Tonebenders Podcast

In the second episode of our Documentary Sound Focus series we talk about the mesmerizing film, The Territory. Director Alex Pritz and composer Katya Mihailova are joined by co-sound designers Peter Albrechtsen and Rune Klausen for this in depth talk. We dig into The Territory's use of subjective sounds, what the jungle really sounds like and the blurred lines between sound design and music (and lots more). Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/205---documentary-sound-focus-the-territory/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com Tonebenders Hosts This Episode: Timothy Muirhead & Teresa Morrow

We talk with Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer & Re-Recording Mixer Johnnie Burn about the amazing sounds in director Jordan Peele's recent film: Nope. Johnnie tells us about designing winds to evoke something more sinister, using ATMOS to its fullest and creative ways of making alien vocals. Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/204---nope-with-johnnie-burn/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com Tonebenders Hosts This Episode: Timothy Muirhead & Mark Kilborn

We have gathered the sound people behind some of the most impressive recent musicals to appear on screen. They talk about the many challenges the genre presents and how they triumphed against them. West Side Story, Tick Tick Boom, In The Heights, Schmigadoon, High School Musical: The Musical and many more productions are represented and discussed. Even if you think you are not generally a fan of musicals, this episode will have you singing their praises. Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/203---audio-post-for-musicals-roundtable/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

In our first of 3 episodes focused on Sound Design for Documentaries, we talk to the sound team & director of the NatGeo Doc - Fire Of Love. Sound Designer Patrice Leblanc and Re-Recording Mixer Gavin Fernandes talk about working with the film's Director, Sara Dosa, to create the sounds of the many volcanos in the film. Most of the film is built from archive footage that was originally shot without sound. Leaving the audio team a heavy workload to help bring the images to life. Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/202---fire-of-love/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

We talk with the audio team behind the smash hit film Top Gun Maverick about making the film sound bombastic and loud while also letting smaller sounds, like the pilots breathing, play prominently to build tension. Sound supervisors Al Nelson, James Mather and Bjorn Schroeder are joined by re-recording mixers Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor explain the whole audio post process from field recording jets on an aircraft carrier to the final mix. Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/201-top-gun-maverick/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

Andreas Franck and Bent Holm join us to talk about their work as Supervising Sound Editors and Re-Recording Mixers on director Ruben Östlund's amazing new film - Triangle of Sadness. They tell us about how they used sound to juxtapose expected emotions and add lots of humour. A major scene in the film involves a yacht caught in a massive destructive storm, but we never see an exterior shot, leaving the sound to carry the heavy load of conveying the power of the weather outside. This is a fun talk. Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/200---triangle-of-sadness Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

We talk with Thomas Rex Beverly about his amazing field recording trip to Greenland to capture the sounds of remote glaciers. He tells us about lowering microphones into ice crevasses, and what it takes to record the sounds of glaciers calving into the arctic ocean. Show Notes and pictures: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/199---recording-glaciers-with-thomas-rex-beverly/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

We talk with the sound team from our favourite show of the year – The Bear. They tell us about how they built the chaos of the restaurant kitchen in the series, editing dialog where everyone is yelling at the same time in a small space, and the many, many grocery store trips the foley team had to go on to create all the food sounds in the show. Steve Giammaria (re-recording mixer/supervising sound editor), Annie Taylor (Supervising Foley Editor) and Evan Benjamin (Dialog Editor) break it all down for us. Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/198-the-bear/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

We dig deep into the rarely talked about art of running a successful Loop Group session. Oscar winning Supervising Sound Editor Nina Hartstone, Dialog Supervisor Brian Bowles, ADR/Loop Group Recording Engineer Bobby Johanson and Game Dialog Designer Tim Atkins take us through everything you need to know to run your own Loop Group session. Show Notes & Full Transcript: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/197-loop-group-roundtable-talk/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

We talk with Supervising Sound Editors Bonnie Wild and Mac Smith, as well as Sound Designer Kim Patrick about the supernatural sounds Moon Knight. They talk about creating creature vocals, dreaming up a new super hero's signature sounds, and deciding what the disembodied voices of gods should sound like. Show Notes & Full Transcript: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/196-the-sound-of-moon-knight/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

Supervising Sound Editor Craig Henighan, and sound editors Lee Gilmore, Angelo Palazzo and Katie Halliday take us behind the iconic sounds in Season 4 of Stranger Things. We dive deep into the the grandfather clock, Yuri's plane and helicopter, the voices of the Demobats and vines and lots, lots more. Show Notes & Full Transcript: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/195-the-sound-design-of-stranger-things-season-4/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

In this episode we talk with the sound team behind the dialog on Season 4 of Stranger Things. Ryan Cole (Dialog Supervisor), Michael Clark (Production Sound Mixer), Korey Pereira (Dialog Editor) and Jill Purdy (Dialog Editor) talk us through the voyage all the dialog took from set to mix stage. The miracles of Vacna's voice, organizing session templates for use with multiple editors and tackling scenes with lots of characters all talking at once, are all discussed. Stay tuned for Part 2 of our Stranger Things coverage, featuring our talk with the sound design team on Season 4 coming next week. Full Show Notes can be found at https://tonebenderspodcast.com/194-dialog-from-set-to-mix-on-stranger-things-season-4/ Podcast website: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/

In this episode we talk to the sound team behind The Beatles documentary, Get Back. The challenges they faced to get these decades old recordings into shape were immense, They were forced to develop their own software, with machine learning, to clean up the audio and the results are amazing. In addition to audio clean up, the project presented a multitude of other hurdles as well. Brent Burge (re-recording mixer & supervising sound editor), Emile de la Rey (machine learning engineer & sound editor), Martin Kwok (supervising sound editor) and Stephen Gallagher (music editor) take us through it all. Episode notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/193-the-sound-of-the-beatles-get-back/ Tonebenders Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

In this episode we talk to the sound team behind the new Halo TV series, with Supervising Sound Editor Jane Tattersall, Re-Recording Mixers Matthew Chan and Lou Solakofski as well as Sound Designer Brennan Mercer. They tell us about their ATMOS workflow from sound editorial to remote playbacks, their philosophies behind making ambience tracks feel full of life and the many different voice treatments in the series. We also dig deep into how the sounds for the Spartan's armoured suits were built with examples of each layer. Episode notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/192-the-sound-of-halo/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

We are joined by Kai Paquin to talk about the Mid/Side microphone shootout he posted on his sound blog recently. The specific microphone models compared are: Schoeps MK41 // MK8, Nevaton MC59 // MC59-8, Sennheiser MKH 8050 // MKH 30, and Sennheiser MKH 40 // MKH 30. You can download the audio files of Kai’s recordings to hear the results for yourself at: https://paquinsound.blogspot.com/2022/01/ms-mic-shootout.html Episode Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/191-mid-side-microphone-shootout/ Podcast website: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

In this episode we talk with the sound team behind Everything Everywhere All At Once. Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer Brent Kiser, Re-Recording Mixer Alexandra Fehrman, Sound Designer Andrew Twite and ADR Supervisor Julie Diez tell us about working with the films unconventional score, the sheer volume of sound design needed and how they used loop group to tell off screen stories. Episode homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/190-everything-everywhere-all-at-once/ Series website: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

We are joined by Gary Rydstrom to talk about his recent Oscar nominated work on the latest Steven Spielberg film, West Side Story. He also tells us about his sound design philosophies, how slipping sound/picture sync can change everything and lots more. Show Notes & Full Transcript: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/189-gary-rydstrom/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

Guests Dane Davis & Steph Flack talk about their work as sound supervisors on The Matrix Resurrections. They discuss the challenge of coming up with new sounds that fit into the existing world of the franchise, techniques to make tricky dialog work on screen and the differences in their workflows from the last time they worked on a Matrix film 18 years ago. Show Notes & Full Transcript: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/188-the-sound-of-matrix-resurrections/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

In this episode we are joined by Bernard Gariépy Strobl (re-recording Mixer) David McCallum (supervising sound editor) & Steve Fanagan (sound designer/supervising sound editor) of the new sci-fi film "Swan Song". They tell us about how they came together as a team when none had ever met before this film. They also talk about the challenge of designing UI sounds for the near future and the unique schedule for the film's post production. Show Notes and full transcript: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/187-swan-song/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/

We are joined by co-supervising Sound Editors Jill Purdy and Nathan Robitaille from the new Guillermo del Toro film, Nightmare Alley. They tell us about having to set the "tone" for both halves of the film, one half is open, mechanical and gritty, while the other half is sleek and contained. Jill talks about building authentic period accurate crowds and call outs through ADR and Loop Group, while Nathen discusses designing new sounds for electricity and other ear candy in the film. Show Notes (including Transcript): https://tonebenderspodcast.com/186-nightmare-alley-with-jill-purdy-nathan-robitaille/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com