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U2360° Tour

U2360°: leg one [europe].

2009-06-30: Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain
2009-07-02: Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain
2009-07-07: San Siro, Milan, Italy
2009-07-08: San Siro, Milan, Italy
2009-07-11: Stade de France, Paris, France
2009-07-12: Stade de France, Paris, France
2009-07-15: Parc des Sports Charles Ehrmann, Nice, France
2009-07-18: Olympiastadion Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2009-07-20: Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009-07-21: Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009-07-24: Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland
2009-07-25: Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland
2009-07-27: Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland
2009-07-31: Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden
2009-08-01: Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden
2009-08-03: Veltins Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
2009-08-06: Stadion Śląski, Katowice, Poland
2009-08-09: Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb, Croatia
2009-08-10: Maksimir Stadium, Zagreb, Croatia
2009-08-14: Wembley Stadium, London, England
2009-08-15: Wembley Stadium, London, England
2009-08-18: Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
2009-08-20: Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield, England
2009-08-22: Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales

U2360°: Leg Two [North America]

2009-09-12: Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois
2009-09-13: Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois
2009-09-16: Rogers Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
2009-09-17: Rogers Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
2009-09-20: Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MA, USA
2009-09-21: Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MA, USA
2009-09-23: Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, USA
2009-09-24: Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, USA
2009-09-29: FedEx Field, Landover, MD, USA
2009-10-01: Scott Stadium, Charlottesville, VA, USA
2009-10-03: Carter-Finley Stadium, Raleigh, NC, USA
2009-10-06: Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA, USA
2009-10-09: Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL, USA
2009-10-12: Cowboys Stadium, Dallas, TX, USA
2009-10-14: Reliant Stadium, Houston, TX, USA
2009-10-18: Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, Norman, OK, USA
2009-10-20: University of Phoenix Stadium, Phoenix, AZ, USA
2009-10-23: Sam Boyd Stadium, Las Vegas, NV, USA
2009-10-25: Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA, USA
2009-10-28: BC Place, Vancouver, BC, Canada

U2360°: Leg Three [Europe]

2010-08-06: Stadio Olimpico di Torino, Turin, Italy
2010-08-10: Commerzbank Arena, Frankfurt, Germany
2010-08-12: AWD Arena, Hanover, Germany
2010-08-15: CASA Arena, Horsens, Denmark
2010-08-16: CASA Arena, Horsens, Denmark
2010-08-20: Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland
2010-08-21: Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland
2010-08-25: Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia
2010-08-30: Ernst Happel Stadium, Vienna, Austria
2010-09-03: Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece
2010-09-06: Ataturk Stadium, Istanbul, Turkey
2010-09-11: Letzigrund Stadium, Zurich, Switzerland
2010-09-12: Letzigrund Stadium, Zurich, Switzerland
2010-09-15: Olympiastadion, Munich, Germany
2010-09-18: Stade de France, Paris, France
2010-09-22: King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium
2010-09-23: King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium
2010-09-26: Anoeta Stadium, San Sebastian, Spain
2010-09-30: Olympic Stadium, Seville, Spain
2010-10-02: City of Coimbra Stadium, Coimbra, Portugal
2010-10-03: City of Coimbra Stadium, Coimbra, Portugal
2010-10-08: Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy

U2360°: Leg Four [Australia and New Zealand]

2010-11-25: Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand
2010-11-26: Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand
2010-12-01: Etihad Stadium, Melbourne, Australia
2010-12-03: Etihad Stadium, Melbourne, Australia
2010-12-08: Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, Australia
2010-12-09: Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, Australia
2010-12-13: ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia
2010-12-14: ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia
2010-12-18: Patersons Stadium, Subiaco, Australia
2010-12-19: Patersons Stadium, Subiaco, Australia

U2360°: Leg Five [South Africa]

2011-02-13: FNB Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa
2011-02-18: Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa

U2360°: Leg Six [South America]

2011-03-25: Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, Santiago, Chile
2011-03-30: Estadio Ciudad de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
2011-04-02: Estadio Ciudad de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
2011-04-03: Estadio Ciudad de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
2011-04-09: Estádio do Morumbi, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2011-04-10: Estádio do Morumbi, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2011-04-13: Estádio do Morumbi, Sao Paulo, Brazil

U2360°: Leg Seven [North America]

2011-05-11: Azteca Stadium, Mexico City, Mexico
2011-05-14: Azteca Stadium, Mexico City, Mexico
2011-05-15: Azteca Stadium, Mexico City, Mexico
2011-05-21: Invesco Field at Mile High, Denver, CO, USA
2011-05-24: Rice Eccles Stadium, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
2011-05-29: Canad Inns Stadium, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2011-06-01: Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2011-06-04: Qwest Field, Seattle, WA, USA
2011-06-07: O.co Coliseum, Oakland, CA, USA
2011-06-17: Angel Stadium, Anaheim, CA, USA
2011-06-18: Angel Stadium, Anaheim, CA, USA
2011-06-22: M&T Bank Stadium, Baltimore, MD, USA
2011-06-24: Glastonbury (Pilton Farm), Pilton, England, United Kingdom
2011-06-26: Spartan Stadium, East Lansing, MI, USA
2011-06-29: Sun Life Stadium, Miami, FL, USA
2011-07-02: Vanderbilt Stadium, Nashville, TN, USA
2011-07-05: Soldier Field, Chicago, IL, USA
2011-07-08: Hippodrome, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2011-07-09: Hippodrome, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2011-07-11: Rogers Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
2011-07-14: Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2011-07-17: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, MO, USA
2011-07-20: New Meadowlands Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, NJ
2011-07-23: TCF Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2011-07-26: Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2011-07-30: Magnetic Hill, Moncton, NB, Canada

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Showing details for U2's 360° Tour

360° Tour 1st leg: Europe (24 shows)
360° Tour 2nd leg: North America (20 shows)
360° Tour 3rd leg: Europe (22 shows)
360° Tour 4th leg: New Zealand and Australia (10 shows)
360° Tour 5th leg: South Africa (2 shows)
360° Tour 6th leg: South America (7 shows)
360° Tour 7th leg: North America (25 shows)
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight ( 111 times )
Beautiful Day ( 110 times )
City of Blinding Lights ( 110 times )
Get on Your Boots ( 110 times )
One ( 110 times )
Vertigo ( 110 times )
Walk On ( 110 times )
Where the Streets Have No Name ( 110 times )
With or Without You ( 109 times )
Moment of Surrender ( 108 times )
Sunday Bloody Sunday ( 108 times )
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For ( 96 times )
Magnificent ( 96 times )
Elevation ( 94 times )
Mysterious Ways ( 93 times )
Until the End of the World ( 82 times )
Miss Sarajevo ( 66 times )
Pride (In the Name of Love) ( 65 times )
Ultraviolet (Light My Way) ( 64 times )
MLK ( 63 times )
In a Little While ( 50 times )
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me ( 46 times )
The Unforgettable Fire ( 46 times )
No Line On The Horizon ( 44 times )
Scarlet ( 44 times )
Breathe ( 43 times )
I Will Follow ( 42 times )
Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of ( 36 times )
Unknown Caller ( 34 times )
Return of the Stingray Guitar ( 33 times )
Even Better Than The Real Thing ( 31 times )
New Year's Day ( 29 times )
Stay (Faraway, So Close!) ( 29 times )
Zooropa ( 27 times )
North Star ( 15 times )
Happy Birthday ( 14 times )
The Fly ( 14 times )
Bad ( 13 times )
All I Want Is You ( 12 times )
Desire ( 10 times )
Mercy ( 10 times )
Angel of Harlem ( 8 times )
Glastonbury ( 7 times )
Your Blue Room ( 7 times )
Out of Control ( 6 times )
Love Rescue Me ( 4 times )
One Tree Hill ( 4 times )
Stand By Me ( 4 times )
Electrical Storm ( 3 times )
Every Breaking Wave ( 3 times )
Mothers Of The Disappeared ( 3 times )
Party Girl ( 2 times )
40 ( 1 time )
Boy Falls From the Sky ( 1 time )
Knockin' on Heaven's Door ( 1 time )
She's The One ( 1 time )
Sólo Le Pido A Dios ( 1 time )
Spanish Eyes ( 1 time )
The Auld Triangle ( 1 time )
The Model ( 1 time )
The Wanderer ( 1 time )
Yiğidim Aslanım Burda Yatıyor ( 1 time )
You'll Never Walk Alone ( 89 times )
Amazing Grace ( 55 times )
All You Need Is Love ( 44 times )
Discothèque ( 41 times )
Two Tribes ( 37 times )
Hear Us Coming ( 35 times )
Relax ( 25 times )
Anthem ( 24 times )
Blackbird ( 24 times )
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough ( 22 times )
Stand By Me ( 22 times )
Singin' In The Rain ( 21 times )
Life During Wartime ( 20 times )
Movin' On Up ( 20 times )
Rain ( 19 times )
Psycho Killer ( 18 times )
Space Oddity ( 18 times )
Here Comes The Sun ( 15 times )
Rock The Casbah ( 15 times )
Get Up Stand Up ( 12 times )
My Sweet Lord ( 12 times )
Miss You ( 11 times )
Mofo ( 11 times )
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) ( 11 times )
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow ( 11 times )
Please ( 10 times )
Teenage Kicks ( 10 times )
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) ( 9 times )
The Promised Land ( 9 times )
40 ( 8 times )
Norwegian Wood ( 8 times )
Reverend Black Grape ( 8 times )
She Loves You ( 8 times )
Funky Town ( 7 times )
Hallelujah ( 7 times )
Let's Dance ( 7 times )
Where Have All The Flowers Gone? ( 7 times )
Oliver's Army ( 6 times )
Shine Like Stars ( 6 times )
Billie Jean ( 5 times )
Can't Stand The Rain ( 5 times )
Follow the Yellow Brick Road ( 5 times )
Fool To Cry ( 5 times )
Jungleland ( 5 times )
Many Rivers To Cross ( 5 times )
Never Tear Us Apart ( 5 times )
Man In The Mirror ( 4 times )
Mothers Of The Disappeared ( 4 times )
Need You Tonight ( 4 times )
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ( 4 times )
Break On Through ( 3 times )
C Moon ( 3 times )
Far Far Away ( 3 times )
Fuck You, It's Over ( 3 times )
Gracias A La Vida ( 3 times )
In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning ( 3 times )
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) ( 3 times )
Miami ( 3 times )
People Get Ready ( 3 times )
Purple Rain ( 3 times )
Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) ( 3 times )
Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World ( 3 times )
A Day Without Me ( 2 times )
Acquiesce ( 2 times )
All I Want Is You ( 2 times )
Dickes B. ( 2 times )
Don't Cry For Me Argentina ( 2 times )
Dubravka ( 2 times )
God Only Knows ( 2 times )
Happy Birthday ( 2 times )
Heart of Gold ( 2 times )
I Want To Take You Higher ( 2 times )
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight ( 2 times )
In God's Country ( 2 times )
In My Life ( 2 times )
Independent Women ( 2 times )
King Of Pain ( 2 times )
London Bridge Is Falling Down ( 2 times )
London Calling ( 2 times )
Mensch ( 2 times )
My Kind Of Town ( 2 times )
Pinhead ( 2 times )
Rock And Roll ( 2 times )
Someone Somewhere In Summertime ( 2 times )
The Hands That Built America ( 2 times )
The Maker ( 2 times )
Thunderstruck ( 2 times )
Unchained Melody ( 2 times )
Whole Lotta Love ( 2 times )
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet ( 2 times )
Alison ( 1 time )
Alive ( 1 time )
All These Things That I've Done ( 1 time )
Always Forever Now ( 1 time )
Amsterdam ( 1 time )
Are You Gonna Go My Way ( 1 time )
Atomic ( 1 time )
Birthday ( 1 time )
Black Is Black ( 1 time )
Blowin' In The Wind ( 1 time )
Blue Suede Shoes ( 1 time )
Brass In Pocket ( 1 time )
Ca Plane Pour Moi ( 1 time )
California Soul ( 1 time )
Creep ( 1 time )
Dear Prudence ( 1 time )
Devil Inside ( 1 time )
Dirty Boulevard ( 1 time )
Dirty Old Town ( 1 time )
Do They Know It's Christmas ( 1 time )
Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? ( 1 time )
Don't Dream It's Over ( 1 time )
Don't Speak ( 1 time )
Drowning Man ( 1 time )
Fall At Your Feet ( 1 time )
Fix You ( 1 time )
Flower Of Scotland ( 1 time )
Gloria ( 1 time )
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) ( 1 time )
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? ( 1 time )
He's Got The Whole World In His Hands ( 1 time )
Help ( 1 time )
Help Me Make It Through The Night ( 1 time )
Helter Skelter ( 1 time )
Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau ( 1 time )
Here Comes The Summer ( 1 time )
High And Dry ( 1 time )
Highway To Hell ( 1 time )
I Gotta Feeling ( 1 time )
I Predict A Riot ( 1 time )
I Want To Know What Love Is ( 1 time )
I'll Stand By You ( 1 time )
In The Garden ( 1 time )
Instant Karma! ( 1 time )
Into My Arms ( 1 time )
John I'm Only Dancing ( 1 time )
La Bamba ( 1 time )
Lady Marmalade ( 1 time )
Let It Be ( 1 time )
Like A Hurricane ( 1 time )
Love and Peace or Else ( 1 time )
Love Will Tear Us Apart ( 1 time )
Mazurek Dąbrowskiego ( 1 time )
Miss Sarajevo ( 1 time )
New York, New York ( 1 time )
One Love ( 1 time )
One Tree Hill ( 1 time )
Party Girl ( 1 time )
Perfect Day ( 1 time )
Play Me ( 1 time )
Pour Some Sugar On Me ( 1 time )
Private Dancer ( 1 time )
Promised You A Miracle ( 1 time )
Pump It Up ( 1 time )
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head ( 1 time )
Rock 'n' Roll High School ( 1 time )
Rock 'N' Roll Nigger ( 1 time )
Rock Me Amadeus ( 1 time )
Rock You Like A Hurricane ( 1 time )
Rockaway Beach ( 1 time )
Rockin' In The Free World ( 1 time )
Rocks ( 1 time )
Run ( 1 time )
Senza Una Donna ( 1 time )
She's A Mystery To Me ( 1 time )
She's A Rainbow ( 1 time )
Show Me The Way ( 1 time )
Slide Away ( 1 time )
Springhill Mining Disaster ( 1 time )
Stories for Boys ( 1 time )
Strangers In The Night ( 1 time )
Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of ( 1 time )
Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down ( 1 time )
Television Screen ( 1 time )
Tequila ( 1 time )
That's The Way (I Like It) ( 1 time )
The Aaronic Blessing ( 1 time )
The Battle Hymn Of The Republic ( 1 time )
The Fixer ( 1 time )
The Great Curve ( 1 time )
The Needle and the Damage Done ( 1 time )
The Times, They Are A-Changin' ( 1 time )
The Way You Make Me Feel ( 1 time )
The Whole of the Moon ( 1 time )
Three Little Birds ( 1 time )
TV Eye ( 1 time )
Two Hearts Beat as One ( 1 time )
United We Stand ( 1 time )
Up On The Catwalk ( 1 time )
Viva Las Vegas ( 1 time )
Walk On The Wild Side ( 1 time )
We Are Family ( 1 time )
Where Is The Love? ( 1 time )
Worried Blues ( 1 time )
Young Americans ( 1 time )
Zooropa ( 1 time )
Cover songs ( 7 songs )
No Line on the Horizon ( 7 songs )
Achtung Baby ( 6 songs )
All That You Can't Leave Behind ( 5 songs )
The Joshua Tree ( 5 songs )
Unreleased Songs ( 5 songs )
Rattle And Hum ( 4 songs )
The Unforgettable Fire ( 4 songs )
War ( 3 songs )
Zooropa ( 3 songs )
B-Sides ( 2 songs )
Boy ( 2 songs )
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb ( 2 songs )
Non-album songs ( 2 songs )
Passengers: Original Soundtracks 1 ( 2 songs )
October ( 1 song )
Songs of Innocence ( 1 song )
Breathe ( 43 )
Return of the Stingray Guitar ( 33 )
Even Better Than The Real Thing ( 30 )
Beautiful Day ( 3 )
Magnificent ( 1 )
Moment of Surrender ( 101 )
With or Without You ( 2 )
One Tree Hill ( 1 )
Happy Birthday ( 1 )
Out of Control ( 1 )
All I Want Is You ( 1 )

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U2 360 Tour Profile

SEEKING INTIMACY ON A GRAND SCALE

By By Kevin BeckaPhotos: Steve Jennings

The 170-foot-tall steel structure and stage at University of Phoenix Stadium (Glendale, Ariz.)

The U2 360° tour that recently ended its first leg in the U.S. has taken the stadium show to a new level. The sheer scope of the production is mind-boggling. It took two years to design and develop, travels on 180 trucks, employs more than 400 people — including 12 system engineer/techs — and uses an astounding amount of audio and video gear. The best thing about the show is the communication and contact between the band and the audience provided by the 170-foot-tall steel structure perched over the stage.

Originally inspired by the Theme Building at Los Angeles’ LAX airport, the four-legged “spider” incorporates all of the lighting, some of the 12 manned cameras and spots, massive speaker arrays and a huge 360-degree vertically expandable LED video screen. And as ridiculous as it sounds, once the show starts, you forget it’s there: Instead of being the elephant in the room, the structure focuses attention on the band and how they interact with the crowd, both near and far. The inner ring nearest the main stage gives more than 3,000 fans close proximity to the band, while the outer ring gives the band access to standing and seated concertgoers farther out. At different times during the show, The Edge, Bono, Adam Clayton and even drummer Larry Mullins Jr. use two moving bridges to perform between the areas and are followed by video and audio all the way.

Of course, you’d expect the audio system used for such a massive setup to be huge — and it doesn’t disappoint. The setup comprises the latest in digital tech offered for live sound and, surprisingly, some tried-and-true analog gear. The tour’s look and systems design was a collaboration between the band and audio director/front-of-house Joe O’Herlihy, show designer Willie Williams, production architect/designers Jeremy Lloyd and Mark Fisher, and Clair Global R&D and engineering teams.

Front-of-house engineer Joe O’Herlihy (left) with senior systems engineer Jo Ravitch

The speakers used are all Clair and comprise FOH left/right hangs of 36 i5 and 36 i5B; 24 i5 and 24 i5B rear; 16 i5 and 16 i5B at house left; and 16 i5 and 16 i5B at house right. Main stage front-fills include 24 FF2 and 24 BT218 subs, while the “B” stage area carries 72 S4 subs. There are also two towers carrying 32 iDL delay cabinets. That’s 336 separate enclosures, all powered by Lab.gruppen PLM 10000Q and PLM 14000s and Powersoft K10 amps that are positioned at each leg of the structure and are fed audio from the stage racks. All EQ and control is via Lake/Dolby I/O software Version 5.3, with most of the processing resident in the Lab.gruppen PLM 10000Q and PLM 14000 amplifiers; system tuning is via EAW Smaart software.

Consoles at FOH are redundant DiGiCo SD7s, each running identical shows. Jo Ravitch, senior systems engineer/Clair Global crew chief, says, “There are two main stage racks, one of them distributes AES to each leg and there’s a backup system of analog feeds to each amp, as well. If we have an issue with anything in this setup, I walk over here and switch to analog and Joe [O’Herlihy] walks over to the other board and picks up the mix.”

The front end for Bono and The Edge’s vocals and some of the compression for the guitars called for some unusual gear choices. Ravitch says, “When the tour started, there wasn’t very much [processing] available on the board so we’re using outboard stuff.” For Bono’s vocals, O’Herlihy calls on the Manley Vox Box; The Edge’s vocals take an Avalon 737. Compression for the guitars is on a Summit Audio DCL-200 comp/limiter, with the rest of the limiting provided by the SD7.

In monitor world, from left: Niall Slevin, Alistair McMillan and Dave Skaff

The system was a game-changer for O’Herlihy, who has been with U2 for more than 25 years. “The approach to the mix in the context of the way the sound is distributed has been enlightening, to be perfectly honest,” he says. “The size of the system has created an experience that is incredibly responsive. We now have something that’s almost touch-sensitive. When you make a move, there’s a large physical element of immediately hearing what you do.”

Because of the staging’s scope and design, the textbooks had to be thrown out and a system designed that would cover everyone. O’Herlihy says, “From the mix perspective, you have to get your head around the whole concept of having an inside column and an outside column, and how you distribute your gain structures accordingly.”

The players’ audio experience onstage was an essential element in the system design. “Any time you do things in 360 degrees, the apex of that circle is right where the drummer is,” O’Herlihy continues. “It would normally be a difficult place to perform while being hammered with all that bass.” This is where the use of the 72 Clair S4 cardioid subs around the outer ring comes in. “The cardioid movement works extraordinarily well in nullifying bass, so it’s a clean, clean stage that is a good performance area,” the FOH engineer adds.

O’Herlihy has seen an exponential evolution in tour sound technology. He had his digital education on the DiGiCo D5, which was innovative at the time. On the Vertigo tour, he had the benefit of the D5 being around for a few years before he took it out. He did not have that luxury with the SD7, but trusted that it was the only console that could get the job done. The SD7 was the only solution that let him put each and every individual channel where he wanted it without using external equipment that would have meant another link in the chain that could possibly fail. Still, the SD7 was a leap of faith and trust in DiGiCo. “We’ve had our glitches along the way with software updates, but like everything else, we’re in virgin territory here and we felt that that the SD7 is what made this whole thing work.”

Underneath It All

Monitor mixers Dave Skaff, Alistair McMillan and Niall Slevin make their home under the massive stage, which is also where offstage keyboardist Terry Lawless plays. Because all three mixers don’t have a view of the stage, they watch what’s going on via TV monitors at each station. And as the band is moving around so much, each station gets a four-camera split specially switched for their benefit, resulting in the band being visible at all times.

Skaff mixes for bassist Adam Clayton, drummer Larry Mullins and Lawless on a Digidesign D-Show Profile. The tour’s redundancy mantra carries on below stage with Skaff mixing on one Profile with another right next to it ready to go. “With just a couple of switches hit at the same time, I’m fully up on the second rig,” says Skaff, who worked for Digidesign on the VENUE console project from the beginning. In his mixes, he uses a variety of plug-ins from Waves, McDSP and the Phoenix plug-in from Crane Song, and also records every show to Pro Tools HD.

Using digital consoles has made it easier to provide specific mixes for each bandmember. The Edge has six guitar amps onstage and two under, while Clayton has five bass guitar feeds, and they rely on the team to provide the specific balances they need for each song. Skaff points out the advantage: “Without digital, it would be a madness of markers and 3×5 index cards. At soundcheck, Bono will do half a song, shout out another song, do 12 bars of that song and shout out another. It would be impossible to get all that to come back without the digital consoles.”

Mixers Slevin and McMillan provide audio for The Edge and Bono on two DiGiCo SD7s, each running dual engines fed via MADI. Each desk runs both mixes, the thought being that if one console quits, the engineer can jump to the second engine on the working console and continue to work until the downed desk can be revived. The stage racks and local racks used for processing are also duplicated and can be quickly switched if needed. McMillan is recording the show to Steinberg Cubase on two independent Apple G5s, which top out at 90 tracks, 20 of which are ambience. “I feed [Bono] quite a bit of ambience,” says McMillan. “He enjoys hearing the audience reaction.”

To help with latency, McMillan keeps Bono’s vocal on an analog path by getting a split from the stage, which he sends through a Rupert Neve-designed Amek preamp and then into a channel on a Midas Verona analog console. The rest of the band and effects are sent to a second channel on the Verona, which all go directly to Bono. For the singer’s reverb, he’s using the Bricasti M7, McMillan’s favorite new toy. “It’s more like glue than a reverb,” McMillan says. For Bono’s delays, he uses a TC Electronic 2290 and a variety of verbs from Lexicon and Yamaha across the rest of the band.

McMillan, who has mixed monitors for Van Morrison, came primarily from a studio background, having worked extensively at Windmill Lane in Dublin. “These guys have made me raise the bar within myself,” McMillan says. “After 20 years, you get set in your ways. Here, I had to start again and I love that.”

For The Edge, Niall Slevin runs 40 inputs per engine into his SD7, sharing the same rack feeds with McMillan. He uses an AMS reverb and a Lexicon PCM 80 for his mixes but duplicates his rack effects with onboard equivalents in case of failure. He also has duplicate analog processors in his rack for McMillan’s mixes should Alistair need to jump over to his console. Slevin feels the SD7 is a big sonic improvement over the SD5, but he is realistic about its abilities. “It still has a few reliability issues, but we’re pushing it to the max, especially with the redundancy. Effectively, we’re throwing it out the top floor and seeing if it will fly. At the moment, it’s gliding, but it’s getting there. No one has had these consoles and pushed it as much as we have. When we find things out, DiGiCo has been very good about fixing it. I can’t imagine a situation at the moment in a rock ‘n’ roll theater or any other audio application that this couldn’t deal with.”

The band is using Future Sonics in-ear systems transmitted over newly upgraded Senn- heiser G3 wireless systems, which the crew credits with adding more definition and top end. With this large of a setup, RF is a big challenge and the team has found themselves going back to old-school techniques of placement using line-of-sight and shorter cables. Skaff says, “The wilder it gets, the more we seem to go back to basics to make things happen.”

A show of this scale being launched during tough times is easy to pick on. But it’s hard to argue with its success both in record-breaking attendance and integration of new technology. At a time when album sales are not driving revenues, live performance has stepped into the spotlight and blazed a trail where other methods have failed. Did the band achieve “intimacy on a grand scale” as Bono proposed during the show? Only you can be the judge, but from my seat, it was dazzling.

Kevin Becka is Mix’ s technical editor .

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U2 360 Tour Comes Full Circle: Band Returns to U.S. With Denver Blowout

By Steve Knopper

Steve Knopper

Fortunately, U2 was prepared for the end of the world. “Sounds like fun to me!” Bono told a crowd of 70,000 at Denver’s Invesco Field at Mile High, after breaking out, appropriately, “Until the End of the World.” The Rapture was no match for opening night on the final leg of U2 ‘s 360 Tour – with its massive, metallic, green-and-orange claw structure and tornado-shaped video cylinder suspended above the band – which returned to the U.S. Saturday after a year-long delay. Even two years after the tour’s debut, its sensory overload impact remains thrillingly undimmed, with lights everywhere, from LEDs flashing on U2’s jackets to the neon-target microphone from which Bono swung during “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me” and “With Or Without You.”

The two-and-a-half-hour show was delayed gratification for the Denver crowd, which had bought tickets for the concert last summer, before Bono had emergency back surgery and had to postpone the entire last U.S. leg of U2’s tour. “Things could have been very different. I was in a lot of trouble,” he declared before “All I Want Is You.” “Through the wonders of science, I’m not just fixed – I’m better.” So is the 360 tour, which has sold 7 million tickets and grossed $700 million since it began in Europe two years ago, making it the biggest-selling tour of all time.

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Musically, the show was stripped-down, minimalist U2. No machine could match the energy of Bono, dressed in black, who sprinted the elaborate maze of catwalks and rotating bridges, delivering Amnesty International speeches and cracking jokes about Judgment Day. He modulated his voice from hymnlike moaning (especially soulful on “Miss Sarajevo,” an obscurity from 1995’s Passengers album, and the Frank Sinatra tribute “Stay (Faraway, So Close!)”) to sharp, anthemic vocals (“Beautiful Day,” “Vertigo,” “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and the opening “Even Better Than the Real Thing”).

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The Edge wordlessly provided texture, from his classic ringing melodies in “Where the Streets Have No Name” and “Pride (In the Name of Love)” and the slide solo on “Magnificent” to the soulful wah-wah licks on a downtempo version of “Mysterious Ways” and Pete Townshend-ish power chords on a soaring “Beautiful Day.” Bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr., both in white, shifted easily from the electro-bombast of “Zooropa” to the more subtle rhythms of the closing “Moment of Surrender.”

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The show opened with an intense, amped sequence: “Even Better Than the Real Thing,” “I Will Follow” and “Get On Your Boots” (one of four songs from 2009’s No Line On the Horizon ). A lean, tough “Vertigo” led into a reworked, bongo-spiced mash-up of “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight” and “Discotheque.” “Sunday Bloody Sunday” – immortalized not far from Denver on 1983’s Live at Red Rocks – was followed by “Scarlet,” a deep track from 1981’s October .

During his end-of-the-world spiel, Bono wryly suggested that it would be the Edge, not himself, Mullen or Clayton, who would ascend to the heavens during the rapture. “But then I’d be here with you,” he said. Luckily for the rest of us, Edge decided to stick around.

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