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DiGiCo consoles selected for Karol G tour

Two-time Latin Grammy Award winner Karol G recently completed the US leg of her headlining “Mañana Será Bonito” tour. It kicked off in August 2023 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas and made stops in Pasadena, Miami, Houston, Dallas, and East Rutherford, NJ, and will continue later this year in Karol G’s hometown Medellín, Colombia, on December 1, and on to Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara early next year.

On the US leg of the tour, FOH engineer John Buitrago deployed a pair of DiGiCo Quantum338 consoles, supplied by tour vendor Clair Global, at front of house and monitors. On a tour that tops over 100 inputs, Buitrago says the Mustard and Spice Rack processors have made a huge difference by dramatically reducing the need for outboard processing. “Using Spice Rack and Mustard, I get direct access to every processor I need, which saves me time, increases precision, and avoids external DSP issues”, he explains.

Buitrago’s Quantum338 is on an Optocore network that also links the second Quantum338 at monitors, a pair of 56-input SD-Racks - one on the main stage and one on a smaller satellite stage - and an 18-input SD-Mini Rack, as well as an Orange Box used to host track playback. “We can apply any of the processors to any instrument”, adds Buitrago, “and that gives us very consistent tonality.”

Over in monitor world, engineer Robinson Barrera has found that the combination of the Quantum338 and a DMI-Klang card for in-ear monitoring has improved his workflow and the onstage experience. “There are a lot of songs but also a lot of ‘moments’ - spoken introductions to songs, transitions, costume changes - as many as fifty of these moments per show, and I’m able to use the combination of snapshots and worksurface layers to manage all of those”, he explains. “I have macros for every instrument and vocal that give me the combination of sound and processing I need instantly as the show moves along.”

Barrera uses the Mustard optical compressors and EQ on various channels, especially bass and ambient mics. The transition to the DMI-Klang card on the Quantum338 for monitors on this most recent tour was smooth, he says. “We started with Karol’s mix and quickly had the rest of the band switched over. By the second show, everyone was adjusting their own mixes.”

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