Tonebenders Podcast

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 Vecna'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