LOWLAND MASTERS NEWS


02/03/08. Isis in Eurovision
LM customer Isis Gee is through to the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest representing Poland.
She will perform her song, For Life, in Belgrade on 20th May, and if she goes through to the final will do so again on the 24th along with UK entrant Andy Abraham. More here.
13/10/07. LM goes to the Vatican
Catholic outfit
CJM Music have recently been mastering with us again. To publicise the release CJM enterprisingly put the album, Age To Age Volume 1, on an iPod and sent it to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI - full story here.

27/07/07. Mastering update
It's been a varied mastering year so far: among the highlights have been albums for guitar legend Tim Renwick, Pakistani star Najam Sheraz, harpist/singer Katie Targett Adams and Christian music veteran Garth Hewitt. Also a new release for Ben Okafor of music from the play 'Child Of Biafra' about his time as a child soldier, a single for the 25th anniversary relaunch of Kajagoogoo and even an album of Gregorian chant in the style of Madonna.

28/04/07. Site News - articles update
The articles page of the website has been updated with a selection of writings for Audio Media magazine from the last few years. More will be added as they become available.

15/03/07. Tech News - Blue arrival
Delivery of the Algorithmix Classic PEQ Blue plug-in was confirmed today. At LM we've been living with a demo version for a couple of weeks and have been knocked out by its quality - it's the best all-round digital soft- or hardware EQ we've come across, and customers who've heard it seem to like it too.

16/01/07. Tech News - New workstation
Recently arrived is a second SADiE 5 PCM8 digital audio workstation to help absorb extra workload. The new machine has similar facilities to our existing one, and will enable us to take advantage of SADiE's powerful networking.

04/12/06. Accelerating toward year's end
There's a flurry of mastering activity at the moment, boding well for 2007. One notable project has been a new album, Out Of The Ordinary, for Christian singer/poet Graham Kendrick, produced by Julian Kindred and mixed at three locations in the UK and US.

12/10/06. Mastering update
Paul Bell, Allan Ellingsgaard, Mojo, Ben Okafor (two CDs), Erin Starnes, Shade and Simeon Wood are among the artists who've had albums mastered at LM since July. There's also been a Star Wars show recorded for Chessington World of Adventures, live albums and lots of compilations. Onward and upward!

01/05/06. Tech News - CEDAR and CD text
New additions to the audio processing arsenal at Lowland Masters include the CEDAR Retouch, Denoise and Dethump noise removal tools which integrate into the SADiE workstation. Also added recently is a SADiE CD text update so that album title, artist and track name will be displayed on players allowing it.

01/02/06. A flying start
January proved a busy mastering month here, with a number of production music albums - LM-mastered material is becoming increasingly prevalent in TV and film music - along with further Vineyard projects and an EP for Essex band The Morenas.

Nigel also worked on an ongoing educational audio series, and recorded and edited veteran actor Douglas Blackwell reading a selection of Mr Men stories for forthcoming CDs.

11/01/06. Mastering update
Amongst projects passing through the mastering suite of late: an album reissue for UK bluesman Ian Siegal,
a number of classic album remasters and a new album, 'All From You', for Vineyard, a debut solo album for Sony BMG singer/songwriter Jill Jackson and an album for Christian performer Alun Leppitt. Re-formed eighties rockers After The Fire have also recently used LM to master tracks for iTunes.

Last October
Nigel Palmer recorded children's voices for Sony's Christmas CD, the TV-advertised Santa Sings, and recorded, produced and mastered the companion story disc.

02/11/05. Tech News - HEDD converter upgrade
Recently added to the LM gear inventory are new AD and DA converter boards for our Crane Song HEDD 192. These provide world-class digital conversion to and from the studio's analogue equipment,
and complement the HEDD's existing on-board processing.

25/10/05. Boog EP
After mastering their debut album with us in 2004, quirky popsters Boog have returned to Lowland Masters with a four-song EP recorded at Rimshot Studios in Kent. The band's Dave Seckleman commented via email: 'Fantastic job, even such a control freak perfectionist as myself can't find a thing to alter. Ever thought of doing this "mastering" thing professionally?'.


04/08/05. Matt Schofield live and in the studio
Two new albums for blues guitar prodigy Matt Schofield and his Trio are currently in the mastering pipeline for Nugene Records. The studio album 'Siftin' Thru Ashes' will be followed by a 'Live At The Jazz Cafe' CD, and additional tracks featuring special guests from the Jazz Cafe set are being processed for use on the web.

04/07/05. The Open University
Lowland Masters will be collaborating with The Open University, mastering audio course materials on behalf of the university's Sound and Vision department.

The OU has more than 180,000 students, and was placed ahead of Oxford University in a 2004 national survey o
f teaching quality.

17/06/05. Multiple releases for Vineyard
Lowland Masters has recently completed five new projects for Vineyard Records UK, a Christian record company with a worldwide base and an LM customer since 2000. The CDs, produced by Nigel Hemming and engineered by Paul Burton, continue the successful Great Big God series for children and also provide backing tracks of all the songs to date as an additional resource.

Nigel Hemming (via email): 'Thanks so much for the final masters. They sound fantastic. The mastering you have done really spices them up - I'm really excited to hear them sounding this good.'