U2
Madison Square Garden
New York (NY), USA
Friday October 14, 2005

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Source: Soundman OKM-II Rock Mics > Sony TCD-D8 Portable DAT-Recorder
Taper: phofstee

Conversion: DAT-Master (SP-mode/@44.1kHz) > Sony DTC-ZE700 DAT-Deck (Optical out)
> Coaxial > Tascam SS-R05 (Digital in/+0.0dB) > 
SanDisk Ultra-II 8GB CF-card > WAV (@16bit/44.1kHz)
DAT-conversion: Dutch-Baker

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Post-production: Dutch-Baker
Cleaning: iZotope RX7 & Adobe Audition CC
Mixing: Nuendo v4.3 w/Ozone + Waves plugins

Conversion: CDWav v1.95.1(track splitting) > Flac Frontend v2.1 > flac

*** Mix-Version 6 ***

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Tracklist:

01: PA Intro
02: City Of Blinding Lights
03: Vertigo
04: Elevation
05: The Electric Co.
06: Gloria
07: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
08: Beautiful Day
09: Miracle Drug
10: Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
11: Love And Peace Or Else
12: Sunday Bloody Sunday
13: Bullet The Blue Sky
14: Miss Sarajevo
15: Pride(In The Name Of Love)
16: Where The Streets Have No Name
17: One
18: Encore Break 01:
19: The First Time
20: Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
21: Fast Cars
22: With Or Without You
23: Encore Break 02:
24: All Because Of You
25: Party Girl
26: Yahweh
27: Vertigo^ 

^ Incomplete

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The last night of the Vertigo tour for me. After having enjoyed 4 shows in Europe and 4 magic nights in the Madison Square Garden, night 5 was the end of the 2005 touring era.
With the blessing of being able to be in 'the heart' again for the final night it was great to see U2 preform in a 'small venue' comparing to the stadiums in Europe. 
After having enjoyed New York for 2 days before the final concert I wasn't as prepared as I should have been... I took in my DAT, mics and luckily my photocamera too.
Just before the show I realised that I hadn't changed batteries since night 4... So I had to think fast what to do. I decided to change 2 batteries from my photocamera with the DAT 
and pull the record-button as close to the start of the show as possible. 
Luckily the tape made it till halfway Vertigo at the end. So hopefully you like the recording as much as I do.
I wish U2 would have taking it's original setlist while "Walk On" and "40" were written there. But a fan at the front shouted to Bono "Party Girl" and he took it to the show.
Because the athmosphere was so great and powerful in the house that night I think the decided to re-do Vertigo instead of let us sing along with "40" which luckily was played the 3 nights before.
Afterall a nice recording (I think ;-) ) with great thanks to the Dutchbaker for upgrading the original tape.
Enjoy!



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Recording notes:
As explained above the batteryproblem unfortunaly resulted in recording-issues. After about an hour into 
the show the right channel starts dropping slowly. In the beginning it's about 3dB lower, but by the end of the
recording we find outselves at about 15-18dB(!) lower, resulting in a massive imbalance.
Finding the reasonable spots to cranck up the volume was the first challange. If you listen closely you
can probably hear some remnants of it. An additional problem with crancking up the volume is the introduction
of a higher noise-floor, or hiss as we know it. I had to put out some tricks to get it lowered again. In the end
it's still there, but to me in a reasonable amount. Due to the lowered batteries the last Vertigo is cut halfway, 
sadly making it, an incomplete recording.

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Complied by:
Dutch-Baker on 
October 17, 2019