Sting Milano, Italy Piazza del Duomo Free concert 23 Jun 2006 People: 100.000+ Time: 21:00 Support act: Fiction Plane, Monopolio di Stato, Mattafix, Negramaro Length: 97 Min Source: Audience Quality: 9 Taper: pigsinspace Taper location: Approx 20 mt from stage, right stack Lineage: Giant Squid Audio Lab omnidirectional mics mounted on cap > battery box > Nomad Jukebox 3 (Line in) Conversion: JB3 > FireWire > Cool Edit Pro (center wave, 30 band Graphic EQ w/ +6dB gain, fades) > Izotope Ozone (Loudness Maximizer -3.1dB) > Cool Edit Pro (Hard Limiting) > cdwav > FLAC (level 8 w/ verify) no DAE Conversion by: pigsinspace Jun 2006 Size: 970 MB Compressed: 659 MB Disc 1 01) Message in a bottle 02) Synchronicity II 03) If I ever lose my faith in you 04) Walking on the moon 05) Mad about you guitar intro > Englishman in New York 06) Spirits in the material world 07) Shape of my heart 08) Driven to tears 09) Every little thing she does is magic 10) Why should I cry for you ? 11) Fields of gold 12) A day in the life 13) Soul Cages intro > If you love somebody set them free 14) Voices inside my head > 15) When the world is running down you'll make the best of what's still around 16) Roxanne > So lonely > Roxanne Disc 2 Encore: 01) Desert rose 02) Every breath you take Encore: 03) Next to you 04) Fragile Sting - Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Lead Vocals Dominic Miller - Guitar, Bass on last song, Vocals Lyle Workman - Guitar, Vocals Abraham Laboriel Jr - Drums, Vocals -- The place was already packed up with people since 4pm, coming from all Italy and even outside the country. It was a *very* hot day, I think in the evening there were 32 C, so I do not know how those guys could stay there under the sun for hours. Being a free event, there were all sorts of people: clappers, shouters, assholes and... talkers, all into my microphones! Seriously, I understand shouters and clappers, but not talkers. If you can talk for the whole show I think you can stay at home. I wasn't badly placed but being in the crowd you can hear how enthusiastic we italians can be, sometimes being nice hearing the audience singing verses. The start was very bassy, and the crowd was wild at the beginning. Things go better during the first two songs. The show was pretty tight, a nice set with plenty of old Police songs - including one of my favourite 'Next to you'. Many of you knows my opinion about Sting solo and this show did not changed it. As a technical note, I usually do not approve remastering of shows, but here I am the taper and was not satisfied with the raw recording. So I decided to improve the sound, applying some eq and using the Loudness Maximizer of Izotope Ozone to get a bit more of Sting's voice out of the mix. The result is not perfect and could be probably enhanced, but I did not want to tamper with it too much and I'm satisfied of the result. Of course I do not think to release another version of this, nor to release the raw unedited source. So take it or leave it. NOT FOR SALE - STRICTLY TRADES ONLY If you have a better copy or any different source, please contact me. -- Carlo Bolchini - www.bolchini.com/police - 29 Jun 2006 History: - 29 Jun 2006 This file created. - 11 Sep 2006 Corrected support acts list. shntool len results: length expanded size cdr WAVE probs filename 5:13.74 55387292 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d1t01.flac 5:02.43 53373980 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d1t02.flac 4:58.33 52644860 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d1t03.flac 3:57.38 41896220 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d1t04.flac 5:29.18 58077980 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d1t05.flac 3:34.51 37869596 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d1t06.flac 4:19.11 45713516 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d1t07.flac 4:48.17 50843228 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d1t08.flac 4:26.11 46948316 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d1t09.flac 5:07.08 54173660 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d1t10.flac 3:24.08 36004460 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d1t11.flac 3:52.72 41094188 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d1t12.flac 5:47.49 61326092 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d1t13.flac 0:49.55 8773004 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d1t14.flac 6:07.74 64912892 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d1t15.flac 8:41.50 92022044 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d1t16.flac 5:13.30 55283804 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d2t01.flac 6:50.38 72413420 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d2t02.flac 3:24.49 36100892 --- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d2t03.flac 4:53.39 51777904 -b- -- -xx sting2006-06-23d2t04.flac 96:03.18 1016637348 B (totals for 20 files, 0.6802 overall compression ratio) FLAC fingerprints: sting2006-06-23d1t02.flac:9fe06887c985b69d6a53dd0b948712e0 sting2006-06-23d1t01.flac:3638dabd1eb7f8356540aa58dd30772e sting2006-06-23d1t03.flac:eb64108d425e429d1926e0730cfb1b9e sting2006-06-23d1t04.flac:8af0f044bee963726c7ae55be30a9c35 sting2006-06-23d1t05.flac:674c1ef8e4b0e01cf43c8afa28f31312 sting2006-06-23d1t06.flac:362a12a723fd6c1d0db0271680f6c9fe sting2006-06-23d1t07.flac:b85b7e043af10a5df1079bf4d9001de3 sting2006-06-23d1t08.flac:61b39cc606b97fa8e878826667925fc6 sting2006-06-23d1t09.flac:67f964e33716184767c5398ee83bf508 sting2006-06-23d1t10.flac:3f337272ce8a4387855941a72c9e828c sting2006-06-23d1t11.flac:99548932475bc4a9dca74439445b8b04 sting2006-06-23d1t12.flac:19a9ff4c14849f09f318cece07a0f191 sting2006-06-23d1t13.flac:fb885ce563e78bb6657bb96abb72c15d sting2006-06-23d1t14.flac:851349ce3a36f0d255801c9f3318bdde sting2006-06-23d1t15.flac:3a459b621988a11d96ff2ed2527fd938 sting2006-06-23d1t16.flac:7ba9b808d50963d6d200c80b4c2fb1f8 sting2006-06-23d2t01.flac:82876f8bd59169779b4440813fb217b2 sting2006-06-23d2t02.flac:00d148a9bdeddd08ea5b7b0e1d667168 sting2006-06-23d2t03.flac:30521bac4c8fa9651b00c023804c58bd sting2006-06-23d2t04.flac:69f3278bb33830d146b090665d8a276f MD5 checksums: 6c156edc348fe01e7fa9e60e5c8d6c8c *sting2006-06-23d1t01.flac 78fcd5c29ac5fd344932eae9593b3440 *sting2006-06-23d1t02.flac cdb53d1c14898fc13ef407288a1d31ad *sting2006-06-23d1t03.flac d930b4c80fef30811a4df1c666d15529 *sting2006-06-23d1t04.flac bc69d7aaa5522b63ba661d4c1fd23191 *sting2006-06-23d1t05.flac d87ea4bc06b2c687f9a678e4672e4e3d *sting2006-06-23d1t06.flac 294f583168987133b33d9a9e64fbea99 *sting2006-06-23d1t07.flac 7c608bb29f3a8a7dcf2e339a1d574974 *sting2006-06-23d1t08.flac 608a8262313eed3c2e07e7ba9a265690 *sting2006-06-23d1t09.flac f44674a9ec00a02b243a9834ac04fa09 *sting2006-06-23d1t10.flac d0b9b09bdcdc6133fafeda9b59ad6ecc *sting2006-06-23d1t11.flac 714c7de3ea1e50e2a18d865a31852f30 *sting2006-06-23d1t12.flac 5113bb381d0ab18681ebf2db7fdb46d5 *sting2006-06-23d1t13.flac 27217e444363d313766ed28f7a82d6ae *sting2006-06-23d1t14.flac 0d80494a9ccd585cbf01edbf9c72fb6c *sting2006-06-23d1t15.flac c89d2a806a0560845e36bf73b41a13c5 *sting2006-06-23d1t16.flac dc33da8553b0570ea0228ed7f181c3b9 *sting2006-06-23d2t01.flac b0f14f0444353cab46f3d36ffec84230 *sting2006-06-23d2t02.flac 9568e34ebfd1c725fa50d56c2954d9ea *sting2006-06-23d2t03.flac 504a09aca52e4e5ecc904910584cf8cf *sting2006-06-23d2t04.flac