BAM Studios News

BAM Studios recently welcomed 20th Century Fox and the production of “Sons of Tucson”.  Youngster and Chicago native Matthew Levy who plays the role of Brandon Gunderson on the new Fox TV series recorded ADR lines for an upcoming episode. The series centers around three wealthy young brothers who hire Ron Snuffkin to pose as their father when their real one goes to prison for committing a white collar crime. Ron is forced to step into the patriarch role of the Gunderson family and display different skills and tricks to keep the family going. Premieres on Fox Sundays at 9:30PM starting March 14th.

Once again, the BAM crew spent the weekend installing Digidesign’s latest D-Command ES digital mixing environment.  This time in Studio B.  The equipment update makes it once again identical to Studio A.  Give us a call to schedule a special tour of the latest in sound mixing.

Chicago’s own Corey McPherrin, lead sports anchor for WFLD-TV, was at BAM narrating for the Greater Chicago Food Depository Commercial Real Estate Awards.  The Chicago Commercial Real Estate Awards Dinner draws more than 2000 of the Chicago metropolitan area’s top brokers, developers, property managers, interior contractors and design professionals.  The Chicago-Sun Times began the awards in 1984 and the Chicago Commercial Real Estate Awards Dinner, benefiting the Greater Chicago Food Depository, began in 1989.  Corey will also emcee the 2009 Dinner and Awards ceremony.

BAM spent the weekend installing the latest Digidesign D-Command ES digital mixing environment in Studio A.  The update included a complete rewire, custom 24 faders and producer’s desk, surround panners, as well as additional digital and analog I/O.

Owner Brian Reed says “The integration between ProTools and the Icon mix environment has never been better!  It adds tremendous flexibility and efficiency to our audio workflow and will streamline every project that we do.”

A special thanks goes out to Larry H, Have Inc, Gepco, Digidesign, Genelec and, of course, the BAM crew’s  John “CM” Karcz, Dave “DP” Leffel, Philip “CP” von During, and Matt “LB” Sauro.  Give us a call to schedule a special tour of the latest in sound mixing.  ……..  Studio B is next!

Protokulture enlisted Dave Leffel of BAM Studios to record and sound design promotional web spots for the 2010 Google Adblitz campaign.  The animated spots asks viewers to vote on their favorite SuperBowl commercials by visiting YouTube during and after the game to view the acclaimed “Super Bowl” commercials and cast their vote on their favorite one.  The winning commercial receives a highlight spot on YouTube and full bragging rights.  Visit www.youtube.com/adblitz for more details.

Sharon Wottrich of Innovative Artists Chicago, a legendary Chicago talent agent since 1972, officially retired January 15th this year.  Sharon started her early career at A-Plus, one of the oldest and largest talent agencies at the time.  After a few years she created an opportunity as an owner of the agency with a gamut of talent. Shortly thereafter, she decided to alter the talent’s status from freelance to exclusive representation.  “It was definitely a high point in my career,” she said.  She owned and grew Voices Unlimited until deciding only a few years ago to sell to one of the nation’s largest talent agencies Innovative Artisits which has divisions in Los Angeles and New York.  She considered it the best opportunity for her talent to compete in the world-wide talent pool.  Sharon and Richard Wottrich, her husband of 27 years, currently plan to tend to her garden of their Glenview home, possibly teach at the Chicago Botanic Gardens and be a USO volunteer.

All the best Sharon …. we’ll miss you!

From all of us at BAM Studios

Disney TV Animation called upon BAM to record for two upcoming TV episodes of Phineas and Ferb.  Voice actors Joan Cusack and Dylan John Burke were in the studio with engineer Brian Reed recording different characters voices for the top rated animated series.  The series follows two suburban stepbrothers on summer vacation. Each day the pair devise ambitious, involved plans and inventions to stave off boredom, often bringing them into conflict with their snoopy sister, Candace.

For more information about the show visit: http://tv.disney.go.com/disneychannel/phineasandferb

BAM Studios has upgraded their audio suites to Digidesign’s latest Pro Tools 8 software.

The new software update adds new post production features allowing greater flexibility in controlling hardware as well as enhancing the overall workflow when working on a variety of projects for different format releases. All three of the suites are outfitted with Pro Tools HD digital workstations, Genelec monitoring, HD video and an array of plug-ins for 5.1 surround processing, sound design and mixing.

BAM has seen considerable growth and new development as it celebrated a 10th anniversary in December 2009. Spot production for tv & radio, ADR, documentary, interactive, and corporate projects round out BAM’s successful business model.

ReelChicago.com – News 12/10/09

A 10th Anniversary for audio engineer Brian Reed’s, BAM Studios. Since opening on Dec. 1, 1999, Reed estimates that he has worked on an 30,000 projects – mostly broadcast commercials, but also many docs, corporate and interactive.

Reed opened BAM! Studios with one assistant a month after the closing of Skyview post, where he had worked for several years.

Current staffers are engineers Dave Leffel, associate engineers Philip von During and Matt Sauro, and studio manager Johnathon Karcz. They occupy a 5,000-sq. ft. studio at 1 E. Erie.

Claims to fame: BAM is the go-to ADR studio to record talent in the Midwest for the likes of Pixar and Disney. In fact, Joan Cusack recently recorded ADR there for Sony’s new playstation game, “Toy Story 3.”

The BAM Dream Server is a revolutionary search engine for 20 terabytes of music and sound effects.  - Ruth L Ratny