Remember that little record, The Slip, that we reviewed a few weeks ago?
The audiophile geeks at HydrogenAudio took a look/listen at the files with a scanning electron audioscope and noticed some mastering errors.
The story has a happy ending, though, because the NIN guys are audiophile geeks, too. They’ve released remastered versions of the free tracks [...]

Matador records filmed a set of short documentaries on the all-analog mastering process by which Mission of Burma’s landmark recordings from the early 1980’s were re-mastered.
The process documented is vintage, old-school tape process. The gear is original. The vinyl is live cut.
It’s an interesting and timely set of videos:
Mission of Burma- Burma Reissue Mastering Sessions [...]

Wave Arts has released Master Restoration Suite, a comprehensive set of restoration plug-ins for cleaning up tape, vinyl, and acoustic recordings. The tools are designed to give extremely high quality results with minimal tweaking, hence they sound great and are easy to use.
The MR Suite consists of 5 plug-ins:

Master Restoration - all-in-one plug-in
MR Noise - [...]

Blue Cat Audio has unleashed Blue Cat’s Parametr’EQ series V3.0 and a new mastering bundle named Blue Cat’s Master Pack.
The Parametr’EQ series offers non linear modeling capabilities to provide analog compression and distortion at every EQ stage. The new output peak meter and brickwall limiter are of great help to adjust the output level. These [...]

Musikmesse: Steinberg announced a new DVD-ROM tutorial series that offers a complete guide to digital audio mastering. The new three-part series covers almost every aspect of producing a professional master, and provides both digital audio essentials and expert techniques, supported with practical examples throughout. Audio Mastering will be available in Q2 2007.
“This series offers one [...]

Streamworks Audio has announced SWA Mastering Revealed.
This instructional video covers the most important steps when mastering, such as tonal balance by means of Equalization, applying compression to your audio source to tighten up the dynamic range as needed, as well as Loudness maximizing to give your song that punch.
The video also covers additional areas that [...]

Sonic Studio has announced a new version of their low cost premastering application, PreMaster CD 2.0, which they call “the go-to application for CD creation on the Mac.”
PreMaster CD 2.0 adds more background processing, more control and more functionality. This new release consolidates all the maintenance changes incorporated into the code base while adding the [...]

TC Electronic has announced that UnWrap, the world’s most widely used high-resolution mastering and up-conversion algorithm for music and post production, is now shipping.
Originally developed for TC Electronic’s flagship System 6000 high definition processor, UnWrap facilitates smooth and fast stereo to 5.1 up-conversions when there is no time to do a conventional 5.1 mix or [...]

Wave Arts debuted the Master Restoration Suite at the 2007 Winter NAMM show.
Master Restoration Suite is a comprehensive set of restoration plug-ins for cleaning up tape, vinyl, and acoustic recordings. The tools are designed to give high quality results with minimal tweaking.
The MR Suite consists of 5 plug-ins:

Master Restoration - all-in-one plug-in
MR Hum - hum [...]

Wave Arts will debut the Master Restoration Suite at the 2007 Winter NAMM show. Master Restoration Suite is a comprehensive set of restoration plug-ins for cleaning up tape, vinyl, and acoustic recordings. The tools give extremely high quality results with minimal tweaking, hence they sound great and are easy to use.

Sonic Studio has announced that their newest professional application, soundBlade, is now shipping. First shown at the 120th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society in Paris, the product has entered distribution channels worldwide.
soundBlade runs natively on the secure and user friendly Mac OS X, and relies on Core Audio for default I/O so hardware lock–in [...]

Crysonic has announced the release and availability of Spectraphy, the first Mastering grade look-ahead brickwall limiter of its type to utilize the principals of mechanical physics for audio processing.
The approach represents a paradigm shift in the way these types of DSP effects have been designed to date. The unique method employed easily allows the mastering [...]

Digital Music Doctor has releaseda new interactive video course, Mixing & Mastering: Know It All!
The course contains over 2 hours of interactive videos which demonstrate principles and concepts of digital audio mixing and mastering using examples from Pro Tools 7, Sonar 5, Cubase SX3, Ozone 3, Sound Forge 8, and Audition 1.5 as well as [...]

iZotope has announced a new academic bundle consisting of their Ozone 3, Spectron, and Trash plug-ins distributed by M-Audio.
“As a research based-company, we understand how essential it is to keep up with the rapid evolution of audio technology,” comments Jeremy Todd, CTO at iZotope, “It is important that students have access to today’s cutting-edge software [...]

Elemental Audio Systems has announced the immediate availability of InspectorXL, the newest and largest addition to their professional line of audio plug-ins. InspectorXL is a complete audio analysis suite featuring six (6) individual, comprehensive, and customizable plug-ins addressing common audio analysis needs.
InspectorXL is the professional counterpoint to Elemental Audio Systems’ popular, free, mini audio analysis [...]