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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Processor
Post Subject: Peter, do you think it makes sense?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/7/2007

 peter foster wrote:
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.
Peter, thanks, I would certainly would like to take advantage of this opportunity. I have no “instructions” it knowledge how it should be prose with K-Stereo unit, it is up to you. Interesting why you requested “recordings of varying quality” – do you feel that it is necessary?  Can no expend on it? Also, I would like do not do CDs but the regular VAW files as I would like to eliminate the sonic problems of your Redbook conversion and the whole CD disk saga… BTW, should it be juts 16/44? Could it be 24/88? In the best scenario I would like to have 4 version of files:

1) The Original file
2) File that was recorded by your recording software played on your DAW and mixed directly to the recorder channel
3) File that was recorded by your recording software passed via the K-Stereo in bypass mode
4) File that was recorded by your recording software passed via the K-Stereo in spatial expansion mode.

Do you think it makes sense? Since you are in mastering world it might not be too difficult for you, sorry if I ask too much… but it might be a good research for both of us…
 peter foster wrote:
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.
So it possible to modify the amplitude of ambienceness but not the “type” of the ambienceness?
 peter foster wrote:
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.
Very interesting!
 peter foster wrote:
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.

Hm, does it have a remote control? I’m kidding…, another question, do you detect that the amplitude of K-LEVELness changes with volume. Does the sound at -10dB and -50dB from your point of view have the same amplitude of spatial modification.
 peter foster wrote:
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.
 peter foster wrote:
6) Don't know because I use the K-Stereo unit in playback always on the original digital source recording.
I was asking because it would be interesting to apply   K-LEVELness for instance 3 times and to see if the second time will have the same effect as the first time…


Rgs, Romy the Cat

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