1. U2 KBFH Jun3 84 airdate promo announced
2. U2 KBFH Jun3 84 airdate promo blank
3. KBFH U2 airdate Jun3 84 test tone
4. U2 KBFH Boston Orpheum Theatre 83 beginning
5. Levis commercial
6. Out of Control
7. Two Hearts Beat as One
8. An Cat Dubh
9. Into The Heart
10. Budweiser commercial
11. Honda commercial
12. Sunday Bloody Sunday
13. Cry / The Electric Co
14. October
15. Gloria
16. Yoplait commercial
17. Levis commercial
18. Budweiser commercial
19. I Threw a Brick Through a Window
20. A Day Without Me
21. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
22. I Will Follow
23. Honda commercial
24. Budweiser commercial
25. U2 KBFH airdate Jun3 84 show wrapup

Transfer: U2 live onstage > soundboard > multitrack recording > DIR broadcasting mixdown engineers > DIR broadcasting mastering engineers >
                records delivered to radio stations > the mysterious vinyl liberation front > vinyl cleaned with Nagaoka roller record cleaner > Technics SL-1200 turntable
                with Stanton 681EEE cartridge > Akai preamp > grounded SoundBlaster Live! 16 bit soundcard > Wavelab 4.0 (**) > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC Level 8
Remastering (by Audioarchivist): Recording levels boosted and balanced, initial De-Clicker to remove most pops, stereo expansion 33%,
                                                         multiband compression to re-enforce lows and air-out the highs, dynamics processing for smoothing,
                                                         another De-Crackler to take out most ticks and picks, final mix compression and limiting.
 

NOTE (by Audioarchivist, posted on The Traders Den): I originally first recorded this show in the early eighties from radio in Vancouver, B.C. Imagine my surprise a few years later to acquire the actual records the radio had played! What an upgrade! Wow. Working in a collector's record store had its privileges!  Through the years, I've taped these slabs o' vinyl for many many people. About a year ago I finally got around to transferring them to my computer to put them on CD. I wasn't happy with how flat and dull they sounded.  I spent several months (off and on again) doing listening tests and messing around with several mastering techniques. I tried EQ, several different filter-y thingies, harsh radio compression, etc... Lots of crazy tricks...I finally settled on the settings I described earlier. I tend to go for 'less is more' and subtlety of processing is the key to success. I've heard some 'ReMasters' that really sound ReMastered! That is, you can hear how processed the sound has become.  The main criteria of my listening tests was that if I could 'hear the ReMaster' job, it was processed too much, and should be scrapped. I found settings that improved it but still let it sound analog.  This version is an improvement over my raw vinyl transfer, by far. The original's really OK, but had some surface noise due to repeated heavy-handed radio play. It also sounded thin, and the transfer was done at a slightly lower volume.
My ReMaster bumps the levels up to slightly less than average levels of today's CD releases. They sure do master modern discs too loud these days! I also killed probably 90% of the vinyl groove imperfection sounds, but left a reminder that the source was a record. Not over-processed...I recently found out there is a bootleg of this 'out there', but I don't think it is from a pre-FM source like this is. There seems to be another boot or two that are more complete and faithful to the original concert, and not quite so hacked up like this KBFH show is, but I don't have it. I have this version. Now you do too!  I included everything relevant on the records : commercials, test tone and all! I re-ordered the promo spots, and cut the silence bands between commercials and program, but everything else is there. Honest.

Although I did use some compression techniques and De-Crackling plug-ins, in no way do they detract from the raw dynamism of the performance on stage.

Recorded May 06, 1983 - Airdate June 3, 1984.