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Behind the Scene
ACE works with a stable of seasoned professionals who are specialists in their fields. Actors and voiceover artists are selected for individual roles and narrations because they complement the productions. Subjects and topics are meticulously researched before the writers begin work on the scripts. And the production team creates ACE’s signature sound effects that make an audio come to life as a movie in the mind.
The result?
An experience built from the sound up.
The Team
Tim Knofler, President/CEO
Audio Cinema Entertainment, Inc.
Tim Knofler has logged more than 20 years in audio production, entertainment media and corporate communications. He launched ACE in 1996 with the resurrection, production and direction of some of the most treasured episodes of the radio serials “I Love a Mystery.”
Between then and now, the company has become a magnet for clients whose audio needs range from historic tours and teaching tools to automated phone menus and professionally narrated books.
Before producing the “I Love a Mystery” pilot episodes, Knofler had begun cultivating an uncommon range of professional skills and experience in the audio, video and entertainment industries:
- Sound designer with more than 10,000 hours in audio editing and sound design
- Screenwriter for two commercial entertainment companies
- Creator and director of multimedia advertising and marketing programs
- Owner/creative director of a proprietary video production company
- Director of live performances and vintage radio recreations
Knofler, a California native, grew up hearing the heartbeat of the entertainment industry and in a family who loved it.
“My dad truly loved old time radio,” Knofler said. “His favorite was ‘I Love a Mystery’ which was created by one of radio’s masters, Carlton E. Morse.” The show aired between 1939 and 1952, the core of what are referred to as radio’s golden years.
“Dad would ask me, ‘Why don’t you produce it?’ and at one point I thought, why not?”
The pilot productions became the segue to larger, more sophisticated audio projects, including “The Adventures of Captain Hudson: The Lost Mines of Paradise.” Knofler co-wrote, produced and directed the five-hour adventure that was set in the 1930s and released in 2004.
The Captain Hudson production borrowed the best from early radio, the medium that captivated pre-TV audiences with rudimentary broadcasts. But the ACE team moved sound to a higher plane and established a new standard in audio art. Listen for yourself.
Knofler’s singular approach exploits techniques that don’t simply record sound. They create a sense of reality. He places listeners inside an envelope of sound where they become participants in vivid, colorful movies produced in the mind, not on a film lot.
Audio Cinema Entertainment.