CASCAIS, Portugal — Portuguese artist Mariza had embarked on the worldwide Terra tour, named after her recent album, but returned to Portugal for a number of concerts. Upon her return, Mariza’s sound engineer, João Cebolas, got the chance to work with a Midas PRO6 live sound system provided by Audiomatrix, a local rental company owned by Jorge Pina. Cebolas was only able to try the PRO6 for the first time the day before the show. “It’s a intuitive system, with a magnificent work surface where all the pots, buttons and colours are revealed very distinctly, and everything is just a touch away,” he said. “The LCD monitors are relatively large, with strong, vivid colors and high contrast, even when exposed to bright daylight. The audio processed and produced by the PRO6 is of very high quality, and the compression was a particularly big surprise to me.”
Cebolas also appreciated the PRO6’s POPulation Groups feature, which allow groups of instruments to be summed together for mixing. “As I mix Mariza’s personal monitors via the FOH mixer, that was one of the most helpful features of the PRO6,” he said.
“I was always against digital consoles because I didn’t feel their features were suited to the way we need to develop our work. However in the case of the PRO6, I have to admit that Midas has made an excellent marriage between the analogue and digital domains, and from now on I always will prefer to work with it.”
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