New York City can be a scary place and it's also a boiling pot of EDM, so it's no surprise that the two concepts would merge in The Pier of Fear, an annual dance event staged by RPM Worldwide. Serving up sound for the costumed attendees is KM Productions, which has handled the event for the last three years, fielding a sizable J and V-Series PA from d&b audiotechnik.
by Clive Young Remember B-Side Studio, that wacky 1970s sitcom about a struggling Chicago recording studio? No? Well, maybe that's because it wasn't really a hit. Or a TV show. Or made in the Seventies. No, actually it was a series of plays performed in the style of Seventies comedies at Chicago's Logan Center for the Artsand now it's an eight-episode sitcom on YouTube.
"The biggest thing is you have to be a fan of what you're mixing. I don't think you give an audience what they want or do a band justice otherwise, because you're not paying attention to the nuances, the little things that people expect to hear. If you don't give that to them, then you're letting the audience down. I truly believe that I'm the advocate for the audienceFOH guys are there to ask them to buy a ticket next year." Brian Simon, FOH engineer, Foreigner.