Talking points for guests:
- The reason we started this podcast is because 20-25 years ago audio post was done in large facilities and when you wanted to talk shop or were stuck on something you could just walk across the hall. Now that’s not really the case, a lot of people work from home, or a one person shop. This podcast hopefully lets people act like a fly on the wall and listen in on these conversations to get some of the shop talk that they are missing now.
- the audience for this is professional audio post engineers down to college students studying sound. Talk like you are talking to peers, there is no need to dumb down concepts or explain what “loop group” means.
- This is not a live conversation, we will be doing a full dialog edit pass. Our goal is to make you sound your best, we will remove pauses and “ummm”s. If you ever want to take another run at an answer, please do. We only use the audio, no video is kept.
- You can use any language you like, swear or don’t – it’s up to you.
- As your hosts we are audio pros with over 20 years each of experience. We each have different specializations but we have been through the ringer ourselves.
- Finally these talks tend to work best as conversations rather then standard interviews. Please feel free to talk to each other, follow up on points or even ask questions among yourselves.
- proper pronunciation?
If _______ is unfamiliar with Tonebenders, our show has built up a large and international audience of people working in sound for films, games and series since 2012. _____ can go to https://tonebenderspodcast.com to see what we have been up to lately.
Our interviews take place via a Zoom call, only audio is used though. Video is helpful for non verbal communication during the interview if possible. These interviews normally take between 30 and 40 minutes all in, but we will take what we can get. The discussions do not go out live, we do a full editing pass to clean everything up and make our guests sound their best. We request our guests wear headphones, put up a microphone locally, record themselves during the talk and then send us the audio file. This helps us avoid Zoom dropouts and glitches. It does not need to be an expensive mic or anything, even a smartphone’s memo app recording in a quiet room can work fine for us. If this is not possible we can record the Zoom feed as a fall back. Wearing headphones during the interview helps immensely for our editing.
Hopefully that answers any questions you might have.