SADiE acquired by Prism

This post

http://www.sadie.com/news/200804_1_prism_sound.html

says it all, really - this is great news for the pro mastering community, and for everyone at SADiE. Prism has impeccable audio credentials, and is even based in Cambridge, just down the road from SADiE HQ. I'd like to wish them every luck in the future.

On a less positive note our Nakamichi tape deck is on the blink, right when we need it to do some transfers - so we borrowed another one, which is also playing up !

But on the plus side I'm doing lots of classical re-compilations for Universal at the moment. In recent years classical mastering work has been pretty thin on the ground, so it's a pleasure to hear some of the old favourites. Universal now have their entire classical and jazz catalogues available online - over 100,000 albums...

More DIY mastering next post.

Currently listening to "Diamond Hoo Ha" by Supergrass.

SADiE in Receivership

We found out today that Studio Audio & Video Ltd, who make the industry standard editing and mastering workstation SADiE, have ceased trading and are in receivership. This is a huge shock, to us and thousands of other users around the world, and also very sad - SADiE UK had it's headquarters just up the road from SRT and we have used the system from it's very earliest days. We are all hopeful that someone will come through and save the company from extinction, but in the meantime I just want to extend my sympathies to Jim, Steve, Mark and the other staff members who are currently without jobs as a result of the companies' difficulties.