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Tonebenders Podcast
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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
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380 - Sound Editors that Mix & Mixers that Edit Part 2
The conversation continues about what is expected when working in audio post on high level films and series. Where is the line between an sound editor and sound mixer? Greg King, Jon Greasley, Brittany Ellis, Nikola Simikic and Ben Cook all share their vast experience and thoughts on where things...
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379 - Sound Editors that Mix & Mixers that Edit
What is expected of the modern crafts person working in Audio Post? A lot of mixing is done in the sound edit, and a lot of editing is done on the mix stage. After a long day of work, 5 busy Los Angeles sound professionals gathered in Stage 10 on the Warner Brothers lot, to hash out how their…
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378 - Women in Audio Post Roundtable
Lindsey Alvarez, Anna Behlmer, Laura Wiest & Karen Baker Landers recently gathered together in Formosa Hollywood's Stage 2, to share their paths while forging a career in audio post. The conversation is filled with stories of their experiences in Hollywood that range from horrible to hopeful.…
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377 - Sonic Days Live! Sound Design for Franchise IP
James Mather, Tormod Ringnes and Kim Christensen join Tonebenders' host Tim Muirhead on Stage in front of a packed theatre as part of the 2025 Sonic Days Conference. They talk about their work on iconic franchises like Harry Potter, Tron, Dracula, Top Gun and more. ______ SPONSORS: If summer has...
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376 – Live From SoundDay LA_The Pitt, DTF St Louis & Hacks
In the final episode of the talks from SoundDay LA, we have the HBO Panel of Emmy nominated re-recording mixers from The Pitt, DTF St Louis and Hacks. James Parnell, Todd Grace & Ed Carr join Tim, for a lively talk in front of a packed house at Glen Glenn Film Center in Hollywood, California.…
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375 – Live From SoundDay LA_Stranger Things
The sound team from Stranger Things, Season 5, joined SoundDay LA to discuss how the series has changed since it's beginning and the massive undertaking they took on to complete the series' final season. Supervising Sound Editor Craig Henighan divulges an super interesting and creative story…
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374 - Live From SoundDay LA: Spider-Noir
The sound team from Spider-Noir join Tim on stage as part of SoundDay LA to discuss their Emmy nominated work on this unique sounding series. Supervising Sound Editors Ethan Beigel and Andy Sisul, Re-Recording Mixer/Sound Designer Ryan Collins and Location Sound Mixer Matthew Sanchez share behind...
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373 – Live From SoundDay LA_ Widow’s Bay, Pluribus & Shrinking
The first panel of SoundDay LA was a wonderful talk with some of AppleTV's Emmy nominated sound teams. Including Larry Benjamin, Tim Hoogenakker, Matt Yocum and Sang Kim from Window's Bay. Anna Wilborn and Alex Jongbloed from Shrinking. As well as Phillip Palmer from Pluribus (Larry and Tim mixed...
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372 - The Bear & Beef S2
Emmy nominated re-recording mixers Andy Lange & Penny Harold (Beef), join Steve “Major” Giammaria (The Bear) in conversation about life on the mix stage for high end shows. All three discuss how they approached the mixes for the most recent season of both series. They compare and contrast what a...
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371 – Murderbot
Recent Emmy nominees Danielle McBride and Tyler Whitham join the podcast to discuss their roles as supervising sound editors on the sci-fi comedy Murderbot. Building the sonic world of a brand new sci-fi series is just about every sound person's dream gig. What does a giant two headed monster...
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370 - Alien Earth
Alien: Earth expands on the sonic universe of the Alien franchise, with terrifying new creatures and technology. Supervising Sound Editor Lee Gilmore and Sound Designers Justin Davey & Nolan McNaughton, join the podcast to tell us about how they tackled the cavalcade of audio challenges this…
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369 - RuPaul's Drag Race
Re-recording mixers Erik Valenzuela & Sal Ojeda join Tonebenders to talk about their wild schedule during audio post on RuPaul's Drag Race. Between them they have combined to work on over 330 episodes of Drag Race, making them experts on reality TV postproduction workflows. Dialog often presents...
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368 - Backrooms
Backrooms was a massive blockbuster this spring and the sounds in the film are a big reason why. The team was presented with some real sonic puzzles to solve, including the unique set where it was shot, creating sound design from the camera's perspective and sonically leading an extremely tense...
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367 - I Love Boosters (Plus a big announcement!)
Supervising Sound Editor Andre Fenley and Re-recording Mixer Kent Sparling join Tonebenders to talk about working with Director Boots Riley on his latest film, I Love Boosters. They discuss how the challenge of creating sound to match the heights reached by the vibrant and arresting visuals in…
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366 – 2026 Sound Effects Field Recording Roundtable Pt 2
This episode jumps back in into my interview with John Fasal, Charlie Campagna and Eric Potter. 3 of the world’s top field recordists, working in films and games. They discuss the never ending list of new gear out there and how they approach what gear they use, plus their favourite non…
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365 – 2026 Sound Effects Field Recording Round Table Pt 1
John Fasal, Charlie Campagna and Eric Potter are 3 of the world's top field recordists, working in films and games. We previously brought these three legends together in eps 315, and everyone decided it was time for a follow up chat. This time we focus mainly on the craft of recording weapons,...
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364 - Disclosure Day with Gary Rydstrom
Gary Rydstrom sits down with Tim for a fun talk about his work on director Steven Spielberg's latest film, Disclosure Day. Gary's enthusiasm for the craft is evident as he discusses some of his favourite techniques, including building in small sections of silence during action sequences, removing...
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363 – This Is The Way_Carrying The Star Wars Sonic Legacy Forward
David Acord, Matthew Wood, Bonnie Wild and David Collins have had their ears on just about every high-level Star Wars project in the last decade or more. From films to games to series (both live action and animated) these four are the modern-day trail blazers of the sounds from that galaxy far…
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362 - Wednesday with John Loranger
I recently got to visit supervising sound editor John Loranger, from Netflix's hit series Wednesday, at his studio in the Toronto area. We spent the afternoon talking about his work on this fantastical series and it's many audio challenges. These include creature vocal designs for the many...
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361 - Sound Immersion In Television
We brought together members from the sound teams of some of our favourite recent streaming projects, so they could share their workflows and triumphs. Vinny Alfano worked on both Dexter: Resurrection and Emily In Paris, Ethan Beigel & Andy Sisul we co-supervising sound editors on the recent hit...
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360 - Nope With Johnnie Burn Re-Podcast Plus Bonus Tuner Mini-interview
When Johnnie Burn first came on Tonebenders in 2022, to talk about his sound work on director Jordan Peele's hit film Nope, it was immediately clear that he was going to be one of our favourite guests. He has since been on many more times, but this first interview is a classic. He discusses...
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359 - One piece Season 2
Netflix's live action take on the classic manga and animated series, One Piece, has been a massive, world wide success. For season 2, supervising sound editor Paul Col and re-recording mixer Gavin Fernades, were presented with an intimidating amount of audio challenges. A sword fight involving…
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358 - Pan's Labyrinth 20th Anniversary Sound Panel (Live!)
In the fall of 2025, Tonebenders' hosts Tim Muirhead & Renè Coronado travelled to Mexico City to host a talk with 3 members of the Pan's Labyrinth sound team. The event was to celebrate the film's 20th anniversary. Re-Recording Mixer Jaime Baksht, Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer Martín...
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357 - The Rip
One of the most watched films ever on Netflix is the recent Joe Carnahan directed action-thriller, The Rip. Key members of the sound team sat down with me at Formosa Hollywood to walk me down the path of the unique challenges this film presented them. From endless dog barking on set, to gun shots...
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356 - The Housemaid
Psychological Thrillers present some of the most fun sound design challenges. Building tension through ambience shifts, and subtle builds can manipulate an audience with out them even realizing it. The recent hit film The Housemaid, from Director Paul Feig, is a masterclass in using sound to to...
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355 - Project Hail Mary
Supervising Sound Editors Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl have been working together for 19 years and have built a reputation for working on films that are highly sound dependant. The two sit down to discuss their work on the new blockbuster film, Project Hail Mary, which is another movie that...
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354 - Tonebenders Goes to Los Angeles (featuring a mini-interview with Ben Burtt!)
Tonebenders' host, Tim Muirhead, went to LA last month to host the 4th Annual Los Angeles Tonebenders Sound Design Meet-up and attend the C.A.S. Awards and MPSE The Golden Reels. He shares some stories of his adventures in Los Angeles as well as a bunch of backstage interviews he did with the...
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353 - 2026 Oscar Pool Sound Category Round Up
Get an educated head start on your Oscar Pool this year! Go on a deep dive into each nominated film in the Best Sound Category at this year's Academy Awards. Featuring interviews with the sound teams behind One Battle After Another, F1: The Movie, Sinners, Sīrat, and Frankenstein. ______SPONSORS:...
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352 - Sīrat (Live)
Supervising Sound Editor Laia Casanovas flew in from Spain to join Tonebenders in front of a packed theatre in Toronto. Laia shows real enthusiasm while talking about her Oscar nominated sound work on Sirāt. She discusses "worldizing" the music featured in the film to match the homemade sound...
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351 - One Battle After Another
One Battle After Another is the latest film by director Paul Thomas Anderson and it is his first time finishing a project with a full ATMOS Mix. Embracing the idea of "widening the screen with sound" Supervising Sound Editor Christopher Scarabosio, Re-recording Mixer Tony Villaflor and Production...
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350 - Zootopia 2
Zootopia 2 had the second biggest box office in 2025. People all over the world flocked to see it and that is not lost on the sound team behind it. In this episode Jeremy Bowker (sound designer & supervising sound editor) and David Fluhr (supervising re-recording mixer) discuss how they tackle a...
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349 - Mark Mangini Pt 2
To celebrate Mark Mangini's upcoming Lifetime Achievement Award from the Motion Picture Sound Editors, I sat down with him to stroll down memory lane. We dig into all the films that he has been nominated for Golden Reels on over the years. That is a lot of films! 23 nominations in total. In this...
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348 - Mark Mangini Pt 1
Mark Mangini will be receiving the Motion Picture Sound Editors Lifetime Achievement Award at this years's Golden Reel ceremonies. To celebrate this honour, Mark and I sat down in Formosa's Stage 6 for a fascinating talk about all the projects for which he has been nominated at the Golden Reels...
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347 - Marty Supreme
This episode features an interview with Supervising Sound Editor and Re-Recording Mixer Skip Lievsay, from the recent film Marty Supreme. Skip discusses his team's approach to the ping pong sound effects and how to use use background sounds to ground a film in a certain time and place. Skip has...
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346 - Wicked For Good
Wicked For Good pushed the Oscar nominated sound team from last years blockbuster, Wicked, to go further into the sonic world of Oz. Continuing the idea that every sound making it into the film had to have an Ozian twist to it. Nancy Nugent Title (Supervising Sound Editor), John Marquis...
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345 - F1: The Movie (Live)
This interview was recorded live, in front of a packed house, at the Glen Glenn Film Center in Hollywood California. F1: The Movie presented a multitude of complex challenges for it's sound team, as the race cars have to sound huge and immediate and the music had to be "driving" as well. Then you...
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344 - Superman
Five members of the sound team from Director James Gunn's recent Superman film, join the show to talk about giving a new sonic identity to the Superman legacy. Supervising Sound Editors David Acord & Katy Wood are joined by re-recording mixers Chris Boyes & Tim LeBlanc as well as production sound...
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343 - 2025 Listener Field Recording Stories Pt 2
Listeners of Tonebenders sent in their favourite stories of recording sounds out in the world. This is part two, of two, featuring these amazing soundscapes from all over the world. Recordings were sent in of sounds from Kenya, Zimbabwe, Australia, England, Palau, Laos, Poland, Botswana, Germany,...
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342 - Nuremberg
The new film Nuremberg is a surprisingly dense and complicated film for it's sound. What I assumed was going to be a standard courtroom drama ended up being a much larger film and it sounded fantastic. The dialog was crisp and up front, the sound design was intense. Dialog/ADR supervisor Ulrika...
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341 - Holiday Special Re-podcast Remembering Patrick
In this episode Patrick Spence-Thomas does a reading of Dylan Thomas' classic "A Child's Christmas in Wales". Patrick sadly passed away in 2008 after an iconic career as a re-recording mixer and a location sound recordist. The first half of this episode is a quick run down on who Patrick was and...
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340 - Tron Ares
The latest film in the Tron franchise, Tron: Ares, expands that world's sonic pallet in dramatic ways. The music by Nine Inch Nails is huge, the sound design is grittier and the dialog is being processed in creative and constantly changing ways. This film benefited from an international sound…
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339 - Johnnie Burn's Big Year with Hamnet, Bugonia & 28 Years Later
In 2025 Johnnie Burn has been busy. As supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer on some of the most talked about films of the year, he has jumped between working on the emotional roller coaster Hamnet, the incredibly tense Bugonia and the terrifying 28 Years Later. Three very different…
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338 - Frankenstein
It seems like Guillermo del Toro's whole career has been leading up to Frankenstein. Part of that progression has been building a great trust with the sound team he has been collaborating with for over a decade. Supervising sound editors Nathan Robitaille & Nelson Ferreira, Re-recording Mixer…
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337 - Sentimental Value with Gisle Tveito
Gisle Tveito has been dreaming up the sounds in director Joachim Trier's films since 2006 and the two have collaborated again on the wonderful new film Sentimental Value. Gisle joins me to talk about the challenges of working on the sound for quiet, internal films. Including building an emotional...
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336 - Tonebenders at TIFF 2025
At this years Toronto International Film Festival I got to interview a bunch of sound people in town to support films screening at TIFF. This episode collects 3 of those interviews, covering some of the international films that I saw during the festival. First up I talk with Oscar winning sound...
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335 - Sinners
Sinners was a massive critical and box office hit earlier this year. The sound work was a major reason audiences flocked to see it. Part Vampire/Horror, part period gangster and part full blown musical, Sinners is not a film that needed a standard approach to it's sound design and mix.…
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334 - 2025 Listener Field Recording Stories Pt 1
Listeners of Tonebenders sent in their favourite stories of their adventures recording sounds out in the world. This is part one, of two, featuring these amazing soundscapes from all over the world. Recordings were sent in of sounds from Kenya, Zimbabwe, Australia, England, Palau, Laos, Poland,...
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333- The Unique sound of VIKTOR with the Sound Team & Director
Viktor is an impressive documentary that relies on sound to tell it’s story. The film’s protagonist is a deaf photographer living in Ukraine, documenting the Russian invasion of of his country after he finds out he is not allowed to sign up as a soldier. Using innovative sound design to immerse…
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332 - The Sound Legacy Of Harry Potter With James Mather Pt 2
In Part 2 of this in-depth interview with James Mather we talk more about his work as Supervising Sound Editor on the final 4 Harry Potter films (Order of The Phoenix, Half Blood Prince, Deathly Hollows Pt 1&2). James digs into the sound of the horcrux and how the overall sound design was able to...
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331 - The Sound Legacy Of Harry Potter With James Mather Pt 1
The sound design in the Harry Potter series completely changed the way audiences expect magic to sound on screen. Those magical sounds also had to evolve as the series went on, to match the skills developed by the main characters. James Mather was the Supervising Sound Editor on the final 4 films...
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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
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