Colombia. Produced by Live Nation, the FERXXOCALIPSIS Tour 2024, Colombian urban music singer Feid's current tour, kicked off in Sacramento on April 24 at the Golden 1 Center and has taken Feid through major U.S. cities from coast to coast, offering fans the chance to experience his high-energy reggaeton style live.
On stage, the IEMs of the six musicians and vocalists are connected to the KLANG immersive monitor mix in the form of a DMI-KLANG card loaded into a DiGiCo Quantum338 monitor console supplied by Clair Global, mirroring another Quantum338 at the front of the room.
This is the first time Feid, any of his band members, or Carlos "Carlitos" Dickson, the tour's veteran monitor engineer, have used the KLANG setup. But now that they've experienced KLANG, "This is what the monitor world is going to look like from now on," Dickson says.
Dickson, a Latin Grammy-winning and multi-nominated engineer who also worked with "Chyno" Miranda of the Latin Grammy-winning duo Chino y Nacho, Tony Succar, Sheila E and others, says he, Feid and the band all came to KLANG together. "At first, I wasn't using it as aggressively, so we all got used to it together at the same time," he says, noting that everyone uses KLANG in its fully immersive 360-degree mode, including crew members and staff, a channel he keeps reserved for guest artists. "It's very simple to use and you can start using it in no time."
The DMI-KLANG module interacts directly with the tour's DiGiCo Quantum338 monitor console, making a big operational difference during the shows, as KLANG runs natively on the Quantum work surface. "The console's integration with DiGiCo means I don't have to use a separate computer for KLANG, as I had to do with other consoles. For me it's just a unique and perfect mix. I've been using KLANG for three months now and I have it in my monitor package for the entire tour until the end of the year, when we're done."
Dickson says the band appreciates the immersive aspect of the monitors' KLANG approach, which gives them not only a custom mix but also spatial accuracy, positioning other musicians on the monitors in the same way they are positioned on stage. "I love having more space to put each element in its place," she says.
But perhaps the biggest benefit is how KLANG reduces listening fatigue for everyone: the artist, the musicians, the crew, and Dickson himself. "The clear separation of instruments and vocals allows you to keep volume levels much more under control, which is important because each show lasts more than two hours and we have up to four shows per week," he explains. "Also, before KLANG, band members said that mixes sounded different from one day to the next. Well, the mix was exactly the same, but of course they can sound different in each place. KLANG changed all that. Now everyone can hear more consistently and clearly because they have their own space. KLANG helps in many ways."
Not surprisingly, given his strong social media presence (more than 17 million followers on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok, where his viral videos reach millions), Feid himself has become a fan of KLANG. "I can tell you that he loves it," Dickson says. "He really likes new technologies and loves to try new things. And KLANG is where he likes to be, which is at the forefront."
