Tonebenders Podcast

During the time of global pandemic sound designer Al Sirkett created the Ambient Isolation project as something to do with his daughter. The project ballooned into a massive crowdsource, where recordists from around the world captured the sounds of a locked down world. In Part 2 we’ve assembled a collage of contributions with short descriptions from some of the recordists that participated. This i...

During the time of global pandemic sound designer Al Sirkett created the Ambient Isolation project as something to do with his daughter. The project ballooned into a massive crowdsource, where recordists from around the world captured the sounds of a locked down world. In Part 1 of this episode we talk with Al about the story of the project and how it came to be.

Rene, Tim and Teresa talk about the BLM movement

Tim and René sat down with Tom Hammond at his Soundcrafter Studios in Austin to talk about his 25 years of collaborating with director Richard Linklater. Tom tells us about the 12 year post production process on Boyhood, his start editing foley and how he survives and thrives working outside of Hollywood.

In 2018 the film world took notice when Alfonoso Cuarón, director of Gravity, released a black and white, period film called Roma to wide acclaim. It was one of the first films to truly explore and innovate in the Atmos format, and the dense soundfield was an intense labor of love throughout. In this episode we spoke with sound editor Javier Quesada about his intense and meticulous work in this pr...

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In this episode we talk with Paul and Jessie about Trolls World Tour. The film is about how music can either drive us apart or bring us closer together, resulting in the sound design playing a major role in making the story work. We discuss how to make sound effects cut through in a loud musical, figuring out the sound of the Trolls' world, and how being noticed for working hard early in your care...

Are you nervous about starting a new project? Don’t worry; so is everyone else, including your sound design hero, Randy Thom… Talking through the edit, scene by scene gives the director, the composer and the rest of the editorial team the chance to sort out out technical issues and determine the direction and shape the soundtrack is going to take… Randy joins us to talk about about what kind of at...

We visit Game On in Montreal to get a tour of their massive Motion Capture stage and recording studios. Sam Giradin tells us about their audio workflow recording on the stage and in the booth when pushing through ten of thousands of dialog lines for AAA games.

In this episode, René and Tim talk with acclaimed voice actor Eric Vale about the process of setting up a home voice recording setup during the age of quarantine when studios are not available and work still needs to be done. We dispel some myths, we talk gear, we show off some mics, and we crack some jokes. If you know voice actors going through the process of setting up (or stepping up) a home r...

What with one thing and another, John, Shelley and Scott are sheltering at home. We take advantage of this rare break in the schedule to bring them back together over Skype. They pull back the curtain (Zuzz, but just a hairball) on the unique space they've created to work in and share the irrepressible camaraderie that fuels their work at Skywalker Ranch. We also talk Foley for animation, includin...

In this episode we are "re-broadcasting" an interview from the Sound Perspective Podcast with legendary Australian film director Peter Weir (Witness/Master & Commander/Truman Show/Dead Poets Society). Peter talks with host Alfie Faber about working early in his career with legendary sound pro Alan Splet, and then with Richard King on his later films. This is one of the many great interviews availa...

René reminisces about his adventure recording the NHL winter classic way back when it was ok for 80,000 people to get together and watch a game.

A quick roundtable with Kate and Jeff from Boombox about the current coronavirus situation and how it affects the sound community.

Rene & Tim are joined by guests who are all just getting started with working in ATMOS. After having to figure out ATMOS on their own, without the benefit of a full tech staff, we discuss the mistakes made, lessons learned & some discovered tricks. Guests on this episode are Korey Pereira , Nicole Auringer and Glenn Eanes. They are all doing audio post production out of Austin Texas. Special thank...

We talk with Stuart Wilson about his work as Production Mixer on the extremely challenging set of Sam Mendes' epic film 1917. The films long continuous shots presented new and unique obstacles (both physical and technical). He also worked on two other recent films in The Two Popes and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Since we recorded this interview Stuart Wilson has won the Best Sound Mixing Osc...

In this wide-ranging interview, René speaks with Martin Stig Andersen about the tools and techniques he's used as a designer and composer over the course of his acclaimed career.

This episode we talk to the co-supervising sound editors on Just Mercy, Onnalee Blank and Katy Wood. They talk us through the evolution of the sound of the prison interiors in the film, how to get courtroom loop group to work, and lots more.

Brad Engleking is nominated for a MPSE Golden Reel Award this year for his work on Terrence Malick’s latest film A Hidden Life. We talk about his work dialog editing, sound designing and mixing this 3 hour epic.

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Supervising Sound Editor Alan Murray and Re-Recording Mixers Dean Zupancic & Tom Ozanich talk us through their work on Joker. We dig deep into subway shooting scene, and how they found the sound of Gotham.

We sit down with 8 time Oscar Nominee, Wylie Stateman to talk about the state of the audio post industry, his first steps when tackling new projects and how he maintains decades long working relationships with directors like Quentin Tarantino. We also pull apart his recent work on Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood

We talk with the co-Supervising Sound Editors on Taika Waititi's new film Jojo Rabbit, Ai-Ling Lee (Also SFX Re-Recording Mixer) and Tobias Poppe. They tell us about passing scenes back and forth during the edit phase, how they treated the films imaginary characters with sound and lots more.

In this episode we check in with Skip Lievsay & Blake Leyh to talk about their recent work on the bio-pic Harriet. They discuss bringing the sound of the 1800s to the screen, dealing with studio execs on the mix stage and their many years of collaboration since their first shared credit on 1991's Barton Fink.