Norman 10-06-1983     master

Lloyd Noble Center

Norman (Oklahoma), USA.

10 - June - 1983.

Attendance: 2.000 (capacity: 13.000)

Disc 1 (69:14)

01. Out of Control

02. Twilight

03. An Cat Dubh / Into the Heart

04. Surrender

05. Two Hearts Beat As One

06. Seconds

07. Sunday Bloody Sunday

08. Cry / The Electric Co.

09. I Fall Down

10. October

11. New Year's Day

12. Gloria

13. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

14. I Will Follow

15. "40"

Recording Equipment - History

Sony D6 + Sony ECM939 > Analog master (Maxell XLII) > Cool Edit Pro (Parametric eq to boost vocals and slight high end boost / Master Gain +6db) > CDR-master > flac 

Taper: mjk5510

Location: Theatre set up, 1/3 of arena used; Floor Row D inside isle

Taper's comments: Here we have the lastest offering from the "closet archives", I know this has been available at other sites for some time, but not being a U2 collector I have no idea if the versions available are from my master tape or not.

I've put the master tape through a number of remastered versions over the years and have never been 100% satisfied with the final product. My seats were very close to the stage and much of the high end seemed to go over my head and carried the vocals with it, I think switching this year from a graphic eq to a parametric eq finally gave me the ability to tweak the vocal range and high end range exclusively just enough to give a final version that I am finally satisfied (at least to my ears) with and I offer it here.

Comments

Excellent recording, straight off the master tape. As happened with the 3rd gen cassette, sound is quite crisp and clear. All instruments sound powerful and solid, and vocals sound upfront, too. Audience noise is audible but not an issue. However, it sounds somewhat raw at some spots, maybe it suffered a bit of a heavy remaster. All in all, it is an upgrade in terms of sound quality to the 3rd gen cassette version, as this one offers a more balanced and punchy sound.