
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

Mar 16, 2023 • 48min
217 - Recording Animals With Mattia Cellotto & Dmitry Chernov
Dmitry and Mattia talk about their adventures recording many different animals, both big (like Lions and Wolves!) and small (Guinea pigs!). They talk about the gear they use, how to approach the creature's keepers to gain permission to record and how to best interact with animals to get the best vocalizations out of them. Plus some great stories on how they captured specific sounds. Stay tuned to the end for some great examples of their recordings.
Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/217---recording-animals-with-mattia-cellotto--dmitry-chernov/
Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com
Tonebenders Hosts This Episode: Timothy Muirhead & René Coronado

Mar 9, 2023 • 41min
216 - Mark Jenkin Director of Bait and Enys Men
BAFTA Award winning director Mark Jenkin joins us to talk about his unique approach to sound for his films. He shoots his films on a bolex camera, entirely without sound and only adds ADR (which he records himself) after the film is edited. He also writes and records the score himself. All of this to make utterly unique films that have found both an audience and critical acclaim in the UK and beyond.
Show Notes & Pictures: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/216---mark-jenkin-director-of-bait-and-enys-men/
Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com
Tonebenders Hosts This Episode: Timothy Muirhead & Teresa Morrow

Feb 25, 2023 • 41min
215 - The Rings of Power
In this episode we talk about the expressive sound world of The Rings of Power series on Prime. Supervising Sound Editors Robert Stambler and Damian Del Borrello as well as Sound Designer Paula Fairfield, tell us about living up to the legacy of the original trilogy, building ambiences for fantasy scenes, designing creature vocals and making magic sounds that feel organic.
This is our final episode before our Los Angeles Sound Design meetup at 7pm on February 28th (2023), at the Thirsty Merchant in Studio City. If you are in the LA Area it would be great to see you and raise a glass together. We have the outdoor patio set aside for us, Full details can be found at www.tonebenderspodcast.com
Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/215---the-rings-of-power/
Podcast Homepage: https://www.tonebenderspodcast.com
Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

Feb 18, 2023 • 24min
214 - Should You Join MPSE and CAS?
In this episode we talk with the presidents of The Motion Picture Sound Editors (Mark Lanza) and The Cinema Audio Society (Karol Urban) about the various reasons for joining these organizations.
Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/214---should-you-join-mpse-and-cas/
Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com
Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead
To learn more about The Motion Picture Sound Editors or buy tickets to the upcoming Golden Reel Awards go to mpse.org

Feb 11, 2023 • 31min
213 - Andor With David Acord & Margit Pfeiffer
Andor, the latest Disney+ series from the Star Wars universe, is an exciting series for sound design. Supervising Sound Editors David Acord & Margit Pfeiffer tell us about building crowds with emotion, creating massive action sequences and the special moments when no sound at all is the scariest possible sound.
Get tickets for the upcoming MPSE Golden Reel Awards at https://www.mpse.org
Remember to mark your calendar for our up coming Sound Design Meetup in Los Angeles. Starting at 7pm on Tuesday Feb 28th, at the Thirsty Merchant in Studio City. We have the patio reserved and it would be great to hang out and talk shop with everyone.
Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/213---andor-with-david-acord--margit-pfeiffer/
Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com
Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

Jan 28, 2023 • 39min
212 - Documentary Sound Focus: Moonage Daydream
For our 3rd and final episode in our series on Sound Design for Documentaries we talk with the director and sound team behind the magnificent David Bowie doc Moonage Daydream. They talk about rebuilding all the music from the original 24 track recordings, making the crowds feel realistic/immersive, merging extensive sound design into iconic songs and cleaning up archival dialog so it can cut through. Sound Supervisors Nina Hartstone & John Warhurst, Re-Recording Mixers Paul Massey & David Giammarco and Director Brett Morgen have stories to spare about how this great film broke new sonic ground.
Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/212---documentary-sound-focus-moonage-daydream/
Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com
Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

Jan 12, 2023 • 49min
211 - Women Talking
This talk with the sound team behind director Sarah Polly's new film, Women Talking, was recorded on location at Formosa Studios in Toronto. The film offered some surprisingly difficult sound issues, including an incredibly tricky dialog clean up and edit. Predominantly in a single location, sound was left to tell the story outside those walls. Supervising Sound Editors Jane Tattersall & David McCallum as well as re-recording mixer Joe Morrow give us a deep dive on how this soundtrack came together.
Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/211---women-talking/
Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com
Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

Jan 5, 2023 • 47min
210 – Gary Rydstrom & Andy Nelson From The Fabelmans
In this episode we have two absolutely all-timers join us for a fun talk about their long standing working relationship and their earliest memories of going to the movies. After that we dig deep into the soundscape of The Fablemans, director Steven Spielberg's latest and most personal film to date.
Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/210---gary-rydstrom--andy-nelson-from-the-fabelmans/
Podcast Home Page: www.tonebenderspodcast.com
Tonebenders Host this episode: Timothy Muirhead

Dec 31, 2022 • 27min
209 - 2022 Year End Wrap Up
For the first time in a long time, all 4 Tonebenders hosts get together to hang out and play a game of audio post production based trivia. Tim, René and Mark go head to head in attempting to answer Teresa's oddball quiz. Feel free to play along at home!? Lots of laughs and general fun as we wrap up our most successful year yet.
Thanks to everyone for listening in 2022. If you missed our year end blog post, please give it a read: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/looking-back-on-2022/
Stay glued to our feed as we have some of our best episodes ever coming up in 2023!
Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/209---year-end-hang-out/
Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com
Tonebenders Hosts This Episode: Timothy Muirhead, René Coronado, Teresa Morrow and Mark Kilborn

Dec 29, 2022 • 42min
208 - God Of War Ragnarok
We are joined by 5 members of the audio team on the epic Playstation game: God Of War Ragnarok. We discuss the tricky things they did for the mix of the game, how the massive amount of work was distributed, the amazing foley and lots lots more. Michael Kent, Stephen Schappler, Bryan Higa, Beau Jimenez and Alex Previty tell us everything!
Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/208---god-of-war-ragnarok/
Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com
Tonebenders Hosts This Episode: Timothy Muirhead & Mark Kilborn
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