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Haaze 2 – Brings the Mono Signal to Life
Klevgränd Released Haaze 2
Klevgränd released Haaze 2 for Mac/Windows (AU/VST/AAX) and iPad (AUv3 plugin – Haaze 2 for iPad is to be released very soon (posted for review by Apple)). Your ears assist you to recognize and restrict the position of a sound source in a very complex way. So what about headphones? Headphones are nice. But they don’t provide a natural environment (space) for your ears. This becomes clear when you’re mixing with mono signals in headphones. No matter how you pan, it still doesn’t feel like a natural positioning. The result is still very mono, and our ears don’t like that.
The recently upgraded Haaze 2 from Klevgrand is an elegant solution to all this. Haaze is a plugin that allows you to widen and position any audio signal to make it feel natural, understandable and pleasant for the ears.
Basic concepts
Haaze is a 16 band stereo widening tool for controlling stereo width and spatially positioning an audio stream. It can utilize three different methods:
- Haas – Adds a small delay to the left or right audio channel which will make the listener believe the sound arrives from the side that’s reaching the ear first.
- Pan – Alters the gain level on one of the audio channels. All 16 bands can be panned separately, so this method is quite similar to the common “split eq” function in various equalizers.
- MS Stereo – Controls the output stereo width on each band, from full stereo to mono.
Haaze 2 Internal Processing Order
Haaze 2 Features
- 16 independent frequency bands
- Haas: Control the delay between L/R on each band
- Pan (Split EQ): Pan each band L/R
- M/S: Control the width on each band
- Gain: Compensate the gain level on each band
- Draw mode, for easy plotting out the adjustment curve that you want
- Lots of presets for helping you to get started
- Stereo width meter + Level meter on each band
How Haaze 2 works
Haaze splits the audio signal into 16 frequency bands. On each band, you can delay the left or right signal, pan it to the left or right, or adjust the overall width on that band. This makes the panning sound more natural. Haaze can also diffuse a mono signal and make it wider. Haaze ships with many presets that will help you to get started. It sounds great both in headphones and loudspeakers, and it has great mono compatibility
Klevgrand
Rum – Room Simulator – Meet your Original Roommate
Rum – Room Simulator
Klevgrand released a new sound effect plugin: Rum – Room Simulator. Klevgrand started by looking into their own recording and mixing processes, trying to come up with tools that we’ll use ourselves. And Rum – Room Simulator will definitely be a frequently used plug-in. Rum is a room simulator, specialized in small rooms (‘Rum’ is simply Swedish for ‘Room’). It has a wide arrange of rooms, from acoustically treated studio booths to spaces found in an ordinary home.
- 10 different rooms with 6 variants each
- 3 different types of stereo spread algorithms
- Modulation control
- Ducker (compression) for the wet signal
- Pre-delay with tempo synchronization
- Low cut and high cut filters
- Plenty of factory presets
When recording, a common technique is to have an additional stereo pair of microphones in the same room, but from a distance. This can be useful to make a close-miked setting feel more alive and dynamic. But for various reasons (time / budget / laziness), the stereo pair often isn’t available when you need it. This is where Rum gets in..!
Pricing and Availability
Rum – Room Simulator is available now for an intro price (For a limited time only until 2021-09-30)
Plugin
Klevgrand’s STARK Updated to Version 1.0.3
STARK Updated to Version 1.0.3
Klevgrand’s STARK is an amplifier simulator consisting of four modules: Amplifier, Cabinet, Room, and a Pedalboard. The modules are treating audio separately, which gives it possible to combine different amplifiers with different cabinets and rooms.
What separates STARK from other amp simulators is that the cab, amp, and ambiance modules are built on Klevgrand’s very own algorithms that don’t involve any convolution or FFT analysis. This approach renders a more natural response to dynamics over the whole frequency spectrum, plus the ability to fine-tune each profile in ways that just isn’t possible when using convolving methods.
New in STARK v1.0.3
Updated preset system (with user preset support)
Native ARM support for macOS (M1 processor)
Updated to development framework to JUCE v6
Minimum macOS version 10.10
STARK now has native ARM support (M1 Macs) which means it’ll run a bit faster. All our other products will be updated during the next couple of days.
Klevgrand
Klevgrand updates LUXE v1.1.1
LUXE v1.1.1
LUXE, an audio enhancing plug-in effect available for iPad (AUv3) and Mac & Windows (AU/VST/AAX). It has been designed and developed by Klevgrand, a small studio in Stockholm, Sweden. LUXE compresses and saturates an audio signal in a quite subtle but musical way. It’s very useful for making a track “fit in the mix” and can be used on anything from a
drum bus to a vocal track.
New in LUXE v1.1.1
- Native ARM support for macOS (M1 processor)
- Updated to development framework to JUCE v6
- Minimum macOS version 10.10
Download LUXE v1.1.1
Note that all other plugins work fine on the new M1 Macs, but LUXE now has native ARM support which means it’ll run a bit faster. All our other products will be updated during the next weeks.
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