Tonebenders Podcast

In this episode Richard King joins us to talk about the ultra complicated sound for Christopher Nolan's film, Tenet. We talk about creating interesting sound design for scenes happening in reverse time, how to build big cinematic body punches and his thoughts on the controversy over the film's dialog mix.

We are joined by the sound team behind the hit series The Mandalorian. Re-Recording Mixer Bonnie Wild & Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor Dave Acord tell us about making the sounds of light sabers, the beskar spear, and seismic bombs. They also discuss their approach to creating the endless array of new creature vocals that the Star Wars universe conjures up.

We welcome Tim Nielsen and Kai Paquin to talk about organizing & participating in Crowd Sourced Sound Effects Libraries. They have both run successful Crowd Sourced libraries that went on to raise lots of money for charities once completed. We also talk about the Universal Category System initiative, that Tim and Kai are the brains behind, and how it has helped streamline metadata in crowdsourced libraries.

The winter 2020 Journal of Media and Diversity included an important study produced by our good friend Emma Butt, illustrating the current state of diversity in the film sound industry in the UK. In this episode we discuss the origin and methodology of the study with Emma, and get into some possible solutions.

We are joined by the sound editorial team for the hit series The Queen's Gambit. Rachel Chauncey (foley artist), Gregg Swiatlowski (Sound Supervisor), Eric Hirsch (Sound Editor) and Leo Marcil (Sound Effects Designer), all talk about their work on this challenging project.

In this episode Eric Hoehn walks us through what it was like to do the final mixes for the Queen's Gambit during the lockdown. He also talks about his tricks to make dialog pop and what it is like working with Wylie Stateman.

Today Rene and Tim talk with the legendary Production Sound Mixer John Pritchett. John has worked on projects from Dirty Dancing to Avengers: End Game and just about everything in between. In addition to all the blockbusters he has also worked with auteur directors like Altman, Malick, Mendes, Oliver Stone, PT Anderson, and many more. He has seen it all and has the stories to prove it!

We do a deep dive into the ground breaking Sound Design of Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, to celebrate it's 10th Anniversary. Supervising Sound Editor Julian Slater tells us about his favourite moments and how they came to be.

In this episode we sit down with Sound Supervisor Tim Rakoczy in Austin Texas. We talk about his long collaboration with director Robert Rodriguez working on films like Alita: Battle Angle, Predators and Sin City. Tim is a great storyteller, you don't want to miss this one.

Wylie Stateman (Django Unchained, Godless, Hateful 8), Valerie Deloof (The Sisters Brothers), Mandell Winter (Deadwood: The Movie, Magnificent 7, Meek's Cutoff) and Don Sylvester (3:10 To Yuma) tell us about how they approach Sound Design for Westerns. From horses & guns to gritty foley & ambiences, we cover it all to make the wide open spaces of the old west come to life with sound.