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.Now You Can:
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
M. Malinski
August 24, 2020
Secret weapon for mastering
Its like magic box, subtle and irreplaceable.
Read MoreB. Zhang
August 4, 2020
非常棒的一个插件
这当然是一个非常棒的插件，非常多的情况下你的混音会需要它。它强大的m/s立体声扩展功能可以让你的混音更好听。...
Read MoreA. Mtz
July 20, 2020
Terric !!! awesome!
I just read Bob Katz Mastering book , he comments about this plug in he create with UAD. Immediately i gave it a chance and oh , god ! for producers making...
Read MoreB. Mora
July 13, 2020
Unique, subtle sweetener
I especially like it on mono voiceover / spoken word tracks, brightens and adds presence quickly and easily.
Read MoreP. Borisevich
June 17, 2020
Amazing tool
Compared it to Leapwing StageOne, Mathew Lane StereoDelta and Brainworx bx_control V2. None of them come close to the sound quality of this plugin. All of them ruin the sound stage and mess...
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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
M. Malinski
Secret weapon for mastering
Its like magic box, subtle and irreplaceable.
C. Kiasi
Wow!
This thing is magical. Must have
B. Zhang
非常棒的一个插件
这当然是一个非常棒的插件，非常多的情况下你的混音会需要它。它强大的m/s立体声扩展功能可以让你的混音更好听。
A. Mtz
Terric !!! awesome!
I just read Bob Katz Mastering book , he comments about this plug in he create with UAD. Immediately i gave it a chance and oh , god ! for producers making recordings at home this tools is saves a lot of work. I didn't believe how the depth is achieve and natural sounded
thanks Bob and UADB. Mora
Unique, subtle sweetener
I especially like it on mono voiceover / spoken word tracks, brightens and adds presence quickly and easily.
P. Borisevich
Amazing tool
Compared it to Leapwing StageOne, Mathew Lane StereoDelta and Brainworx bx_control V2. None of them come close to the sound quality of this plugin. All of them ruin the sound stage and mess up the timbre of the source (all bad frequencies and resonances start to come up when you widen the stereo image), while K-Stereo does exactly opposite - enhances the sound stage and the timbre in very natural way. The man who made this plugin is a genius. I'm also amazed at DSP hit, only 3%!
D. Pirrie
Too subtle for me
I’m not an expert, as a novice I find this to be too subtle to be of any value to me, I wish I had sampled it first before buying, I’d much rather have a different plugin instead. I’m sure the experts love it though, based on the amount of stars on the review forum.
G. Fabrice
TOP PLUGIN
Sur le master ça fait toute la différence au niveau de l'écartement Stereo !!
F. FILO
very good
This is an awesome plugins it's do magic in your mix !!
F. FILO
very good
This is an awesome plugins it's do magic in your mix !!
J. Romero
A must for your mixes
I am a producer/engineer and well as an Artist... I have produced and mixed for Bruce Kulick (Kiss, Grand Funk Railroad), Co produced a song on Ace Frehley's new record, Todd Kerns (Slash) and Flavor Flav (Public Enemy) to name a few. This plug in is a must for big wide back up panning vocals, guitars as well as other instruments with stereo panning.
I love the old big console sound, so besides the K Stereo, I use UA's Neve Pre Amps, SSL 4000 console with UA's tape emulator and you get the BIG WIDE WARM TONES with the saturation that real tape gives.L. Banks
Big Sides
I was introduced to this plug-in by a friend that just so happens to be a mastering engineer. I use it to instantly add width and liveliness to stereo instruments. You definitely need to be selective when choosing where to use it and dialing in the settings. But with a decerning ear, it can add just enough to make a sound sit better in a mix.
C. Gould
Precision K-Stereo
Does pretty much what it says on the tin. Definitely more a salvage tool to put a little width into recorded files with locked reverb. But no substitute for getting it right in the first place! Nice to have in your tool kit but not an essential piece of kit.
M. Alain
Precision K-Stereo
Très bon plugin
M. Alain
Precision K-Stereo
Très bon plugin
K. Matzafleris
The Magic of Stereo Imaging
I'm so happy with the use of Precision K-Stereo plug-in; it’s giving me the stereo image and the room that I was missing from my mixes. I use it every single time at my Buses and at my master chain plug-ins to give me the finishing stereo imaging and depth of dimension touch.
S. Perdomo
Is like magic!
Soonest i open it, i heard my track more wider and brilliant.
M. Cafeo
Bob Katz Creations and Philosophy are Great!
Firstly, especially this time of the year, but also with not a full project to use, reviews on recent purchases are hard to find time for.
But with this one, and being fans of Mr. Katz and his goals about audio in general but especially bit and sample rates, I made a little time away from family, music projects for 2020, everything and everyone!
K-STEREO AMBIENCE RECOVERY is another of several that came from the philosophy Mr. Katz had to create the K-SYETEM.
We’re fans of Bob Katz!
read more here >
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Katz#K-system,_K-stereo_and_K-surround
learn more about Bob here >
https://www.innerfidelity.com/category/katzs-corner
Thanks Universal Audio
Happy Christmas and New Years !J. Rubio Almanza
Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery
Very useful and simple plugin to recover the stereo or to force it.
H. Song
Wide! Easy to use!!!
It's very easy to use, a great tool to make sound Wider.
Not like other plugins, K-Stereo can make a solid sound, but transparent with vivid!
A great choice!
