John B. Asman
Biography and photo (1999) from Motion Picture Editors Guild

Brother of cameraman William L. Asman and sound effects editor Bub Asman. Dialogue re-recording mixer with 170 films and television movies/series to his credit and one of the founding members of the Larson Sound Center in Burbank, CA. He began his career as a production sound mixer and sound effects editor before moving into re-recording mixing at the former Glen Glenn Sound. There, he earned three Emmy Awards and 25 nominations for mixing shows such as "Hill Street Blues" and "Cagney & Lacey."

In 1987, when the Larson Sound Center opened, Asman was named vice president of development for the company's LarTec Systems division. An accomplished computer programmer by that time, he was responsible for writing the software for the LarTec ADR/Foley system and LarTec Audio Edit Pro. After the division and its products were acquired by Martin Audio in 1996, Asman moved back into mixing, earning another Emmy that same year for the sound mixing of the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie "Harvest of Fire." He also held onto some of his programming responsibilities, and recently engineered a significant upgrade of the machine control systems currently used in Larson's mixing studios and editing suites.

 Technical Achievement Awards (Certificate) 1994: For the advancement and refinement of the computer controlled list management style ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) system via the Lar Tec ADR System that has established itself as a standard of the industry. (w. Stephen W. Potter, Charles Pell and Richard Larson of LarTec Systems)

1 Scientific/Technical Award