BAM Studios News

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

Disney called upon BAM Studios to record Joan Cusack’s character, Jessie, for their upcoming Toy Story 3 game to be released on Sony’s Playstation Portable.  The PSP game is based on the third Toy Story movie in which Woody & Co. get dumped in a day-care center after Andy goes to college.

The movie Toy Story 3 comes out June 18, 2010.  The date for Sony’s PSP game of Toy Story 3 has yet to be released.

BAM is celebrating it’s 10th year today.  I opened BAM Studios on December 1st 1999 on Ohio St with just one studio.  Now the facility is at State & Erie and has grown to three studios.  Studio Manager and tech wiz Johnathon Karcz has been with BAM from nearly the beginning, and award winning Sound Designer and long-time friend Dave Leffel joined us in 2004.  Rounding out the staff are associate engineers and all around nice guys Philip von During and Matt Sauro.

Thanks to everyone for making BAM such a success and for allowing us to do what we love to do.  We will continually strive to be the best in sound.

Sincerely,

Brian Reed