ Ambience Recovery
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Widen your mixes and recover the natural ambience of your recorded sources.
The Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery plug-in for UAD-2 and Apollo interfaces allows you to precisely enhance the stereo depth and imaging of your mixes without unwanted artifacts.
Created for the UAD platform with famed mastering engineer Bob Katz, the Precision K-Stereo plug-in is designed for critical 2-track mastering applications — from jazz to rock to hip-hop — and is the natural-sounding cure for busy or narrow-sounding mixes.Add depth and imaging to instruments and vocals without adding artificial reverb
Extract ambience from source material, naturally, adding depth and width to the stereo field
Harness Mid/Side gain controls adjust the center-to-side balance of mixes
Tweak further with powerful three-band Ambience Filter EQ
5-Min UAD Tip
In this video, learn how to widen your mix and give a drum overhead mic more of a room sound with the UAD Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Plug-In.
“The Precision K-Stereo ambience recovery plug-in has the ability to widen an image without the typical phasing. This process has won me over.”
– Mark Needham (The Killers, Neon Trees, P!nk)Customer Reviews
P. Magyar
July 19, 2016
Works exactly as described
Great plug in that is unique is control of ambiance. Could not be more satisfied.
Read MoreM. D'Andrea
July 18, 2016
great for precision ambience recovery
questo plugin e' utlissimo per migliorare le riprese con ambienti errati o imperfetti e per migliorare genericamente la tridimensionalità delle tracce.utile sui gruppi di batteria e nel...
Read MoreJ. Cookman
July 1, 2016
This Plug is amazing...
I put this plug on my Master Buss for every mix I do. It is so subtle but you just feel a loss in depth when you turn it off. It's more of a feeling than something you hear. LOVE IT!!!
Read MoreM. Diaz Velez
June 28, 2016
A Stereo image is worth a thousand words.
I used it for Classical mixes or acoustic music mixes. I will no fix your bad recording or mix, but it will give you a very stunning stereo image. It you are looking for something too...
Read MoreC. Barrett
June 20, 2016
From Subtle to Magic
I'm gonna easily give this 5 Stars because it does what it says it will do. It can be a subtle enhancement... or outright magic! I sure like having all the options and I wouldn't want to be...
Read MoreC. Modog
June 18, 2016
Precision K Stereo
If you don't have it buy it it's worth it. I use a lot on piano and drums bus. Thank you UA.
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Key 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 adjust the center-to-side balance
Left/Right Gain controls for final stereo image balancing and leveling
Custom user presets created by Bob Katz
Requires UAD-2 DSP Accelerator Card or Apollo Interface, available from authorized dealers worldwide
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Customer Reviews
Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery
P. Magyar
Works exactly as described
Great plug in that is unique is control of ambiance. Could not be more satisfied.
M. D'Andrea
great for precision ambience recovery
questo plugin e' utlissimo per migliorare le riprese con ambienti errati o imperfetti e per migliorare genericamente la tridimensionalità delle tracce.utile sui gruppi di batteria e nel mastering finale
J. Cookman
This Plug is amazing...
I put this plug on my Master Buss for every mix I do. It is so subtle but you just feel a loss in depth when you turn it off. It's more of a feeling than something you hear. LOVE IT!!!
M. Diaz Velez
A Stereo image is worth a thousand words.
I used it for Classical mixes or acoustic music mixes. I will no fix your bad recording or mix, but it will give you a very stunning stereo image. It you are looking for something too audible...this is not your choice, but if you are looking for something transparent, with superior quality and no mix modification...this is your choice. Basically it works on the details. Amazing tool to make great stereo imagining mixes.
C. Barrett
From Subtle to Magic
I'm gonna easily give this 5 Stars because it does what it says it will do. It can be a subtle enhancement... or outright magic! I sure like having all the options and I wouldn't want to be without the K-Stereo. And please note that by subtle I do not mean trivial or imperceptible. This is a quality product and can make a significant difference.
C. Modog
Precision K Stereo
If you don't have it buy it it's worth it.
I use a lot on piano and drums bus.
Thank you UA.S. Nolla Albiol
GREAT
Really awesome plug, is perfet for all type mastering and tracks.
Amazing
S.R. Jason
Precision K, a Bob Katz house call.
Yes, a bit like having the "master" himself on your mix session. Used judiciously, and with a bit of experimentation, the spacial improvement, mainly depth of field is most welcome. Care must be used not to alter the "mono-ness" of the bass frequencies. When necessary, I incorporate another plug in that allows me to mono frequencies below whatever frequency threshold I set. Only on rare occasions is this employed. I really like what the Precision K does for my mixes and Masters.
M. G.
MUY FACIL DE USAR.....
Si bien es cierto que con otros plugin (varios) se pueden obtener resultados similares, la facilidad de uso y el todo en uno me enamora de este plugin. Crea un sonido vivo y realista en un sólo plugin y siempre con la ventaja del uso DSP UAD, que deja la cpu del ordenador libre para otras acciones. RECOMENDADO!
A. Studio
Great plugin
5 stars. Love all the UAD plugins
m. keire
disappointed.
Wish I didn't buy it. Pretty disappointing. Far too subtle.
O. Gonzalo Mallén
Nice and useful plug in
I havent had much time to try it as much as I like. But it makes music sounds different, richer and colorful giving it a different presencié. I uses it in master track but I think Is perfect to separate frequencies in a bass and drum bus or in synth and vocal tracks to spread stereo field. Nice.
H. Gmeiner
cool plug
Great to make a mix wide open without loosing pressure!!
T. MacDonald
Dont buy this.
Wow what a waste of $199! It is totally useless to me. I bought it 2 days ago.....LOVED what it was doing to the ambience and sides....until my customer sent the master back to me and had me listen to it on headphones. When using the recovery (one of the best parts) it delays the signal slightly....and ruins all the percussion like everyone says. I should have read this before buying. Will UAD give my money back? This is useless to me. Thanks.
M. Curran
Just not for me
I demoed this for a week or so. When sitting in my mix position in my studio, I really liked what the plugin did. But when I transferred those mixes to other places, like my car, I hated it. It's like the power and immediacy got sucked out of it. I think that if your mixes lack stereo spread, you need to find out why, not just apply a plugin that does something to your perception of it.
R. Farren
Very Useful, Adds dimension lost from vca compressors
Vca compressors, which provide excellent glue to mixes often shrink mixes somewhat. This plugin is an elegant solution to recovering the width and depth lost. In conjunction with a few select outboard pieces this can really bring a song to life. I haven't had the issue with drums that others have in terms on phasing or delays. I wonder if some of the people hearing this are having latency issues. Or perhaps, I haven't pushed it to the max yet.
A. Khan
The Missing Link
Well I won't lie i was kinda skeptical at first cuz as Bob Katz said"it's not a reverb,neither an imager"than what is it?
So i demoed it...Opened my recently mixed track in DAW and the mastering chain i used was
Manley Massive Passive
Precision K Stereo
Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor
Ampex ATR 102
Kept K stereo disabeled and worked my way down the chain adjusting everything to taste until i was happy with the way it was sounding
then i enabled K stereo and set recovery at 1.5 ,enabled M/S gain and set Side to 2 and there you have it...the other dimension which is really hard to achieve otherwise.
K. Scragg
Brilliant
I find this plugin remarkable. If you're at that stage in a mix where your balance sounds good but you're lacking that extra space and width that other mixes seem to get, just drop this over the mix bus. Works brilliantly on vocal groups too. All the presets are brilliant and it's ending up on every mix and master I'm now working on.
K. Moody
Its just another effect...but needed!
You can do the same thing with some other plugins, but this plugin makes it easy. I would say its comparable to the wack waves "One Knob effect.
For me to spend money on it...it had to make a noticeble difference, and it does.R. Sprong
That finishing touch on your mix/master
A great plugin
Use it when mastering or on the 2-bus when your mix is done.
Apply it wise, subtile and hardly audible. It can give you that last 2% extra on your project.
