Tonebenders Podcast

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.

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.

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.

René, Teresa and Tim all chat with Gary Bourgeois as he takes us through his personal Protools template. Hear what he uses as a starting point when mixing films like Captain America: The First Avenger, Team America: World Police and literally hundreds of other films and TV shows. Really interesting talk with a super interesting guy!

René and Tim talk with Enos Desjardins about his work on the new Netflix film Close, making the jump from indies to a larger budget project and how he approaches sound to influence the audience.

In this episode we sit down with Paul Davies and talk about his long collaboration creating sound for director Lynne Ramsay’s films. In particular we focus on the amazing sound design on their latest work You Were Never Really Here. We also get a preview of his upcoming talk at the School of Sound International Symposium in London April 24 – 27, 2019.

We sit down with co-supervising sound editors Nina Hartstone and John Warhurst to talk about their Oscar nominated work on Bohemian Rhapsody. We cover the exhaustive work they did to re-create the concert crowds, music and the world Freddie Mercury and Queen lived in.

In this episode René talks about his methodology and philosophy for budgeting for personal gear, and then does some shootout tests with an MXL 440 microphone he modded with a capacitor upgrade.

In this episode Timothy checks in with Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn to congratulate them on their Oscar Nomination in Sound Editing for "A Quiet Place".  They also talk about their amazing a year of work in 2018.  In addition to "A Quiet Place", they Sound Supervised "Christopher Robin", "Bumblebee" and "The Meg", four completely different films in every way.

In this episode we talk with Andrew Stirk about the sound work he did as the Sound Supervisor and re-recording engineer,  on the recent film "A Private War".  We discuss the films gritty, almost documentary-like approach to sound and the times when they threw the realism out the window to create impactful moments in the story.