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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 exp...

Supervising Sound Editors Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl have been working together for 19 years and have built a reputation for working...

Tonebenders' host, Tim Muirhead, went to LA last month to host the 4th Annual Los Angeles Tonebenders Sound Design Meet-up and attend the C....

Get an educated head start on your Oscar Pool this year! Go on a deep dive into each nominated film in the Best Sound Category at this year'...

Supervising Sound Editor Laia Casanovas flew in from Spain to join Tonebenders in front of a packed theatre in Toronto. Laia shows real enth...

One Battle After Another is the latest film by director Paul Thomas Anderson and it is his first time finishing a project with a full ATMOS...

Zootopia 2 had the second biggest box office in 2025. People all over the world flocked to see it and that is not lost on the sound team beh...

To celebrate Mark Mangini's upcoming Lifetime Achievement Award from the Motion Picture Sound Editors, I sat down with him to stroll down me...

Mark Mangini will be receiving the Motion Picture Sound Editors Lifetime Achievement Award at this years's Golden Reel ceremonies. To celebr...

This episode features an interview with Supervising Sound Editor and Re-Recording Mixer Skip Lievsay, from the recent film Marty Supreme. Sk...

Wicked For Good pushed the Oscar nominated sound team from last years blockbuster, Wicked, to go further into the sonic world of Oz. Continu...

This interview was recorded live, in front of a packed house, at the Glen Glenn Film Center in Hollywood California. F1: The Movie presented...

Five members of the sound team from Director James Gunn's recent Superman film, join the show to talk about giving a new sonic identity to t...

Listeners of Tonebenders sent in their favourite stories of recording sounds out in the world. This is part two, of two, featuring these ama...

The new film Nuremberg is a surprisingly dense and complicated film for it's sound. What I assumed was going to be a standard courtroom dram...

The latest film in the Tron franchise, Tron: Ares, expands that world's sonic pallet in dramatic ways. The music by Nine Inch Nails is huge,...

In this episode Patrick Spence-Thomas does a reading of Dylan Thomas' classic "A Child's Christmas in Wales". Patrick sadly passed away in 2...

In 2025 Johnnie Burn has been busy. As supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer on some of the most talked about films of the year, h...

It seems like Guillermo del Toro's whole career has been leading up to Frankenstein. Part of that progression has been building a great trus...

Gisle Tveito has been dreaming up the sounds in director Joachim Trier's films since 2006 and the two have collaborated again on the wonderf...

At this years Toronto International Film Festival I got to interview a bunch of sound people in town to support films screening at TIFF. Thi...

Sinners was a massive critical and box office hit earlier this year. The sound work was a major reason audiences flocked to see it. Part Vam...

Listeners of Tonebenders sent in their favourite stories of their adventures recording sounds out in the world. This is part one, of two, fe...

Viktor is an impressive documentary that relies on sound to tell it’s story. The film’s protagonist is a deaf photographer living in Ukraine...

In Part 2 of this in-depth interview with James Mather we talk more about his work as Supervising Sound Editor on the final 4 Harry Potter f...

The sound design in the Harry Potter series completely changed the way audiences expect magic to sound on screen. Those magical sounds also...

Last year I got to go to the Sonic Days Conference in Denmark, to do a bunch of interviews with the various people doing presentations about...

Directors Domee Shi & Madeline Sharafian, join the show to talk about their approach to collaborating with the audio post team on the newest...

Dick Maitland has worked on the sound for over 4,700 episodes of Sesame Street, starting with the show back in 1969. 50 years into the show'...

Michael Babcock (re-recording mixer/sound designer/supervising sound editor) talks about the challenges of the sound work for KPop Demon Hun...

Director Zach Cregger's latest film, Weapons, has been both a critical and a box office success. One of the film's biggest strengths is it's...

This episode is a re-podcast of a live panel from last year's Sonic Days Conference, in Denmark. The panelists explore the creative process...

Black Mirror has consistently been a ground breaking series over the show's decade plus run. It has set a high standard within the sound com...

The Righteous Gemstones is a big broad comedy about excess, except for the first episode of season 4, which takes place nearly 200 years bef...

How is it possible that it took until the 322nd episode of Tonebenders for a discussion about the sound design of the Star Trek franchise?!...

The audio post teams from both The Penguin and Season 2 of The Last Of Us, sit down together to hash out the work they did on their respecti...

Adolescence is a limited series on Netflix consisting of 4 episodes, each made up of a single continuous hour long take. This "one-er" forma...

This episode has been a long time coming. I have been trying to figure out how to tackle a discussion about A.I. and it’s influence on how s...

Recorded in the legendary Formosa Trident Studios, this talk features someone on the sound team from every James Bond film released since 19...

Fresh off of receiving 2 Emmy nominations, for Sound Mixing and Sound Editing, the audio team from The Bear sits down to talk about their wo...

Tonebenders' host, Tim Muirhead, tells tales of some of his favourite field recording (mis)adventures and invites all the podcasts' listener...

While in Los Angeles I was able to get 3 of the city's busiest sound effects recordists together, in the same room. We had a talk about thei...

House Of The Dragon is one of the biggest shows on TV and the sound of the show is one of the big reasons for that success. Al Sirkett (Re-R...

Arcane is a ground breaking animated series, especially when it comes to how the show used music and sound design, working together, all the...

Hospitals are really hard to create sound design for. The walla and general soundscape of a hospital is very different than any other locati...

With "From the World of John Wick: Ballerina" hitting theatres, it is a good time to talk to the sound team that, for some, have been workin...

I was able to get 4 busy dialog editors all in a room together, to discuss the highs and lows of working on dialog for films, series and gam...

Penny Harold and Andy Lange tell us about their work as the re-recording mixers, on Season 2 of the hit Netflix animated series, Arcane. Thi...

While in London, Tonebenders was invited to Wave Studios in Soho, to talk to Johnnie Burn and Paul Davies. I brought them together, to talk...

I love a good book about sound design or other aspects of the audio post industry. Think of this episode as a summer reading guide for the a...

After over 300 episodes talking mostly to sound editors and re-recording mixers, let's get to know what the people we work in parallel with,...