
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

Jul 15, 2018 • 38min
076 - Skip Lievsay
In this episode Timothy sits down with Skip Lievsay in his personal studio at Warner Brothers New York. Skip waxes eloquently about finding a film's "sound", the differences between working in LA and NYC, and a career spent working on some of the best films of the last 30 years.

Jun 26, 2018 • 1h
077 - Dangerous Field Recording
Tim and René sit down with Colin Hart from Hartfx.com and Tilman and Emil from Tonsturm.com to discuss planning and executing the recordings of dangerous things.

Apr 23, 2018 • 1h 4min
075 - Dialog Editing Roundtable Discussion
In this episode we gather some of the busiest and best dialog editors working in film and TV today. We talk to Jill Purdy, Claire Pochon, Fred Rosenberg and Michael Maroussas about their workflows, triumphs, pet peeves and lots more. Collectively these are the architects behind the dialog tracks on some of the greatest movies of the last 30+ years.

Apr 17, 2018 • 42min
074 - A Quiet Place Erik Aadahl & Ethan Van der Ryn
Erik Aadahl & Ethan Van der Ryn sit down with us to talk about the incredible sound design work they did on the new film "A Quiet Place". Heads Up - Contains mild spoilers!

Apr 8, 2018 • 31min
073 - Nicholas Renbeck & The Night of
In this episode we sit down with Nicholas Renbeck for a talk about what it is like to be working as a freelance Sound Supervisor in New York City. We go in depth on his recent Golden Reel and Emmy award winning work for the HBO series “The Night of” as well as other projects he has worked on in his long career. Thanks to C5 Sound for letting us use their studio to conduct the interview.

Feb 10, 2018 • 44min
072 - New Omni Mics
René picked up some Rode NT5-O omni capsules for his (dormant) pair of NT5s recently, and produced a pretty deep dive into the recordings he's made while exploring them recently.
here are some pics. https://www.flickr.com/photos/123677612@N02/albums/72157690362222272

Dec 26, 2017 • 25min
071 - Install Postmortem
Here's an ep in which René takes a walk in the neighborhood with an SM7b to discuss a recent custom installation project he worked on.

Dec 10, 2017 • 49min
070 - Tim Farrell
In this episode René and Timothy sit down with Tim Farrell to talk about his 5 seasons working on the series Walking Dead as well as his latest gig as Sound Designer on the new Star Trek: Discovery series. We discuss techniques on how to keep long term jobs fresh and challenging as well as lots of other (hopefully!) interesting topics.

Nov 22, 2017 • 54min
069 - 2017 Listener Mailbag
René and Timothy take a crack at answering questions sent in by listeners. Topics range from how to tackle a short film if you are doing it all yourself, best ways to find freelance work outside of the big post audio centers, google alerts for field recording and more.

Nov 9, 2017 • 52min
068 - Mark Mangini
In this episode Teresa and Timothy talk with Mark Mangini about some of the great films he has worked on (5th Element, Mad Max: Fury Road, BladeRunner 2049), and his thoughts on the sound departments role in the film making process.
Mark also has a new SFX library called The Odyssey Collection that you can get now.