Tonebenders Podcast

Patrick Spence-Thomas was a pioneer in the audio post world and he was also a mentor to co-host Timothy's early years in the business. In this episode you get some stories about what a great guy Patrick was and then Timothy shares a holiday message Patrick left us before he passed away.

For Our 50th episode we reached out to our listeners and some industry veterans to tell us about their best days on the job. We have over an hour of tales about audio awesome-ness.

In this mini episode Co-Host Timothy buys some new gear and takes it for a walk in the woods.

An interview with Placid Audio's Mark Pirro - creator of the iconic copperphone mic.

In this episode we talk about all about the tricky world of recording ADR. Patrick Christensen, ADR mixer at Sound Lounge in NYC, and Chris Navarro, ADR Mixer at Formosa Group in West Hollywood, sit down and talk about what it takes to be running ADR sessions everyday. Between them they have 950 ADR mixing credits on IMDB - so they have done it all, PLUS they are great guys.

We talk to Sound Design legend Scott Gershin about his career and his upcoming talk at the Game Sound Conference about 3D Sound for VR. Then Arjen Van Der Schoot sits in to talk about AudioEase's new "Indoor" software. Aimed at the Audio Post market, "Indoor" is a ground breaking new way to get realistic room reflections.

Kate Finan sits in with René and Timothy to talk about fostering creative work environments, sound design for animation and a bunch of other topics. Kate is a sound supervisor with Boom Box Post in California.

my recent adventures recording a protest outside of a Trump rally that came to Dallas.

This episode Timothy interviews Bob Dziak, a researcher who sent a hydrophone 11kms (7miles) into the oceans deepest known spot so humans could hear what it sounds like down there for the very first time. Plus a quick run through of Izotope's new VocalSynth software and its possible uses for sound design in audio-post.

Ok, the impostor syndrome episode is real, and it is here. If you feel like you suck at this stuff, take a listen and feel better about yourself.

Big big thanks to Matt Marteinsson, Jack Menhorn, Jay Fernandes and Graham Donnelly for contributing.