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Stuart Ferguson's Collection

U2   08/09/1997

Olympiastadion, Helsinki, Finland
Source IEM
Media CDR   2 discs
Notes DVD 2052; lineage: Recording Equipment: IEM Receiver > Dat @ LP Mode. DAT 1st gen clone > CDR > FLAC > Izotope Rx + Nuendo > Traders Little Helper. Taper: Supermarket Superman. Remaster/Clean-up: Sharebear/Hoserama
J-Card Comment Coming up on 15 years later, and this one is finally seeing general release. Impressive when you consider it's been traded around for a long time. Funny how these 'rare trades' things go. I'm not totally sure how it originally got into the trade pool, this might have been part of the infamous shower heist (somebody jacked a bunch of tapes from a tapers drawer while the taper hit the shower).

This source is coming direct from a transfer of a first generation DAT clone, and likely better lineage that what's commonly circulating in the trade circles. Especially considering a bunch of the 1997 IEM feeds that got released were sabotaged in some way (cut songs, noise/clicks inserted, etc), so no clue if the traded Helsinki version has any added baggage.

I do like these Crew feeds. You hear the occasional talk over, occasional instrument changover. Seems like the full-band crew feed didn't appear back until the 360 tour, but looks like not many people knew how to pull it. Must be the allure of a kickass Edge microphone pull!

The crew kinda freak out during the Lemon changeover, and end up just muting the channel. I deleted the 3 minutes of dead air. In general, there was several points of cable dropouts or scanner beeps. I cleaned up most of these, but you might notice a few occasional skips.

Did some basic remaster stuff. Broke out my scanner EQ curve (derived from EQ fingerprint comparisons between IEM receiver vs scanner), some basic exciters/reverb/etc. Nothing to extravagent with the remaster.

Included a little instrumental from the soundcheck for a little added fun.
Trades Allowed Yes
Reference / Generation 2052
Owned by Stuart Ferguson · Last Updated May 23, 2023