Horsens 15-08-2010

 

CASA Arena Horsens

Horsens, Denmark.

15 - August - 2010.

Attendance: 34.943 (sellout) - Support: Snow Patrol

 

 

Total Running Time - 129:05

 

01. Space Oddity (PA)

02. Return of the Stingray Guitar

03. Beautiful Day

04. New Year's Day

05. Get On Your Boots

06. Magnificent

07. Mysterious Ways / Rain

08. Elevation

09. - Bono's speech -

10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down

11. - Bono's speech about Kris Kristofferson -

12. Glastonbury

13. In a Little While

14. Miss Sarajevo

15. Until the End of the World

16. The Unforgettable Fire

17. City of Blinding Lights / Follow the Yellow Brick Road

18. Vertigo / Teenage Kicks

19. I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight  (remix) / Discothèque

20. Sunday Bloody Sunday

21. MLK

22. Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone

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

24. One

25. Amazing Grace / Where the Streets Have No Name

26. - encore break -

27. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

28. With or Without You

29. Moment of Surrender

 

 

Recording Equipment - History

OKM IIr binaural microphones + Nomad JB3 (44.1 kHz) > WAV > USB > HD > Adobe Audition > Harbal > CDWav > FLAC

 

Taper: DeRosa

Location: just right of mixer tent

 

Additional notes (by the taper): Was stood to left of 2 fans in wheelchairs and their helpers, which meant that the right channel is a very clean source as I had more space around me there. Left channel was slightly marred by people close to me - claps, clicks, shouts etc... but not much. I've been able to eliminate the few seconds that were spoiled by copying from right channel. There is some of the usual level fluctuation/flutter which makes outdoor shows so hard to tape. But on the whole I'm pretty pleased with this. I only took the recorder along in case nobody else got a good recording - but I don't think there'll be a better source than this.

I've run it through some discrete processes to boost sound. I copied the original track to 4 seperate tracks in Audition. First track was EQed to highlight bass, and run through some Bass specific compression. Second track was EQed to percussion, and run through drum-specific compression
Third track was EQed for mid tone guitar/vocal and run through some compression and enhancement/widening. Fourth track was left as is.

 

The four tracks were merged via mixer to get a fuller sounding result, without having to resort to reverb or excessive compression. Final result was run through Harbal EQing and mastering software, Normalised and left channel was "repaired" in Sound Forge (worst clicks removed etc). Right channel was left as is to mask any artifacts click removal might leave. Finally tracks were split in CD WAV.

Am aware there are some strange sounding high tones in the percussion. These are on the original recording too and not a result of my tinkering.

New Year's Day and I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For have some issues I couldn't do anything about but that you might only notice with headphones.

 

Comments

Very nice recording that documents the first of two soldout nights in Horsens (Denmark). Sound quality places in the borderline "very good / excellent" rating, some may consider it as a "exc-". It sounds pretty clear with music and vocals well upfront and there's a very rich output, but on the other hand there is some clipping in the louder parts of the gig, and a heavy bass in the mix, so both things make it to sound somewhat harsh. There are a few channel shiftings here and there, mostly on the first few songs.

 

Bono sang a few lines of Discothèque at the end of the remix of I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight.