AUDIO: 2011.04.03 La Plata, Argentina - OKM IIR

U2
La Plata, Argentina - Estadio Unico Ciudad de La PLata
2011/04/03

Length: 134:48 min
Quality: Good audience
Size: 792 MB compressed (FLAC)
Complete Show: Yes
DAE in Lineage: No
Taper: Macphisto

History:
OKM IIR (new 2010 model) with A3 (GA; behind Red zone)
-> Yamaha Pocketrak C24 WAV recording @ 44.1kHz
-> Sound Studio (EQ, fades, normalizing)
-> Fission (tracking)
-> xACT FLAC level 6 w/ tags

Notes: Good amount of South American audience on this recording.

AUDIO: 1980-03-02 & 1980-05-11, Tullamore, Ireland -''The Garden of Eden''

U2:
1980-03-02, The Garden of Eden, Tullamore, Ireland
1980-05-11, The Garden of Eden, Tullamore, Ireland
Silver Double CD: "The Garden of Eden"
The Godfatherrecords.
Reference: GR 571/572

Silver CDs ->Nero -> WAV -> Trader Little Helper -> FLAC8 -> 2U

ANOTHER GREAT ISSUE FROM THE GODFATHERRECORDS!!!!!!!

In my humble opinion, good average audience recording according to these earlier moments:
1980-03-02, The Garden of Eden, Tullamore, Ireland: 2,75 Stars.
1980-05-11, The Garden of Eden, Tullamore, Ireland: 3,25 Stars.
During this "360°" era, it's good to remember the 1st steps of the baby U2.

AUDIO: 2011.04.02 La Plata, Argentina - OKM IIR

U2
La Plata, Argentina - Estadio Unico Ciudad de La PLata
2011/04/02

Length: 132:52 min
Quality: Good audience
Size: 775 MB compressed (FLAC)
Complete Show: Yes
DAE in Lineage: No
Taper: Macphisto

History:
OKM IIR (new 2010 model) with A3 (GA; behind Red zone)
-> Yamaha Pocketrak C24 WAV recording @ 44.1kHz
-> Sound Studio (EQ, fades, normalizing)
-> Fission (tracking)
-> xACT FLAC level 6 w/ tags

Notes: Good amount of South American audience on this recording.

AUDIO: 2011.03.30 La PLata, Argentina - OKM IIR (new 2010 model)

OKM IIR (new 2010 model) with A3 (GA; behind Red zone Edgeside)
-> Yamaha Pocketrak C24 WAV recording @ 44.1kHz
-> Sound Studio (EQ, fades, normalizing)
-> Fission (tracking)
-> xACT FLAC level 8 w/ tags

Notes: Some close clapping and talking here and there.

AUDIO: 2011.03.25 Santiago, Chile - Edirol R-09HR - realkuka

U2,  Live at Estadio Nacional March 25th 2011, Santiago, Chile

Source: CA-11 cardioids -> CA 9200 Preamp -> Edirol R-09HR
Transfer: WAV -> Adobe Audition-> Audacity -> dbPowerAmp -> FLAC (compression level 5)

Taper: realkuka

U2 360° tour
 

Please don´t sell: share it

AUDIO: 1982.03.17, New York, USA at the Ritz - Full Soundboard

U2
New York Ritz 82': First Night
March 17, 1982
Source:   Soundboard
Quality:  Excellent

Format: FLAC Low Compression [Dbpoweramp]

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DO NOT ENCODE IN MP3 OR LOSSY FORMATS
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DON'T SELL - FEEL FREE TO TRADE
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Recorded live at the Ritz, NY on March 17, 1982.  This is an incredibly great show, and just the performance of "Tomorrow" makes it worth having!  This came from the same tape as the "St. Patrick's Day" set, but it's definitely a lower generation, and is completely unprocessed.  There is some background noise, but it is COMPLETE and has a much sharper sound quality it it.  This is an awesome show - if you already have the other version, do yourself a favor and get this upgrade!

AUDIO: 1987.05.24. Dale City, USA - Special shows deserve special releases.

U2
Cow Palace
Daly City, CA
April 24, 1987
JEMS Master
24/96 Audio DVD

Gear: Teac M-100 mic (same as Nakamichi 300) > Sony Walkman D6-C

Transfer: Maxell UD-XLII master cassette > Nakamichi 670ZX azimuth-adjusted transfer (February 2008) > Nakamichi NR-200 external Dolby noise reduction processor > Wavelab 24/96 capture > Audio DVD Creator > LPlex (ripping, log included) > CoolEdit Pro 2 (downsampling to 16/44.1 > TLH > FLAC6

Special shows deserve special releases.

Over the years we've had many requests to transfer and torrent our Cow Palace '87 masters. These shows are among the best U2 shows I ever saw and I'm not sure the 25th was ever topped. Our ol' pal Mark Persic  was also there and his tapes are excellent. Ours are too.

The first night was recorded about halfway up and halfway back on the side; the second night from behind the stage.

INDULGENCE ALERT: The most amazing thing about these two shows for the JEMS crew is that we had driven down 700 miles from Tacoma without tickets in hand for either night. In fact between us and our friends in San Fran who were letting us crash, we needed 12 tickets between the two nights and we had NOTHING.

Back in the day, tickets to the toughest shows were handled (at least for Bill Graham Presents shows in the Bay Area) by what for my money remains the most fair and equitable system possible: mail order. Tens of thousands sent in money orders and self addressed stamped envelopes, a few thousand were selected at random and received tickets in their SASE; the rest of us just got our money orders back.

We struck out on the lottery but remained undaunted. Upon arrival in San Francisco (and after eating a North Beach Pizza) we heard from a local friend that he had received a phone message from a kindly sounding "Mrs. Watson" at the Cow Palace box office who was calling local residents that had missed out on tickets via the mail-order lottery and offering seats that had become available once the stage was put in place.

Armed with that vital information, we drove down to the Cow Palace box office and told the girl working that we had received an answering machine message about tickets being held for us after missing out on the lottery. She looked and looked on the list, but could not see our name, but when we mentioned that it was a "Mrs. Wilson" who had left the message, she looked up from the list and said, "how many tickets do you need?" Unbelievably, we worked the trick at least three times and wound up with tickets for all of us, both nights. END OF INDULGANCE

This show has been listed as being recorded with a Nakamichi 300 microphone; you'll see above that it was actually a Teac mic, which were manufactured by Nak but sold by Teac. Same mic, different name.

We've always considered these tapes to be among our best U2 masters and while we traded them way back in the day on cassette, in the digital era, the first DAT transfers we ever made were at 32khz. A few years ago we did do a proper DAT transfer at 44.1  but that hasn't appeared to circulate very wildly since I've seen the 32khz version on lists.

When we started planning to transfer the masters anew a few months ago we figured it might be wise to do a 24/96 capture to preserve this for future uses and to get the most out of the masters while they are still playing back without issues. Burning to DVD Audio would preserve the 24/96 fidelity for playback, but for those of you who know about DVD Audio, the quality is amazing, but the problem is that you need a DVD player that is specially enabled to play the DVD Audio format and many players aren't.

We had long-looked for a solution that would allow us to burn a high-resolution 24/96 DVD that could play back in any DVD player. That's when we stumbled across a cool little program that does just that: Audio DVD Creator.

With this program you can author a gapless, 24/96 audio disc playable in any DVD player, a true high-fidelity disc that holds nearly four times the digital information as a standard CD. You can't hear these masters in any better quality than this.

And as it yields a standard Video_TS file, it burns just like a regular DVD. The one small concession is that while you can skip track to track, the authored disc CANNOT be fast-forwarded or rewound. Don't know why. But it seems a small concession.

I'm sure some of you will want us to do a standard audio version, at 44.1 and ready for CD burning. And at some point we will so please don't post asking for it.. But we thought these shows and recordings deserved the higher quality presentation and the format might encourage you to listen on a real stereo, not just your computer.

AGAIN, JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: THIS IS A 24/96 AUDIO ONLY DVD AND YOU CAN BURN IT AND PLAY IT JUST LIKE ANY OTHER NORMAL DVD YOU DOWNLOAD FROM HERE.

For now, enjoy Night One.

Butterking for JEMS

CT's notes - I've included the original info for the excellent audio DVD of the gig, only updating the lineage to include the conversion from audio DVD to standard .wav, and then FLAC. 

AUDIO: 2011.04.13 São Paulo, Brazil - FM Broadcast

U2
Estádio Cícero Pompeu de Toledo (Morumbi Stadium)
São Paulo, Brazil
April 13th 2011

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FM Broadcast> Wav (44.1k/16bit) - Remaster by Whatever
Total runtime: 2 hours 18 minutes

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Remaster:
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Adobe Audition 3.0:
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Remove clicks,crackle, Hiss and noise, Hard-Limiting at the end (after Eq'ing)

Har-Bal
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Eq'ing

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Notes:

Another Remaster of this gig. I did this, cause I've got lots of PM's
with wishes to finish this. I know it's not perfect, but I like the sound
imho. Hope U2.
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Cheers Whatever


Ps: Do what you want with this Remaster. But don't sell!

AUDIO: 1979.10.05. Cork, Irland - Very Good Soundboard

Live At Cork Opera House - fixed
Opera House, Cork, Ireland
Complete concert
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This is a speed-fixed version of the Cork early 1979 concert at the Opera House (see original info file bellow)

The original recording being - to my ears and regardless how precious this early recording is - hardly listenable, I thought it would be worth fixing the speed (and slightly the pitch) so that it sound a little better. The speed was obviously too high so I tried to correct that. I thought it made sense to compare its speed with a similar recording from the same era and from a low-generation material, that was the Tullamore february 1980 show which seems to play at a relevant speed

Nothing else was done to this recording, my skills are limited. But it is worth remastering, isn't it ? So if anyone...

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FLAC > xAct 1.71 > WAV > Audacity 1.2.6 > speed correction (-3.7%) and pitch correction (-1 semitone) in 32-bit float > tracking > WAV > xAct 1.71 > FLAC
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Tracking remained the same
Quality is fair soundboard but given the age of the recording, this is a precious document of - so far - the earliest recording of a U2 gig. Still, this is U2's very first TV appearance, live on irish channel RTE.

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U2 1979-10-05
"Live At Cork Opera House"
Cork Opera House, Cork, Ireland

Complete show: yes
Quality: very good soundboard
Lineage: unknown generation cassette > CDR > EAC secure mode > Trader's Little Helper: FLAC level 6

AUDIO: 1997.09.11 Lisboa, Portugal - Recorded by BTT

1997-09-11
Estádio de Alvalade, Lisboa, Portugal

Source: Sony Walkman>Tape
Lineage: Master Tape>wav>CoolEdit (normalize & track split)>flac
Recorded by BTT
So, the search is almost done. After 12 years a recording of the Lisboa show has finally surfaced.
This recording is not perfect because it is not complete. It misses the second part of the show.
"All I Want is You" is cut due to tape change.
The sound is quite listenable for the conditions it was recorded. Nevertheless it is the first source to see the light of day.
And this transfer was taken from the Master Tape.
It was a great show with a fired up band.

AUDIO: 2010.10.03. Coimbra, Portugal - IEM Recording by Kacey & Nuno

2010-10-03 - Coimbra, Portugal - Estadio Cidade de Coimbra

BONO (IEM STEREO)

Tapers: Kaycee and nunomoreira1

Lineage :Sennheiser Stereo Scanner>Edirol R-09HR>Cool edit>WaV>Flac

VIDEO: 2010.10.02 - Coimbra, Portugal - HD 720p

Info:

Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280x720 59.94fps

Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 3ch 

Format : Matroska
File size  : 3.22 GiB + 2.50 GiB
Duration : 1h 29mn + 1h 01mn
Overall bit rate: 5 150 Kbps

AUDIO: 2010.10.02. Coimbra, Portugal - IEM Recording, Bedoc [FLAC]

Taper : bedoc [ bedoc(at)free.fr - http://bedoc.free.fr ]
Material : Sennheiser G3 (stereo mode) > Edirol R-09
Position : Bancada Nascente Inferior - Sector 24A - Porta 7A - Lugar O-29

Transfert : Kingston SD-HC SD6 16Go
        > USB 2.0
        > WAV
        > SoundForge 9.0
        > CD Wave Editor (tracking)
        > Trader's Little Helper
        > FLAC (8)

Video: 2011.04.10. São Paulo, Morumbi - HD 720p

Taper: amateur
Video: 1280 x 720
Audio: Ac3 2 channels
Formato: Matroska
Equipment: Lumix FZ35
Complete Concert