Tonebenders Podcast

We talk with Thomas Rex Beverly about his amazing field recording trip to Greenland to capture the sounds of remote glaciers. He tells us about lowering microphones into ice crevasses, and what it takes to record the sounds of glaciers calving into the arctic ocean.

Show Notes and pictures: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/199---recording-glaciers-with-thomas-rex-beverly/

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We talk with the sound team from our favourite show of the year – The Bear. They tell us about how they built the chaos of the restaurant kitchen in the series, editing dialog where everyone is yelling at the same time in a small space, and the many, many grocery store trips the foley team had to go on to create all the food sounds in the show. Steve Giammaria (re-recording mixer/supervising sound editor), Annie Taylor (Supervising Foley Editor) and Evan Benjamin (Dialog Editor) break it all down for us.

Show Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/198-the-bear/

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We dig deep into the rarely talked about art of running a successful Loop Group session. Oscar winning Supervising Sound Editor Nina Hartstone, Dialog Supervisor Brian Bowles, ADR/Loop Group Recording Engineer Bobby Johanson and Game Dialog Designer Tim Atkins take us through everything you need to know to run your own Loop Group session.

Show Notes & Full Transcript: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/197-loop-group-roundtable-talk/

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We talk with Supervising Sound Editors Bonnie Wild and Mac Smith, as well as Sound Designer Kim Patrick about the supernatural sounds Moon Knight. They talk about creating creature vocals, dreaming up a new super hero's signature sounds, and deciding what the disembodied voices of gods should sound like.

Show Notes & Full Transcript: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/196-the-sound-of-moon-knight/

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Supervising Sound Editor Craig Henighan, and sound editors Lee Gilmore, Angelo Palazzo and Katie Halliday take us behind the iconic sounds in Season 4 of Stranger Things. We dive deep into the the grandfather clock, Yuri's plane and helicopter, the voices of the Demobats and vines and lots, lots more.

Show Notes & Full Transcript: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/195-the-sound-design-of-stranger-things-season-4/

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In this episode we talk with the sound team behind the dialog on Season 4 of Stranger Things. Ryan Cole (Dialog Supervisor), Michael Clark (Production Sound Mixer), Korey Pereira (Dialog Editor) and Jill Purdy (Dialog Editor) talk us through the voyage all the dialog took from set to mix stage. The miracles of Vecna's voice, organizing session templates for use with multiple editors and tackling scenes with lots of characters all talking at once, are all discussed.

Stay tuned for Part 2 of our Stranger Things coverage, featuring our talk with the sound design team on Season 4 coming next week.

Full Show Notes can be found at https://tonebenderspodcast.com/194-dialog-from-set-to-mix-on-stranger-things-season-4/

Podcast website: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/

In this episode we talk to the sound team behind The Beatles documentary, Get Back. The challenges they faced to get these decades old recordings into shape were immense, They were forced to develop their own software, with machine learning, to clean up the audio and the results are amazing. In addition to audio clean up, the project presented a multitude of other hurdles as well. Brent Burge (re-recording mixer & supervising sound editor), Emile de la Rey (machine learning engineer & sound editor), Martin Kwok (supervising sound editor) and Stephen Gallagher (music editor) take us through it all.

Episode notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/193-the-sound-of-the-beatles-get-back/

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In this episode we talk to the sound team behind the new Halo TV series, with Supervising Sound Editor Jane Tattersall, Re-Recording Mixers Matthew Chan and Lou Solakofski as well as Sound Designer Brennan Mercer. They tell us about their ATMOS workflow from sound editorial to remote playbacks, their philosophies behind making ambience tracks feel full of life and the many different voice treatments in the series. We also dig deep into how the sounds for the Spartan's armoured suits were built with examples of each layer.

Episode notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/192-the-sound-of-halo/

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We are joined by Kai Paquin to talk about the Mid/Side microphone shootout he posted on his sound blog recently. The specific microphone models compared are: Schoeps MK41 // MK8, Nevaton MC59 // MC59-8, Sennheiser MKH 8050 // MKH 30, and Sennheiser MKH 40 // MKH 30. You can download the audio files of Kai’s recordings to hear the results for yourself at: https://paquinsound.blogspot.com/2022/01/ms-mic-shootout.html

Episode Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/191-mid-side-microphone-shootout/

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In this episode we talk with the sound team behind Everything Everywhere All At Once. Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer Brent Kiser, Re-Recording Mixer Alexandra Fehrman, Sound Designer Andrew Twite and ADR Supervisor Julie Diaz tell us about working with the films unconventional score, the sheer volume of sound design needed and how they used loop group to tell off screen stories.

Episode homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/190-everything-everywhere-all-at-once/

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