Since June, Machine Gun Kelly has been touring the US with his massive 52-stop Mainstream Sellout Tour and on September 17th, the European tour begins.
Mixing the tour is Dean Mizzi, an Australian living in Nashville, who has worked predominantly for Clair Global since 2016.
“At that time the Clair Cohesion PA was relatively new, and my experience system engineering with other speaker brands was welcomed in the development of the system,” commented Dean. “I was fortunate enough to be involved with some of the bigger early projects with the Cohesion like Kanye West’s St Pablo tour and later Roger Waters’ Us & Them tour.
“More recently I’ve been mixing and filling in for artists like Ariana Grande, Kanye West, and now Machine Gun Kelly.”
According to Dean, MGK wants his audience to have a good time. He’s all about recreating the ‘summertime party vibe’ from the shows that he’s nostalgic about from his youth; where everything was exciting and high energy.
“Because his catalogue spans multiple genres, the show has a theatrical nature to it – so I’m always trying to find the elements that help embellish the moment and give the show some dynamic,” explained Dean. “He’s currently playing for nearly two hours a night; so I don’t want to fatigue the audience with nonstop screaming guitars or relentless big sub synth bass notes.”
In the US, Dean is touring with a Clair Cohesion CO-12 system in the US comprising 56 x CO-12, 20 x CP218 subs and 12 x CO-8 front fill.
At FOH Deans runs a DiGiCo Quantum 338, sharing two DiGiCo SD Racks and an Optocore DD4MR for digital playback IO with Jesse Cole running monitors on another DiGiCo Quantum 338.
“I have a rack of outboard gear that I travel with, that I do most of my band processing with – it’s my attempt this year at not relying so much on plug-ins although I do have a UAD Live 2 Rack handle FX,” added Dean.
Outboard gear includes Rupert Neve Designs, API Audio, Tubetech, Wes Audio, Kush Audio, Al Smart Research, Midas, SPL and SSL.
The band are all on IEM, along with four Clair CP218 and four CP118 stage subs, with Shure PSM1000s and Sennheiser 6000 series for the vocal microphones.
