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Howdy folks.

Issue 75 of AudioTechnology has had its shirt tucked in, its shoelaces tied, and given some lunch money before being dropped off at the school gates. Subscribers will also be receiving AT75 in the post any second now, and you can grab a copy in the newsagency early next week.

In Issue 75, Andy Stewart ponders the vuvuzela, and whether falsifying reality in broadcast audio can really cut it. We feature the influential, experimental indie-rock act, Tortoise, and spend some time with Jacquire King, the engineer/producer behind Tom Waits, Modest Mouse, Norah Jones, and Kings of Leon. We also check out sound mixing and composition for the Australian hit television series, Underbelly: The Golden Mile, and we go behind the scenes of the Blue Man Group, only to discover that their heads really are blue!

Of course, there’s our regular inclusions; there’s a stack of news to whet your gear appetite, Home Grown features the Eddy Current Suppression Ring tracking to eight-track tape, and (gulp) cassette four-track, PC and Mac Audio, while Rick O’Neil pulls things apart quicker than you can put them back together.

Our tutorial section has Michael Stavrou discussing his love of M/S recording, Sound Designer extraordinaire, Dennis Baxter, offers some expert insights into live-to-air surround sound, and Rob Squire talks about ears, namely his. We review the Quested V3110 three-way active midfield monitors, the sE Gemini III valve condenser microphone, the DPA 5100 Mobile Surround Microphone, the incredible Lexicon PCM Native Reverb Plug-in bundle, Dynaudio Acoustics’s BM5A MKII active nearfields, and JLM Audio’s FC500 Analogue FET Compressor, which, incidentally, is our subscription prize for Issue 75!

We reckon you’ll enjoy Issue 75!

The AT-Team.

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This issue AT checks out AC/DC’s Black Ice tour, Andy Stewart investigates Guy Sebastian’s recording digs, and Mark Woods gives us his first-hand account of what it’s like to mix a bluegrass festival at the Harrietville Bluegrass Convention.

AT readers have been mixing up a storm with the ‘Mute or Moot’ multitrack file from Issue 70, and some have let us know how they got on in MIXING IN A VACUUM.

We look at mastering protocols in PREPARING FOR MASTERING and Stav offers some tips on finalising decisions under pressure, while Rob Squire repairs an old Neve console and gives us a reality check about buying cheap, large-format consoles.

Reviews include Presonus’s Studio One Pro DAW, the Allen & Heath iLIVE-T 112 Digital Console System, Novation’s Launchpad controller, the GML 2032 Analogue preamp/EQ combo, the Livid Instruments OHM64 Controller and TC Electronic’s Impact Twin Audio Interface.

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THE ART OF PRODUCTION WITH JOE CHICCARELLI

Joe Chiccarelli takes us behind the glass of some of his most recent epics.

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SLAYER & MEGADETH LIVE
AT dons its black merch for a night of metal mayhem.

A NIGHT AT SING SING
AT goes behind the scenes of a multi-media studio experiment.

LEON ZERVOS – MASTERING MASTER
Australian ex-pat mastering engineer, Leon Zervos, returns to Australia after many years working in the US. Andy Stewart catches up with him for a debriefing.

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MAKING THE CUT
Brendan Gallagher lands his first film-scoring gig and takes AT along for the ride.

MUSIC FROM THE CELLAR
Australian country music’s dynamic production duo, Rod and Jeff McCormack, invite us into the Music Cellar where many hits are penned, tracked, mixed and mastered.

MOOT OR MUTE?
Chris Vallejo sets up a band and tracks them to two-inch tape, and then repeats the performance on digital multitrack. It’s a mix competition with a twist… you be the judge.

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PINK’S FUNHOUSE
AT was invited along to Pink’s Funhouse when she toured Australia back in June, and it wasn’t just the PA that was flown from the rigging.

THE THREE Vs OF VICTOR VAN VUGT
He’s an ex-pat Australian with a passion for production. He’s recorded some of the craziest and moodiest acts of recent decades and lived to tell the tale. Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the man whose name is unpronounceable.

RESOLUTE ABOUT RESOLUTION
Mike Piersante, Grammy Award-winning engineer extraordinaire, let’s us in on a few of the secret techniques that have made his recordings shine.

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