Probably the most famous female Chinese-language pop singer to date, Faye Wong recently embarked upon a national ‘comeback’ tour after a five-year break from performing. Such is her popularity that, according to local media, a computerised ticketing system in Taiwan crashed within a minute of tickets going on sale.
The tour kicked off with five dates through October and November in Beijing’s Wukesong Arena before progressing to Shanghei, Taipei and Hong Kong in 2011 – all using an Innovason Eclipse digital mixing console.
The opening show – which began with her entrance, dressed in pure white and using a crystal microphone stand created especially for the tour – was recorded on an Eclipse digital mixing console via Eclipse’s integrated Mars 64-track digital recorder, using an Innovason DioMadiES interface as a back-up.
After using the console, Wong’s recording engineer, KK, gave it extremely high marks: ‘It is incredibly easy to record with this mixer,’ he says. ‘It saves a lot of time and equipment – everything you need is right there in the console. The show will be made into a Blu-ray DVD, so the audio recording is very important. The voice recording we have made using Eclipse sounds every bit as professional as if we had hired in a lot of bulky expensive equipment. In my opinion, Eclipse is the perfect recording console for a live concert.’
Wong received more than 7m votes in a government web portal’s online poll to determine ‘the most influential Chinese cultural celebrity of the past 60 years,’ second only to her own idol, the deceased Taiwanese singer, Teresa Teng.
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