Tonebenders Podcast

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 Big Apple. Featured in the Episode are Skip Lievsay, Tom Fleischman, Nicholas Renbeck, Bob Hein and many more.

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 great stories about what it is like in the trenches of some of Hollywoods biggest productions.

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 / Technical Producer for WNYC Studios). Between them all, we have a very wide swath of the kinds of radio and podcast content out there. They do everything from audio drama to journalism to documentary to storytelling. We dig in deep on gear, mixing levels, where to get started and lots more.

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.

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