Grammy-winning engineer Paul Falcone closed out the Asia leg of The Celebration of Mimi tour with two sold-out nights at K-Arena Yokohama — Japan’s largest music-dedicated arena, seating 20,000 in the Minato Mirai waterfront district.
November 1-2, 2025 — K-Arena Yokohama, Japan 🇯🇵
The back-to-back Yokohama shows capped a month-long, seven-show run across six cities and four countries. K-Arena, which opened in 2023, provided a state-of-the-art setting for the tour’s grand finale — marking both the 35th anniversary of Carey’s debut and the 20th anniversary of The Emancipation of Mimi. Japanese media described the performances as a masterclass in staging, with Carey delivering the full emotional arc from “Vision of Love” through “We Belong Together” to the spiritual closer “Fly Like a Bird.”
By the final night, Falcone and the production team had refined the show across seven performances, and the closing set delivered the payoff — a flawless four-act spectacle for a packed K-Arena crowd. Carey was visibly emotional during the final notes, bringing the Asia run to a close.
Falcone delivered the FOH mix on a DiGiCo Quantum 5 (v2025) through an L-Acoustics K1/K2 main PA system with 16 boxes per side, K2 outfills (20 per side), and KS28 subwoofers with 12 flown and 4 ground units. Kiva II infills and K2/K3 delays completed the system — processing handled by dual Lake LM44 processors and mixed on Cohesion CP6 nearfields with a CP118 sub. Mariah’s vocal ran through a DPA 4018V/SL1 capsule on a Shure Axient AD2 wireless transmitter, while monitors featured Clair CM14 wedges with three Clair CP118 subs and sidefills combining Clair CP218 and Cohesion CO10 systems.
At the FOH position, dual Bricasti M7 reverb processors anchored the effects chain alongside Waves SuperRack running on dual Titan servers with Mercury and SSL4000 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 to a Blackmagic Dock with dual 2TB SSDs. Band mics included Telefunken M82 and M80SH, Shure B91A, AKG 451B and C414 XLII, Sennheiser MKH416, Shure KSM32 and B98, and Radial JDI boxes.
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.
Seven shows. Six cities. Four countries. Nearly 45,000 fans. The Asia leg of The Celebration of Mimi — complete.
🌏 Full Tour: The Celebration of Mimi — Asia Tour 2025