About us

Pulse Producitons is a team of professional designers and educators whose combined experience spans over 50 years! Our mission is to help all members of your ensemble reach their full potential, while giving you a product of your own vision in a creative and innovative way. We are unlike anything else on the market.

Meet the Team

Brad Buehring - Music Designer
Brad Buehring holds a Bachelors Degree in Music Performance (Percussion) and a Masters Degree in Music Composition from the University of Louisville. While in school, Brad performed regularly with the New Music Ensemble, University Orchestra, Wind Symphony, and Percussion Ensemble. During his marching years, he performed with the six time World Champion Music City Mystique Winter Drumline as well as with the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps of Dubuque, IA, and the Phantom Legion Drum and Bugle Corps of Rockford, IL. Brad has acted as an arranger, designer, consultant, and educator for several high schools, drum corps, independent indoor ensembles, and the Yamaha Sounds of Summer Camp. He has acted as the Bass Drum technician, Music Director, and Percussion Co-Caption Head for the Americanos Drum and Bugle Corps of Menasha, WI. As an active member of the Vic Firth education team, Brad currently instructs the drumlines at Eastern High School in Louisville and Floyd Central High School in southern Indiana. He is also an independent filmmaker and composer based in the Louisville area.

Dan Duffield - Music Designer
Dan has been an active performer and educator throughout Iowa and much of the Midwest. He obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Percussion Performance and Education from the University of Iowa where during his schooling he acted as the Percussion Director for City High School in Iowa City, IA, and assisted the Davenport Central High School Marching Blue Devils from Davenport, IA. Dan obtained his Master’s Degree in Percussion Performance from the University of South Dakota. He has held positions as an adjunct professor in music for both Northwestern College, and Buena Vista University. Dan worked with several schools in the Los Angeles area while completing an internship with Yamaha Corporation of America's Band and Orchestral Division. He has been a student of many fine percussion educators such as Dan Moore, Darin Wadley, Michael Spiro, Dave Samuels, Dick Sisto, Jim Dreier, Liam Teague, Los Muñequitos de Motanzas, and several others. As an active member of the Vic Firth Education Team, Dan has taught numerous clinics, classes, and private lessons for students of all levels. He has acted as a designer, arranger, and educator for the Americanos Drum and Bugle Corps of Menasha, WI, and for the Kilties Senior Drum and Bugle Corps of Racine, WI. Dan was a member of both the Nite Express and Colts Drum and Bugle Corps. Currently, Dan holds a teaching position with the Waco Independent School District in Waco, TX.

Mike Fogarty - Music Designer
Mike is a graduate of the University of Illinois where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education. Though originally an oboe and piano player, Mike has been putting his music on the marching field since he was in high school. He performed with the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps as a mallet percussionist. Mr. Fogarty has written wind and percussion arrangements for a number of schools across the country. He also has acted as a designer, arranger, and educator for the Americanos Drum and Bugle Corps from Menasha, WI as well as the Kilties Senior Drum and Bugle Corps of Racine, WI. Mike continues to teach camps and clinics throughout the Chicago suburbs while also performing with various ensembles. He currently maintains a music position at the Oswego schools in the southwest suburbs of Chicago.

Ted Reicher - Visual Designer
Ted Reicher, the old guy on the staff, has been writing and teaching drill for competitive bands, drum corps, and winter guards for over 20 years. For several years he acted as the Director of Bands and Chairman of the Music Department at Davenport Central High School in Davenport, IA. Under Mr.Reicher¹s direction, the marching band, three concert bands and jazz bands at Central received straight Division I ratings at the Iowa High School Music Association Festivals. Central¹s Marching Blue Devils is the only band from Iowa to compete in the Bands of America Grand National and Regional Championships. Mr. Reicher is an active composer and arranger, and maintains a private brass studio for students in the Quad Cities area. He is active in the Iowa Bandmasters Association, Southeast Iowa Bandmasters Association, the International Trumpet Guild, and is sought after as a clinician for marching bands throughout the Midwest. On the side, Mr. Reicher is an avid golfer, carrying a scratch handicap for anyone looking for a game!

Sherry Stone - Visual Designer
Sherry Stone has been a performer, instructor, and choreographer of color guard for over fifteen years. She marched drum and bugle corps for nine years spending five years performing with the Phantom Regiment of Rockford, IL. Sherry is well versed in dance and movement having taken dance classes as an adolescent and continuing as a student at the University of Iowa, as well as being taught by multiple instructors throughout the country while performing with drum corps. Sherry has instructed drum corps and many high school color guards in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Missouri. In addition, she is sought after to judge for competition shows. Color guards that she has choreographed and instructed have received excellent ratings along with top color guard achievements. Sherry loves to attend drum corps shows every summer for entertainment, and to keep current with the marching medium. Sherry holds a bachelor of science in biology, and as her full time job, works in an infectious disease laboratory. She is married to a former Madison Scout percussionist and they have a two-year old little girl who also loves to dance and spin her very own two-foot flag!

Nick Wilson - Visual Designer
Nick holds degrees in Biology and Psychology from the University of Iowa, where he also studied ballet and modern dance. Nick has had a long career as a performer in all of the performing arts, including music, theatre, dance, and the pageantry arts. From 2001 to 2003, Nick was a member of the color guard for The Cavaliers, from Rosemont, IL. During that time the corps won two national championships, set the record for the highest score in DCI, earned a perfect score in color guard, and also held the longest winning streak in drum corps history. Nick was a member of the Pride of Cincinnati Winter Guard in 2005, which is when the group earned its second WGI championship title. As an instructor, Nick has worked with groups of all levels. Recently, he has served as a technician for the 2005 Scholastic World bronze medalist, Miamisburg High School from Miamisburg, OH, and instructs the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps from Canton, OH. Nick is currently attending medical school in the Cleveland, OH area.