FEELING GOOD Michael Bublé Live
‘A mix is a mix is a mix.’ This is the sage advice given to FOH engineer Craig Doubet by a recording engineer mentor David Leonard (who won a Grammy in 1983 for co-engineering the Toto IV album). By which he meant: a good mix will translate across any monitoring system. Craig carried that lesson into his live sound career. In a live context, the lesson is: make sure your well-balanced mix sounds good in the room by getting your PA right — right design; right tuning.
Which is why Craig Doubet personally oversees the intricate Michael Bublé PA design. He knows most of the arenas in the world pretty intimately and armed with Meyer Sound’s MAPP acoustic prediction program, will make sure his crew chief knows exactly what the PA design will be as they back the trucks up.
And what a PA it is.
“I reckon every live sound engineer should sign up to a Hippocratic oath: ‘do no harm’”
MEYER: L OF A PA
The Solotech-sourced PA is entirely Meyer Sound and mostly ‘L Series’ with some Mica. A 200+ box Meyer PA is always awesome to behold but the special sauce is in the use of a Meyer Spacemap beta that allows Craig to move Michael Bublé’s vocal image down the room
