14.05.2017 USA, Seattle, Linkfield Stadium Seattle - IEM Matrix exc. IEM 01. Intro [4:12] 02. Sunday Bloody Sunday [5:05] 03. New Year's Day [5:53] 04. A Sort Of Homecoming [5:22] 05. Bad [6:05] 06. Pride [4:39] 07. Where The Streets Have No Name [6:30] 08. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For [4:16] 09. With Or Without You [5:20] 10. Bullet The Blue Sky [5:20] 11. Running To Stand Still [4:22] 12. Red Hill Mining Town [4:56] 13. In God's Country [3:03] 14. Trip Through Your Wires [4:08] 15. One Tree Hill [5:53] 16. Exit [4:37] 17. Mothers Of The Disappeared [7:29] 18. Beautiful Day [6:44] 19. Elevation [4:32] 20. Ultraviolet (Light My Way) [8:29] 21. One [5:34] 22. Miss Sarajevo [7:31] 23. The Little Things That Give You Away [5:55] 24. I Will Follow [4:34] Total Running Time: [2:10:39] Source 1: IEM > Recorder Taper: DJ Soulless Source 2: Schoeps MK4V > Tascam Dr2D Taper: phofstee Count Scrubbing assistance by Zummo Mixed, Produced, and Mastered by Sharebear/Hoserama Aligned in Adobe Audition Mixed in Nuendo 4, using extra waves, Ozone, Slate plug-ins Magic wand from Izotope RX Dithered using Izotope MBIT+ Flac'ed using Trader's Little Helper Export version 2018121[:] Source 1: IEM > Recorder Taper: DJ Soulless Source 2: Schoeps MK4V > Tascam Dr2D Taper: phofstee Count Scrubbing assistance by Zummo Mixed, Produced, and Mastered by Sharebear/Hoserama Aligned in Adobe Audition Mixed in Nuendo 4, using extra waves, Ozone, Slate plug-ins Magic wand from Izotope RX Dithered using Izotope MBIT+ Flac'ed using Trader's Little Helper Export version 20181214 Show Notes: Significant improvement over the opening night. Some say it's the best setlist of the tour with the audible closer, and both Homecoming and Bad in the set. I personally liked some of the later shows more, but Seattle was a good show. Never hurts having Eddie Vedder show up for a random cameo. Recording & Mixing Notes: For the last couple years, there's been an interesting feed for the crew. It's a fairly nice sounding feed, vocals are pretty high (too high) and panned out, so Bono is 50% to the left, and Edge is 50% to the right. It has clicks and counts like a normal IEM feed, but not too loud. Then it has mixing crew chatter talkback. Earlier in tour and rehearsals, there's a lot of chatter, but they quiet down later in the tour. Overall, it's a decent feed, but the vocals are too high, off-center, and it's a very dry listen. That said, I've tried to target it for recording because it's a decent feed in case everything else fails. Recently I got some new mixing tools that I thought could help smooth it out. With Seattle being the only US 2017 show I recorded, but didn't mix up, it seemed like a good experiment. So here you go. It's a single feed, heavily cooked, with a bit of the schoeps audience layered on top. Vocals have been completely releveled, Bono is centered, bass + drums punched up a bit, and then baked in the oven. It's not as good as a full multiple IEM feed mix, which I probably should do for this show, but that's besides the point. If you were only able to get one feed of a show, and taped this feed, I could be happy enough with a final product like this. Biggest drawback is the crew chatter. I've done some tricks to knock it back 75%, but you'll still hear the crackle and some of the words. It's not often, but at least it doesn't blast your ears anymore. Anyways, enjoy! It's not a perfect recording, but it's a good listen to my ears. At the very least, I think it's an upgrade of the horribly compressed and misaligned Empress Valley mix. Thanks to DJ Soulless for bagging the feed, Zummo for scrubbing most of the programmed counts, and phofstee for the schoeps audience! As always, encouraging people to get into taping and mixing. Just take the craft seriously and it will reward you many times over. There's no point in complaining about missing recordings or subpar quality if you're not contributing--pushing 1's and 0's around on the internet is no comparison for taping. IEM recordings are not for everyone. If not they're not your thing, either sonically or ethically, there's excellent alternative recordings out there. Similarly, I'm mixing primarily for my ears. This is what sounds best to me. This may not sound best to you. That's a fair statement. I'm open to honest criticism (although you should have caught me when I was working on the mix!), but pointless complaining is unappreciated (naturally). Let's play nice. Please don't sell this recording in any way - no cash for blanks, 2:1s, or any other form of "getting paid for your time". Just share it freely. Please don't convert to mp3, then back to wave, and then trade it around. This stuff is too easy to find on torrents now. Feel free to remaster/remix this recording. Just keep it to your own computer and iPod, and no further. Also, please don't torrent or share on other sites without at least dropping me a line and asking. I may want to just torrent/share it there myself. Please ask (and wait for permission!) before putting it into any matrix + video production. If you ask nicely for a quality high-res video project, I will likely say “yes”. If you put it on YouTube or cell phone video production without asking, I will send my cats from hell to chew your computer cables. Enjoy y'all! Hoserama/Sharebear U2Torrents.com: Torrent 10518 (by sharebear)