U2
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Morumbi Stadium
October 25, 2017

Source 1:
4x Wireless Sources > Multitrack Recorder
Taper: Sharebear

Source 2
CA-11 Cards > Battery Box > Tascam 2D
Taper: DJ Soulless

Mixed, Produced, and Mastered by Sharebear/Hoserama
Aligned in Adobe Audition
Mixed in Nuendo 4, using extra waves, Ozone, Slate plug-ins
Dithered using Izotope MBIT+
Flac’ed using Trader’s Little Helper

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Mix version 12 – Volume 1 – “Wet” Mix

Setlist:
01 Intro
02 Sunday Bloody Sunday
03 New Year’s Day
04 Bad
05 Pride (In The Name Of Love)
06 Where The Streets Have No Name
07 I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
08 With Or Without You
09 Bullet The Blue Sky
10 Running To Stand Still
11 Red Hill Mining Town
12 In God’s Country
13 Trip Through Your Wires
14 One Tree Hill
15 Exit
16 Mothers Of The Disappeared (w/ Daniel Lanios)
17 Beautiful Day
18 Elevation
19 Vertigo
20 Encore
21 The Best Thing
22 Ultraviolet
23 One
24 I Will Follow
25 Outro
26 Bad*

*From 10/21/2017 Sao Paulo Night #2

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There are 2 different downloads for this show.

Download #1:

1. “Wet Mix” – Full mix done by Sharebear

Download #2:

1. “Dry Mix” – Mastered Wireless Only Mix, no AUD + Crowd
2. “Unmastered Mix” – Unmastered wireless Only Mix. All post-mix effects have been disabled.
3. “Audience” – Unmastered CA-11 Cardoid Audience source. Recorded from front row, lower level, 5-6 sections away from stage. No work applied other than time alignment. Note that some wind causes minor phasing.

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Show Comments:
Closing Night of the Tour. Tour has come a long way since the opener in Vancouver. While it won’t be remembered as U2’s greatest tour, going to Sao Paulo for four nights was a lot of fun. Good show overall and enthusiastic (yet respectful at key points) crowd.

I included the performance of Bad from the second show as a bonus. Mostly just because I was very fond of that version.

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Recording Notes:
Nothing too crazy. My usual rig and setup. There were some technical issues beyond my control, which led to a bit of distortion on the high end of Bono’s vocals. Audience recording is generally pretty solid.

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Mixing Notes:
Biggest blemish in my opinion is the minor distortion on Bono’s vocals. I’ve done the usual array of tricks with metronome and count removal, but you can still hear some remnants if you listen closely.

Usually when I release something, a bunch of folks tell me “Oh I wish it had more audience” or “I wish it had less audience”. Of course, most of these folks don’t mix so it’s gut feeling. For the Vancouver 2015 multicam, I released three different mixes with varying level of audience…and still had people wanting different levels of audience (“Could you make a mix that’s between the Wet mix and Goldilocks mix?”). As I did with Vancouver 2017, I’m presenting this show in a few different formats.

For those wanting a recording that seeks to sound like an officially mixed live recording, check out the “Wet” mix. I have uploaded this as a separate package for ease of downloading.

For those looking to “Build-A-Mix Kit”, I’ve included in a separate package the Dry Mix + Unmastered Mix + CA11 AUD. Dry mix is a mastered IEM-only mix with my usual bells and whistles, Unmastered is without a lot of the sweetener (although still plenty on individual tracks), and then the Raw AUD. Everything is time aligned.

So with the Dry (or unmastered) and AUD, all the aspiring mixers can create their individual mix to their own tastes. For anybody wanting a full mix, check out my Wet mix. For anybody wanting more of straight soundboard type sound, check out the Dry mix. If you want only an audience, check out the straight audience recording.

I do ask that the aspiring mixers refrain from torrenting their outstanding mixes. I think it would be a bad thing to have a ton of different mixes popping around the internet–better that everybody just tries their own hand at it. But feel free to post clips of your mix in torrent comments.

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As always, encouraging people to get into taping and mixing. Just take the craft seriously and it will reward you many times over. There’s no point in complaining about missing recordings or subpar quality if you’re not contributing–pushing 1’s and 0’s around on the internet is no comparison for taping.

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IEM recordings are not for everyone. If not they’re not your thing, either sonically or ethically, there’s excellent alternative recordings out there.

Similarly, I’m mixing primarily for my ears. This is what sounds best to me. This may not sound best to you. That’s a fair statement. I’m open to honest criticism (although you should have caught me when I was working on the mix!), but pointless complaining is unappreciated (naturally). Let’s play nice.

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Please don’t sell this recording in any way – no cash for blanks, 2:1s, or any other form of “getting paid for your time”. Just share it freely.

Please don’t convert to mp3, then back to wave, and then trade it around. This stuff is too easy to find on torrents now.

Feel free to remaster/remix this recording. Just keep it to your own computer and iPod.

Also, please don’t torrent or share on other sites without at least dropping me a line and asking. I may want to just torrent/share it there myself.

Please ask (and wait for permission!) before putting it into any matrix + video production. If you ask nicely for a quality high-res video project, I will likely say ìyesî. If you put it on YouTube or cell phone video production without asking, I will send my cats from hell to chew your computer cables.

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Enjoy y’all!

• Hoserama/Sharebear