Forever Young

Air Canada Centre

Toronto (Canada).

24 - May - 2001.

Attendance: 19.524 (sellout) - Support: PJ Harvey

Disc 1 (64:14)

01. Elevation Influx Intro (PA) / Elevation

02. Beautiful Day

03. Until the End of the World

04. Discothèque / Staring at the Sun

05. New York

06. Stuck in a Moment

07. Kite

08. I Will Follow

09. Sunday Bloody Sunday

10. Band Introductions

11. In a Little While

12. Stay (Faraway, so Close!)

Disc 2 (62:30)

01. Bad / "40"

02. Where the Streets Have No Name

03. Mysterious Ways

04. The Fly

05. Bullet the Blue Sky

06. With or Without You

07. Pride (In the Name of Love)

08. One

09. Forever Young

10. Walk On

Recording Equipment - History

Soundman OKM IIr mics > A3 Adapter (Bass roll-off OFF; No Linear Attenuation) > Sony PCM-M1 (Line-In; Manual recording Level set to 6.5; 48kHz) > DAT Master (48kHz, 16 bit, stereo)

Taper: Steve Vahey

Transfer: Sony PCM-M1 + Oade Digital Coax Cable + DataLink IDL-100 Hi-Res Digital Coax Monster Cable > Midiman Audiophile 2496 (SPDIF-In Clock Sync) > CE 2k WAV Edit @32 bit resolution (S. Vahey; see below) > CD WAVE Editor Track Splitting > WAV > MKW Audio Compression Tools 0.97 BETA 1 > WAV/SHN Conversion > SHN(M) w/ Shorten Seek Table

Steve Vahey comments: There are glitches in disc 1, track 1 "Elevation" at the marks of 1:35 and 1:59. I was having some technical difficulties with my rig early on, but it quickly settles down after about 1:59. Also, I adjusted the recording levels quite a bit during the first 3 minutes of Elevation (more than I probably should have). I tried to normalize the levels on this master, but there may still be a couple small volume changes present during the first 3-4 minutes of Elevation. Here is the mastering that I performed at 32bit in Cool Edit 2000:
- Used software resampling to convert the sample type from 48kHz to 44.1kHz. Resampling was performed at the highest accuracy setting (999) with the pre/post filter selected to give the best possible conversion. Resampling time was approximately 7 hours.
- Normalized levels across the whole show, increased levels to max, and balanced left-to-right channel volume.
- Added Fade In/Out on each disc.

There's a guy in the audience who sings occasionally at the outside of the mic range. He's only really audible in headphones or on a super hi-fi system, and mostly only during the quieter parts of the first 35 minutes or so. When I listened to the show on my stereo I couldn't really hear him much at all, but on my surround sound pc speakers he's faintly audible. There are also very infrequent (and small) pops in a few places in the recording. The pop at 1:11 into disc1-track1 is the worst I noticed, and I only heard maybe 6-10 in the first 64 minutes. I checked the master DAT and the pops are on there too. I don't how they got there, but maybe I had the levels a little too low while recording, I'm not sure.

Comments

Not much to add to Steve's comments. A very solid recording, with excellent sound quality and minimal audience noise. Very sharp definition, with all instruments and vocals well audible and coming through pretty strong.

It was Bob Dylan's birthday, so Bono wished happy birthday to him at the beginning of Elevation. Moreover, he added a snippet of Mr. Tombourine Man at the end of the same song. Finally, a brief rendition of Forever Young appeared before Walk On.