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UNVEIL
Welcome To UNVEIL
What is UNVEIL?
UNVEIL is a plug-in that allows you to attenuate or boost the amount of reverb in a mixed
signal, even on mono sources. Due to the nature of the process we employ, it also allows
attenuating or boosting other components that human perception regards as “background”
signals, like some types of ambience or “mud” in music mixes. It is not a gate/expander,
transient shaper, de-noiser-like FFT thresholding processor, and does not do any phase
cancellation or inter-channel correlation. Basically, UNVEIL does what it does based on our MAP
de-mixing technology, it separates foreground components from background components and
then allows you to process these separately. As a side-effect, UNVEIL can also be used for
stereo-to-quad up-mixing, by separating the reverb of a recording and using that for the rear
channels, while using the de-reverberated signal for the front - these two signals are exactly
complementary and there are thus no phase-shift induced resonances like when using an EQ
or other up-mixing strategies.
We sincerely hope you will enjoy using UNVEIL as much as we did creating it. It is the
culmination of 40 combined years of research and professional audio production expertise, and
thus we are very excited to provide you with this unique and exceptional tool.
Yours,
Stephan M. Bernsee & Denis H. Gökdag
zynaptiq headquarters
Hannover, Germany
March 2012