THE TRILOGY TOUR TANTALIZES WITH A TRIO OF KLANG:KONDUCTORS

Monitor engineers for Enrique Iglesias, Ricky Martin, and Pitbull have all adopted KLANG’s flagship IEM mixing system for Latin music’s biggest tour

Latin pop luminaries Enrique Iglesias, Ricky Martin, and Pitbull have teamed up for The Trilogy Tour, a North American arena trek taking the three multigenerational global powerhouses out for shows in 37 cities between October 2023 and March 2024. Following a successful first leg of sold-out concerts that ran into mid-December, the second half of the Live Nation-produced, Sound Image/Clair Global-reinforced run picks back up in late-January with four performances in California before sweeping east across the continent. The tour is enjoying a tremendous amount of success thanks to the talent and charisma of its headliners, but three unseen performers—a trio of KLANG:konductor immersive IEM mixing systems—are also doing their part to help the three bilingual superstars and their backing bands deliver a stellar combined four-hour fiesta at each stop.

Eddie “El Brujo” Caipo has worked with Enrique Iglesias as his monitor engineer for 11 years and is currently using his KLANG:konductor paired with a Mac Mini running KLANG:app and an Avid S6L-32 console. Sending pre-fader/post-mute direct outs via MADI to retain all of his plugin processing, he creates his mixes—21 in total, with a number of them in KLANG:app—then feeds them back to a stereo pair of inputs, which are sent to the desired aux mix to the IEMs. His console receives timecode to trigger snapshots simultaneously sending MIDI to the :konductor to trigger the snapshots in KLANG.

 

 

“I’ve always made it a priority to help my artists and band members feel as if they aren’t wearing IEMs by using a mid-side processing spreader, et cetera, but with KLANG, it’s a whole different ball game than just me trying to use a stereo imager or spreader,” Caipo says. “KLANG literally removes that factor and allows me to separate instruments in such a way that it allows them to run the overall volume quieter, making it a much better experience for the listener. The band used to love my stereo mixes, but after using KLANG, everything is even way more enjoyable. Now, hearing stereo is just so sad. I don’t plan on ever going back; 3D IEM mixing is the way to go.”