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"Wireless Matrix"

Origins: Audience microphone, IEM
Credits: Daftly (Audio Taper), J.T. (Audio Taper), sharebear/hoserama (Matrix Creator)
Equipment: Sony PCM-M1 (Audio recording device), Core Sound HEB DPA 4060 (Microphone), Wireless Receiver (IEM Receiver), DAT Recorder (Audio recording device)
Lineage: [DAT master (Bono + Edge IEM) + [digital audience master] > Nuendo 4 > iZotope MBIT+ > TLH > .flac [ > fre:ac > mp3]
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U2
December 02, 2001
American Airlines Arena
Miami, Florida

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Source:
#1 Bono + Edge IEM via Scanner > DAT
Taper: Datfly
#2 Core Sound High End Binaurals (with Danish Pro Audio 406x capsules) > Sony PCM-M1
Taper: J. T.

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Mixed & Mastered by Sharebear/Hoserama
Mixed in Neundo 4, using extra waves & izotope plug-ins
Dithered using Izotope MBIT+
Flac'ed using Trader's Little Helper
Mix Version 12

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01 Intro
02 Elevation
03 Beautiful Day
04 Until The End Of The World
05 Mysterious Ways
06 Out Of Control
07 Sunday Bloody Sunday
08 Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
09 Kite
10 In God's Country
11 Knockin' On Heaven's Door
12 Please
13 Bad
14 Where The Streets Have No Name
15 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
16 Pride (In The Name Of Love)
17 Encore
18 Bullet The Blue Sky
19 What's Going On
20 New York
21 One
22 My Sweet Lord
23 Walk On

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Recording Notes:
Solid two IEM pull coupled with the audience recording. However, I've been critical of the IEM mixes from the Elevation tour for a long time. They used some unnatural sounding compression techniques that make it hard on the ears sometimes. Some of it can be attributed to the scanner, but using the same equipment in 2005 yielded much better sounding recordings in my opinion. Then there's the click sound, where they seem to use some sort of sidechannel compression on the ambient mics that's triggered by the click. So I was able to filter most of the click, but can't make up for the unnatural sounding sound by the ambient mics change in volume.

Then there's the audience recording. Not a great recording, not a bad one. I was able to zap a lot of the close claps but cheers and general crowd can still be heard. I used a sidechannel compressor to the IEM pull so as the IEM mix gets louder, the audience recording gets quiet. It's subtle but helps balance it.

I've been working on this mix on and off for almost two years now. Never quite got the sound I was satisfied with, but I think I'm finally good with the final result. Sounds like I'm trashing it right? It's actually a solid enough mix in my opinion. Not something that I could pass off as an official recording or anything, but enjoyable to put on. Certainly an improvement over the raw sources in my opinion (yours may vary). Give it a whirl, see what you think.

Show Notes:
As the Elevation tour was winding down, the setlists started getting a bit shorter. Not a lot of setlist variety, as the band seemed to be getting tired by all the touring. But this show saw some nice gems with Knockin' On Heavens Door (with audience member) and In God's Country. This is technically the last time New York was played (and there was great sorrow across the land). Must have been a really good experience for folks who saw both the start and end of the tour in Miami (and hopefully multiple shows in between!).

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Final words:
IEM recordings are not for everyone. If not they're not your thing, either sonically or ethically, there's still the existing excellent audience recording out there. Similarly, I'm mixing primarily for my ears. This is what sounds best to me. This may not sound the best to you. That's a fair statement. I'm open to honest criticism, but pointless complaining is unappreciated (naturally). Let's play nice.

Please don't sell this recording in any way - no cash for blanks, 2:1s, or any other form of "getting paid for your time".

Please don't convert from mp3 back to wave and trade around. This stuff is too easy to find on torrents now.

Please do not attempt to remaster/remix this recording and spread it around. This has been heavily processed, and if you want to do your own mix, go get the wireless recordings (good luck) and do it yourself from scratch.

Also, please don't torrent or post on other sites without at least dropping me a line and asking. I may want to just upload it there myself. Please ask (and wait for permission!) before putting it in any matrix + video. If you ask nicely I will likely say yes.

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Enjoy y'all
- Hoserama

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"Edge's earpiece" aka "Bono's Earpiece (= 2 Cam Mix)"

Origins: IEM, DV Camcorder
Credits: Eclipse & Marc (Matrix Creator)
Lineage: DVD "2 Cam Mix (Eclipse & Marc)" > AC3 (16/48) > [???] MP3 (VBR)
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"Bono IEM" aka "Bono's Earpiece (= 2 Cam Mix)"

Origins: IEM, DV Camcorder
Credits: Eclipse & Marc (Matrix Creator)
Lineage: [likely]: DVD "2 Cam Mix (Eclipse & Marc)" > [???] > WAV > FLAC > MP3 (LAME)
Downloads: 313

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"Honey, I'm Home"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: Michael Albuquerque (Recording transferer), Jason G. (Audio Taper)
Equipment: Core Sound Stealthy Cardioids (Microphone), Sony MZ-R700 (Audio recording device)
Lineage: [MD master] > Sony MDS-JB940 > [...] > Sony RCD/W1 > CD-R > EAC > .wav > Soundforge 5.0 > mkw 0.96f > .shn > TLH > .wav > Frontend FLAC > .flac [ > fre:ac > mp3]
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"Best Elevation Ever!"

Origins: CD Silver
Credits: Blue Dot Records (Silver Manufacturer)
Lineage: [Blue Dot Records - BD-50/51]

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"CS HEB DPA 406x - SONY PCM-M1"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: J.T. (Audio Taper)
Equipment: Sony PCM-M1 (Audio recording device), Core Sound HEB DPA 4060 (Microphone)
Lineage: [digital master] > [...] > CD-R

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review by cesar_garza01

4 years ago

Performance

Last Elevation show and the boys leave with a bang. It doesn't feel like a tired show, they want to give America 2 hours of solace.

Sound

The matrix does a very good job cleaning the sound and putting the audience in a more prominent place. Great sound specially if you're listening with headphones. The counts are barely present.
Recording: "Wireless Matrix" - 5 stars

Audience

This part is only rated, not commented on

Overall

So it ended where it all began. Bono was singing for Miami but he knew that all America was listening. It was a great show and the best part was the pretty unique setlist. Beautiful Day was great, and UTEOTW was followed by Mysterious Ways instead of NYD. Out of Control is a nice treat after it and SBS had a longer pause between choruses so that Bono can give a message about how much U2 loves America. Then we have probably the best part of the show with Kite and a great acoustic set with In God's Country (miles away from JT, but it feels fresh), Knockin' on Heaven's Door with a fan and the always touching Please. The rest of the concert continued in good form and we had a very good New York, with lyrics referencing 9/11. One didn't disappoint and it was followed by a snippet of My Sweet Lord, which I enjoyed. As usual for last nights, Bono thanked the U2 crowd for making the tour possible and then we had one of the best versions of Walk On, with a snippet of 40 but still with the "Hallelujah" music, ending the show and the tour in very good form.

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