During his rigorous schedule of solo performances and lectures, Doky uses the myMix as a mixer for his backing tracks and mixing in his bass signals.

With myMix, Doky doesn’t have to worry about the sound tech’s expertise. Once he gets to a venue, he uses the SD card with his backtracks and plugs his wireless head mic into one input and his bass into the other. Depending on the venue’s size, Doky runs the L/R out to FOH and a monitor wedge, or splits the outputs so he can run to both FOH and an amp on stage.

During live performances alongside his band Chris Minh Doky & The Electric Nomads and his European acoustic trio New Nordic Jazz, he uses the myMix as a monitor and mixer. No matter what genre of music Doky is playing or what the volume level, he knows the myMix will accommodate.

The Ideal Band Setup

When The Electric Nomads first incorporated the myMix into their setup in 2012, the whole band was on wedges. Doky and his band mates ran outputs from their myMix to monitor amps, eventually switching to in-ears and using the headphones output.

“Then we got a x32 Rack as our stage box,” Doky explained. “Our sound tech groups each instrument to the analog outputs to the IEX inputs. Today, I want to be free of the wires from my in-ears to the myMix. It’s nice not having all these wires dangling off of me. I’m a bandleader, so I’m talking on the mic and fronting all the time. When I found out with the myMix RX-2 that you could actually do the same thing and just send the output off stage, that made it a no-brainer for me.”

Doky remains a strong player on the international jazz stage, but years ago his unique solo performances captured the ears and hearts of the pop & classical music world. Common for all the music he does is how Doky expresses himself with the bass as the solo instrument with a direct link to the Danish bass tradition. By bringing his heart and soul into each new challenge, Doky has emerged as one of the most compelling musicians of our time. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark knighted Doky in 2010 for his contributions to the arts, making him a distinguished member of the Royal Order of the Dannebrog.

Regarding the myMix monitoring system Chris shares, “myMix has been a life-(ear!) saver and an eye-opener for me. After too many years of touring with too many shows with horrible & loud monitor sound, I developed hearing damage on both ears. I needed to seriously protect my ears and search for the smallest, easiest, and most customizable setup, possible. Something I could travel with as both a bandleader with my crew and tech and a sideman on my own. MyMix was my answer and has been for years.
Chris’ secret – along with hard work – is his passion for making an emotional and physical experience of the melody he plays. To ensure he delivers his best performance he turns to myMix because (as Chris says), “when I hear better, I play better.”

Website: doky.com/