Pat Appleson Studios, Inc. has the solutions for your next project.
We specialize in:
Post Production Editing:
The Right Stuff:
Fully-equipped on premises Broadcast Recording Studios with the latest Magneto-Optical Non-linear On-Line/Off-Line editing equipment.
We feature Hi-Tech Equipment from:
Producers & replicators of Radio Commercials, Info-mercials & Corporate Audio CD's & DVD's, Audio Cassettes and web encoding. Our writers, producers, directors, announcers, translators & commercial art directors will take good care of you and your project.
Did you know you can direct your voice/over session from your office with V/O talent in a distant city over our ISDN Lines? You can and their is no extra charge. After your spot is edited we’ll call you back and play a rough mix right over the phone for your approval. Then incorporate any changes you might make. Its a real time saver for busy agency folks!
Fulfillment services include same day replication, trafficing of broadcast insert orders, packaging & shipping. Also available for quantity users is computer assisted order input from your location via PAT-SAT® terrestrial satellite link.
We’ll give you electronic overnight or one hour delivery of Radio Spots with traffic via ISDN lines to any radio station or network in the USA or Canada. And for a really cost effective alternative to satellite time when sending sound bites or voice overs we have real time (instant!) bidirectional stereo program delivery to anywhere on planet Earth via Zephyr® low bit rate codecs from Telos Systems. ISO/MPEG layers I-II-III all protocols. Zephyr® is The Best way to hear from there®.
We also can convert your spot to one that can be handled over the Internet. Today, MPEG-I Layer III encoding, or MP3 for short, allows us to email your spot as an attachment to any station in the world with an email address. We encode your spot with the professional coder from Telos Systems, it's called AudioActive Production Studio. When it comes out the distant end, it sounds great.
Many clients ask about IVR [integrated voice response] formats used in CT [computer telephony]. We support most formats used by Brooktrout Technology, Inc. and Dialogic, Inc. leaders in the CT field. Here are some of the more popular formats: WAV, BWAV, MP3, RA, RM, Audio Active, ASF, SMP, SVX, IFF, .V8, .VOC, .VOX, .PAT, .IVC, .AIF, .SND, .SDS, .AU, .SND, .SMP, .STR, .DIG, .SD, AVI, .RAW
We also have one of the most complete stock digital production music and sound effects libraries in the Southeast. From music of the 1890's to Tech and Trance of today, to sound effects of toads croaking to chalk squeaks on a black board! We're Master dealers for many music licensing companies, so you won't ever get into a "cease & desist" bind with music you license from us. It's all cleared for Broadcast and our pay once policy includes Sync license's too. We feature over 100,000 cuts of music and sound effects from our music partners at DeWolfe Music, NFL Music Library, KPM, Killer Tracks, Rouge, Production Garden and many others. And it's all in stock, not downloaded from the web. This gives you full uncompressed CD quality sound. Our Kurzweil Music Systems, Model K2500RS Production Station gives you the power to create that special sound, on the fly, locked to picture. It’s a real eye opener when you need a quick music bed or jingle and don’t have time to call Marvin Hamlish or Jan Hammer.
Foreign Language, Sub-Titles, Dubbing, ADR, Lock to Picture:
With an office in South Florida, we have the good fortune to draw on world class Hispanic talent. Just because you need Spanish doesn't mean that the end product will play well in all parts of Central & South America. At Pat Appleson Studios, our translators & producers can tell the difference in subtle nuances to major accents. It easy when you were born there! As an example, say you have a CD-ROM title you want to sell in South America but you’re concerned about differences in accents in Columbia and Argentina. We can help, just like we did for Microsoft Corp. And, Pat Appleson Studios always uses a Spanish speaking producer/translator at the voice over session. This insures script compliance and that the talent doesn’t get carried away. The end product is Network quality. You’ve heard our Hispanic voice/over artists on the major networks, Telemundo, Univision & CBS/Telenoticias.
Whether you call it Dubbing, Looping or ADR, we can give you a turnkey package price that includes talent, engineering and studio time thats really cost effective when working in a foreign language.
We can take an idea or fact sheet and turn it into a complete script of any length. We get a work out every day from our car dealer clients around the US and Canada. They’ll fax a fact sheet in, and we’ll send out a fully completed Radio or Television Commercial within 24 hours.
We have complete Authoring, Mastering & Replication for DVD/CD. We use the high end professional cinema authoring systems from Sonic Solutions. After your program is authored with chapter marks etc., we can master to DLT tape for cutting a zero defect image to glass master for replication of literally millions of discs. Or we can duplicate on the latest Pioneer model DVR-111D duplicators and printed on our automated Rimage Everest II printers. The result it a perfect copy everytime and a product that looks as good as it sounds.
We still offer VHS® duplication from your master. Small quantities & same day turnaround are no problem. We use JVC licensed shells, premium Sony & Fugi tape thats loaded in a class 1000 clean room and then duplicated on deluxe industrial VHS/Hi-Fi machines in real time. These are the latest Matsushita Model AG-6850/H computer controlled decks with the “wider” 58 micron record heads for the best signal to noise ratio. That means it’ll look pretty darn good on playback.
And there is still a "hard core" following, that must have the analog sound. Our analog Phillips cassette duplication is done in real time on modified Nakamichi Model MR-1/B triple head decks with Basf #649 music grade tape custom loaded in Shape Magnetics patented Mark-10® cassette shells. The programme material is encoded with Dolby Type B® noise reduction. This combination gives us great performance on playback, even in a thirty dollar Radio Shack® player. And for those that can't wait for real time, our modified High Speed Otari analog cassette duplicators are just the ticket.
