
Tonebenders Podcast
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
Latest episodes

Aug 8, 2019 • 42min
107 - Sound & Picture Crews for SEAL Team
In this episode we talk about the unique working relationship between SEAL Team's picture and sound departments during the show's post production. Editors David C. Cook and John Vitale sit down with the series' Supervising Sound Editor Greg Hedgepath and Sound Designer Charles Maynes. They discuss how they collaborate and influence each others choices during the fast-paced schedule of the military-themed action series.

Aug 1, 2019 • 48min
106 - Dallas Taylor of Twenty Thousand Hertz
Today Teresa, René and Timothy sit down with Dallas Taylor from Defacto Sound. Dallas tells us about his work doing sound for ads, trailers, promos and Docs as well as the process behind his blockbuster podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz. After the interview we play one of our favourite episodes of Dallas' podcast "The Booj"

Jun 19, 2019 • 51min
105 - Watson Wu
René and Timothy sit down with Watson Wu to talk about his epic field recording sessions for the game Ring of Elysium. Watson recorded car drops, multiple types of vehicles and lots and lots of guns to create an incredible sound library.

Jun 5, 2019 • 54min
104 - Working with Dialog on Marvelous Mrs Maisel
René and Timothy are joined by the Production Recordist, Dialog Editor and Re-Recording Mixer from Amazon's Marvellous Mrs Maisel. We track every step the dialog takes from the actor's mouths to the final print master. Mathew Price, Sara Stern and Ron Bochar talk us through how they deal with one of the most dialog heavy shows ever produced.

May 25, 2019 • 1h 8min
103 - Dave Whitehead Reissue
One of our favorite episodes was our first interview with Dave Whitehead.
His kind and wise words were inspirational then and they continue to be now. We're dropping that interview in our feed as the last episode before we do the big 100th episode giveaway, so just sit back and let the greatness wash over you.

May 22, 2019 • 1h 2min
102 - Guest Host Peter Albrechtsen Interviews René, Teresa & Tim
For part two of our 100 episodes celebration, we invited past guest Peter Albrechtsen back on the show to interview us. Peter talks with Timothy, Teresa and René about how the audio post production community is changing and ways it isn't changing fast enough. We also finally hear Teresa's audio origin story and how she came to be a part of Tonebenders. Don't forget to enter our big give-a-way before May 29th http://tonebenderspodcast.com/tb-100-give-a-way/

May 9, 2019 • 31min
101 - Avengers EndGame with Shannon Mills
René and Timothy sit down with Shannon Mills, Supervising Sound Editor on Marvel's biggest film yet, Avengers: EndGame. Shannon talks about how he tackles projects with such epic scale, how important his team is and lots more.

May 1, 2019 • 1h 42min
100 - Tonebender's 100 w Mark Mangini & Our Biggest Give-A-Way Ever!
Life Death and a Box of Sound Effects! René, Teresa & Timothy sit down with Mark Mangini to listen to clips sent in by some of our favorite past guests. Ai-Ling Lee, David Whitehead, Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van Der Ryn, John Warhurst, Mildred Iatrou Morgan, Nina Hartstone, Paul Davies, Richard King and Sylvain Bellemare, all contribute stories about some of their best days on the job. We also announce our greatest give-a-way ever! Thanks to Sound Radix, iZotope and ProSoundEffects for providing the amazing prizes.

Apr 11, 2019 • 1h 5min
099 - Sound Design for VFX Round Table
In this episode the sound designers behind two of the biggest franchises in the world talk about doing sound for VFX heavy projects. Paula Fairfield, of Game of Thrones, and Nia Hansen, of the Avengers' films, tell us how they plan, prepare, design and then re-design the sounds of dragons and super heroes.

Mar 30, 2019 • 59min
098 - The Sound of Big Little LIes
In this Episode Teresa and Timothy head to Montreal to talk with Gavin Fernandes (re-recording mixer) and Martin Pinsonnault (Supervising Sound Editor) about their work on HBO's Big Little Lies, Season 1. They talk about their long time collaboration with series' Director Jean-Marc Vallée, the challenges of working on prestige television projects and working with L.A. based production companies while doing sound post in Montreal.