Tonebenders Podcast

We are joined by Steven Ticknor (Supervising Sound Editor) and Michael Babcock (Re-Recording Mixer) from the recent Sci-fi film “65”. The challenge of designing sound for dinosaurs and spaceships makes the soundscape especially unique. They tells us how to craft the sound of a jump scare, about the idea of “speaker real estate” and how to make he most of the ATMOS possibilities. Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/219-the-sound-of-65/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

We dig into the fantastic sound in Evil Dead Rise with the film's writer/director Lee Cronin as well as the Sound Designer and Supervising Sound Editor Peter Albrechtsen. We talk about their creative use of ATMOS, designing scenes where sound is doing the heavy lifting and lots more. Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/218---evil-dead-rise-with-director-lee-cronin--sound-designer-peter-albrechtsen/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com Tonebenders Hosts This Episode: Timothy Muirhead and special co-host Tim Atkins

Dmitry and Mattia talk about their adventures recording many different animals, both big (like Lions and Wolves!) and small (Guinea pigs!). They talk about the gear they use, how to approach the creature's keepers to gain permission to record and how to best interact with animals to get the best vocalizations out of them. Plus some great stories on how they captured specific sounds. Stay tuned to the end for some great examples of their recordings. Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/217---recording-animals-with-mattia-cellotto--dmitry-chernov/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com Tonebenders Hosts This Episode: Timothy Muirhead & René Coronado

BAFTA Award winning director Mark Jenkin joins us to talk about his unique approach to sound for his films. He shoots his films on a bolex camera, entirely without sound and only adds ADR (which he records himself) after the film is edited. He also writes and records the score himself. All of this to make utterly unique films that have found both an audience and critical acclaim in the UK and beyond. Show Notes & Pictures: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/216---mark-jenkin-director-of-bait-and-enys-men/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com Tonebenders Hosts This Episode: Timothy Muirhead & Teresa Morrow

In this episode we talk about the expressive sound world of The Rings of Power series on Prime. Supervising Sound Editors Robert Stambler and Damian Del Borrello as well as Sound Designer Paula Fairfield, tell us about living up to the legacy of the original trilogy, building ambiences for fantasy scenes, designing creature vocals and making magic sounds that feel organic. This is our final episode before our Los Angeles Sound Design meetup at 7pm on February 28th (2023), at the Thirsty Merchant in Studio City. If you are in the LA Area it would be great to see you and raise a glass together. We have the outdoor patio set aside for us, Full details can be found at www.tonebenderspodcast.com Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/215---the-rings-of-power/ Podcast Homepage: https://www.tonebenderspodcast.com Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

In this episode we talk with the presidents of The Motion Picture Sound Editors (Mark Lanza) and The Cinema Audio Society (Karol Urban) about the various reasons for joining these organizations. Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/214---should-you-join-mpse-and-cas/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead To learn more about The Motion Picture Sound Editors or buy tickets to the upcoming Golden Reel Awards go to mpse.org

Andor, the latest Disney+ series from the Star Wars universe, is an exciting series for sound design. Supervising Sound Editors David Acord & Margit Pfeiffer tell us about building crowds with emotion, creating massive action sequences and the special moments when no sound at all is the scariest possible sound. Get tickets for the upcoming MPSE Golden Reel Awards at https://www.mpse.org Remember to mark your calendar for our up coming Sound Design Meetup in Los Angeles. Starting at 7pm on Tuesday Feb 28th, at the Thirsty Merchant in Studio City.  We have the patio reserved and it would be great to hang out and talk shop with everyone.  Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/213---andor-with-david-acord--margit-pfeiffer/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

For our 3rd and final episode in our series on Sound Design for Documentaries we talk with the director and sound team behind the magnificent David Bowie doc Moonage Daydream. They talk about rebuilding all the music from the original 24 track recordings, making the crowds feel realistic/immersive, merging extensive sound design into iconic songs and cleaning up archival dialog so it can cut through. Sound Supervisors Nina Hartstone & John Warhurst, Re-Recording Mixers Paul Massey & David Giammarco and Director Brett Morgen have stories to spare about how this great film broke new sonic ground. Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/212---documentary-sound-focus-moonage-daydream/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

This talk with the sound team behind director Sarah Polly's new film, Women Talking, was recorded on location at Formosa Studios in Toronto. The film offered some surprisingly difficult sound issues, including an incredibly tricky dialog clean up and edit. Predominantly in a single location, sound was left to tell the story outside those walls. Supervising Sound Editors Jane Tattersall & David McCallum as well as re-recording mixer Joe Morrow give us a deep dive on how this soundtrack came together. Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/211---women-talking/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

In this episode we have two absolutely all-timers join us for a fun talk about their long standing working relationship and their earliest memories of going to the movies. After that we dig deep into the soundscape of The Fablemans, director Steven Spielberg's latest and most personal film to date. Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/210---gary-rydstrom--andy-nelson-from-the-fabelmans/ Podcast Home Page: www.tonebenderspodcast.com Tonebenders Host this episode: Timothy Muirhead

For the first time in a long time, all 4 Tonebenders hosts get together to hang out and play a game of audio post production based trivia. Tim, René and Mark go head to head in attempting to answer Teresa's oddball quiz. Feel free to play along at home!? Lots of laughs and general fun as we wrap up our most successful year yet. Thanks to everyone for listening in 2022. If you missed our year end blog post, please give it a read: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/looking-back-on-2022/ Stay glued to our feed as we have some of our best episodes ever coming up in 2023! Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/209---year-end-hang-out/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com Tonebenders Hosts This Episode: Timothy Muirhead, René Coronado, Teresa Morrow and Mark Kilborn

We are joined by 5 members of the audio team on the epic Playstation game: God Of War Ragnarok. We discuss the tricky things they did for the mix of the game, how the massive amount of work was distributed, the amazing foley and lots lots more. Michael Kent, Stephen Schappler, Bryan Higa, Beau Jimenez and Alex Previty tell us everything! Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/208---god-of-war-ragnarok/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com Tonebenders Hosts This Episode: Timothy Muirhead & Mark Kilborn

Paul Hsu (Sound Designer) and Dave Flynch (Supervising Sound Editor) talk about their work on the new Film "Nanny". This Blumhouse production, by first time director Nikyatu Jusu, is full of moody and creepy sound design as the film teeters between reality and the supernatural. Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/207---nanny-with-paul-hsu--dave-flynch/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

We are joined by the sound team from the excellent new film, The Woman King. Production Sound Mixer Derek Mansvelt, Supervising Sound Editor Becky Sullivan and Re-Recording Mixer Tony Lamberti tell us about making the battle sequences sound extra visceral, and how the dial and battle chants went from being captured on set, through sound editorial and finally onto the mix stage. Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/206---the-woman-king/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

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