Tonebenders Podcast

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.

There's a new tool in town. Sound particles is a very promising and very unique piece of sound design software. I did a screen cap of a thorough walkthrough, then re-packaged that audio for the podcast. enjoy!

Sometimes you can see intensely emotional events coming. In those times you should prepare yourself and roll sound. In this ep I grab my recorder and go get punched in the face.

I got a huge opportunity to record tons of rollercoasters at a fully locked out six flags park. Full access and high expectations. This is that story.

In this podcast we take a listen to some cuts from Motus In Rebus, a new album from sound designer and composer Giuseppe Caiazzo, aka SMHertz

In this Episode Timothy talks with Rich Van Dyke, production sound mixer and master raconteur. Rich's credits include American Beauty, 3;10 to Yuma, Crash, Moonlighting and countless others. He has great stories of the films he has worked on, how he got started and the gear he uses.

In this episode René talks with Matthew Marteinsson about workflows for interactive media and some of our favorite non-DAW tools that we use in our work. Matt works at the audio department for Klei Entertainment, runs the excellent Beards, Cats and Indie Game Audio podcast, and can be found on twitter @mattesque

Last week the supreme court struck down laws that prohibit gay marriage in the USA. I went out to record it. Here's the story of that, and the audio that I captured. head to the website for the full unedited file! Enjoy!

In this episode we sit down with sound designers Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl to talk about their esteemed careers, working philosophies and many of the films they have worked on in the past few years.

We were super excited to talk to Mad Max Fury Road vehicle recordist Oliver Machin for this episode. Oliver gave us tons of great war stories and logistics problems from the set of one of the breakout films of the year. War machines, microphones, and rock n roll on the Doof Wagon.

In this episode, we talk about the Porsche recordings that René made in Houston for the latest echo | collective: fields library. Check out the Porsche library at http://echocollectivefields.com/the-porsche-911-gt3

In ep 32 we breakdown a method for executing a multimic record session with just one mic, we do a postmortem on the recording of the implosion of a Xerox building, and we do another great giveaway, this time in collaboration with soundsnap.com

In ep 31 we talk with Brenda Jaskulske from the University of North Texas. We cover students, education, learning and teaching in the field of audio.

In this eps Timothy announces our biggest contest yet - win a Hybrid SFX Library from ProSoundEffects. Plus we hear from the Sound Designer of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and experiment with the sounds of different contact mics and adhesives with Michał Fojcik

Daniel Pellerin and Steve Munro have been working together as re-recording engineer and sound designer for nearly 30 years. Together they have worked on indie films, oscar nominees and vehicles for A-list actors - all outside the traditional Hollywood system. In this episode they talk about their careers and work on two recent Adam Egoyan directed films. Links: see www.tonebenderspodcast.com for links to things discussed during this episode.

In this Episode Timothy talks to Mark Levinson, veteran ADR Supervisor and now director of the Documentary Particle Fever. We talk about the ADR process, working along side Walter Murch and making the jump from audio post to directing.