Tonebenders Podcast

Today Teresa, René and Timothy sit down with Dallas Taylor from Defacto Sound. Dallas tells us about his work doing sound for ads, trailers, promos and Docs as well as the process behind his blockbuster podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz. After the interview we play one of our favourite episodes of Dallas' podcast "The Booj"

René and Timothy sit down with Watson Wu to talk about his epic field recording sessions for the game Ring of Elysium. Watson recorded car drops, multiple types of vehicles and lots and lots of guns to create an incredible sound library.

René and Timothy are joined by the Production Recordist, Dialog Editor and Re-Recording Mixer from Amazon's Marvellous Mrs Maisel. We track every step the dialog takes from the actor's mouths to the final print master. Mathew Price, Sara Stern and Ron Bochar talk us through how they deal with one of the most dialog heavy shows ever produced.

One of our favorite episodes was our first interview with Dave Whitehead. His kind and wise words were inspirational then and they continue to be now. We're dropping that interview in our feed as the last episode before we do the big 100th episode giveaway, so just sit back and let the greatness wash over you.

For part two of our 100 episodes celebration, we invited past guest Peter Albrechtsen back on the show to interview us. Peter talks with Timothy, Teresa and René about how the audio post production community is changing and ways it isn't changing fast enough. We also finally hear Teresa's audio origin story and how she came to be a part of Tonebenders. Don't forget to enter our big give-a-way before May 29th http://tonebenderspodcast.com/tb-100-give-a-way/

René and Timothy sit down with Shannon Mills, Supervising Sound Editor on Marvel's biggest film yet, Avengers: EndGame. Shannon talks about how he tackles projects with such epic scale, how important his team is and lots more.

Life Death and a Box of Sound Effects! René, Teresa & Timothy sit down with Mark Mangini to listen to clips sent in by some of our favorite past guests. Ai-Ling Lee, David Whitehead, Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van Der Ryn, John Warhurst, Mildred Iatrou Morgan, Nina Hartstone, Paul Davies, Richard King and Sylvain Bellemare, all contribute stories about some of their best days on the job. We also announce our greatest give-a-way ever! Thanks to Sound Radix, iZotope and ProSoundEffects for providing the amazing prizes.

In this episode the sound designers behind two of the biggest franchises in the world talk about doing sound for VFX heavy projects. Paula Fairfield, of Game of Thrones, and Nia Hansen, of the Avengers' films, tell us how they plan, prepare, design and then re-design the sounds of dragons and super heroes.

In this Episode Teresa and Timothy head to Montreal to talk with Gavin Fernandes (re-recording mixer) and Martin Pinsonnault (Supervising Sound Editor) about their work on HBO's Big Little Lies, Season 1. They talk about their long time collaboration with series' Director Jean-Marc Vallée, the challenges of working on prestige television projects and working with L.A. based production companies while doing sound post in Montreal.

René, Teresa and Tim all chat with Gary Bourgeois as he takes us through his personal Protools template. Hear what he uses as a starting point when mixing films like Captain America: The First Avenger, Team America: World Police and literally hundreds of other films and TV shows. Really interesting talk with a super interesting guy!

René and Tim talk with Enos Desjardins about his work on the new Netflix film Close, making the jump from indies to a larger budget project and how he approaches sound to influence the audience.

In this episode we sit down with Paul Davies and talk about his long collaboration creating sound for director Lynne Ramsay’s films. In particular we focus on the amazing sound design on their latest work You Were Never Really Here. We also get a preview of his upcoming talk at the School of Sound International Symposium in London April 24 – 27, 2019.

We sit down with co-supervising sound editors Nina Hartstone and John Warhurst to talk about their Oscar nominated work on Bohemian Rhapsody. We cover the exhaustive work they did to re-create the concert crowds, music and the world Freddie Mercury and Queen lived in.

In this episode René talks about his methodology and philosophy for budgeting for personal gear, and then does some shootout tests with an MXL 440 microphone he modded with a capacitor upgrade.

In this episode Timothy checks in with Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn to congratulate them on their Oscar Nomination in Sound Editing for "A Quiet Place".  They also talk about their amazing a year of work in 2018.  In addition to "A Quiet Place", they Sound Supervised "Christopher Robin", "Bumblebee" and "The Meg", four completely different films in every way.

In this episode we talk with Andrew Stirk about the sound work he did as the Sound Supervisor and re-recording engineer,  on the recent film "A Private War".  We discuss the films gritty, almost documentary-like approach to sound and the times when they threw the realism out the window to create impactful moments in the story.

In this episode we have 3 different interviews with members of the sound team for Mary Poppins Returns. First up is the film's dialog and music re-recording mixer Mike Prestwood Smith,  followed by the Supervising-Sound Editor Reneé Tondelli and then effects and foley  re-recording mixer Michael Keller.  They all have fascinating stories on how the film's sound evolved into the impressive final mix.

Mildred Iatrou Morgan & Ai-Ling Lee sit in with us for this episode. They were the co-supervising sound editors on Damien Chazelle's recent film First Man.   They talk about the epic challenge of bringing this film to life, knowing so much of the plot uniquely depends on sound to tell the story of the first moon landing.

Host Timothy goes for a frozen, snowy walk in the woods while recalling some of DesigningSound.org's best content, why the site was/is so important to the audio community and how much it will be missed. Go to http://tonebenderspodcast.com/088-thoughts-on-designingsoundorg/ to find links to a bunch of Timothy's favourite articles from DS over the years. Huge Thanks to Miguel, Jack and Shaun (& everyone else) for all the hard work they have done on DS!

What does it take to make a career in sound post-production? In this episode we listen in on a panel discussion hosted by Soundgirls.org, with 5 talented audio-post pros: Onnalee Blank (Re-Recording: Mixer Game of Thrones, If Beale Street Could Talk), Karol Urban (Re-Recording Mixer: Grey’s Anatomy, New Girl), Kate Finan (Supervising sound editor: Future-Worm!, Muppet Babies) and April Tucker (Re-recording Mixer: The Bachelor, Alt-Right: Age of Rage) and moderator Anne-Marie Slack (Executive of Organization Services for MPSE). They each tell how they got started, and share stories and advice on how to keep moving forward in film and TV post-production.