Tonebenders Podcast

Timothy René and Teresa open up the mailbag and answer some questions from listeners. We tackle how directors can find a good match with a sound designer, how to find the sonic voice of an animated project, and how edits done in a home studio can best translate to mix stages.

Timothy and Teresa were recently in Montreal and gathered some of the city's top SFX recordists and curators to sit down and talk with us. We discuss every aspect of the process of releasing a SFX library for sale, from initially recording the sounds all the way to metadata and distribution strategies.  If you were ever thinking about putting out your own SFX library this is a goldmine of information.

In this episode Timothy and co-host Teresa Morrow talk with Perter Albrechtsen about his work on the new film Generation Wealth.  Peter discusses the challenges this documentary presented as well as lots of other projects from his long an acclaimed career in sound.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.