Staff

Brice Bowman
Owner/Engineer

Brice Bowman attended Indiana University and graduated with bachelor’s degrees in Telecommunications and Philosophy in 1981. From 1981 to 2001, he served as Chief Audio Engineer for Caboose Productions, a commercial audio production facility in Indianapolis. In 2002, Brice and co-owner Rick Such started Earshot Audio Post in the heart of Broad Ripple Village in Indianapolis.

BriceThroughout his career, Brice has won numerous local, regional, and national Addy, Telly, Clio, and Silver Microphone Awards. He has been nominated for five National Emmy Awards for his sound design and mixing for ABC Sports and ESPN.

In May of 2006, Brice traveled to Lincoln Center in New York City, where he accepted a National Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Audio for ABC Sports’ opening for the 2005 Indianapolis 500 worldwide broadcast, entitled “Speed City.” In May of 2007, Brice won a second National Sports Emmy Award for “Ghosts of Indy” — ABC Sports’ opening for the 2006 Indianapolis 500 global broadcast.

Mr. Bowman has taught Advanced Sound Design in the New Media Department of the School of Informatics at IUPUI. He is a private pilot, a member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), and is presently building his own plane — a Van’s Aircraft RV-9A.

Brice also owns Bowman Technologies, Inc., which produces electronic tools for the recording industry. BTI’s premier product, the QSII Digital Timer is used in recording studios around the country.

Contact Brice: brice@earshotaudiopost.com


Rick Such
Owner/Engineer

Rick first became interested in the world of audio at the ripe, old age of five, when his parents bought him a Pluto portable record player, complete with a stylus in the shape of a dog bone. A native of Indianapolis, Rick graduated from Beech Grove High School in 1987 and headed to Ball State University. There, he earned a bachelor of science degree in Ricktelecommunications, with a minor in geography. During the summer of 1991, Rick completed an internship with Caboose Productions in Indianapolis, where he became a full-time staff engineer upon graduation from Ball State. During his ten-year tenure at Caboose, Rick engineered hundreds of award-winning audio projects and eventually became responsible for computer development and maintenance.

In 2002, Rick, left his position at Caboose to launch Earshot Audio-Post with his business partner, Brice Bowman.

In addition to his engineering and ownership roles at Earshot, Rick has served as president of the Ball State Telecommunications Alumni Board, and has been an active member of Native View Pictures, a production conglomerate that focused on the creation and production of fascinating documentaries. Rick is also the creator and co-host of Inside MusiCast, an audio podcast program heard worldwide and featuring interviews with the best musicians in the industry. In 2009, Rick was recognized by the Ball State Telecommunications Department with the Distinguished Alumni Of The Year Award, which he shares with past Ball State telecommunications alumni, including David Letterman.

Contact Rick: rick@earshotaudiopost.com


Tonna Jones
Studio Manager

Tonna helped build a thriving interior plantscaping company in Indianapolis while raising her Tonnachildren — and still found time to perform in various theaters around Indianapolis and study voice at the Jordan School of Music on the Butler University campus.

In 1998, Tonna joined an Indianapolis video and audio production company as a production coordinator. There, she was in charge of coordinating locations, talent, crews, catering, travel, hotel accommodations, and scheduling studio time in the editing suites as well as the recording studios.

In January, 2001, Brice Bowman and Rick Such invited her to interview. The rest is history.

Contact Tonna: tonna@earshotaudiopost.com


Ben Ericsen
Audio Engineer 

This is a case of an internship paying off in a big way. While studying for his bachelor of science degree in telecommunications from Ball State University, Ben spent the summer of 2004 interning at Earshot Audio-Post. During the summer of 2006, Ben was hired full-time, and since then he has Benhad the pleasure of recording, sound designing, and mixing hundreds of projects for radio, television, film, and other digital media.

Working at Earshot Audio-Post has also afforded Ben opportunities to work on some interesting, ongoing after-hours projects. Since 2007, Ben has served as a planning committee member for Tonic Ball, one of the biggest and most popular annual charity art and music events in Indianapolis. Ben’s also done audio work on promotional materials for the Naptown Roller Girls.

Ben edits and mixes filmmaker interview podcasts for Heartland Truly Moving Picture and produces, writes, edits, and mixes his own raunchy comedy podcast Laugh Force Alpha.

Contact Ben: ben@earshotaudiopost.com