Pasadena 25-10-2009 / Wireless Matrix

Rose Bowl Stadium

Pasadena (California), USA.

25 - October - 2009.

Attendance: 97.014 (sellout) - Support: Black Eyed Peas

Total Running Time - 137:02

01. Kingdom (PA)

02. Breathe

03. Get On Your Boots

04. Magnificent

05. Mysterious Ways

06. Beautiful Day / In God's Country / God Only Knows / The Maker

07. - band introductions -

08. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Stand by Me

09. Stuck in a Moment

10. No Line on the Horizon

11. Elevation

12. In a Little While

13. Unknown Caller

14. Until the End of the World

15. The Unforgettable Fire

16. City of Blinding Lights

17. Vertigo / It's Only Rock'n'Roll

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

19. Sunday Bloody Sunday

20. MLK

21. Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone

22. - encore break -

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

24. One

25. Amazing Grace

26. Where the Streets Have No Name

27. - encore break -

28. - space child interlude -

29. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)

30. With or Without You

31. Moment of Surrender

Recording Equipment - History

Matrix of three IEM wireless sources (Bono + Edge + Adam) and an audience source

* Wireless sources *

Bono + Edge + Adam IEM wireless sources > IEM receiver (aka the 'Positronic Brain version 2.6 - aka Data-)

Taper: Sharebear

* Audience source *

CA-11 + Zoom H2 (Medium Gain) > San Disk > PC > CDWave Editor > TLH > FLAC (level-6)

Taper: u22utoo

Location: In the Inner Circle, near back rail and center

* Mixing & Editing (by Sharebear) *

Wave editting + time alignment done in Adobe Audition 3.0
Mixing done in Nuendo 3

Used Waves EQ + Ozone Izotope 4
Final post-processing done in Harbal
Cut up + flac'ed using CD Wave

Additional notes (by Sharebear): Well I suppose this is supposed to be the official release show. I know I wasn't the only one who thought the webcast audio sounded like absolute garbage. Originally I debated about not even running my gear for this show. My taper buddy took the night off as I told him I'd cover it in case the webcast was crap. In any case, I'm glad I ran. Even though I didn't even go with a full rig for this show.

If you can't stand the metronome or counts that make up a wireless recording, then go listen to the webcast. If you can listen past those (or at least laugh at the counts), then give this a spin as a much clearer recording than the webcast. 

Comments

Tremendous sound quality overall. This is easily the best recording of both legs I and II, and one of the topping tapes of any U2 collector. Clarity and crispness are superb, and it sounds strong, solid, absolutely clean. This amazing matrix shows the hard work and the effort by the taper(s). It puts you on the ground, like watching the concert. And you will have just to live with a bit of metronome.

This is the biggest one-headliner or single act concert in the US ever, with 97.014 in attendance. The band broke their own record, as the old one was set in Philadelphia (PA) on September 25th 1987, at the John F. Kennedy Stadium during the third leg of 'The Joshua Tree Tour', with 86.145 in attendance. The third single-act highest attendance ever in the US also belongs to U2, set on the 360º Tour, too, at the FedEx Field in Landover (MD) on September 29th 2009, with 84.754 watching the show.

On the other hand, the concert was broadcast live on YouTube and filmed for a possible future DVD release.