U2 - Philadelphia 12-06-2001 Matrix

First Union Center

Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), USA.

12 - June - 2001.

Attendance: 19.268 (sellout) - Support: PJ Harvey

Disc 1 (67:42)

01. Intro (PA)

02. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (PA)

03. Elevation Influx Intro (PA) / Elevation

04. Beautiful Day

05. Until the End of the World

06. New Year's Day

07. Kite

08. New York

09. I Will Follow

10. Sunday Bloody Sunday

11. Stuck in a Moment

12. In a Little While

13. The Ground Beneath Her Feet

14. Desire

Disc 2 (56:49)

01. All I Want is You

02. Where the Streets Have No Name

03. Mysterious Ways

04. The Fly

05. - NRA Message -

06. Bullet the Blue Sky

07. With or Without You

08. - encore break -

09. One

10. Walk On

Recording Equipment - History

Matrix of audience source + Dual Scan (Bono & Edge IEMs)

Transfer & Editing: S.Z.

Additional notes (by S.Z.):

IEM Taper: Coles Dad
Audience: cant Remember

IEM: DAT Clone at 32khz from master > CEPRO > MATRIX
AUD: Aud CD clone > EAC > CEPRO > MATRIX

Mixed in Cool Edit Pro in 2002

Lineage: MATRIX CD MASTER > EAC > FLAC

This matrix I feel leans a bit more toward the "scanny" side of things, which some of you seem to enjoy. I remember I mixed this one and the night before kind of in opposite ways as I purposely tried not to make all these things sound the same. If i put it on a scale of 1-10 where 1 was almost all audience and 10 was almost all scan, this would be about a 7.5 or so. That being said, it sounds nice, just might want to dial in a little bass and there you go. A little more clarfification for the noobs: a dual scan is when you have two rigs, and we recieved the FM broadcast of Bono and Edge separately so they could be mixed down later. This way you don't get Edge blasting you on his vocals, or just bono rocketing through, we could cross mix them to get them quite balanced. As many know, on Elevation Tour Adam rarely used IEMs, so his channel went in and out if it was on at all so we stopped messing with it as it was a waste. Even when it was on the drums were too loud relatively in the mix compared to the bass so if you had the bass right, the drums were too loud, or if the drums were right, the bass just wasn't that loud. We normally just went with a dual Bono and Edge and tried to roll the bass in from the audience the best we could.

Comments

Superb matrix recording by S.Z. Sound quality is fantastic with a solid and powerful output, and music and vocals well upfront.