Tonebenders Podcast

Mar 08 2025 305 ep. 42 mins 2.4k

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Tonebenders is a Sound Design podcast dedicated to covering the worlds of sound editing, field recording and audio post production for film, television and gaming. Through interviews and experiments we delve into everything from foley to plugins. Check us out at www.tonebenderspodcast.com

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303 - Tonebenders Goes To LA

Mar 08 2025 29 mins

A few weeks ago Tonebenders' host, Tim Muirhead, flew to Los Angeles for a bunch of adventures with the sound design community in LA. From hosting interviews on the red carpet, at the Cinema Audio Society Awards, to attending the MPSE Golden Reels, to doing a bunch of interviews for future episodes of the show, Tim was busy while he was in town. By far the best night of the trip wa

302 - 2025 Oscar Pool Sound Category Round Up

Feb 28 2025 32 mins

Tonebenders was able to do an episode with every sound team, that has been nominated in the Best Sound category, at this years Oscars. So with the award show only a few days away, this week we are going to take listen to a selection of each interview, to try to get an idea of what was done on each film, to lead to it's nomination. First up we will hear from Paul Massey, Ted Caplan

301 - Hellblade II

Feb 19 2025 43 mins

Guest host Mark Kilborn jumps in to talk with the sound team behind the amazing journey of survival through Viking time period Iceland, in the game Senua's Saga: Hellblade II. This adventure from publisher Ninja Theory, follows our main character as she unknowingly deals with psychosis, including many auditory hallucinations. The audio team had their hands full to translate these h

300 - Dune Part 2

Feb 14 2025 20 mins

Dune Part 2 had a lot to live up to after the success of Dune Part 1. The sequel has a bunch of new audio challenges to solve, as it is about as epic a film as there has ever been. Supervising Sound Editor Richard King and Re-Recording Mixers Doug Hemphill & Ron Bartlett, sit down to talk about how they prepared for the challenges this film presented them and what it is like to wor

299 - The Wild Robot

Feb 06 2025 51 mins

Join the composer, sound editorial team and re-recording mixers of director Chris Sanders emotional animated feature, The Wild Robot. The film has been nominated in both the Best Sound and the Best Score categories at this years Oscars. So we brought together the whole team to talk about how they found the "sonic voice" of the movie. Through unique instrumentation, in parallel with

298 - Greg Hedgepath

Feb 04 2025 46 mins

The Lifetime Achievement recipient at the M.P.S.E. Golden Reels this year will be Greg Hedgepath. He and I got to sit down and go over his career from his start in Washington DC with NPR, through his time at Lucas Films/Skywalker Ranch to his current hometown in Los Angeles, as a busy sound editor on films like Straight Out of Compton, Speed, Twister, Higher Learning, Blade and man

297 - Production Sound Mixer Simon Hayes

Jan 24 2025 40 mins

Oscar winning production sound mixer Simon Hayes sits down with Tim, for an in-person, one on one talk. He describes his goal of a world where there is no distinction between the production sound team and the audio post team. Everyone is working as one big crew to get the best possible sound for each project, through collaboration and open communication. Simon spins wonderful stori

296 - Nosferatu

Jan 17 2025 39 mins

Robert Egger's latest film, Nosferatu, is loaded with dread. That feeling of dread is largely delivered by the amazing sound design created by Damian Volpe (Sound Designer, Re-recording Mixer & Supervising Sound Editor), Steve Little (Supervising Sound Editor, Dialog Editor & Supervising ADR Editor) and the rest of the sound team. Egger's instructions were to base everything on org

295 – Blitz

Jan 08 2025 42 mins

Director Steve McQueen's new film, Blitz, is full of stunning visuals. The audio team was tasked with coming up with sounds that could match, and often exceed, the beauty of the images they are accompanying. The war surrounding our main characters is often happening off screen, as the bombs are raining down as a catalyst for the human drama happening in underground shelters and tub

294 - Gladiator II

Jan 07 2025 46 mins

Gladiator II is the massive sequel to director Ridley Scott's award winning original film, released in 2000. This time everything is raised up a few notches though. The sound team of Paul Massey (Dialog/Music Re-Recording Mixer) Danny Sheehan (Supervising Sound Editor), Matt Collinge (Supervising Sound Editor & SFX/Foley Re-Recording Mixer) and Stéphane Bucher (Production Sound Mi