
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
E. Green
April 7, 2022
I LOVE IT!!!
I’m creating some very nice depth with this! It’s the plug-in I’ve been waiting for! Thank you UA!!!!
Read MoreО. "Комаров"
January 22, 2022
Many thanks!
I feel deep respect and gratitude to the person who created this device. Many thanks!
Read MoreF. Trentini
January 2, 2022
Very useful
Thank you Bob Katz and Universal Audio for this brilliant plugin. It sounds smooth and natural, I personally love it especially...
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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
S. Gauri
Sounds nice
I only know that it sounds nice.
J. Carr
Another Golden Moment
UAD Killed it again ... Thank You!
E. Green
I LOVE IT!!!
I’m creating some very nice depth with this! It’s the plug-in I’ve been waiting for! Thank you UA!!!!
l. jeffries
Love it!
Brilliant bit of kit
О. "Комаров"
Many thanks!
I feel deep respect and gratitude to the person who created this device. Many thanks!
F. Trentini
Very useful
Thank you Bob Katz and Universal Audio for this brilliant plugin. It sounds smooth and natural, I personally love it especially for mastering. Very useful tool.
S. Harris
Like magic
doesn't seem to work on every type of material, but when it does, it's like magic. widening is subtle, but extremely natural and doesn't mess with the stereo image.
C. Szekely
A Little Goes A Long Way
This is one of those products where just a little bit goes a long way. I use this plug-in as a stereo widener only, I don’t use the ambience recovery feature at all. Maybe I will down the road. I compared this plug to several other stereo wideners Including the JST Sidewidener, Izotope’s Stereo Imager, Goodhertz Mid-Side Matrix and Logic’s native stereo directional plug among others and this one did the best job of making it sound huge while still being undetectable unless you A/B it with the unprocessed audio. I just lower the mid a decibel or two, raise the sides a half decibel or so, set gain compensation and BOOM! This plug will most likely be on all my master chains from now on. Love it.
Z. Mo
Secret Weapon
Superb, spot on controls , but beware , you'll so love that you'll over abuse it easily .... i did lol
c. siebert
Skeptical at first...but
I wasn't quite sure about this , I'm a bass player and after using it boom instant depth and width
UAD User
great
nice plug to get more clear
V. Pop Hristov
glowing cherry
if u ask me,when u r making a cake,this is the cherry that u put on the top
A. Lindelöf
Great polish
I think this plugin is great for adding that final subtle polish to a master. I use it together with the Precision Maximizer to create the master tracks, and it makes a good mix even better. Highly recommended.
J. Reichert
Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery!
The Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery is the secret weapon I didn't know I needed until I tried it.
S. Friedrich
Nice
Easy to use & nice sounding
M. Overman
Secret Weapon
This plugin sat on the back shelf for years and now I cant believe it was ever there. I literally don't even touch the controls. Add it to your master bus once you feel you're finished and it will almost every time say...ok now you're finished. It is a very subtle polish that was missing.
p. hodji
NICE STEREO
EASY TO USE FOR GREAT RESULT
A. Vasiliev
Awesome plugin
Awesome plugin, such a fine workmanship is just great.
I tested it in demo for several days for the instruments separately and then when mixing, the question disappeared in the purchase.
I bought it now, I'm happy.
Something like this can of course be assembled, but it takes a lot of time.
Latitude, depth, frequency clipping and M/S in one bottle - Super !!!!C. Prey
nothing comparable out there
This tool is just brilliant, it adds depth and dimension to a mix like magic. Before buying, i tried a few other stereo tools to see if i can get the effect cheaper, but nope. They just do stereo widening. I'm glad i got it...thanks UAD and Bob Katz for this !
L. Martella
Great
Excellent plug in, I use it on vocals and in mastering to give stereo to vocals and environment.
A really great plug in!