Mexico. During the visit of Pope Francis in the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, several Yamaha systems were occupied, among which are two Rivage PM10 in Sala and two PM5D-RH with DSP5D in monitors, at a configuration of approximately 104 inputs and 16 outputs and 96 inputs and 32 outputs respectively.
The operators of the event were Eduardo Sandoval and Heraclio Bernal, both engineers of Alejandro Fenández for more than 15 years. All the audio assembly was the responsibility of one of the most important rental companies in the country: Troya Eventos. It is worth mentioning that all production was supervised by Miriam Villalobos, leader of the audio and video production of the 2016 Papal visit.
On the operation of the Rivage PM10 system, Heraclio Bernal commented that: "the operation is quite friendly and easy, the sound of the system alone is quite good, even better than any Yamaha PM series and the resources it has help a lot to achieve things that you can not imagine. It was surprising the help that Rupert Neve's Silk sound and texture gave me in the voice of his holiness, I chose to use the blue part (which helps in the low and low mids), since his holiness uses the microphone at a great distance and therefore the low means were lost a little, but thanks to the texture of the Silk, the feeling was the same as if the microphone was stuck to the Pope's mouth.
He added that "the effects that the default console has, for example of TC Electrons, the System 6000, which I occupied in the 48 channels of choirs, the quality and definition of the reverb was impressive. And what about the Dan Dugan Automixer card, which you can use for the eight microphones of the wing so that I did not have feedback, Comb Filters and background noises, in addition to not being worrying about turning microphones on or off. "
