Last Saturday I got to be the Red Carpet Reporter at the Cinema Audio Society Awards. I interviewed many of the nominees, winners & guest presenters. It was a blast to be a small part of such an amazing night.

Last Thursday was the 4th Annual Tonebenders Los Angeles Sound Design Meet-up, Sponsored by MPSE. What an amazing night! Big thanks to everyone (over 325 people!) that attended and helped create a really positive night for the sound community to grow together.

New Episode with the sound team from F1: The Movie. Recorded live in front of a full house at the Glen Glenn Film Center in LA.

Los Angeles: come out to a free screening of F1: The Movie that will be followed by a live Tonebenders eps with the sound team. Next Thursday, Jan 8th at 7pm (doors @ 6:30). Playing at Glen Glenn Film Center’s studio 1 - an amazing sounding room. Sign up here: tonebenderspodcast.com/tonebenders-...

New episode with Ulrika Akander and Michael Babcock about the complicated sound in the new film Nuremberg.

New episode about the sound of Tron: Ares!!

Check our new episode with the Oscar nominated composer, sound editorial team and re-recording mixers from the animated feature, The Wild Robot. Hear the full conversation wherever you find podcasts or at tonebenderspodcast.com/299-the-wild... @randythom.bsky.social

Get ready Los Angeles! Come on out for an evening with the sound community, to share stories and laughs with old friends & hopefully meet some new friends too. February 20th, 7pm. Don’t miss it.

Our latest epsiode is a fantastic 1on1 with production sound mixer Simon Hayes @simonhayessound.bsky.social He is so full of knowledge & enthusiasm for his craft that this talk is a can’t miss. Listen wherever you find your podcasts or at tonebenderspodcast.com/297-producti... #filmsound #filmmaking

New Tonebenders eps with Damian Volpe and Steve Little talking about their sound work on Nosferatu.

The latest Tonebenders eps is a deep dive into the sound of director Steve McQueens new film Blitz. Lots of war destruction surrounding the characters. Listen as they talk about recording trains, fire, and crafting an excellent mix.

Latest episode is with the sound team behind the crowd pleasing epic, Wicked! This film was no easy task. Hear how they pulled it all off from production sound to final mix. Hear the full episode wherever you find your podcasts.

A pretty great way to end 2024. A kilometer+ of smooth open ice.

For the last episode of 2024 Tonebenders is presenting the 1st Bendie Awards. Listen to who the winners are & a quick rundown of some of the best moments for the podcast this past year. Have a happy new year everyone, and stay tuned for some excellent episodes coming in the first few weeks of 2025.

Supervising Sound Editor Al Nelson and the rest of the sound team talk about designing the sounds of the tornados in Twisters. Listen to the full episode wherever you find your podcasts.

Our latest eps is a deep breakdown of designing sound for tornados in Twisters. From recording wind, to editing it & mixing it all together to make the swirling wind feel powerful & real. Al Nelson, Bjorn Schroeder, Chris Boyes, Pete Horner & Sarah made this adventurous film pop to life w/ sound.

A Complete Unknown’s re-recording mixer, Paul Massey, describes how he approaches a scene where our main character hears singing in a room down a long hall & roams until finding them. Thru reverb, panning +more the mix leads the viewers. Not an easy illusion to pull off. Go listen to the full eps.

The latest Tonebenders is a really good one! We talk with the sound team behind A Complete Unknown. Paul Massey, Don Sylvester, Ted Caplan & production sound mixer Tod Maitland have a lot to share about their work for this film. Hear the full episode wherever you listen to podcasts.

Check out our latest w the sound team behind the new gritty Netflix musical, Emilia Pérez. Lots of talk about making dialog & vocals work despite varied sources (pre-records/live singing on set/adr). Fun talk, give it a listen wherever you find your podcasts or tonebenderspodcast.com/289-emilia-p...

The Toronto Tonebenders Sound Design Meet-Up, presented by M.P.S.E., was another smashing success! We doubled the people from the previous Toronto Meet-Up. An amazing time was had by all. So great to meet so many new people and also catch up with a lot of old friends. Thanks to all that came out!

In this clip from our latest episode, Glenn Freemantle, Civil War’s Supervising Sound Editor & Sound Designer, discusses why he doesn’t like to tune his sfx to be in harmony with the the film’s music. #sounddesign #filmsound #postproduction #audiopost #audiopostproduction #alexgarland

The Toronto Tonebenders Sound Design Meet-Up is Tomorrow! Tuesday Dec 3rd at 7pm. Come to The Pilot, on the main floor, to hang out with the Toronto Sound Community. If you work in sound for picture on films, games or series this will be a fun night to see old colleagues and meet new ones.

New Tonebenders episode with the sound team behind director Alex Garland’s latest film, Civil War. Go listen to this one. It is a fun one! tonebenderspodcast.com/288-civil-war/

New eps w founder of Post-Super, Gemma Nicholson. She takes us on her incredible journey from sound editor to post supervisor! Packed w insights, career tips & personal stories, this is a must listen for anyone passionate about post-production. Listen wherever you find podcasts or on our website.

New episode about the sound of Arrival. Don’t miss this one!

Check out the newest Tonebenders episode featuring the sound team from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice! Lots of interesting talk about making gore sounds comedic, matching the energy of the original & lots more. Listen wherever you find podcasts.

Longlegs!!! Eugenio Battaglia talks about the unique, gritty & unhinged #sounddesign of the surprise hit of the summer box office. Listen where ever you find podcasts or at tonebenderspodcast.com/272-longlegs/

New Tonebenders eps is a fascinating talk between Frank Bry & Charles Maynes about what they’ve learned from years of recording explosions. This talk is great for anyone wanting to either record or edit explosions in sound-design. Listen on your podcast app or tonebenderspodcast.com/271-recordin...

How much Fun would it be to record a B17 “Flying Fortress” plane that is still operational? The sound team from “Masters Of The Air” got to do just that. They were able put 60 microphones all over the B17, to record every part of it that made a sound. tonebenderspodcast.com/263-masters-...

Today marks the opening for Furiosa, a prequel for character 1st introduced in MadMax: Fury Road.  Seems like a perfect time to reach into our archives & go back to May/2015, when we did an episode w Oliver Machin & his work recording the vehicles on Fury Road. tonebenderspodcast.com/262-mad-max-...

Check out the latest Tonebenders episode, featuring the sound editorial team from The Fall Guy. They discuss how to make a car crash sound impactful, what tools they use for cleaning up tricky dialog & lots more. Hear entire eps where ever you find podcasts or tonebenderspodcast.com/261-the-fall...

New eps all about doing Sound Design for westerns, specifically Lawman:Bass Reeves. Lindsay Alvarez, Brad Zoern (re-recording mixers) & George Haddad (SSE) tell us their tricks to make a western sound great. Listen where you find your podcasts or at tonebenderspodcast.com/260-sound-de...

Our new episode is all about what an orchestral score recording session is like, how tracks are delivered & who is involved from the rest of the sound team. Laurence Anslow from Evergreen Studios tells us about it all. Listen where ever you find podcasts.

Los Angeles listeners: clear out your calendar for leap day at 7pm. This is going to be a really fun night!

Check out this episode with the picture editor and sound team of American fiction. This is a fun talk. tonebenderspodcast.com/241-the-soun...

Check out our latest eps with the sound team of Michael Man’s new film Ferarri the cars sound amazing and they tell us about how they built the sounds of the race scenes and lots more. tonebenderspodcast.com/240-ferrari/

New fun episode with Johnnie Burn talking about his excellent sound design on Yorgos Lanthimos’ new film Poor Things. Don’t miss this one! tonebenderspodcast.com/239-poor-thi...

Check out our new eps with the sound team from Barbie. They tell us the sound rules for BarbieLand. No wind, no water & everything has to sound fun. Give it a listen where ever you find podcasts or at tonebenderspodcast.com/236-barbie/

Our latest eps is a fun one. We talked with the sound supervisors and re-recording mixer of Gran Turismo, about making the car racing scenes sound so cool. Car sounds are so much fun to talk about. Check it out where ever you find podcasts or tonebenderspodcast.com/235-gran-turis…

Big thanks to everyone that came out to the New York City Sound Design Meet-up this week. It was great to meet so many new people and hang out with such amazingly talented sound pros. Hopefully when we do it again we can find a quieter venue!? What city should we go to next?

If you are part of the New York City Sound Community (or will be in town for AES this week), come out to The Tonebenders Sound Design Meet-up this Thursday at 7pm. We will be telling stories and sharing laughs at The Crompton Ale House (159 W 26th) in Chelsea. Join Tonebenders’ hosts Tim & Teresa.

Our New episode has us talkin about the importance of ambiences in #sounddesign & we go deep into cutting BGs. Tim Nielsen, Kayla Stewart, Michael O’Connor & Mitchell Lestner tell us why they ❤️doing a BG pass! Listen where ever you find podcasts or at tonebenderspodcast.com/234-the-impo...

Our Sound Design Meet-Up in New York City in less than 2weeks away! NYC Sound Community come on out on Thursday Oct 26th at 7pm. We will be at the Crompton Ale House in Chelsea to hang out, tell stories, & have a bunch of laughs. Please join if you can!

New eps w/ Roundtable talk about Sound Design for scripted podcasts! Great guests Allison Grasso, Marcus Bagala, Jon Roberts, Jamie Coupar & Dan Brunelle talk about working on shows like Quiet Part Loud, Limetown, Case 63, Harley Quinn/Joker, Shipworm, Melon’s House Party +more

Check out newest eps featuring field recording stories from our host Tim Muirhead. We also call out to our listeners for help w/ a future eps of people’s personal favorite field recording tales. If you captured a great sound or had a crazy thing happen while in record, send it in!

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Toronto Sound Design Meet-up last night. The turn out was amazing and it was really great seeing so many sound people hanging out and having a good time. Can’t wait to do it again.

Give our latest eps a listen! Our Sound Design for Feature Animation Roundtable talk includes sound supers and mixers from The Bad Guys, Puss In Boots:The Last Wish, League Of Super-Pets and My Father’s Dragon. Lots of insight into working in this genre. tonebenderspodcast.com/231-sound-desi…

New episode w @Mattia Cellotto Kyle Fraser & Robbie Elias. They tell us about their adventures recording propane cannons in remote mountain locations as well as many other loud and explosive source sounds for the Cataclysm SFX library. It is a fun one!

In our new episode our guest, Doc Kane, tells us about his illustrious career as the main voice and ADR recordist at Disney Studios in Burbank California. He also talks about how he runs a session, which microphones he likes and lots more.