Los Angeles 05-04-2005 Matrix Mix v.6

Staples Center

Los Angeles (California), USA.

05 - April - 2005.

Attendance: 17.264 (sellout) - Support: Kings of Leon

Total Running Time - 126:28

01. Wake Up (PA)

02. Everyone (PA)

03. Love and Peace or Else

04. Vertigo / Stories for Boys

05. Elevation

06. Cry / The Electric Co.

07. An Cat Dubh

08. Into the Heart

09. City of Blinding Lights

10. Beautiful Day

11. Miracle Drug

12. Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own

13. New Year's Day

14. Sunday Bloody Sunday

15. Bullet the Blue Sky / The Hands That Built America / Johnny Comes Marching Home

16. Running to Stand Still

17. Zoo Station

18. The Fly

19. Mysterious Ways

20. - encore break -

21. Pride (In the Name of Love)

22. Where the Streets Have No Name

23. One

24. - encore break -

25. All Because of You

26. Yahweh

27. "40"

Recording Equipment - History

Mix of multiple IEM sources and an audience source, as follows:

Source 1: MarcSound mics + Sony PCM-M1 > Wavelab > CDR-Master > xACT verified extraction to .wav > FLAC
Source 2: multiple IEM mix

Source 1 taped by JEMS

Source 2 taped by sharebear

Mixed and produced by sharebear - This is Mix v.6

Aligned in Adobe Audition. Mix in Nuendo 3. Used Izotope Ozone 4 and Waves plugins. Final processing with Har Bal 2.3. Used CDWave to track it. Trader's Little Helper for Flac. Produced, cut up, and mixed by sharebear/hoserama. Special thanks to everybody that helped me out on that run... there were lots! And extra special thanks to Butterking of JEMS for the excellent audience and clearance for the mix.

One show that I always wanted to mix up, and when JEMS posted their excellent audience source I decided to take a swing at it. Several aborted attempts, but have finally finished it up.

I saw 15 shows that tour, and honestly, this was probably my second favorite show. A seemingly standard show, but very energetic and solid all the way through. Band seemed in very good spirits and getting into the groove of the tour. Edge's daughter's doctor came out in soundcheck, which they discussed during the show and soundcheck.

I remember among the first run of shows, each show was successively better than the last. This show was the final step in that (5th show of the tour). Better than the San Diego and Anaheim shows. The second LA show was a slight step down from this show IMO. San Jose x2 and Phoenix 1 weren't as good either. It seemed for Phoenix 2 they got a source of inspiration and fired things back up. But by then, they were clearly settingly into the set. This show showed a band still figuring themselves out, but getting into some real fun during the process.

Released this show in celebration of the 360º tour firing back up. Just listening to some of the songs on this tour makes you realize those early Vertigo setlists were among the best they've had in a long time. The Boy songs (Electric Co, An Cat Dubh, Into the Heart), oldie goodies (Running to Stand Still), and great run of ZooTV set (Zoo Station, Fly, Mysterious Ways). 360º can't touch that.

Anywho. Good recording and mix IMO. It does have the click track and count ins, as par the course. Some minor channel issues here and there. Nothing too distracting IMO. Did processing to make it sound better to my ears.
 

Comments

Nice show by the band and brilliant recording overall, work done by 'sharebear'. Sound quality is fantastic. It sounds absolutely clean and strong, and the audience source by 'JEMS' adds a nice live feeling to it.