2011-06-04 Seattle, USA 2-CAM MIX 2 DVDS - ISO FILES - [ VIDEO ]

June 4, 2011

Qwest Field

Seattle WA

Video

Camera: 2x Panasonic ZS3 

Location: Outside Rail

Edge Side: chrisedge

Adam Side: DRay9911

Audio 1

Linear PCM - JEMS Audio

Lineage: Nakamichi CM-700 mics>Olympus LS-10(96/24)>Wav(96/24)>wav(44.1/16)>FLAC>WAV>Adda Wav>Vegas 10

Audio 2

192 Kb/s Dolby Digital AC3 - ZS3 Camera Audio

Editing: AVCHD Lite Files>Vegas 10>MPG/WAV/AC3>TMPGEnc 3>2 DVDs

1989-11-09 Wellington, New Zealand [AUDIO]

U2 Wellington Lovetown 8/11/1989

1st Gen->wav->DVDR->wav->FLAC Level 6

Here is a nice tape I got from my friend Sam. He told me he got this straight from the taper. Sound is pretty good, I would say very good to excellent audience. Audience chatter can be heard from time to time but its not really distracting.

I sent the tape to boyacrobat/George who then converted it to wav and did some remastering.

1989-10-14 Melbourne, Australia [AUDIO]

Show recorded on TDK SA-90 cassettes [x2]. Re-transferred from original masters.

location; higher balcony on right(adams side) row 26sound; Excellent Audience equiptment; toshiba cassette rec > stereo line in clip on mic,comments; night 5 for me tonight @ what a show, probably my favorite show because i got to finally hear exit live, what a suprise that was @ awsome melbourne snippet during bad,its a complete show never ever circulated,enjoy lovetown melbourne-boyacrobatRetransfer notes Blackout [DG] - [Sept 11]Following recent disussions with the legend Boyacrobat about his famous Lovetown Melbourne recordings i convinced him to revisit some of his tapes for a possible retransfer session of some of his masters. The feeling was that some distortion may have crept into the original transfers that he performed and released several years ago. Indeed this turned out to be the case upon examination. The tapes were originally recorded *very hott* by his portable toshiba cassette recorder due to the voltage that the mic he used for recording was injecting into the unit, which was unavoidable. There is small amounts of distortion due to this but the bigger problem was that when transferring the tapes for release, the level was also *very hott* coming off the tape and the deck he used for the orignal transfers did not have the headroom to handle these hot tapes and was driven into distortion and clipping when playing back. This time the transfer was done with a pro deck, a mint-condition Black Onkyo TA-2600 and into pro-tools via the Digidesign 002 Rack interface. Some other problems were corrected such as speed issues, frequency-phase correlation and image stabilisation and a more gentle maximizing from Sony Oxford Limiter. No EQ. Final FLAC was done with Sound Forge 10. The entire signal chain was handled with care and with the utmost attention to detail. The result is a far superior recording that is higher resolution with far less distortion and more headroom/punch with clarity. This is truely the definitive ultimate recording /transfer of this classic Melbourne Lovetown recording for your collection!

1983-04-23 Chapel Hill, USA War Tour [AUDIO]

There seems to be some debate as to whether this is a soundboard or audience recording. I'm going to go with the latter, 

since voices in the audience can be heard in the background from time to time. 

The sound is very clear although not all that crisp. There is an edit during the crowd noise between "40", after which the sound quality differs. This would seem to suggest that Track 12 may be from a different recording.

Minor flaws include:

* A very light hiss in the background throughout

* Static and heavy channel swapping during "Gloria".

* "I Fall Down" is missing the last few notes.

* The right channel drops out several times during "11 O'Clock Tick Tock".

* Fade between "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" and "I Will Follow".

* Skip during "I Will Follow". 

1997-09-15 Montpellier, France - Liberte, Egalite Karaoke - Popmart - Audio

U2

Montpellier, France @ Espace Grammont

September 15th, 1997

"Liberté, Egalité, Karaoké" -> CDR's

Manufacture : T.Rex Records 

Number      : TRCD 022/023

Source      : Unknown Audience Recording

Quality     : good to very good audience

Lineage     : CDR's > EAC (secure mode) > Wav > Trader's Little Helper (Level 6) > Flac

2001-11-09 Salt Lake City Sounboard [AUDIO]

TOUR: Elevation - 3rd Leg - North America

DATE: November 9, 2001

LOCATION: Salt Lake City, UT - Delta Center

FORMAT: FLAC - 669 MB

SOURCE: Soundboard

LINEAGE: Soundboard > CD-R > WAV > TLH > FLAC

1992-09-18 Chicago, USA Achtung Chicago - ZOOTV - Audio

form a trade CD-R Achtung Chicago 

1993-06-15 Berlin, Germany Exc Aud [AUDIO]

Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany

June, 15, 1993

Source: Sony TCD D7 @ 32 khz > OKM II Rock microphones > Terratec EWX 2496 > digital transfer with optical cable > Sound Forge 9.0 >

CD Wave Editor > .wav > FLAC

Recording position: right p. a. stack, first row

1997-08-22 London Wembley Soundboard [AUDIO]

POPMART LONDON WEMBLEY STADIUM AUGUST 22, 1997

*** S O U N D B O A R D   R E C O R D I N G ***

2001-06-02 Albany, USA IEM/AUD Matrix [AUDIO]

June 2, 2001 

Albany, NY  

Pepsi Center(now Times Union Arena)

IEM/Audience matrix

(Bono IEM) recorded by NS (noahark2)

Lineage:  Mono scanner > Sony MD Master > CD-R > WAV > FLAC

(Audience recording) recorded by?

Lineage:  Sony TCD-D8 + Sonic Studios DSM-6S > DAT Master > CD-R > WAV > FLAC 

Bono is definitely having vocal trouble and is clearly not feeling well at this show and asks the crowd to help him get through it several times.  Not an awful show, but not a great one either. It is interesting to hear Bono get through a show when he is obviously sick. The IEM of this show was traded without consent a LONG time ago but still managed to stay somewhat uncirculated by some miracle.  But it became known through a third party that it was being shopped for trades by a particular person without asking.  She became known for doing this and similar types of things quite frequently.  Based on the “source” of the SLC 01 soundboard recording this upload will make sense to those in the know.   Again, thanks for the SLC soundboard upload!  It is a very nice recording. The show was obviously traded quite heavily, even more than I thought by the source (makes you wonder how much jeopardy that Delta Center employee’s job was really in! ;) ).   I’m sure some of you will bitch about this upload.  Thanks! You make it easier to possibly not share anything further.  To the rest of you, thanks for your support, maybe something else will get shared if things calm down and there is not the usual vocal minority bitching. 

Too many IEMs from the 2010/11 tour are being uploaded drawing lots of attention all over for the 360 tour.   May not happen but scrambled or encrypted IEM signals are a possibility as a result of that.  U2’s crew have recently added the “fan cam” again which was used on Vertigo to basically bust tapers.  You do the math.   So we are not going to contribute to that kind of attention any further for now, especially 360 shows. We want to do what we can to ensure this type of recording can still be captured in the future and at least on the rest of this tour.  Some people have way too many “demands” and are way too impatient on here also.  It is just not worth it.  If a true uncirculated soundboard or IEM that we do not already have is uploaded we may reconsider our position.  By uncirculated I mean a show that several dozen people (if not more) are not already in possession of like SLC 01 was. Hopefully there are no further hassles with this upload and all is smooth going forward.    Thanks to the Albany audience recording taper.    Thanks to NS for his IEM recording.

ThePhog

CPTwister matrixing/remastering notes:   

Both recordings have issues.  The audience source was very distant and lacked a lot of high end.  There is some stray audience clapping/talking but nothing too distracting. The IEM recording was recorded in mono with the volume to high causing it to be slightly overloaded or “hot” on the high end.  This can still be heard in the matrix as there is not much you can do to alleviate it completely.   The IEM was a very clean recording in that there were very few static bursts or flares. There are fades at the end of Stay and the beginning of Bad due to a disc change for the IEM recording; some music is lost as a result.   Using Audio Lab 12, I matrixed the recordings to get them to sync up reasonably well. I put the IEM higher in the mix just because that’s how I personally prefer it.  I brought up the bass slightly on both recordings. The second half of my IEM CDR seems to be a slightly lower volume, I tried to adjust it to make it the same as the first half, but the first half (up to Stay) still sounds a bit more overloaded or crisp, if that makes sense. That’s basically it; I did not add a lot or take away much.  You can only do so much with the material you have to work with and I wasn’t going to waste a lot of time trying to fine tune this show. Combining the audience recording was the best option due to the overload on the IEM feed.  Typically I do a layering matrixing technique when re mastering mono or single feed IEMs and an audience source is not necessary most of the time for my taste. The IEM brings out the details in Bono’s vocal and the instruments that were not as present in the audience recording and the audience recording helps alleviate some of the IEM overload and gives it a fuller sound.  Overall I think it is a better listening experience combined.    I could not find the audience taper info here or in my own records.  If they are still out there and have a problem being part of this matrix please PM The Phog or myself.  

CPT (MB)

2005-04-24 Seattle JEMS 3 Source Matrix [AUDIO]

U2

Key Arena

Seattle, WA 

April 24, 2005

JEMS three-source matrix

IEM (Edge) DAT master + Bono vocal mic via scanner DAT master + Audience Schoeps CCM4 > Aerco > SBM1 > M1 CD-R of DAT master

Well now. I can't think of another case (though I'm sure there are some) where we have two matrixes of the same show made from completely different sources.

thir13en Productions has an ALD + Audience matrix posted on U2T by drewwerd a week or two ago. 

To be honest, I haven't downloaded that show to compare, in part because of our own version (the thir13en post also lacks samples). 

I was at the show and ran one of the IEM boxes for this recording, though I could swear we too brought in an ALD box but got nothing from it. 

Such are the vagaries of receiver compatibility.

Also coincidentally, both sources have Schoeps audience sources, though different rigs and different tapers. 

Trust me on that: JEMS ran two of the components ourselves joined by one of our longtime friends and allies on the audie rig which was done from side, 

right at the front of the stage where a speaker was well positioned. 

This is also the first time we had an isolated vocal to work with in a mix, 

so J spent a lot of time trying to get the balance of sources right. 

I think he did an amazing job. He also did a meticulous removal of dropouts and noise to minimize any unpleasantness. 

You might hear occasional ducking but that to me is much better than bursts of static.

We have some other IEM sources to work from the tour (including the second night in Seattle) but the amount of time it takes to do these right has impacted our output. 

That being said, I think you'll enjoy this. Samples provided.

Butterking for JEMS

2010-08-21 Helsinki Tale of Four Brothers IEM [AUDIO]

U2 - Tale Of Four Brothers

21 August 2010

Helsinki, Finland

Olympic Stadium

Source: Receiver & LS-11 @ 96/24

Lineage: SD-Card - WAV - Mastering - Resampling - Flac

This is a recording of Bono's IEM feed. Hence the instruments are rather well

balanced and the click track can hardly be heard on most tracks. There are some

tracks with a notable click track though.

There are occasional minor and very few major interferences.

Fades for burning a set of audio CDs are included (move the files from the

subdirectory to the main directory and split the discs between 14a and 14b).

Comments on the show:

Many shows are said to be special. This is what makes this one different from

others:

- Setlist:

  I Will Follow (first 360° Tour appearance)

  No Line On The Horizon (first and so far only 2010 appearance)

  Every Breaking Wave (first performance ever)

  Pride (first 2010 appearance)

- Many family members of the band are in attendance and are mentioned before

  ISHFWILF. This inspired the band and Bono in particular. 

- For the first time in a long time they tried something out and experimented.

  (EBW and NLOTH) which reminded me of the old days. They usually don't take

  any risks these days.

Request:

Think about it yourself. Hopefully you will realise that

- it is a nice gesture to ask before using this in an audio matrix / a

  multi-cam video or before uploading this to another tracker

- remastering a recording that has already been mastered does not make sense.

  If you are skilled, please ask for the master files.

- it is not a good idea to convert this set of files into any other format

  except for your personal use

- anyone selling this recording is too stupid to think of a legitimate way

  of making money

2011-03-30 La Plata , Argentina - HD 720p by Spectrum 1840 - VIDEO

 U2 360° TOUR 2011

2011-03-30

La Plata, Argentina

Estadio Unico de La Plata (Unique's La Plata Stadium)

Source : Original MTS video files, filmed with a Lumix DMC-ZS7 (AVCHD 720p)

Taper : spectrum1840 

Location : Adam's Side, Platea A 34 south side

DON'T SELL THIS!! I filmed the concert for true fans; if you sell it, you are not one.

2009-09-17 - Toronto, Canada - Irish Boy in Toronto - Audio

U2

2009-09-17

(2nd Night)

Rogers Centre,Toronto

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Source:

Church Audio B-99A > Iriver IHP-120(Rockboxed) > PC > 

Soundforge 9 & CDwave (edit & Split) > TLH > Flac 5.

Recorded & Edited by BurnBoy

U2's second Toronto show.

My other recordings turned out poor, don't ask for them, this is the best version I have.

Still an enjoyable experience to share.

Artwork included.

Enjoy

BurnBoy

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Audio: Very good audience-recording

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2005-09-17 Toronto, Canada - IEM Recording - Vertigo - Audio

U2 - 2005-09-17 - Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre

IEM recording

lineage: Icom scanner > Sonic Studios DSM-6 > Sony PCM-M1 > MD-M > FLAC

Comments: Daniel Lanois joined the band on One and Ol' Man River. Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam sang with Bono during Ol' Man River. Discotheque made its Vertigo Tour debut.