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"Big Fat Asses"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: Ballerusk (Audio Taper)
Equipment: Edirol R-09 (Audio recording device), AT853 (Microphone), Audacity (Sound Editor), CA-9100 (Power supply)
Lineage: AT853c > CA9100 v3.2 > Edirol R09 (16bit/44.1KHz)Source: SD card > Audacity (track split, remove noise) > xAct (fix SBE and FLAC) > MP3
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Bit rate: 192, bit depth: 16, sample rate: 44100, channels: 2

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Audience microphone

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: helohelo (Audio Taper)
Equipment: Adobe Audition (Sound Editor), AT831 (Microphone), Sony PCM-D50 (Audio recording device)
Lineage: Audio Technica AT831 Cardioid microphones > Sony PCM-D50Processing:Adobe Audition 2.0 (downsampled to 44.1 kHz, dithered to 16 bit) > CDwave Track Split > Wave > Flac 6 (aligned on sector boundaries)
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"Kings Of Croker"

Origins: Audience microphone, CD Silver
Credits: The Godfather Records (Silver Manufacturer)
Lineage: CD Silver Bootleg: The Godfatherecords - G.R. 443/444 (Barcode : 16102009443)

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Audience microphone

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: bedoc (Audio Taper)
Equipment: SP-SPSB-1 (Power supply), SP-CMC-4 (Microphone), Olympus LS-10 (Audio recording device)
Lineage: SP-CMC-4 > SP-SPSB-1 Battery Box @160HZ > Olympus LS-10 (24/96) > Kingston SD Card (16Go) > > USB 2.0 > WAV > Soundforge 6.0 (normalisation) > > CD Wave Editor (tracking) > > dBpowerAmp > Flac (8)

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review by MattG

14 years ago

Performance

An excellent 360° performance. The band really seems into it, and very excited to be playing back at home, as always.

Sound

Again, decent. It was a windy night, so the taper can surely be forgiven- the parts that aren't affected by the wind sound great. But the weather was a factor that night in Dublin, and although the rain only seemed to enhance the atmosphere of the performers, it does tiny damages to the sound here and there. The energy and belief everyone had in that show that night made the slight sound flaws easy to overlook.

Audience

Decent, at the appropriate times. There are a few moments where annoying crowd members can be heard either conversing or shouting something at the band it seems, but they are few and far between. Nobody truly gets in the way of the experience, but the crowd certainly doesn't carry any songs.

Overall

I was very pleased with this show, moreso than many US dates of 360°, and right up there with the best of the European boots.

Highlights:
-Sunday Bloody Sunday / Rock the Casbah
-Edge's solo in Pride
-Angel of Harlem
-Where the Streets Have No Name (always a highlight, I know, but that night it was crisp and punctuated, the way I believe Edge's guitar in it SHOULD be. Truly a phenomenal performance of Streets- highlight of the show)

Lowlights:
-Breathe seemed a tad rusty this evening
-The end of Vertigo had me very anxious to hear the snippet of "Thunderstruck", and I assumed that Bono would end the song with a prompt and powerful "YOU'VE BEEN THUN-DER-STRUCK!" as Edge hit the last E chord...instead, he just shouted the word "Thunderstruck!" a bunch of times during the "yeah yeah yeah" part. A disappointment, but no reason not to download!