Forever Young
May 24, 2001
Toronto, Canada
Air Canada Centre.

Complete Show: Yes
Disc 1: (64:14)
Disc 2: (62:30)

Disc 1:
1. Intro / Elevation [5:35]
2. Beautiful Day [4:42]
3. Until The End Of The World [5:32]
4. Discothèque / Staring At The Sun [5:56]
5. New York [7:33]
6. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of [5:19]
7. Kite [4:40]
8. I Will Follow [4:48]
9. Sunday Bloody Sunday [7:01]
10. Band Introduction [3:12]
11. In A Little While [4:04]
12. Stay (Faraway, So Close!) [5:52]

Disc 2:
1. Bad [6:57]
2. Where The Streets Have No Name [6:00]
3. Mysterious Ways [6:01]
4. The Fly [7:32]
5. Bullet The Blue Sky [7:47]
6. With Or Without You [5:34]
7. Pride (In The Name Of Love) [8:37]
8. One [5:16]
9. Forever Young [1:57]
10. Walk On [6:49]

Taper: Steve Vahey

History: Soundman OKMIIR Mics -> A3 Adapter (Bass Roll-Off OFF; No Linear Attenuation) -> Sony PCM-M1 DAT (Line-In; Manual Recording Level Set to 6.5; 48kHz) -> DAT Master (48kHz, 16 bit, stereo)
DAT > SHN : Sony PCM-M1 + Oade Digital Coax Cable + DataLink IDL-100 Hi-Res Digital Coax Monster Cable -> Midiman Audiophile 2496 (SPDIF-In Clock Sync) -> CE 2k WAV Edit @32 bit resolution (S. Vahey; see below) -> CD WAVE Editor Track Splitting -> WAV -> MKW Audio Compression Tools 0.97 BETA 1 -> WAV/SHN Conversion -> SHN(M) w/ Shorten Seek Tables

[Comments from the taper]: There are glitches in disc 1, track 1 "Elevation" at the marks of 1:35 and 1:59. I was having some technical difficulties with my rig early on, but it quickly settles down after about 1:59. Also, I adjusted the recording levels quite a bit during the first 3 minutes of Elevation (more than I probably should have). I tried to normalize the levels on this master, but there may still be a couple small volume changes present during the first 3-4 minutes of Elevation. Here is the mastering that I performed at 32bit in Cool Edit 2000:
- Used software resampling to convert the sample type from 48kHz to 44.1kHz. Resampling was performed at the highest accuracy setting (999) with the pre/post filter selected to give the best possible conversion. Resampling time was approximately 7 hours.
- Normalized levels across the whole show, increased levels to max, and balanced left-to-right channel volume.
- Added Fade In/Out on each disc.
There's a guy in the audience who sings occasionally at the outside of the mic range. He's only really audible in headphones or on a super hi-fi system, and mostly only during the quieter parts of the first 35 minutes or so. When I listened to the show on my stereo I couldn't really hear him much at all, but on my surround sound pc speakers he's faintly audible. There are also very infrequent (and small) pops in a few places in the recording. The pop at 1:11 into disc1-track1 is the worst I noticed, and I only heard maybe 6-10 in the first 64 minutes. I checked the master DAT and the pops are on there too. I don't how they got there, but maybe I had the levels a little too low while recording, I'm not sure.

Comments [Justinscdrtrading.com]: This is a very nice recording of the first Elevation concert in Toronto.  The music is very much in the foreground of this recording and both the instruments and vocals can be clearly heard.   Audience noise is minimal with few, if any, individual voices being audible.   This recording is an upgrade from "No More Singing Like A Girl For Me".

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