Michael Jackson's Thriller in 3D & Dolby Atmos

Interesting read, premiered at Venice Film Festival & recently at TIFF 2017.

https://www.izotope.com/en/communit...x-grammy-nominated-engineer-martin-nessi.html

Nice outlook for next year

I'd love to hear this in surround! Although I didn't like this comment:

"The mix didn’t change that much from stereo to Dolby Atmos"

This is what I want to hear:

"I suddenly remembered that many years ago I read a magazine where Mick Guzauski said he had mixed the Thriller album in 5.1, back when Michael was still alive."

I look at this as another way to get surround music...sort of a "back door" approach...some of these might not be what a lot of people would expect from a surround mix...but it certainly can help with some improved fidelity on some of these titles...my best version of Thriller is a CD which it took me months to find the right edition...any type of surround will be awesome..

Thriller, in some form of surround and high resolution would be off the charts, I'd say. Wow!!
Bring it on...please...

I have the SACD of Thriller. The opening drum lines (synthesized) of Billy Jean jump right out of the speakers with tremendous dynamics. I use that track as an demo of what can be achieved with SACD. It will be interesting to see what they do with it in surround.

ar surround said:

I have the SACD of Thriller. The opening drum lines (synthesized) of Billy Jean jump right out of the speakers with tremendous dynamics. I use that track as an demo of what can be achieved with SACD. It will be interesting to see what they do with it in surround.

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When I considered going after the Thriller SACD the research was so mixed I just dropped it...there were a lot of negative opinions and at that time it was in the $150 range...now they are in the $200 price point... and for a non surround title it has to sound impressive for me to even consider it...and when I got the right version in CD form I was more than pleased...the CD has an album DR of 13 with peaks of 15 for some songs...now a surround version would certainly change my mind and I'd buy it...but when I see downloads like this one..I'm more than pleased with my CD version

A new SACD of thriller...here....and someone is watching:yikes

I have the sacd of Thriller in my collection too

A surround version would be awesome!!!

And at that price :yikes

Clint Eastwood said:

A new SACD of thriller...here....and someone is watching:yikes

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i have the "HD tracks" version of Thriller; does somebody thinks the SACD version of this title could somehow be superior to the downloadable file version?

depeche76 said:

i have the "HD tracks" version of Thriller; does somebody thinks the SACD version of this title could somehow be superior to the downloadable file version?

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Glad to see more video tiles having new life in Dolby Atmos.

I have the HD Tracks version which sounds great through the Surround Master, especially the title track with footsteps circling the room and werewolf howls over your shoulder.:yikes

smokey911 said:

I have the HD Tracks version which sounds great through the Surround Master, especially the title track with footsteps circling the room and werewolf howls over your shoulder.:yikes

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I'll say it one more time; MAJOR ARTISTS have been mixing their albums in "stealth" surround...especially in DPL II!!!!

depeche76 said:

i have the "HD tracks" version of Thriller; does somebody thinks the SACD version of this title could somehow be superior to the downloadable file version?

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The HDtracks download is a conversion of the SACD master. They should sound nearly identical.

kap'n krunch said:

I'll say it one more time; MAJOR ARTISTS have been mixing their albums in "stealth" surround...especially in DPL II!!!!

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Not on purpose... But introduce enough out-of-phase material and a matrix decoder or surround processor will have a field day.

JediJoker said:

Not on purpose... But introduce enough out-of-phase material and a matrix decoder or surround processor will have a field day.

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oh, heck yeah..all of the outboard fx, DDLs, etc will do it..even Synths...Synergy's "Cords" is a BLAST and it sounds like it was mixed to QS...and it wasn't..I know cause Larry Fast himself confirmed it!

I suddenly remembered that many years ago I read a magazine where Mick Guzauski said he had mixed the Thriller album in 5.1, back when Michael was still alive. I suggested to get in touch with him to see if he knew where to get it. The next day we got it from Sony.

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Yes, so bloody well let's have it Sony!!!!

Seems to me that the Jackson estate is eager to cash in on Thriller once more. Hopefully they will seek to go with an Atmos reissue of the album.