Jim Wells
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James Robert Wellsnever stood a chance. His parents were model railroaders before they were parents! His parents were also musicians. It is this juxtaposition of media that in hindsight left him with no choice in what he would be "when he grows up".
These days, his time is focused one way or another on the evolution of portable, musical, animated display for commercial application outside the theme park environment. I know Jim as an artist. This talent is exhibited in his webiste at http://www.fantasonics.com . Jim has allowed me to
invite you to observe his work in progress. |
Born in Los
Angeles, California in 1948, he was already playing piano at age two, and still has fond
memories of riding the Pacific Electric "red car to Grandma's house". He built
and sold his first HO layout at age nine, began playing music professionally and ventured
into his first recording studios at age fifteen, and became an avionics technician in the
Marine Corps air wing at age eighteen (an opportunity he attributes directly to his
experience with model railroad wiring). He joined the Audio Engineering Society at age
twenty-two and has worked professionally in literally every aspect of music production and
sound reproduction ever since. Over the years he has designed, engineered and implemented
several broadcast and music recording studio facilities, innovated in the application of
piezo ceramic transducers for distributed music/paging systems and for audio-animatronics,
and toured nationally as a mix engineer for portable concert sound.
He met and married
his understanding wife Christie in 1979, and shortly thereafter started Fantasonics (tm)
Engineering, a design/consulting group specializing in the creation of music programs and
audio systems for theme park attractions and animated shows. With his company of
"Engineers" he has pioneered in the design of
portable sound, three dimensional animated sound fields (Aural Image Animation Systems),
and some of the fundamental ways in which sound is created and recreated. He has remained
a model railroader the whole time, working in extremely large scales and live steam for
the past two decades.
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