24.05.2001
Canada, Toronto, Air Canada Centre	
Build A Ladder To The Stars	
very good Aud.

Disc 1: [1:04:19]
01. Intro / Elevation [5:35]
02. Beautiful Day [4:42]
03. Until The End Of The World [5:32]
04. Discotheque / Staring At The Sun [5:56]
05. New York [7:33]
06. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of [5:19]
07. Kite [4:40]
08. I Will Follow [4:48]
09. 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: [1:02:34]
01. Bad 
02. Where The Streets Have No Name [5:57]
03. Mysterious Ways [6:01]
04. The Fly [6:01]
05. Bullet The Blue Sky [7:32]
06. With Or Without You [7:47]
07. Pride (In The Name Of Love) [5:34]
08. One [8:37]
09. Forever Young (Bob Dylan Song) [5:16]
10. Walk On [1:57]

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

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 courtesy of Steve Vahey.