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

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

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/

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Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

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/

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Tonebenders Host this episode: Timothy Muirhead

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

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

Paul Hsu (Sound Designer) and Dave Flynch (Supervising Sound Editor) talk about their work on the new Film "Nanny". This Blumhouse production, by first time director Nikyatu Jusu, is full of moody and creepy sound design as the film teeters between reality and the supernatural.

Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/207---nanny-with-paul-hsu--dave-flynch/

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Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

We are joined by the sound team from the excellent new film, The Woman King. Production Sound Mixer Derek Mansvelt, Supervising Sound Editor Becky Sullivan and Re-Recording Mixer Tony Lamberti tell us about making the battle sequences sound extra visceral, and how the dial and battle chants went from being captured on set, through sound editorial and finally onto the mix stage.

Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/206---the-woman-king/

Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

Tonebenders Host This Episode: Timothy Muirhead

In the second episode of our Documentary Sound Focus series we talk about the mesmerizing film, The Territory. Director Alex Pritz and composer Katya Mihailova are joined by co-sound designers Peter Albrechtsen and Rune Klausen for this in depth talk. We dig into The Territory's use of subjective sounds, what the jungle really sounds like and the blurred lines between sound design and music (and lots more).

Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/205---documentary-sound-focus-the-territory/

Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

Tonebenders Hosts This Episode: Timothy Muirhead & Teresa Morrow

We talk with Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer & Re-Recording Mixer Johnnie Burn about the amazing sounds in director Jordan Peele's recent film: Nope. Johnnie tells us about designing winds to evoke something more sinister, using ATMOS to its fullest and creative ways of making alien vocals.

Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/204---nope-with-johnnie-burn/

Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com

Tonebenders Hosts This Episode: Timothy Muirhead & Mark Kilborn