Tonebenders Podcast

Al Sirkett and Lucy Mitchell tell us about their experiences building new stand alone studio spaces in their backyards. They tell us everything they learned, what they would do different, and how much it has changed their lives.

In this episode we are joined by the sound team from the hit Disney Plus series WandaVision. Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Kim Foscato (Co-Supervising Sound Editors) as well as Danielle Dupre (Re-Recording Mixer) tell us about the immense pressure to complete the series to match Marvel's cinematic standards while working under pandemic restrictions. The also discuss how co-supervisors share the work load, creating sounds knowing they will become cannon and the workflow of processing White Vision's voice.

Way back in January, the great Mark Mangini penned a little blog post outlining some audio tropes that he was hoping to put to rest.

That post inspired some slack threads, facebook posts, and a good general discussion about how we can be more original and creative when tasked with designing sounds and situations that can have quick and easy answers.

In this not-so-serious conversation Mark gets together with Tim, Teresa and René to break down some tropes, spell out some reasons for going there anyway, and maybe…just maybe…we retire the now infamous Wilhelm.

We talk to Peter Albrechtsen (sound designer) & David Barber (re-recording mixer) about the intense and unique sound work done on director Robert Machoian's film The Killing of Two Lovers. Visually the film plays out over long steady shots, while much of the films plot takes place off screen with sound taking the lead. The director also chose not to have a composer and instead use sound design, almost as musique concrète, to build the tension.

We talked with an amazing lineup of guests about all angles of recording in the desert.

George Vlad, Thomas Rex Beverly, Bethan Kellough, Zach Goheen

We pick up where we left off in episode 163 with guests Kate Finan, Dominic Lawrence & Heather Olsen talking about doing sound design for series animation. We cover how to deal with the tight scheduling and deadlines, the hard lessons we all learned when getting started in animation sound and the need to respect how important these shows are to young viewers.

In this episode we welcome Heather Olsen (Gravity Falls, The Fairly OddParents), and Kate Finan (Muppet Babies, Invader ZIM: Enter the Florpus) from California, as well as Dom Lawrence (The Octonauts, Danger Mouse) from Ireland to talk about the art of doing sound design for animated series. They join our regular hosts Teresa Morrow (Nina's World, Elinor Wonders Why) and Tim Muirhead (PAW Patrol, Bakugan) to really dig into what it takes to bring animation to life with sound.

Supervising Sound Editor Nicolas Becker, Foley Artist Heikki Kossi and Re-recording Mixer Jaime Baksht join us for a talk about their work on the amazing film The Sound of Metal.

In this episode we talk with the sound team behind the excellent new film Judas and The Black Messiah. We dig deep into a standout scene involving a speech to an exuberant crowd with lots of call and response happening. Marlowe Taylor talks about how he captured the sounds on set, as Production Mixer. Rich Bologna explains how he edited those sounds, in post, to create the intensity, and re-recording mixer, Skip Lievsay, tells us how he made it all sound HUGE.

In this episode we talk about the sound work done on the latest Aaron Sorkin film The Trial of The Chicago 7. We are joined by Reneé Tondelli (supervising sound editor) & Michael Babcock (re-recording mixer) as they tell us all the challenges they overcame to make this protest/courtroom drama come to life. From overcoming challenges of recording loop group and ADR in early lockdown conditions, to blending the sound of new scenes and original archive footage seamlessly this film presented endless challenges for the audio team.