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"Wet Mix (Vancouver Wireless Matrix)"

Origins: Audience microphone, IEM
Credits: sharebear (Matrix Creator), Joe Ahorro (Audio Taper)
Equipment: Adobe Audition (Sound Editor), Nuendo 4 (Sound Editor), iZotope MBIT+ (Sound Editor)
Lineage: 4x Wireless Sources (iem) > Multitrack Recorder + Joe Ahorro's AUD rec. (km140 - PMD661 MKII) with patches from PHofstee's AUD rec. (MK4V - DR2D) - see info for full lineage
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"Wet Mix" - Vancouver BC - Wireless Matrix by Sharebear

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Source 1:
4x Wireless Sources > Multitrack Recorder
Taper: Sharebear

Source 2:
Neumann KM140 > Marantz Professional PMD661 MKII (24/44.1khz) > Sandisk Extreme SDXC 90 MB/s 64GB > Audacity 2.1.3 > FLAC
Taper: Joe Ahorro

Source 3:
Schoeps MK4V mics > Tascam DR2D
Taper: PHofstee

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Mixed, Produced, and Mastered by Sharebear/Hoserama
Aligned in Adobe Audition
Mixed in Nuendo 4, using extra waves, Ozone, Slate plug-ins
Dithered using Izotope MBIT+
Flac'ed using Trader's Little Helper
Mix version 6 (Includes 3 Different Pieces, see notes)

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Setlist:
01 Intro
02 Sunday Bloody Sunday
03 New Year's Day
04 A Sort Of Homecoming
05 MLK
06 Pride (In The Name Of Love)
07 Where The Streets Have No Name
08 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
09 With Or Without You
10 Bullet The Blue Sky
11 Running To Stand Still
12 Red Hill Mining Town
13 In God's Country
14 Trip Through Your Wires
15 One Tree Hill
16 Exit
17 Mothers Of The Disappeared
18 Encore
19 Beautiful Day
20 Elevation
21 Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
22 One
23 Miss Sarajevo
24 The Little Things That Give You Away
25 In God's Country (Alternate Arrangement)*

* Wet Mix Only; From Rehearsals

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Show Comments:
Opening night of the tour, which are usually train wrecks for U2. This is my 3rd "opening night" of a tour, and probably the worst of the three. They were under-rehearsed, and it had a feeling of a big dress rehearsal with a crowd. Bono rarely talks to the crowd, and he even complained about not being able to hear things correctly through his monitor mix after the show. So while it was easily the worst of the 2017 shows I saw, it still has a certain novelty for opening night.

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Recording Notes:
Nothing too out of the ordinary--usual rig and setup. No major hiccups with recording.

JA's AUD had some volume adjustments at the beginning of the show. Also, there seems to be a bit of auto-gain going on for a few times when there's a really loud whistle nearby. During the bridge on Pride, there is a gap of one second (packet drop?). I used phofstee's audience recording for Pride, and also for the intro.

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Mixing Notes:
Since it was the opening night of the tour, the monitor mixes weren't dialed in quite right yet. Flipping phase on Bono vocals a couple times during the show, turning on/off the ambient mics in the mix, and guitar + Edge vocal levels are a bit all over the place. I did a fair amount of creative work to smooth it out, but without the raw multitracks there's only so much to be done. I've done the usual array of tricks with metronome and count removal, but you can still hear some remnants if you listen closely.

While I think it's a pretty solid mix, it's not perfect by any stretch. So leave the 5-star reviews for the perfect recordings! I give it a 4-4.5 out of 5 stars.

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As always, encouraging people to get into taping and mixing. Just take the craft seriously and it will reward you many times over. There's no point in complaining about missing recordings or subpar quality if you're not contributing--pushing 1's and 0's around on the internet is no comparison for taping.

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IEM recordings are not for everyone. If not they're not your thing, either sonically or ethically, there's excellent alternative recordings out there.

Similarly, I'm mixing primarily for my ears. This is what sounds best to me. This may not sound best to you. That's a fair statement. I'm open to honest criticism (although you should have caught me when I was working on the mix!), but pointless complaining is unappreciated (naturally). Let's play nice.

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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". Just share it freely.

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

Feel free to remaster/remix this recording. Just keep it to your own computer and iPod.

Also, please don't torrent on other sites without at least dropping me a line and asking. I may want to just torrent it there myself.

Please ask (and wait for permission!) before putting it into any matrix + video. If you ask nicely, I will likely say “yes”. If you put it on YouTube or cell phone video production without asking, I will send my cats from hell to chew your computer cables.

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Enjoy y'all!
- Hoserama/Sharebear