Grammy-winning engineer Paul Falcone took The Celebration of Mimi tour to Bangkok, mixing Front of House for Mariah Carey at IMPACT Challenger Hall in Muang Thong Thani — one of Thailand’s largest concert and exhibition complexes just north of the capital.
October 11, 2025 — IMPACT Challenger Hall, Bangkok 🇹🇭
The sold-out Saturday night show drew Thai fans from across the kingdom for a celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Emancipation of Mimi. Bangkok’s passionate crowd sang along to every note as Carey delivered the full tour set — from early classics through her R&B era to new material from Here For It All.
Falcone delivered the FOH mix on a DiGiCo Quantum 338 (v20) through an L-Acoustics K1 main PA system with 28 flown boxes, Kara downfills (6), K1-SB flown subs (16), and SB28 ground subs (24-30) — a massive outdoor-scale rig. The system featured K1 side PA (20 boxes), KUDO delays (8), and Kara frontfills (12) — processing handled by Lake LMX88 with iSEMcon EMX-7150 matched quad reference mics and mixed on Genelec 8050 nearfields with an L-Acoustics SB18 sub. Mariah’s vocal ran through a DPA 2028-B-SL1 capsule on a Shure Axient ADX2 wireless transmitter, while monitors featured L-Acoustics 115XT HiQ wedges with three SB18 subs and KUDO sidefills (8 flown).
At the FOH position, dual Bricasti M7 reverb processors anchored the effects chain alongside Waves SuperRack running on dual redundant Titan-R servers with Mercury and Studio Classics plugin bundles. A DiGiGrid MGB bridged MADI to SoundGrid across a Netgear GS108V4 network. Separate independent rigs running AlphaLabs DeFeedback and LiveProfessor with LiquidSonics Seventh Heaven reverbs rounded out the digital signal chain, while full 128-channel multitrack capture ran on Pro Tools Ultimate via Mac Studio to SanDisk 2TB portable SSDs. Band mics included Telefunken M82, M81SH (3) and M80SH (1), Sennheiser e604 and e904, Neumann KM184, Shure KSM32, Rode NTG-8, and Radial JDI and Pro DI boxes. Timecode sync was handled by the Evertz TimeCodeMaster 5010.
On the analog side, with conversion handled by Ferrofish, Falcone introduced processing by Empirical Labs Distressors, DBX compression, SSL channel strips, and both 500 series modules and full hardware versions of Bettermaker compressors, allowing for snapshot recall of analog compression. The rig was rounded out with MIDI interfaces by iConnectivity, switching by DirectOut, and timecode distribution by VisualProductions TimeCore.
Another electric night as Mimi’s legacy took over Bangkok.
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