"MAZ Sound Tools" is Matthias 'maz' Ziegs. It started 1994 at the FH Zwickau university, as a just-for-fun project, exploring and reviewing the most interesting sound software from the depths of newsgroups and ftp servers. In August 2003 the new company has been founded as "MAZ Sound Tools GmbH", which is the successor of the previous "MAZ Sound Tools"