Music Scores for Advertising, Broadcast & Corporate Communications

Since 1985 Bowen Technovation has established a strong track record as a provider of innovative original music scores and jingle packages.

A More Creative Approach to Music

Our mission is to create music for your productions that will measure up to the production value and originality of works by major national recording artists. After all, there’s nothing worse than your spot getting blown away by the next song played on the station. That is why we use the same recording hardware and recording techniques as used on your favorite Grammy award winning albums.

Need a Demo...Fast?

We welcome requests for our sample reel, available on videotape, on audio cassette, or on DAT. This reel will demonstrate an amazing variety of musical genre... baroque... international ethnic tracks... hip-hop... Dixieland... ethereal... in your face metal... sweet saxy jazz... they are all available for your inspection.

Costs and Licenses

Our productions are probably less costly than you would expect to pay for such quality. Call us with specifics about your project and we’ll get you a quote.

Buyout licenses are available at your request.

Great! How Do We Get Started?

Post-scoring for video/film based projects takes place after your rough cut or final edit. You deliver a 3/4" work print to us with SMPTE time-code on the address track and any reference audio from your master mixed on audio track 1 and 2. This allows the use of two separate audio channels for split track monitoring. Your project will move more smoothly if you burn in a visible time-code window. A specification is included below for this 3/4” workprint.

If we need to include edited audio from your video master, please supply this lay-off on time-code DAT. We recommend you leave the tracks split-track so we can properly integrate this audio and provide you with a final synchronized mix.

We then lock our computer systems up to the time-code from the work print and begin composing...integrating the best in computer- based music software and MIDI systems with the exciting elements of live guitar, sax, vocals, and other instrument tracks.

We then often add sound effect work to these music tracks.

The Mix

After our music, dialog, and sound effect work is completed, we can deliver our product mixed mono or stereo to DAT with time-code, ADAT digital 8-track, 1/4" tape with center track time-code... as a split track with your narrative/dialog, our music/SFX, and time-code all on separate tracks, or at your request we will layback to any video format. Surround sound is our specialty!

Hmmm... I’m Doing Radio!

We design soundtracks for radio productions in a couple of ways. Producers often record and edit the narrative/dialog tracks in their own locale, then send them to us to proceed. Sometimes the script is sent to us to produce using the excellent talent pool available in our region. Approval takes place by phone patch or by cassette tapes. This edited final track is striped with time-code and post-scored as if it was a film or video project.

Specifications for Video Work Print

  • 3/4" video tape
  • Minimum 30 seconds before 1st frame of video
  • We prefer the entire program complete from bars and tone.
  • Audio channel #1- audio from channel 1 of master
  • Audio channel #2- audio from channel 2 of master
  • Address track-exactly same time code as master, re-generated, not dubbed
  • Time code window burn-small and in lower right hand corner, if possible

Audio Layoffs

  • DAT with cue track time-code from master
  • 1/4" analog (Fostex E2) 15 IPS with time code on center/cue track
  • Please keep all audio layoffs split track.

For Layback to Video We Mix to:

  • DAT with cue track time code
  • 1/4 analog (Fostex E2) 15 IPS with time code on center/cue
  • 1k tone at head
    Unless stereo, all Bowen Production mixes are split track with:
  • Voice on track #1
  • Music/SFX on track #2

SFX Layoffs from Our Library for Post

  • Recorded in same formats as material for layback with time code.


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