Tonebenders Podcast

Richard King is a 4 time Oscar Winner for Sound Editing (actually nominated 6 times!) and a giant in the film sound world.  He sits down with Timothy to talk about his work on Dunkirk, what it is like to work with Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer and many of the other amazing films he has been a part of.  Great talk!

In this episode Timothy and René sit down with the sound team behind the new Emmy nominated documentary “Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas”. The film tells the story of how Jewish songwriters are responsible for so many of the best-loved Christmas tunes. Set in a Chinese restaurant on Christmas Day, the tale unfolds using a combination of musical performance, interviews and archival footage. Joining us for the interview are the film’s producer Liam Romalis, re-recording engineer Richard Spence-Thomas, location recordist Gary Vaughan and Music Supervisor Aaron Davis.

In mid 2018 sound recordist Bret Johns decided to launch a kickstarter that would send him to Thailand on a mission to record a variety of elephants that would turn into a pretty spectacular library launch.  We enthusiastically backed it, and when the time was right we caught up with Bret to hear the sounds and talk about the adventure. Elephants In The Room Sound Effects Library https://elephantvoices.org/ also huge thanks for editorial help from Sebastian Dressel.  check out his work below http://www.sebastiandressel.com/

Teresa and Timothy visit Montreal to sit down in person with the sound team behind the ground breaking and award winning film Arrival from director Denis Villeneuve.  Re-Recording Mixer Bernard Gariépy Strobl and Supervising Sound Editor Sylvain Bellemare tell us about the way they brought the soundtrack of the film to new heights.  This is a great talk about a fascinating film.

We talk with Joseph Fraioli about his work on the new science fiction film "Kin" by directors Jonathan and Josh Baker.  Joseph tells us about how he created an alien language and the sounds of the mysterious gun at the heart of the film.  He also discusses how he uses modular synths in his sound design and how he worked with a sound team spread out between New York, Los Angeles, Toronto and Scotland.

In this episode Timothy goes to Foley One's studios for an in person interview with Steve Baine (foley artist), Peter Persaud (mixer), Gina Wark (editor) and Rocky (studio dog) to talk about their work on the recent hit  film A Quiet Place.  We also talk about other films they have worked lately on including The Shape of Water and Mother!  Fun talk with great people about top notch work.

Timothy René and Teresa open up the mailbag and answer some questions from listeners. We tackle how directors can find a good match with a sound designer, how to find the sonic voice of an animated project, and how edits done in a home studio can best translate to mix stages.

Timothy and Teresa were recently in Montreal and gathered some of the city's top SFX recordists and curators to sit down and talk with us. We discuss every aspect of the process of releasing a SFX library for sale, from initially recording the sounds all the way to metadata and distribution strategies.  If you were ever thinking about putting out your own SFX library this is a goldmine of information.

In this episode Timothy and co-host Teresa Morrow talk with Perter Albrechtsen about his work on the new film Generation Wealth.  Peter discusses the challenges this documentary presented as well as lots of other projects from his long an acclaimed career in sound.

In this episode Timothy sits down with Skip Lievsay in his personal studio at Warner Brothers New York.  Skip waxes eloquently about finding a film's "sound", the differences between working in LA and NYC, and a career spent working on some of the best films of the last 30 years.

Tim and René sit down with Colin Hart from Hartfx.com and Tilman and Emil from Tonsturm.com to discuss planning and executing the recordings of dangerous things.

In this episode we gather some of the busiest and best dialog editors working in film and TV today. We talk to Jill Purdy, Claire Pochon, Fred Rosenberg and Michael Maroussas about their workflows, triumphs, pet peeves and lots more. Collectively these are the architects behind the dialog tracks on some of the greatest movies of the last 30+ years.

Erik Aadahl & Ethan Van der Ryn sit down with us to talk about the incredible sound design work they did on the new film "A Quiet Place". Heads Up - Contains mild spoilers!

In this episode we sit down with Nicholas Renbeck for a talk about what it is like to be working as a freelance Sound Supervisor in New York City. We go in depth on his recent Golden Reel and Emmy award winning work for the HBO series “The Night of” as well as other projects he has worked on in his long career. Thanks to C5 Sound for letting us use their studio to conduct the interview.

René picked up some Rode NT5-O omni capsules for his (dormant) pair of NT5s recently, and produced a pretty deep dive into the recordings he's made while exploring them recently. here are some pics. https://www.flickr.com/photos/123677612@N02/albums/72157690362222272

Here's an ep in which René takes a walk in the neighborhood with an SM7b to discuss a recent custom installation project he worked on.

In this episode René and Timothy sit down with Tim Farrell to talk about his 5 seasons working on the series Walking Dead as well as his latest gig as Sound Designer on the new Star Trek: Discovery series. We discuss techniques on how to keep long term jobs fresh and challenging as well as lots of other (hopefully!) interesting topics.

René and Timothy take a crack at answering questions sent in by listeners. Topics range from how to tackle a short film if you are doing it all yourself, best ways to find freelance work outside of the big post audio centers, google alerts for field recording and more.

In this episode Teresa and Timothy talk with Mark Mangini about some of the great films he has worked on (5th Element, Mad Max: Fury Road, BladeRunner 2049), and his thoughts on the sound departments role in the film making process. Mark also has a new SFX library called The Odyssey Collection that you can get now.

In this episode we sit down with legendary New York based re-recording mixer Tom Fleischman on his mixing stage at Soundtrack F/T in Manhattan. Teresa Morrow sits in as host and talks to Tom about his 40 year career mixing some of the greatest american films ever made including Serpico, Silence of The Lambs, Goodfellas, Hugo (for which he won an Oscar), Reds and any more. Tom is an engaging storyteller whose love for making movies inspires everyone he comes into contact with.