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Audio Productions
800-726-3612
615-321-3612

1102 17th Ave S, Suite 200
Nashville, TN 37212

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The year was 1982, Audio Vision was incorporated to produce a nationally syndicated radio program called "The John R. Richbourg Show," starring legendary WLAC blues announcer John R. Richbourg. Unfortunately, the program was short lived. AVI continued in various locations until 1986 when Jim Gilmore and Jim Reyland became partners. They restarted the company under a new name Audio Productions, Inc, operating from the basement of Jim Gilmore's home. The studio quickly grew and within months moved to its current Music Row location.

API president Jim Reyland . . . "In the mid eighties we had to move out of Jim Gilmore's basement if we were going to be taken seriously; the problem was cash flow, didn't have any. So we made a deal with a Music Row builder to build a studio for us and give us six months free rent (upfront) in exchange for a long-term lease. It was risky business because we didn't have the money, but we bet that six months later we would. Twenty-five years later we're still here, same address and same phone number."

Reyland and Gilmore invited Travis Turk to join the team as chief operational engineer in 1992. The remainder of API's six thousand square foot studio complex was completed in 1996 and has since added a full service VYVX insert, ADR stage and video feed point..

Audio Productions, Inc. has become Nashville's finest full service, digital commercial, audio production facility. A facility that contains three state-of-the-art studios operating digital equipment including a 72 input digital console and HD3 Pro Tools DAWS, video projection and 5.1 Surround Sound.

API represents some of the finest voice-over talents in the industry, and full voice-over casting with auditions are available. In addition to computerized libraries that contain thousands of sound effects and music, Audio Productions custom designs SFX. Not in Nashville? Not a problem. API offers both Zephyr and APT ISDN capabilities, along with phone patch.