Madonna's Celebration Tour, supplied by vendor Eighth Day Sound, a Clair Global brand, visited arenas around the globe with a L-Acoustics K2-based system over 80 shows. For the massive tour finale on the beach in Rio de Janeiro on May 4, 2024, São Paulo-based sound company Gabisom took the lead on production for the closing show, which featured an impressive 624 K1, K2, and other L-Acoustics enclosures driven by a staggering 122 LA12X and 90 LA8 amplified controllers and two P1 processors. The final count was 172 K1, 80 K1-SB, 96 K2, 128 SB28, 68 KS28, 59 Kara, and 21 X8. The complexity of this setup was managed with the help of L-Acoustics Soundvision modeling software, a testament to the technical prowess of the team—and the beach, which posed unexpected challenges for the system design.
“Madonna is a creature of comfort and habit, so the first and foremost challenge of mixing her sound is to recreate her experience exactly, night to night, venue to venue, on every stage. That’s where L-Acoustics made all the difference,” shared Madonna’s FOH engineer, Burton Ishmael. He’s been mixing for the star from October 14, 2023, at the O2 Arena in London to the massive, record-breaking show on the beach in Rio when an estimated 1.6 million fans took in what Pollstar described as “the largest audience ever assembled for a standalone concert.
