Brussels Rehearsals 08-06-2005
Koning Boudewijn Stadion
Brussels, Belgium.
08 - June - 2005.
Rehearsals
Disc 1 (68:23)
----- Afternoon Rehearsals -----
01. Vertigo
02. Until the End of the World
03. Out of Control
04. Elevation
05. Beautiful Day
06. Love and Peace or Else (riffs)
07. Love and Peace or Else
08. Crumbs From Your Table
09. Guitar riffs (mostly based on Electrical Storm)
10. Electrical Storm
----- Evening Rehearsals -----
11. Elevation
12. The Electric Co.
13. Beautiful Day
14. New Year's Day (false start)
15. New Year's Day
16. City of Blinding Lights
17. Miracle Drug
18. Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own
Recording Equipment - History
Sony ECM-MS907 + MD recorder JVC XM-R70BK > MD TDK MD-RXG 80 (normal mode) -master-
Taper: Tintin
Taping comments: location at the bottom of the stadium, directly against the fence of field entrance, left side of the stage. Tintin wasn't able to start the recording since the very beginning of Vertigo, that's why it only starts during the Stories for Boys snippet, as we weren't near our taping position. There's a one second dead air at the end of Vertigo. There's some GSM interfences during intro of Love and Peace or Else. The beginning of Crumbs From Your Table is missing: there was a long time of inactivity, we waited a little bit, then decided to move to another location as nothing was going on. Rehearsals started back around 2 minutes after we left our taping location. Another big run and Tintin was able to resume the recording. After Crumbs, for the riff track, PA system was reduced so the sound is not as powerful as the rest of these rehearsals.
For the evening rehearsals, we missed the beginning of the recording once again. There's a very small blank at the end of New Year's Day. The rehearsals ended at 10 pm to not disturb the neighbourhood. Bono thanked the audience after Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own.
Remastered by: Yauckt
Remastering process: Master MD TDK MD-RXG 80 (normal mode) > MD Player Sony MZ MZ-R35 > Marantz EQ315 > SB Live! > Nero Wav Editor > Groove Mechanic > Ejay Music Cleaning Studio > CDWav Editor > Monkey's Audio 3.99 > APE
Remastering notes: Originally, recording was full of cracks and pops (around 9250), it was caused imo by the heavy bass the PA of the vertigo tour gives to our ears. I fixed this as best as i can but some cracks remains when the volume was very loud. Used Ejay Music Cleaning Studio to give better definition to every instrument, and the most important, try to reach the wonderful level of bass present on sousous's recording of the brussels show. I removed silent parts here and there, adjusted volume for the quieter parts to be able to hear conversations. A slight hiss is sometimes hearable during these quieter parts. In overall, sound quality is very good for a soundcheck. Hopefully, our tape position was full of other tapers, so everyone was trying not to shout and clap and all that.
Evening rehearsals were even more cracky than the afternoon rehearsals (around 14500 clicks detected). I used the same way to remove them as best as I can. Right after City of Blinding Lights, people can't contain themselves and start cheering. Audience are more present songs after songs, I reduced level of cheering due to the brutal peak level fluctuation of the general volume it caused. Gave clarity to the ensemble with Ejay Cleaning Studio.
Comments
As Yauckt mentioned, this recording brings a pretty good sound quality for a soundcheck taped outside the stadium. You can hear some voices, wind... the common issues with these kind of recordings. However, all instruments are well audible and come through very good, although somewhat distant, obviously.
Bono does not seem to be in the building for the afternoon rehearsals, with all songs instrumentally played, except for Elevation, partially sung by Edge. The singer is back for the evening rehearsals, with all songs played by the full band. New Year's Day brings the US-remix start. Crumbs From Your Table and Electrical Storm were rehearsed, but never appeared during the European leg of the tour.