2023-04-14 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA/Source 3
Notes
A very good audience recording, though a bit reverberated sounding. Personal Jesus is incomplete and fades out. Here are the taper's notes:
It was great seeing Depeche Mode after 17 years (!), on their final show of the 1st leg of the tour. As a one time show-goer on this tour, I'm a big fan of this setlist. I scored some free tickets in a suite and I knew beforehand that this wasn't going to be the most amazing location to tape. What I didn't expect was that a couple would bring 2-3 loud kids to spoil everyone's time, let alone the tape, so you'll be hearing them occasionally throughout the recording. Besides screaming children who should've been left with a babysitter, there's also some chatter at some points of the recording because most people are there to have a good time drinking and talking and might not even know one or more songs from the band, which I kind of understand! The tape outside of these extraneous factors is fine I guess. Sounds reinforcement aimed at the suites isn't the best and won't give you the full sound you'd get from being on the floor, but a decent capture regardless - somewhere in the G/VG- range, but I'm sure better captures from the evening will emerge. I almost forgot to mention that I forgot that my recording app doesn't auto-start a new recording, so the ending of Personal Jesus is cut (it takes a real idiot not to remember to "flip a tape" during the encore in the digital era). I cut myself some slack, as this is probably the first 2h-plus show I've recorded with this gear/app.
Both the original high-resolution 24-bit, 48KHz fileset and a downsampled version in 16-bit, 44.1KHz are available for download below.
Listen
You can listen to this entire recording below.
Track list
- [2:08] Play Intro (Speak To Me)
- [5:11] Play My Cosmos Is Mine
- [3:27] Play Wagging Tongue
- [6:49] Play Walking In My Shoes
- [5:09] Play It's No Good
- [5:50] Play Sister Of Night
- [5:05] Play In Your Room
- [6:38] Play Everything Counts
- [5:11] Play Precious
- [4:55] Play Speak To Me
- [4:28] Play A Question Of Lust (*)
- [4:40] Play Soul With Me (*)
- [4:17] Play Ghosts Again
- [5:01] Play I Feel You
- [4:28] Play A Pain That I'm Used To
- [5:13] Play World In My Eyes
- [4:13] Play Wrong
- [5:18] Play Stripped
- [3:52] Play John The Revelator
- [10:58] Play Enjoy The Silence
- [0:44] Play Condemnation (Restart)
- [3:44] Play Condemnation
- [5:09] Play Just Can't Get Enough
- [6:19] Play Never Let Me Down Again
- [5:00] Play Personal Jesus
- Total time: 2:03:47
Lineage
- DPA SMK4061 -> DPA d:vice MMA-A (+10dB, no HPF) -> Apogee Metarecorder (24/48) -> iPhone 13 Pro -> Adobe Audition > iZotope Ozone 10 (EQ, MB compressor, maximizer) > TLH (FLAC 8)
- Taper: j.mart
- Original info file and taping location photo included
Download
- Download ZIP - FLAC 16-bit 44.1KHz - 711MB
- Download ZIP - FLAC 24-bit 48KHz - 1.31GB