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Tonebenders Podcast

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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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 the scenes stories from both on-set and in postproduction. Including how Nicholas Cage was mic'ed up…

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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 Pluribus too). As a group they discuss finding the voice of a show, capturing the dialog on set in…

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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 day looks like while working through an episode, their techniques for getting in and out of music heavy…

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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 centipede sound like? What about spaceships with futuristic propulsion systems? These are some of the…

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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 series threw at them. The classic Xenomorph is more menacing, 4 new Aliens needed vocals and movement…

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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 the largest challenges and they have to use every tool they can get their hands on to make the final…

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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 opening scene with no music or sustained dialog. Plus they discuss working with the film's director,…

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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 this film, where the line is on how comedic the sounds should be, designing demon voice processing and…

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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 traditional types of microphones and when they use them. We also announce the details on how you can take part in…

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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, including finding a good place to record them, developing your "voice" as a recordist and how the…

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