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Dear Romy,

I do not know for sure.

The best that I can tell from various internet articles describing WaveLab is that the Bob Katz features incorporated into WaveLab are for calibrating, monitoring and preventing excessive limiting.  These are important but different issues to ambience recovery.  See the following excerpts:

Finally, the level/pan meters now have K-Metering options, as defined by renowned mastering engineer Bob Katz, which you use in connection with calibrated monitor levels to ensure repeatable high-quality mastering results without compromising dynamics or squashing transients.

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It now also supports the K-System metering standard developed by mastering legend Bob Katz.

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A welcome improvement to the VU meters is the addition of K-System's loudness metering (developed by Bob Katz) as a means of better calibrating and monitoring excessive limiting.

Authoratative answer would come from Bob Katz.  Send him an email with your questions.  I have always found him to be courteous, helpful and prompt answering my questions.  His contact page is http://www.digido.com/contact/index.php

The only company I know that has integrated K-Stereo ambience recovery features is WEISS.  See

http://www.weiss.ch/gambit.html

DNA1 Denoiser/declicker/ambience regenerator
POW-R Wordlength reduction (redithering)
SFC2 Sampling Frequency Converter

http://www.weiss.ch/dna1/dna1.html describes the K-Stereo integration into the DNA1 machine.

Interestingly, the Digital Domain K-Stereo machine has itself integrated features of the WEISS POW-R and SFC2 machines.  WEISS machines have a top shelf reputation in pro audio industry.

Regards, Peter Foster.

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