Tonebenders Podcast

In this episode we are "re-broadcasting" an interview from the Sound Perspective Podcast with legendary Australian film director Peter Weir (Witness/Master & Commander/Truman Show/Dead Poets Society). Peter talks with host Alfie Faber about working early in his career with legendary sound pro Alan Splet, and then with Richard King on his later films. This is one of the many great interviews available from the Sound Perspective Podcast.

René reminisces about his adventure recording the NHL winter classic way back when it was ok for 80,000 people to get together and watch a game.

A quick roundtable with Kate and Jeff from Boombox about the current coronavirus situation and how it affects the sound community.

Korey Pereira, Nicole Auringer, and Glenn Eanes share their experiences and lessons learned while working with ATMOS technology. Topics discussed include upgrading home studios for Atmos, designing and building rooms for Dolby certification, strategic mixing for lower budget projects, optical illusions in panning, speaker placement challenges, equipment needs, and session management complexities.

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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