13.08.1992
USA, East Rutherford, Giants Stadium
Zoo TV East Rutherford II - 30th Anniversary Edition Matrix
vg Aud./Soundboard

01. George Bush Rap [2:02]
02. Zoo Station [4:35]
03. The Fly [4:39]
04. Channel hopping on Zoo TV [1:41]
05. Even Better Than the Real Thing [3:53]
06. Mysterious Ways [6:43]
07. Bono talking [0:35]
08. One [4:52]
09. She’s a Mystery to Me [1:20]
10. Until the End of the World [4:58]
11. New Year’s Day [5:00]
12. Larry talking [1:00]
13. Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World [5:39]
14. “Yo, am I in tune?” [0:20]
15. Angel of Harlem [4:35]
16. When Love Comes to Town [3:16]
17. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For [4:28]
18. All I Want is You [2:39]
19. Sunday Bloody Sunday [4:59]
20. Bullet the Blue Sky [5:17]
21. Running to Stand Still [4:54]
22. Where the Streets Have No Name [6:09]
23. Pride (In the Name of Love) [5:13]
24. Band leaves the stage [0:30]
25. Desire [4:47]
26. Mirrorball Man phone call [0:41]
28. With or Without You [5:45]
29. Love is Blindness [6:37]

Total Running Time: [1:47:20]

Listening clause - I am not an audio engineer, nor do I pretend to be. I’m more of the “I know just enough to be dangerous” kinda guy. So please go easy on me.

Source 1 - Master audience DAT, still found here: https://u2torrents.com/t?id=7755
Source 2 - unknown generation SBD 90 min Maxell XLIIS cassette -> analog to digital transfer -> WAV

This place has been dead for a little while. Time to liven it up a bit!

In the Fall of 1994, I came across a cassette tape of this show at a record/CD convention that I used to go to every year. It was a show I did not have at the time, and so I scooped it up - especially since it was a SBD source. While not perfect, it was a great addition to my collection. By 2000, I had seen that a version of this show was available on CD under the name “Bright Lights, Big City” or “Under the New Jersey Lights” or something like that. I traded for a copy of it on CD, assuming that the version on CD would be the same or even better than the cassette tape I had. I was wrong. It quickly became clear to me that the cassette I had was a lower generation version from what those other CD’s had been sourced from. So I took some time and transferred the cassette to WAV format. I did not do any additional editing to the files at the time - it was a straight analog to digital transfer. I started trading my version out way back then, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some of you reading this have it. I did not share it on U2 Torrents at any point, mainly because I kinda forgot about it by the time U2 Torrents was born in 2005. I do not think it has ever shown up here before (but I could be wrong).

Fast forward to sometime in the late 2000's or early 2010’s (I can't remember exactly), and I happened to see a matrix of this show on here was created by the legendary @noiseless. The matrix sounded really good and the same audience source I am using was used for that one, but @noiseless used the remastered version of “Bright Lights, Big City” for the soundboard source. I listened to that matrix on and off for a while and just wondered for years how a matrix would sound if the soundboard source I had was used instead…

Enter the pandemic. Being at home a lot more than usual gave me some time to go back through some old recordings and see what I had forgotten about all these years later. I remember finding the soundboard of this one and immediately thinking of the matrix idea again. So finally in late 2021 I sat down and started working on this project. The audience source is basically untouched. I ran the SBD source through Izotope RX9 and enhanced the drums/bass a bit, but the most time consuming part of this project was going to be the time alignment. I started off doing that, but quickly realized that I was not going to be able to give this one the attention that it needs because of my expanding family. So I asked for some help, and luckily @SecondsToSay responded.

The time alignment proved to be tricky, as the SBD source was originally coming from a cassette so that introduced all the usual problems - most notably small speed fluctuations. Another issue was the audience source occasionally picked up echoes coming from around Giants’ Stadium, and that made it even harder to figure out where to line things up. So, @SecondsToSay had his work cut out for him. But he did an amazing job with it. So, a HUGE thank you goes out to @SecondsToSay for his effort in this project.

Mixing of the two time aligned sources was done in Adobe Audition 2022, and mastering was run through Izotope Ozone 9. I like my recordings to sound punchy, so I leaned more on the SBD source and used the audience to provide some ambiance.

Flaws:
The SBD source is not perfect by any means. We’re not talking Dublin ‘89 or Dublin ‘93 quality here, so don’t get your hopes up *too* much. Whoever put this on the cassette tape in the 90's really wanted this to fit on a single 90 min tape, so in order to do that there are some cuts in the audio. Most of this occurs with crowd noise, but there is a small cut leading in to the second chorus of “Where the Streets Have No Name,” another in “Pride (In the Name of Love)” right at the beginning of Edge's guitar solo, and then a couple quick ones during “Desire.” I compensated by boosting the audience source during these small cuts, so it might feel like the sound wavers a bit during those short parts.

Additional comments about the quality of the audience source can be found here: https://u2torrents.com/t?id=7755

Neither the SBD nor the audience source contained the Zoo TV video confessionals or anything like that.

Show comments:
- 1st performance of “New Year’s Day” on the tour
- 1st performance of “Sunday Bloody Sunday” on the tour
- 1st acoustic performance of “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”
- 1st acoustic performance of “All I Want is You” by Bono

(I don’t count the rehearsal show in Hershey, PA on August 7th as an official tour date)

It’s the second night of the Zoo TV Outside Broadcast Tour in North America, and the band are still figuring things out. The performance is a bit rough around the edges at times, and they seem to be plagued by sound problems, mostly during the acoustic set. “When Love Comes to Town” is kind of a mess. Still a very solid show - just not one of their best, in my opinion.

Feel free to trade/share around as you please. Just keep it in lossless format - NO mp3's! Enjoy! @maxq10/@SecondsToSay
August 2022

U2Torrents.com: Torrent 10836 (by MaxQ10)