Seattle 24.04.2005 / Matrix 1

Key Arena

Seattle (Washington), USA.

24 - April - 2005.

Attendance: 15.126 (sellout) - Support: Kings of Leon

Disc 1 (74:07)

01. Everyone (PA) / Love and Peace or Else

02. Vertigo / Stories for Boys

03. Elevation

04. Cry / The Electric Co.

05. An Cat Dubh / Into the Heart

06. City of Blinding Lights

07. Beautiful Day

08. Miracle Drug

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

10. New Year's Day

11. Sunday Bloody Sunday

12. Bullet the Blue Sky

13. Running to Stand Still

Disc 2 (55:16)

01. Pride (In the Name of Love)

02. Where the Streets Have No Name

03. - One Campaign speech -

04. One

05. - encore break -

06. Zoo Station

07. The Fly

08. Mysterious Ways

09. - encore break -

10. All Because of You

11. Yahweh

12. "40"

Recording Equipment - History

Mix ALD + AUD sources  (by thir13en)

ALD source:

* Receiver + Sony D8

* Taper: Sean

* Transfer: Tascam DA-20 MkII > Emagic Audiowerk2 > FLAC

Audience source:

* Schoeps MK4s (DINA in hat) > Nbox > Oade line mod SBM-1@44.1 kHz > Sony PCM-M1

* Taper: robertd

* Taping location: on the floor, 15-20 feet in front of the soundboard

* Transfer: Tascam DA-20 MkII > Emagic Audiowerk2 > CD Wave Editor > FLAC Frontend 1.7.1

Mix notes (by thir13en):

There's good and bad news.

The good: Decent mono mix from the ALD is aided very nicely by an ambient stereo AUD. The total overall mix is dynamic, and the performance by the boys keeps up their end of the bargain.

The bad: As mentioned above, the ALD is typically mono and a bit compressed, but much worse is the random FM-sounding static attacks. On some songs it's often, on others it's nothing. It seems to have the most trouble in the very beginning, the first 3 songs or so, then makes a come back later in the second hour of the set. Considering how they started and how distracting they were, the solution I decided upon is an improvement, but it came at a cost. Most of the fixes go by cleanly, but there are at least half a dozen that will at times sound like slight dropouts. Though not up to my desired outcome, it really was better than the sword-stabbing effect they had previously.

Much gratitude to Sean for the sources and letting me do my thing.

Comments

Superb work by 'thir13en' in this mix of ALD and audience sources. The audience source was stunning in terms of sound quality, so it gives this mix a very dynamic and crisp sound. Sound quality is brilliant in this recording, and the only minor to remark is the little dropouts mentioned above by 'thir13en'.

Usual snippets appeared here and there, such as Stories for Boys and Hello on Vertigo, No Regrets at the end of Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own, or The Hands That Built America and Johnny Comes Marching Home on Bullet the Blue Sky.