346 - Wicked For Good

Wicked For Good pushed the Oscar nominated sound team from last years blockbuster, Wicked, to go further into the sonic world of Oz. Continuing the idea that every sound making it into the film had to have an Ozian twist to it. Nancy Nugent Title (Supervising Sound Editor), John Marquis (Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer/Re-Recording Mixer), Jack Coleman (Supervising Music Editor) and Simon Hayes (Production Sound Mixer) tell us about all the obstacles and challenges they met to complete this massive project. The music and sound effects departments worked really closely together in post, while production sound was constantly thinking about what would be needed by the audio post team. Wicked For Good is the culmination of a massive project where sound was an integral part of the the entire production. ______SPONSORS: As the New Year begins, Sound Ideas is offering its largest sale to date. For a limited time, receive 55% off professionally recorded sound effects and music libraries. This New Year promotion applies across their esteemed catalog, making it an ideal moment to expand or update your professional collection with authentic audio and a proven standard of quality. The Sound Ideas New Year Sale is available now for a limited time– so visit https://sound-ideas.com/ now! _______ Episode Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/346-wicked-for-good/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com This episode is hosted by Timothy Muirhead and edited/mixed by Therese Gylfe & Tove Lidman for TnT Sound Design

This interview was recorded live, in front of a packed house, at the Glen Glenn Film Center in Hollywood California. F1: The Movie presented a multitude of complex challenges for it's sound team, as the race cars have to sound huge and immediate and the music had to be "driving" as well. Then you add in the dialog and crowds and you are dealing with a monstrous brew of editorial and mix obstacles. Joining Tim on stage from F1 are Gary Rizzo (re-recording mixer), Al Nelson (supervising sound editor), Gwen Yates Whittle (supervising sound editor) and Gareth John (production sound mixer). They discuss their experiments with recording the cars, the involvement of Lewis Hamilton, the many levels of futz on the voices during the races and lots more._______SPONSORS: As the New Year begins, Sound Ideas is offering its largest sale to date. For a limited time, receive 55% off professionally recorded sound effects and music libraries. This New Year promotion applies across their esteemed catalog, making it an ideal moment to expand or update your professional collection with authentic audio and a proven standard of quality. The Sound Ideas New Year Sale is available now for a limited time– so visit https://sound-ideas.com/ now! _______ Episode Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/345-f1-the-movie-live/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com This episode is hosted by Timothy Muirhead

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 the Superman legacy. Supervising Sound Editors David Acord & Katy Wood are joined by re-recording mixers Chris Boyes & Tim Blanc as well as production sound mixer Lee Orloff, to do a deep dive into super hero sound. Challenges included capturing the dialog on set while surrounded by complicated visual effects and stunts and the sound design and editorial of creating entirely new sounds for super powers and pocket dimensions. The final mix had to find clarity within huge music, sound effects and important dialog. This film required a lot of skill and high end execution to create a soundscape that lived up to the Man of Steel himself. _____ SPONSORS: As the New Year begins, Sound Ideas is offering its largest sale to date. For a limited time, receive 55% off professionally recorded sound effects and music libraries. This New Year promotion applies across their esteemed catalog, making it an ideal moment to expand or update your professional collection with authentic audio and a proven standard of quality. The Sound Ideas New Year Sale is available now for a limited time– so visit https://sound-ideas.com/ now ____ Episode Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/344-superman/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com This episode is hosted by Timothy Muirhead

Listeners of Tonebenders sent in their favourite stories of recording sounds out in the world. This is part two, of two, featuring these amazing soundscapes from all over the world. Recordings were sent in of sounds from Kenya, Zimbabwe, Australia, England, Palau, Laos, Poland, Botswana, Germany, Albania, Switzerland, Canada and The USA. So get ready for a sonic trip around the world! This episode features contributions from listeners Ronald Schmidt, Dmitry Chernov, Richard Walters, Jonathon Pilon, Lucas Vitale, Udo Baumhögger, Ryan Granger, Leon Regula, Anita Yung and Jan Dzyr. If you missed part one go back and find eps 334. Congrats to Diego Lukumy and Lamar Samuels for winning the draw to receive a free pair of O-Mini high-sensitivity, miniature omnidirectional electret microphones, kindly donated by Chris Trevino._____ Los Angeles Listeners come out this Thursday, January 8th, to the very first Tonebenders Screening Series. We will be showing the film F1: The Movie followed by a live recording of a Tonebenders episode with the F1 sound team. Guest will include Gary Rizzo, Gwen Whittle, Gareth John and Al Nelson. Space is limited, so reserve you seat now https://tonebenderspodcast.com/tonebenders-f1-screening/ _____ SPONSORS: As the New Year begins, Sound Ideas is offering its largest sale to date. For a limited time, receive 55% off professionally recorded sound effects and music libraries. This New Year promotion applies across their esteemed catalog, making it an ideal moment to expand or update your professional collection with authentic audio and a proven standard of quality. The Sound Ideas New Year Sale is available now for a limited time– so visit http://www.sound-ideas.com now. ______ If you are interested in field recording, you should know about the O-Mini P48 and the brand new O-Mini PIP miniature omni-directional electret microphones. Each one is hand made by Chris Trevino, a practicing field recordist, and a really engaged member of the sound community.  He puts a lot of work into making and testing each mic to ensure they live up to his high standards.  They are ultra-sonic capable, which makes manipulating your recordings with them a lot of fun.  They are also extremely affordable.  At $150us for the P48 & $130 for the PIP, they offer a lot of value for a stereo matched pair. Find out more at https://www.chrisatrevino.com/store Episode Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/343-2025-listener-field-recording-stories-pt-2/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com This episode is hosted by Timothy Muirhead

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 drama ended up being a much larger film and it sounded fantastic.  The dialog was crisp and up front, the sound design was intense. Dialog/ADR supervisor Ulrika Akander & Re-Recording Mixer/Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor Michael Babcock joined me to talk about their unique approach to the audio post on this film. Using what they refer to as a "rolling premix" the film was tackled over a longer period of time with a small crew. They discuss their approach to dial cleaning, historic footage, ADR recording and using audio to focus the audiences attention.______ On Thursday January 8th, Tonebenders will be hosting a free screening of the film F1, at the Glen Glenn Film Center, that will be followed by a live interview with the sound team behind the film. Glen Glenn’s studio one is about the greatest place possible to hear a film with such dense and powerful sound design. This is the room some of my favourite films were mixed in over the years. Classics like Saving Private Ryan, ET, Apollo 13 and more recently Stranger Things, were all mixed in this room. So come out to the Glen Glenn Film Centre at 900 Seward Street, in Hollywood, to hear this spectacular film and then join me for a live Tonebenders episode recording with the F1 sound team, right after the film. January 8th, doors open at 6:30, film starts @ 7pm. Go to https://tonebenderspodcast.com/tonebenders-f1-screening/ to sign up now._________ SPONSORS: Sound Ideas is closing out the year with a massive Year-End Sale, and you’re invited! Now through to the end of Decemeber, enjoy 50% off all proprietary items, including premium sound effects and production music trusted by creators worldwide. Don’t wait, these savings disappear on December 31st at midnight, as we move into 2026. Check out https://www.sound-ideas.com/ today and create something amazing.________ Episode Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/342-nuremberg/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com This episode is hosted by Timothy Muirhead

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, the sound design is grittier and the dialog is being processed in creative and constantly changing ways. This film benefited from an international sound team, collaborating together. Re-Recording Mixer Ron Bartlett & Supervising Sound Editor Addison Teague, both based in California, shared duties with Supervising Sound Editor Baard Ingebretsen and Sound Designer/Re-Recording Mixer/Supervising Sound Editor Tormod Ringnes, who are working out of Oslo, Norway. Bringing these two teams together became a great strength for the sound of the film as a whole. They discuss merging the sounds of the real world with "The Grid", building light cycle sounds from scratch, the detailed process of finding exactly the right amount of dialog processing when digitizing the human voice and lots more.________ SPONSORS: Sound Ideas is closing out the year with a massive Year-End Sale, and you’re invited! Now through to the end of Decemeber, enjoy 50% off all proprietary items, including premium sound effects and production music trusted by creators worldwide. Don’t wait, these savings disappear on December 31st at midnight, as we move into 2026. Check out https://www.sound-ideas.com/ today and create something amazing.________ The Cargo Cult’s Matchbox 2 is a change management tool that is invaluable when doing comforms. It reveals the differences, reports on the damage, and then re-times your sound mix, saving you incalculable amounts of time. To learn all about the new features in Matchbox 2, head over to http://thecargocult.nz/ , to learn more about Matchbox 2 and pulldown the free 15 day trial. Matchbox 2 is exactly what you have been waiting for. Spend your time being creative and let Matchbox handle the conforming.___________ The Soundscape Fund - George Vlad, Andy Martin and Thomas Rex Beverly are three of the sound community’s busiest field recordists and they have joined forces to raise money for environmental causes this holiday season. All three have a deep love for the natural world and actively work to conserve the soundscapes of nature, through their field recording. They are each offering some of their recordings as prizes to bring the community together to help a great cause. There are three identical prizes to win, each worth more than $15,000! These prizes include, huge collections of commercial sound effects libraries, a one hour call with each of the three organizers, and nature albums for casual listening. For every $5 you donate, you get an additional chance to win! Just head over to the https://thomasrexbeverly.com/products/the-soundscape-fund-2025, and choose your donation amount.  Contest runs until Dec 28th 2025. so enter now._________ Episode Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/340-tron-ares/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com This episode is hosted by Timothy Muirhead

In this episode Patrick Spence-Thomas does a reading of Dylan Thomas' classic "A Child's Christmas in Wales". Patrick sadly passed away in 2008 after an iconic career as a re-recording mixer and a location sound recordist. The first half of this episode is a quick run down on who Patrick was and some of the work he did, including being both the mixer and narrator for Death Bed: The Bed That Eats! The episode wraps up with Patrick's wonderful reading of one of his favourite poems/stories. ________ SPONSORS: Sound Ideas is closing out the year with a massive Year-End Sale, and you’re invited! Now through to the end of Decemeber, enjoy 50% off all proprietary items, including premium sound effects and production music trusted by creators worldwide. Don’t wait, these savings disappear on December 31st at midnight, as we move into 2026. Check out https://sound-ideas.com/ today and create something amazing.________ The Soundscape Fund - George Vlad, Andy Martin and Thomas Rex Beverly are three of the sound community’s busiest field recordists and they have joined forces to raise money for environmental causes this holiday season. All three have a deep love for the natural world and actively work to conserve the soundscapes of nature, through their field recording. They are each offering some of their recordings as prizes to bring the community together to help a great cause. There are three identical prizes to win, each worth more than $15,000! These prizes include, huge collections of commercial sound effects libraries, a one hour call with each of the three organizers, and nature albums for casual listening. For every $5 you donate, you get an additional chance to win! Just head over to the https://thomasrexbeverly.com/products/the-soundscape-fund-2025, and choose your donation amount. Contest runs until Dec 28th 2025. so enter now._________ Episode Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/341-holiday-special-re-podcast-remembering-patrick/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com This episode is hosted by Timothy Muirhead

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, he has jumped between working on the emotional roller coaster Hamnet, the incredibly tense Bugonia and the terrifying 28 Years Later. Three very different films that are all lead by director's with very specific visions. Johnnie takes us on a spoiler free journey, to tell us how he was able to tackle these films and find the sonic voice of each one. _________ Sponsor: This Cyber Monday, Sound Ideas is offering an incredible opportunity for audio professionals. You can take 50% off all proprietary sound libraries, including some of the most trusted effects in post-production. And for creators looking to expand fast, the General HD Collection is on flash sale at $750, down from $2,995. This is your chance to grab pro-quality sounds for a fraction of the price. Visit https://www.sound-ideas.com/ and upgrade your sound library today.___________ Episode Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/339-johnnie-burns-big-year-with-hamnet-bugonia-28-years-later/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com This episode is hosted by Timothy Muirhead

It seems like Guillermo del Toro's whole career has been leading up to Frankenstein. Part of that progression has been building a great trust with the sound team he has been collaborating with for over a decade. Supervising sound editors Nathan Robitaille & Nelson Ferreira, Re-recording Mixer Brad Zoern and foley artist Goro Koyama join me for this episode to discuss working on their biggest del Toro film yet. From designing the voice of the creature, to making all the guns sound huge (but certain ones sound even bigger!?) to the difficulty of making chains sound heavy, they discuss how challenging this film was. Including creating the sounds for their version of the iconic scene where the creature comes to life.__________ SPONSORS: This Cyber Monday, Sound Ideas is offering an incredible opportunity for audio professionals. You can take 50% off all proprietary sound libraries, including some of the most trusted effects in post-production. And for creators looking to expand fast, the General HD Collection is on flash sale at $750, down from $2,995. This is your chance to grab pro-quality sounds for a fraction of the price. Visit https://www.sound-ideas.com/ and upgrade your sound library today. __________ The Cargo Cult’s Matchbox 2 is a change management tool that is invaluable when doing comforms. It reveals the differences, reports on the damage, and then re-times your sound mix, saving you incalculable amounts of time. To Learn all about the new features in Matchbox 2, head over to https://www.thecargocult.nz/ , to learn more about Matchbox 2 and pulldown the free 15 day trial.   Matchbox 2 is exactly what you have been waiting for.  Spend your time being creative and let Matchbox handle the conforming.___________ Episode Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/338-frankenstein/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com This episode is hosted by Timothy Muirhead This episode was edited/mixed by Therese Gylfe & Tove Lidman for TnT Sound Design.

Gisle Tveito has been dreaming up the sounds in director Joachim Trier's films since 2006 and the two have collaborated again on the wonderful new film Sentimental Value. Gisle joins me to talk about the challenges of working on the sound for quiet, internal films. Including building an emotional map of the entire movie to determine where the sonic focus changes occur. He also discusses how he attacks a project where he is the dialog editor, sound effects editor, music editor, voice over director and re-recording mixer. Is wearing this many hats an an indie/punk rock approach or madness?!________ Sponsors: This Black Friday, Sound Ideas is offering its biggest savings of the year! Enjoy 50% off all proprietary sound libraries and memberships: our best deal yet on world-class audio collections. But that’s just the beginning. Each week, we’ll spotlight one of our most popular libraries with an exclusive, limited-time discount. Visit https://www.sound-ideas.com/ regularly to discover which library is featured and grab these weekly sound specials before they’re gone!_______ Episode Notes: https://tonebenderspodcast.com/337-sentimental-value-with-gisle-tveito/ Podcast Homepage: https://tonebenderspodcast.com This episode is hosted by Timothy Muirhead