Tonebenders Podcast

We talk with Stuart Wilson about his work as Production Mixer on the extremely challenging set of Sam Mendes' epic film 1917. The films long continuous shots presented new and unique obstacles (both physical and technical). He also worked on two other recent films in The Two Popes and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Since we recorded this interview Stuart Wilson has won the Best Sound Mixing Oscar for his work on 1917.

In this wide-ranging interview, René speaks with Martin Stig Andersen about the tools and techniques he's used as a designer and composer over the course of his acclaimed career.

This episode we talk to the co-supervising sound editors on Just Mercy, Onnalee Blank and Katy Wood. They talk us through the evolution of the sound of the prison interiors in the film, how to get courtroom loop group to work, and lots more.

Brad Engleking is nominated for a MPSE Golden Reel Award this year for his work on Terrence Malick’s latest film A Hidden Life. We talk about his work dialog editing, sound designing and mixing this 3 hour epic.

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Supervising Sound Editor Alan Murray and Re-Recording Mixers Dean Zupancic & Tom Ozanich talk us through their work on Joker. We dig deep into subway shooting scene, and how they found the sound of Gotham.

We sit down with 8 time Oscar Nominee, Wylie Stateman to talk about the state of the audio post industry, his first steps when tackling new projects and how he maintains decades long working relationships with directors like Quentin Tarantino. We also pull apart his recent work on Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood

We talk with the co-Supervising Sound Editors on Taika Waititi's new film Jojo Rabbit, Ai-Ling Lee (Also SFX Re-Recording Mixer) and Tobias Poppe. They tell us about passing scenes back and forth during the edit phase, how they treated the films imaginary characters with sound and lots more.

In this episode we check in with Skip Lievsay & Blake Leyh to talk about their recent work on the bio-pic Harriet. They discuss bringing the sound of the 1800s to the screen, dealing with studio execs on the mix stage and their many years of collaboration since their first shared credit on 1991's Barton Fink.