U2, le 2011-06-18 à Anaheim, CA (Angel Stadium), USA
EX+ MTX
[IEMs > HDD] + [CF] + [CF] > mtx > FLAC
IEMs : IEM Receivers > Tascam DR680 // Sharebear
AUD 1 : DPA 4060 > Battery Box > Edirol R-09 // Talltaper
AUD 2 : AT831 > Battery Box > Edirol R-09 // Edgar518
U2
Anaheim, CA
June 18, 2011
Angel Stadium

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Source 1: IEM Receivers > Tascam DR680 (24bit, 44.1khz)
Taper: Sharebear
(Few patches by DJ Soulless' Recording)

Source 2: Core Sounds HEB (DPA 4060) > Battery Box > Edirol R09 (24bit, 44.1khz)
Taper: Talltaper

Source 3: Sound Professional (AT831) > Battery Box > Edirol R09 (16bit, 44.1khz)
Taper: Edgar518

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Mixed, Produced, and Mastered by Sharebear/Hoserama
Aligned in Adobe Audition
Mixed in Nuendo 4, using extra waves, Ozone, Slate plug-ins
Dithered using Izotope MBIT+
Flac'ed using Trader's Little Helper
Mix Version 20190209

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01 Intro
02 Even Better Than The Real Thing
03 The Fly
04 Mysterious Ways
05 Until The End Of The World
06 One
07 Where The Streets Have No Name
08 I Will Follow
09 Get On Your Boots
10 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
11 Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
12 Beautiful Day
13 Elevation
14 Pride (In The Name Of Love)
15 Miss Sarajevo
16 Zooropa
17 City Of Blinding Lights
18 Vertigo
19 I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
20 Sunday Bloody Sunday
21 Scarlet
22 Walk On
23 Video
24 Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
25 With Or Without You
26 Moment of Surrender / Jungleland (snippet)

Bonus tracks from 6/17/11 (IEM Matrix by Sharebear)
27 Magnificent
28 Happy Birthday
29 All I Want is You
30 Intro to Stay
31 Stay
32 Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me

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Show Comments:
Great great show. After the setlist was growing stale, they finally did a "blender" show. Basically throw the current songs in a blender and restructure everything. It was a lot of fun trying to guess the next song during the show (although it was mostly the first half that got switched around). Easily the best 360 show I saw.

Recording Notes:
My usual 2011 rig. 3-4 feeds (used Bono/Edge/Adam for this mix) into a Tascam DR680. Talltaper was pulling from the stands, while Edgar was in front of the mixing tent. No major issues on the recording side.

Mixing notes:
Counts are scrubbed, but you might hear the occasional artifact. Clicks are mostly scrubbed, although there will be a bit of a remainder in sections. It's always a compromise, and I'd rather remove 90% of the metronome and leave the music intact instead of removing 99% of metronome and damaging the music.

Completely different formula and balance from previously released mixes. I think it's a significant improvement from the other sources, but feel free to make your own choices (see video comparison). If you prefer the other sources, go take those for a spin.

Right around the Oakland show in 2011, the U2 monitor crew started cranking the high end on the vocals in Bono's feed. I'm guessing they thought it would help his vocals cut through the mix, which it did. However, they overdid it and it would overload the sound processing on the IEM transmitter. So you would get distortion and spike everytime Bono made a loud -ess syllable (also known as sibilance). Very annoying, but I guess it didn't bother Bono. You can handle the sibilance with a special sidechain compressor called a De-Esser, but the distortion was broadband. I tried some new tricks to deal with it, but you'll occasionally hear some artifacts of the distortion. I'll argue that it's far cleaner than the 2012 mix, and much preferable to the straight released Bono feed (which had some remastering work that actually BOOSTED the high frequency distortion).

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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.

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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. Or maybe lug in recording equipment and make an alternate mix of your own sources.

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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.

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.

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Enjoy y'all!
- Hoserama/Sharebear