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In the Thread: K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Processor
Post Subject: The spatial expander on digital domain?Posted by peter foster on: 10/7/2007
Dear Romy,
I suggest the following, if you are interested: Select three recordings of varying quality; copy ten minutes of each of the three recordings to Redbook CD; send to me by air mail the CD that contains three ten minute tracks; include instructions to me for each track of the K-Stereo settings that you wish to have used; I will process the tracks using my K-Stereo according to your instructions; and I will send the results back to you on CDs by air mail. That would make the 3 original tracks plus 3 x 3 or 9 processed tracks making 12 tracks in total. Let me know by PM whether you want to do this and I will then forward to you my mailing address.
To answer your questions:
1) K-LEVEL can be set from -90.0 to +6.0 and unless BYPASS is used then all setting (both -ve and +ve) will add some level of ambience recovery with -90.0 being completely imperceptible. The K-LEVEL +0.0 is that level where Bob Katz considered a typical reference point for his use in the recording studio when mastering. I am not aware of a polarity feature on the unit and use the Lavry DA-924 INVERT feature to change polarity in my playback system.
2) As the K-LEVEL is increased there is also an apparent related small increase in volume. Perhaps one way to describe the increase in volume is to use the example of a CONTRAST feature of a color television.
3) The WIDE feature will separate the instruments to make them sound further apart in width. The DEEP feature will separate the instruments to make them sound further apart in depth.
4) My K-Stereo unit is always in the playback chain. BYPASS mode passes the digital data absolutely transparently in my opinion. On a side note, in my opinion the digital signal volume control on the K-Stereo works blamelessly.
5) My digital sources use BNC output that passes thru a BNC to XLR Canare transformer to XLR input on the K-Stereo unit.
6) Don't know because I use the K-Stereo unit in playback always on the original digital source recording.
Regards,
Peter Foster.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site