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	ISSUE 51 DOWNLOADS STAVS WORD Supporting audio for Stav's homegrown microphone article (MP3 1.6mb) FEATURES U2 LIVE We get the inside story from long-time FOH engineer, Joe O'Herlihy and monitor engineer, Dave Skaff. RECORDING SCISSOR SISTERS The Scissor Sisters' technically minded BabyDaddy reveals the DIY secrets behind their latest smash, Ta-Dah. PEARL JAM LIVE Grunge leviathans Pearl Jam hit the road and the effects and processing racks are bare. RED BULL AIR RACE The international series of whacky races has some interesting PA requirements. We send our (wing) man in to investigate - tally ho! EQUIPMENT TESTS STEINBERG CUBASE 4 DAW DIGIDESIGN PROTOOLS 7.2 HD DAW ABLETON LIVE 6 DAW WAVES SSL 4000 COLLECTION Plug-ins ADAM A7 Active Nearfield Monitors APOGEE ENSEMBLE Converter/Interface RODE NT55 Microphone LEXICON MX400 Effects Processor PRESONUS FADERPORT Controller IK MULTIMEDIA PHILHARMONIK MIROSLAV ORCHESTRA & CHOIR WORKSTATION Sample Library/Player U-AUDIO NEVE CLASSIC CONSOLE BUNDLE Plug-ins CAKEWALK SONAR 6 DAW REGULAR COLUMNS YOUR WORD Readers' letters. NEWS & NEW PRODUCTS Latest news and new product information. HOME GROWN Blair Joscelyne manages a commercial studio, is a producer, engineer and writes music for blue-chip advertisers and film. And he knows all about starting from the bottom. PC & MAC AUDIO Martin Walker sneaks a peak at Microsoft's Vista; while Brad Watts raises the spectre of the Mac virus . REVIEWS IN BRIEF Bose QuietComfort 3 noise cancelling headphones, Chandler TG Channel MkII. THE SMELL OF IP IN THE MORNING Processed cheese never sounded so good. TUTORIALS STAV'S WORD Stav whips up a homemade 'speaker mic' for some kick drum duties. He shows us how he went about it. ON AIR Gomez might be a 'Tools addict but there are other tools in his shed. DIY VU Stav's stirred the VU hornet's nest and now we outline how to buy and wire a VU into your setup.