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ISSUE 59

STAVS WORD
Hear some soloed parts from Stav's recording of school boy choir.
FEATURES
LED ZEPPELIN LIVE
Billed as a one-night only, once-in-lifetime experience, the Led Zeppelin reunion was an audio guy’s dream/nightmare job. ‘Big’ Mick Hughes was given the FOH poison chalice. He relates his experiences.

SUPER AUDIO CV
AT sits in on a hi-def recording date at the Sydney Opera House in the biggest DSD tracking session ever seen in Australia.

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE LIVE
Not touring as a band for 10 years hasn’t calmed Zak and co. any. They’re still, as they say in The States, pissed. We find out how the sound engineers ‘maintain the rage’.

WELCOME TO THE TERRORTORY – SCORING ROGUE
We hear how to write ‘frights & bites’ music straight from the croc’s mouth.

EQUIPMENT TESTS
APOGEE DUET
Audio Interface

ABLETON LIVE 7
DAW

AUDIO-TECHNICA ATM450
Pencil Microphone

MOJAVE AUDIO MA-100 & MA-200
Tube Mics
TC ELECTRONIC STUDIO KONNEKT 48
Audio Interface

BRICASTI M7
Stereo Reverb

YAMAHA MOTIF XS
Synth Workstation

EAW NTL720
Mini Line Array

ALLEN & HEATH ZED14
Mixer

SHURE KSM9 ‘WIRED’
Handheld Condenser Microphone


REGULAR COLUMNS
HOME GROWN SPECIAL
Jonathan Shakhovskoy, London-based Aussie engineer, spills the beans: his journey from Brisbane audio engineer graduate to sharing a console with super-producer Steve Lillywhite on last year’s Crowded House sessions.

PC & MAC AUDIO
Martin Walker goes shopping for a PC while Brad Watts grabs some Air.

REVIEWS IN BRIEF
Native Instruments Kontakt 3, Sony ECM 680S, Digidesign MBox 2 Micro, Audio Ease Snapper.

STUDIO GEAR FOR HIRE
Rick asks: are your eyes too flickety?

TUTORIALS
STAV’S WORD
Stav tackles 240 schoolboy choristers armed with two mics and a DAT recorder. ‘Re-choired’ reading.

A PRODUCER’S REALLY PRACTICAL GUIDE TO EXPENSIVE (SOUNDING) RECORD MAKING – PART 3
In this the third instalment, we venture into the studio… finally.