I have this for a while now, dont know why I haven't uploaded it before. U2Start has a great IEM, but like all IEMs the audience is not audible and it sounds very flat. This matrix sounds quiet good. Imho the lower frequences could have been a bit lower in the mix, but you can do that yourself with the EQ in your favourite player.
Think I got this from U2Torrents. Thanks to the seeders and ofcourse to the taper
Bootleg is complete, although the last two songs are Audience sourced only. Still pretty good. Certainly not bad for a Popmart show. I'd rate it 4 stars. But I like it better than the IEM, because of the ambiance.
U2
Kingdome
Seattle, WA
December 12, 1997
JEMS Audience Master + IEM Matrix (circa 2001)
Source One: JEMS audie Nakamichi 700s > Sony TCD-D7 DAT
Source Two: Edge IEM feed via scanner > DAT
JEMS master DAT + IEM DAT clone > Wavelab > CD-R > xACT extraction > .wav > FLAC
Disc One
01 Mofo
02 I Will Follow
03 Gone
04 Even Better Than The Real Thing
05 Last Night On Earth
06 Until The End Of The World
07 New Year's Day
08 Pride
09 I Still Haven't Found
10 Stand By Me
11 All I Want Is You
12 Staring At The Sun
13 Sunday Bloody Sunday
14 Bullet the Blue Sky
Disc Two
01 Please
02 Where the Streets Have No Name
03 Lemon (Perfecto Mix) Interlude
04 Discotheque
05 If You Wear That Velvet Dress
06 With or Without You
07 Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
08 Mysterious Ways
09 One
10 Wake Up Dead Man (audience only)
11 40 (audience only)
Many years ago now, JEMS set about to create this matrix after we received a DAT clone of the IEM with which to mix our audience master tape. JEMS NW facility prides itself on making the most of IEM sources (when we actually get to 'em that is), painstakingly cleaning up dropouts and noises. On the other side of the matrix, the now-deceased Kingdome was a concrete monstrosity with notoriously brutal acoustics, but JEMS' audie of the night isn't half bad.
It has been long enough since this matrix was made that I couldn't tell you for certain the IEM source is the same as what was just posted here, but I would be very surprised if it wasn't. At the time we received it the last two songs were missing. I think that has since been corrected but we're too many years down the road to go back and fix it. JEMS audience master, to the best of my knowledge, has not widely circulated if at all, though again, for all I know the audience source still on the tracker is ours. But I do believe this matrix has never circulated and it certainly hasn't been torrented.
Our later matrixes of IEM and audies are better than this (this was surely a scanner recording vs. a true IEM receiver), but I think it is still very appealing. I had a thought to giving it a remaster but after playing around a bit, I decided to leave it as J had originally mastered it since I wasn't sure I was helping. Samples, of course, provided. Curious to see what folks think of this.
Butterking for JEMS
MP3 links (V1 preset, avg 212kbps, 197MB)
http://rapidshare.com/files/189679303/1997-12-12_-_Seattle.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/189687358/1997-12-12_-_Seattle.part2.rar
As you can see i used a slightly better preset as it fits in 2 rar files like most of the lossy bootlegs on U2Start.
Lossless later, first I need to try to get my ratio up on Dime. Very hard, harder than on U2Torrents
Chris
! If not, Bootlegs at least