Karen Basset owner/operator of Boom Chic Studios has been involved in the business of making sound and music for over 25 years. Karen has been a part of the Los Angeles music scene (maiden name Karen Blankfeld) since the early eighties, first as the drummer for the all girl psychedelic 60's band The Pandoras, then as a guitar player and songwriter for The Rebel Pebbles, another all girl band. In between these two bands, Karen played bass with the pop/folk group Wednesday Week. As a songwriter, Karen started building what would eventually become Boom Chic Studios, one component at a time.

Karen made the shift over to audio post production in the early nineties working first as a field sound recordist working all over the world from Canada to Puerta Vallarta, from the Sundance film Festival to the Oscars, and everywhere in between, capturing the sound for numerous EPKs (Electronic Press Kits), and interviews with Mick Jagger, Sylvester Stallone ("Demolition Man"), Jean Claude Van Damme and John Woo ("Hard Target", "Sudden Death") Keanu Reeves and Thomas Jane ("The Last Time I Committed Suicide") Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCapprio, Russel Crowe, and director Sam Raimi (The Quick and the Dead) Robert Redford, Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis, Billy Crystal, Jennifer Tilly, and blah blah blah blah.

Karen then worked as a sound effects editor working with Frank Serafine and Elmo Webber on the TV series "Thunder in Paradise" starring Hulk Hogan and Chris Lemmon...

Karen studied film scoring and music production at UCLA and scored her first film, a low budget black comedy called "The Magazine" for director Sallie Seltzer in 1997.

Boom Chic Studios was born in 1998 while Karen was pregnant with her first child, Sebastien. Boom Chic Studios has had projects varying from public service announcements, TV series, web content, and documentaries, to recording a CD for local Los Angeles lounge act "Blue Meow".

As well as doing the musical underscore, Boom Chic Studios recorded ADR, foley, sound effects, and mixed "Time Out for Bravo Seven", an adaptation of the Twilight Zone episode "The Seventh is made of Phantom" for Director Steve Rubin.

Latest projects include "Hollywood 26" for Air France, "Hypertheque" and "The Cine Files" for iO Productions, and a CD of original songs for children.