14.10.2005
USA, New York, Madison Square Garden
New York / Friday / October 14, 2005 - Mix-Version 6
exc. Aud.

01. PA Intro [3:18]
02. City Of Blinding Lights [6:18]
03. Vertigo [4:38]
04. Elevation [4:28]
05. The Electric Co. [4:46]
06. Gloria [5:42]
07. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For [5:27]
08. Beautiful Day [5:32]
09. Miracle Drug [7:07]
10. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own [5:11]
11. Love And Peace Or Else [5:05]
12. Sunday Bloody Sunday [7:15]
13. Bullet The Blue Sky [5:21]
14. Miss Sarajevo [7:40]
15. Pride(In The Name Of Love) [4:22]
16. Where The Streets Have No Name [6:26]
17. One [11:30]
18. Encore Break 01: [3:10]
19. The First Time [3:45]
20. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of [4:25]
21. Fast Cars [5:40]
22. With Or Without You [5:20]
23. Encore Break 02: [2:02]
24. All Because Of You [4:11]
25. Party Girl [4:23]
26. Yahweh [3:58]
27. Vertigo^ [1:59]

Total Running Time: [2:19:09]

^ Incomplete

Source: Soundman OKM-II Rock Mics > Sony TCD-D8 Portable DAT-Recorder
Taper: phofstee

Conversion: DAT-Master (SP-mode/@44.1kHz) > Sony DTC-ZE700 DAT-Deck (Optical out)> Coaxial > Tascam SS-R05 (Digital in/+0.0dB) > SanDisk Ultra-II 8GB CF-card > WAV (@16bit/44.1kHz)
DAT-conversion: Dutch-Baker

Post-production: Dutch-Baker
Cleaning: iZotope RX7 & Adobe Audition CC
Mixing: Nuendo v4.3 w/Ozone + Waves plugins

Conversion: CDWav v1.95.1(track splitting) > Flac Frontend v2.1 > flac

Notes:
The last night of the Vertigo tour for me. After having enjoyed 4 shows in Europe and 4 magic nights in the Madison Square Garden, night 5 was the end of the 2005 touring era. With the blessing of being able to be in 'the heart' again for the final night it was great to see U2 preform in a 'small venue' comparing to the stadiums in Europe. After having enjoyed New York for 2 days before the final concert I wasn't as prepared as I should have been... I took in my DAT, mics and luckily my photocamera too. Just before the show I realised that I hadn't changed batteries since night 4... So I had to think fast what to do. I decided to change 2 batteries from my photocamera with the DAT and pull the record-button as close to the start of the show as possible. Luckily the tape made it till halfway Vertigo at the end. So hopefully you like the recording as much as I do. I wish U2 would have taking it's original setlist while "Walk On" and "40" were written there. But a fan at the front shouted to Bono "Party Girl" and he took it to the show. Because the athmosphere was so great and powerful in the house that night I think the decided to re-do Vertigo instead of let us sing along with "40" which luckily was played the 3 nights before. Afterall a nice recording (I think ;-) ) with great thanks to the Dutchbaker for upgrading the original tape. Enjoy!

Recording notes:
As explained above the batteryproblem unfortunaly resulted in recording-issues. After about an hour into the show the right channel starts dropping slowly. In the beginning it's about 3dB lower, but by the end of the recording we find outselves at about 15-18dB(!) lower, resulting in a massive imbalance. Finding the reasonable spots to cranck up the volume was the first challange. If you listen closely you can probably hear some remnants of it. An additional problem with crancking up the volume is the introduction of a higher noise-floor, or hiss as we know it. I had to put out some tricks to get it lowered again. In the end it's still there, but to me in a reasonable amount. Due to the lowered batteries the last Vertigo is cut halfway, sadly making it, an incomplete recording.

Complied by: Dutch-Baker on October 17, 2019

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