Wembley Nights 5 & 6   The Definitive Edition & remaster

Wembley Stadium

London, U.K.

20 - August - 1993.

Attendance: 42.000 (capacity: 72.000) - Support: Utah Saints, Stereo MC's

Disc 1 (66:44)

01. TV: The Drug of the Nation (PA) / Drumming Boys (PA)

02. Zoo Station

03. The Fly

04. Even Better than the Real Thing

05. Mysterious Ways

06. One

07. Unchained Melody

08. Until the End of the World

09. New Year's Day

10. Numb

11. Babyface

12. Angel of Harlem

13. Stay (Faraway, so Close!)

14. Satellite of Love

Disc 2 (62:24)

01. Bad / The First Time

02. Bullet the Blue Sky

03. Running to Stand Still

04. Where the Streets Have No Name

05. Pride (In the Name of Love)

06. - ZooTV Videoconfessionals -

07. Desire

08. - MacPhisto's speech and phone call to the Archbishop of Canterbury -

09. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)

10. With or Without You

11. Love is Blindness

12. Can't Help Falling in Love

Recording Equipment - History

OKM IIc + Sony TCD-D7 > DAT Master > DAT-C1 > Original Wembley Nights CD set > EAC (Secure) > remastering process > FLAC

Taper: Ard Stegman

Remaster: Francesco Donadel - It has been a long and hard work. It took me nearly 2 months. I've restarted the work many times because I was not satisfied with the final result. I've used different programs, setup, monitors and even different eq for each track of each cd. For sure I'm not the best audio mastering engineer in the world (of course i'm not!) but I've tried my best to achieve the most pleasing sound. I had to find a comprimise and avoid any kind of dynamic compression for example 'cos the low frequencies tended to "fart" on the speakers, and the background noise was rising to an annoying level. Yeah the noise reduction process has not been so easy... I had to find a comprimise between quality and clarity. By the way all the tracks have perfect transitions, no gaps, no volume changes...
I received the original set way back in 1995 when Geraldo V.K. made 30 copies of each set and sold them to people for 500 dollars each box containing the 4 concerts.

For me the best recordings are the second and the third night. I love the versions of Babyface, Bad and Bullet from the second night and on the third night the sound is so dynamic that the walls of the Wembley Stadium must have been cracked!

Comments

Outstanding recording again on the third night at Wembley Stadium, freshly remastered by Francesco Donadel. Crispness is fantastic, and audience noise is minimal and softly audible. Taper had to be extremely well located. All instruments have been nicely captured, so music comes through very clean and powerful, as well as Bono's voice, featuring an excellent mix. As mentioned above by Francesco, a very solid and dynamic sound on this one, with a wonderful live feeling.

** It seems the consensus among fans say the show was taped by Ard Stegman, but it was Geraldo v. K. who converted his 'DAT clone' to create the original 'Wembley Nights' CD sets, that he later sold out there. First remastered series appeared in the trading market, by Francesco Donadel, when he acquired a copy from Geraldo. As mentioned above by himself, he wasn't happy with the final result, so he just made in 2007 a 'definitive edition' with a second and fresh remaster, and the output offers outstanding sound quality. **