Audience

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DVD 2397; Probable lineage: Sony ECM 909 > WM-D6 > Analog Master > Nakamichi Dragon > CD-R(u) [> EAC Secure > Goldwave (speed fix) > FLAC]. (Analog Master unconfirmed > speed fix) AKA The Last Night in Town

Lineage on this one is supposed to be D6 master > CD-R. I got this from Chris Wolf and on my site I had it written that he had it as D6 > DAT, but that was likely an error on my part (however, a search has revealed another analog master listed as Binural mics > Ananlog 0 > dat > Delta Dio 2496, which could confirm the DAT I had listed in the lineage was correct. It is unknown if that is the same recording though, so I am not sure). Chris' site now has a link to Justin's review, which has my old notes, and Chris no longer remembers whom he got this from. In any case, it is thus probably true that this is a D6 master with no further analog gens, and I received a note that the above lineage is probably what this is (my fix is the part in brackets). So I would consider the lineage noted above to be what this probably is, thanks to Trevor's comparison, but the lineage may incorrectly omit a DAT in the lineage.

Listening to this one, it was clearly very close to fine, but sounded just a bit slow. I worked on it very carefully, agonizing over it, and ended up stretching it to a speed of about 0.08% increase (very small, compared to most other fixes I have done, but noticeable to some). After re-indexing it, I did nothing else to this recording. So to confirm, this is probably a D6 analog master with the above set up, with possibly a DAT before the transfer to CD-R.

This is certainly a nice recording. HOWEVER, when Adam's bass or Larry get loud there is some distortion and muddiness, and to my ears, this recording sounds very close to mono, making it a somewhat less pleasurable listening experience. Nonetheless it's a pretty nice recording, better than you could reasonably ask for.

Audience noise is not very audible, but someone near the taper apparently thought brining an air horn to a concert served some good purpose. Luckily, said air horn is used mostly between songs. There is a tape flip about a half hour into the show before "Exit" where little or no music is lost, another edit before "Streets" and one before "'40,'" before each of which a little is lost, but not much. I noticed a "flaw," possibly from an early DAE extraction of or just something on the original tape, a pop at about 0:23 in "Springhill Mining Disaster."

The show is very good, but they are maybe not quite as pumped as they were for other shows on this leg. Nonetheless it's very good. Bono has an audience member up on stage to play harmonica during "Trip Through Your Wires." He also gives a tremendous vocal performance in "Springhill Mining Disaster." "Bad" contains what are either improvisations or unknown snippets.

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