Veltins in the Moonlight

Veltins Arena

Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

03 - August - 2009.

Attendance: 73.704 (sellout) - Support: Snow Patrol

Disc 1 (68:16)

01. Space Oddity (PA)

02. Kingdom (PA)

03. Breathe

04. No Line on the Horizon

05. Get On Your Boots

06. Magnificent

07. Beautiful Day / Here Comes the Sun

08. Elevation

09. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Movin' On Up

10. Stuck in a Moment

11. Unknown Caller

12. The Unforgettable Fire

13. City of Blinding Lights

14. Vertigo

Disc 2 (67:38)

01. I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight  (remix)

02. Sunday Bloody Sunday

03. Pride (In the Name of Love)

04. - Bono's speech -

05. MLK

06. Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone

07. - Desmond Tutu's 'One Campaign' speech -

08. Where the Streets Have No Name

09. - Bono's speech -

10. One

11. - intro to 'Ultraviolet' -

12. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)

13. With or Without You

14. Moment of Surrender

15. - Rocket Man (outro over PA) -

16. - crowd noise -

Recording Equipment - History

OKM IIr + A3 (filter: Bass Roll-off settings @ -20dB) + Sony TCD-D100 (@ 44.1 khz -20dB AGC in LP) > DAT Master (Maxell 120')

Taper: Massygo

Location: midfield B-Spot, in between the line PA & Stage, centering left/right

Transfer: Sony DAT DTC670 > Dig i/o cableconnection > i/o Creative Labs > Cool Edit 2000 > CDWave > WAV > Flac FrontEnd > FLAC

Additional notes (by the taper): There was a lot of bass when U2's Crazy redancka-remix was played, i do have 1 minor crack during that moment. Was really a heavy situation.

Now, it's bin a while that a DAT-source came out from tapers on this tracker. I'm i right this is the first one on the tour comming out?  When i entered the Veltins-field it was clear this should be though because of the shorter distances from Stage to PA. So, I had a slight problem to find the right B-spot in that center line. Was hard to take pictures from the spot that i used, yes i did, check the 360° flickr-group for those (tags Gelsenkirchen). I added some pics taken from the place i played statue for 2 hours.

OKM>A3>TCD-D100 combination creates a REAL 360° dimension-recording including more stereo & surround. Anyway thanks to you all who were at the venue singing allong and having fun.

Comments

This is the fourth source of the Gelsenkirchen concert. It's the weakest in terms of sound quality, if we compare it to my other sources of this show. It sounds pretty distant and somewhat saturated. Music and vocals sound clear but they lack crispness, and there's some crowd noise here and there with individuals audible.

After Elevation, Bono and the crowd sing again the chorus of the song. The Edge experienced problems with his guitar during Vertigo, so the band had to start it anew.