Mountains and Deserts - remastered

McNichols Arena

Denver (Colorado), USA.

07 - November - 1987.

Attendance: 17.000 (sellout) - Support: The BoDeans

Disc 1 (50:01)

01. Where the Streets Have No Name

02. I Will Follow

03. Trip Through Your Wires

04. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Exodus

05. Gloria

06. MLK

07. The Unforgettable Fire

08. Sunday Bloody Sunday

09. Exit

10. In God's Country

11. Helter Skelter

12. Help

Disc 2 (50:02)

01. Bad

02. October

03. New Year's Day

04. Pride (In the Name of Love)

05. Star Spangled Banner / Bullet the Blue Sky

06. Running to Stand Still

07. Silver and Gold

08. Spanish Eyes

09. With or Without You

10. "40"

Recording Equipment - History

'Mountains and Deserts' silver bootleg > FLAC > WAV > Audition Remaster > FLAC

Remastering process: Drew Williamsen

Additional Comments (by Drew Williamsen): Here is what I did to remaster an already outstanding show:
*Tube modeled compression:
 threshold -48db
 gain 18db
 ratio 2.9:1
 attack .7ms
 release 180ms

*Adaptive Noise Reduction
 reduce 30db
 noisiness 15%
 floor 7db
 threshold -2.5
 decay rate 138.4ms/60db
 preservation 420Hz

The noise reduction was by far the biggest change in this remaster. I took out all the hiss I possibly could without ruining the overall sound quality. I cranked the bass, the treble, everything. I have listened to several versions of this show and this is by far the best. I think this is the best sounding Joshua Tree show short of an official release!

Comments

Another stunning recording of the first of two nights in Denver (CO, USA). Sound quality is phenomenal with a strong and dynamic output. In my opinion, too bassy, but excellent anyway. Note there's a little hiccup at 1:58 in October. "40" fades out and it only lasts 4:55.