Tonebenders Podcast

Paul and Rene sit down and discuss the new Sound Devices mixpre 3 and 6, and they wax philosophical about the thought process you go through when buying and learning new gear.

To celebrate the podcast's 5 year anniversary, we take a walk down memory lane and play clips from interviews of some of our favourite past guests on the show. Our new robot assistant 85T4X takes over the hosting duties, so Timothy and René can take a break. Shoot us a message on Twitter (@tonebenderspodcast) or our Facebook group and let us know what your favourite episodes from the last five yea...

In this episode we talk to some authors of recent pro audio related books. David Weiss tells us about the brand new book he co-wrote called "Music Supervision: The Complete Guide To Selecting Music for Movies, TV, Games & New Media". Damian Kastbauer checks in with his two part tome "Game Audio: Tales of a Technical Sound Designer". Jay Rose, a noted raconteur, talks up his book "Producing Great S...

In this episode we pass the podcast over to George Vlad and Daan Hendricks who tell us all about their trip to a field recording workshop in Mmabolela Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa. They discuss everything from the planning and preparations, getting from their homes in Europe to this remote location, and the gear they used (and how it held up in the extreme weather conditions). They also reminisc...

In this episode Timothy sits down with sound editor/designer/supervisor Abby Savage in her edit suite in New York City. Abby talks about her work on documentaries and indie films and how she makes that work along with her successful acting career.

Once upon a time in suburbia, my little boy hopped up from the kitchen table upon hearing the tinkle of the ice cream truck song. I grabbed my recorder and headed out into the street....

René sits down with Gordon from A Shell In The Pit and Carlye from Funbits Interactive to talk VR design and mixing. Follow Gordon @ashellinthepit and Carlye @carlnyte

In this episode Timothy sits down with Bob Hein, in his Studio in New York City, for a one on one interview about Mr. Hein's impressive career as a Sound Supervisor. He talks about what it is like to work with great directors (Wes Anderson, Woody Allen, Lee Daniels, Jim Jarmusch), how the industry in NYC has changed in recent years, and lots more. This is a man who has seen it all in this industry...

In this episode we talk with Steve Bissinger about his career, how he ended up at Skywalker Ranch, and the new film In Pursuit of Silence. The film is unlike anything you have ever seen and presented a lot of unique sound challenges. As Sound Supervisor on the project, Steve walks us through how this film is different than his main gig on the Netflix series House of Cards and the upcoming MindHunt...

Guest host Teresa Morrow sits down with documentary film maker Carlo Guillermo Proto and location recordist Pablo Villegas about their new, award winning film "Resurrecting Hassan". They discuss the film's unique soundtrack and their battle to get the film to sound the best it possibly could. They talk the about everything from the first day of shooting all the way up to the final mix.

In November of 2016 Tonebenders went on an sound nerds tour of New York City. We visited some of the city's top post audio studios and interviewed many of the talented sound professionals working in NYC. In this episode host Timothy and guest co-host Teresa Morrow (a busy re-recording engineer based in Toronto) tell us about the trip and play clips of many of the interviews they did while in the B...

In this episode René and Timothy talk to Nia Hansen about her career at Skywalker Ranch. She has worked on blockbuster films including Captain America: Civil War (& The Winter Soldier), Thor: The Dark World, War Horse, Dr. Strange, Jurassic World, Big Hero 6 and many more. She tells us about life at Skywalker and what it is like to work in high pressure audio post production environments. Lots of...

This episode features a great conversation about the ins and outs of sound design in radio and podcasting. Our guest are Dylan Keefe, (Director of Sound Design for RadioLab), Jeff Emtman (Co-Producer of KCRW's Here Be Monsters), Ann Jones (host and producer of Off Track for Australian Broadcasting Corporation), Dan Powell (Sound Designer for Archive 81 podcast) and Jeremy Bloom (Sound Designer / T...

Phil Stockton is a long time Sound-Supervisor based in New York City. In this episode we talk to him about the work he did on Martin Scorsese's new film "Silence". Lots of effort went into creating the soundscape of this story that takes place 400 years ago. As a bonus we start off with a quick hit of Tom Fleischman's experience as the re-recording mixer of the film.

Pete Lee is a location recordist that specializes in recording in extreme environments. He has recorded on volcanos and the frozen tundra, in rain soaked jungles, steep mountain sides and alligator filled swamps just name a few. As Bear Grylls' go to sound man Pete has travelled the world with a mic on his shoulders. He has some great gear advice and crazy stories - so listen up!

Patrick Spence-Thomas was a pioneer in the audio post world and he was also a mentor to co-host Timothy's early years in the business. In this episode you get some stories about what a great guy Patrick was and then Timothy shares a holiday message Patrick left us before he passed away.

For Our 50th episode we reached out to our listeners and some industry veterans to tell us about their best days on the job. We have over an hour of tales about audio awesome-ness.

In this mini episode Co-Host Timothy buys some new gear and takes it for a walk in the woods.

An interview with Placid Audio's Mark Pirro - creator of the iconic copperphone mic.

In this episode we talk about all about the tricky world of recording ADR. Patrick Christensen, ADR mixer at Sound Lounge in NYC, and Chris Navarro, ADR Mixer at Formosa Group in West Hollywood, sit down and talk about what it takes to be running ADR sessions everyday. Between them they have 950 ADR mixing credits on IMDB - so they have done it all, PLUS they are great guys.

We talk to Sound Design legend Scott Gershin about his career and his upcoming talk at the Game Sound Conference about 3D Sound for VR. Then Arjen Van Der Schoot sits in to talk about AudioEase's new "Indoor" software. Aimed at the Audio Post market, "Indoor" is a ground breaking new way to get realistic room reflections.

Kate Finan sits in with René and Timothy to talk about fostering creative work environments, sound design for animation and a bunch of other topics. Kate is a sound supervisor with Boom Box Post in California.

my recent adventures recording a protest outside of a Trump rally that came to Dallas.

This episode Timothy interviews Bob Dziak, a researcher who sent a hydrophone 11kms (7miles) into the oceans deepest known spot so humans could hear what it sounds like down there for the very first time. Plus a quick run through of Izotope's new VocalSynth software and its possible uses for sound design in audio-post.

Ok, the impostor syndrome episode is real, and it is here. If you feel like you suck at this stuff, take a listen and feel better about yourself. Big big thanks to Matt Marteinsson, Jack Menhorn, Jay Fernandes and Graham Donnelly for contributing.