Wong reunites with old friends at Noise Floor

Audio engineer John Wong

Noise Floor’s Cory Coken says he and partner Jamie Vanadia are “totally stoked” about their old friend and fellow Avenue Edit sound designer/mixer John Wong joining their fast-growing company as its fifth engineer.

Wong came aboard July 3 after three years as voiceover director at Innovative Artists after the L.A.-headquartered talent agency disbanded its long-established voiceover department in late June.  Innovative agents Laurie Haverkamp and 100 of her exclusive talents went to Naked Artists and Linda Bracilano took this opportunity to leave the business to pursue her interest in life coaching.

For Wong, the reunion “is great, like we never left.   We know each other hand-in-hand, how we think and work. And our creative collaboration just flows.”  Vanadia says Wong “is like having a brother back and we have one more person who can jump into one of our spots and take over.”

The three had worked closely together for six years at Avenue Edit, one of the city’s biggest and busiest full-service post houses before it went belly up in 2008 and its expert staff scattered. 

At Noise Floor, Wong heads up a new audiobooks division, a fast-growing facet of the recording industry that he began while working on the side at Noise Floor for the past 18 months.

While at Innovative Artists, Wong says, “I was struggling to balance all these side jobs and now I am at a point where I can do this fulltime.” 

Wong is recording his third audiobook, with local voice talent, and his expanded Noise Floor services include voiceover demos, documentaries (he mixed Sean Fahey’s acclaimed “Bailout” about the mortgage crisis), indie features and shorts, as well as commercials.

Four-year old Noise Floor offers the gamut of audio services: sound design with a vast sound effects library, voice recording, satellite patches, Foley work and surround mixing for broadcast, podcasts, new media, video games and audiobooks.  

In addition to Coken and Vanadia, on staff are engineers Nick Ray Harris, who runs location audio, Devin Delany who heads music composition services and composer Kate Steinberg.  

Recent projects were location recording by Harris at RDS for Network Health insurance, through Hootenanny editorial, and Delany recent scored a radio campaign for McDonald’s “Untoppable” campaign/Burrell and TV spots for Cadence Health/Element 79.