At the half-way mark of their first year as owners, ARU partners Don Arbuckle and Mark Zeboski are starting to make discernible changes in their new business.
They are dedicated to achieve “new goals,” says Arbuckle, “to transform the studio to a full service audio facility and make everyone aware of the many things we can do.”
Last December, the two long-time ARU engineers purchased the 20-year old recording studio from retiring founder/owners Susan and Mike King.
Since then, they have set about giving a fresh new look to their four floors of state-of-the-art studios in the Wrigley Building, made personnel changes and began adding to their menu of audio recording and post production services.
Last month, Ty Dockery joined ARU as executive producer, a newly created position, from eight years as DDB’s radio producer and two years as a voiceover agent at Stewart Talent.
“We can perform so many services here beyond simply recording,” Dockery says, noting, as an example, ARU’s ability to help smaller agencies and marketing companies cast their projects with professional SAG/AFTRA talent.
Even ARU’s massive needle-drop music library, that contains 316,000 individual tracks, is undergoing expansion.
