Sound Company
Clair Global
Venue
Various (North American Tour)
Crew
- FOH Engineer: Lucas Pinzón
- Monitor Engineer: German Tarazona
Gear
FOH
Console: (2) DiGiCo Quantum338 consoles. FOH Mixing Notes: The consoles are on an optical loop with two 56-in/24-out SD-Racks, each paired with an AES/EBU output card, and an SD-Nano Rack, all loaded with 32-bit I/O modules, plus a DMI-Dante 64@96 card to provide digital PA system sends, while 64 channels coming from the racks served as an analog backup. The console’s second card slot housed a DMI-Waves module for running the Waves backup system. Recording and virtual soundcheck were handled over BNC via a DiGiGrid MGR MADI-to-SoundGrid interface supplying 128 channels of 96kHz audio to a Reaper digital audio workstation.
Speakers: Clair Cohesion CO-10 P.A. system
MON
Console: DiGiCo Quantum338 with two SD-Racks and 32-bit I/O cards plus an SD-MiNi Rack for analog inserts and DMI-Waves card. MON Mixing Notes: While Lucas Pinzón manned close to 90 input channels at FOH, monitor engineer German Tarazona utilized his Quantum338 to create 12 principal stereo IEM mixes for the singers and musicians, four stereo mixes for guests, two spare mixes for the band, and eight channels in a different frequency band for cities with heavy RF congestion.
Processing: (4) Bricasti effects units, Rupert Neve Designs Shelford Channel, Portico 5045, DiGiCo Nodal Processing, True Solo, Spice Rack
Tour Notes
Juan Luis Londoño Arias, a.k.a. Maluma, hit the road after a two-year hiatus during the pandemic. The two-month, 27-stop late 2021 trek sold out nearly every show and included stops at L.A.’s The Forum, NYC’s Madison Square Garden, Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, and Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center. While Clair Global supplied the P.A. system for the tour, the artist supplied his own DiGiCo consoles for FOH and Monitor positions. The 360-degree production, with the band occupying the four sunken pockets of an X-shaped stage, meant that monitor engineer German Tarazona worked his mixes from a remote bunker. In early March, Maluma will take his Papi Juancho Tour to Europe and the UK, followed by later dates in Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere around the world.
