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.