Carly Simon's "No Secrets," Mixed for Atmos by Frank Filipetti, Coming Soon?

[humprof]

From a story in the December issue of Mix magazine about Brad Smalling's Evergroove Studio in Evergreen, Colorado: "Carly Simon's manager, Larry Ciancia, needed somewhere to hear some Atmos mixes Frank Filipetti had done for his client and swung by. 'Now I'm mastering the Atmos mixes for Carly Simon's 50th anniversary release of No Secrets, plus a handful of select tracks from other albums.'"

As a mixing & mastering engineer, Smalling is all-in on Atmos, by the way, preferring to "convert" artists and work on new projects from the ground up. Eager to hear some of his finished projects. Page 14:
https://issuu.com/futurepublishing/docs/mix552.digital_december_2022?fr=sNWQ3NTU0NTA5NTA

 

[sjcorne]

 

[LennonCobain]

On Tidal too: https://tidal.com/album/275048890

 

[NYMo]

You’re so lame, you probably think this post is about you !

 

[humprof]

Excellent! (Paging @evergroove: can you tell us about anything else in the pipeline coming out of your studio?)

 

[evergroove]

Greetings!

I'm so excited this album is finally out. For various reasons, the label moved the release date enough times that I lost track so it was really exciting to be notified via this forum.

There are a lotta things happening in Atmos at Evergroove but I cannot really mention them at the moment. I'm sorry for that - I wish I could!

If anyone has questions about this release, let me know and I'll do my best to answer them best I can.

 

[humprof]

Greetings!

I'm so excited this album is finally out. For various reasons, the label moved the release date enough times that I lost track so it was really exciting to be notified via this forum.

There are a lotta things happening in Atmos at Evergroove but I cannot really mention them at the moment. I'm sorry for that - I wish I could!

If anyone has questions about this release, let me know and I'll do my best to answer them best I can.

Understood. Thanks so much for dropping by here! Really appreciate what you've said about your approach to Atmos, and very much looking forward to hearing your own work in due time.

 

[evergroove]

Thank you for understanding! I almost forgot to let y'all know that there are 3 other Carly tracks in Atmos. These were also mixed in Atmos by Frank Filipetti and mastered in Atmos by me.

Anticipation:

You Belong to Me:

Mockingbird:

 

[sjcorne]

Anticipation:

This is great! Retains the power of the stereo mix, but it's massive now. Those big drum fills never sounded so good

 

[HiFiMan]

On Tidal too: https://tidal.com/album/275048890

I have never used Tidal or Apple Music. Can the album be downoaded from them, or just streamed?? Or, is there somewhere else the download can be purchased? By the way, my system is only 5.1; would the Atmos version downmix to 5.1? Thanks in advance.

 

[perzon57]

I have never used Tidal or Apple Music. Can the album be downoaded from them, or just streamed?? Or, is there somewhere else the download can be purchased? By the way, my system is only 5.1; would the Atmos version downmix to 5.1? Thanks in advance.

The Atmos version will downmix to 5.1 from Apple Music on a Apple TV 4K.

 

[HiFiMan]

The Atmos version will downmix to 5.1 from Apple Music on a Apple TV 4K.

No other way?????????????? Bummer for Me.

 

[watsontr]

Thank you for understanding! I almost forgot to let y'all know that there are 3 other Carly tracks in Atmos. These were also mixed in Atmos by Frank Filipetti and mastered in Atmos by me.

Anticipation:

You Belong to Me:

Mockingbird:

Is "I've Got To Have You" likely to be added?

 

[~dave~~wave~]

So what's happened?
Did a lone listener get a false impression back in September that the Apple Atmos mix for this song was not up to snuff?

the Atmos upmix nonsense of "You're So Vain" is a total bloody insult to both the Quad and Frank Filipetti's 5.1 mix!!!!

Nobody bothered to listen closely enough to confirm or dispute that opinion at the time because it came from a respected "influencer"?

Or was there truly an earlier flawed mix withdrawn and replaced last week when the entire album came out?

Just wondering.

 

[humprof]

So what's happened?
Did a lone listener get a false impression back in September that the Apple Atmos mix for this song was not up to snuff?
Nobody bothered to listen closely enough to confirm or dispute that opinion at the time because it came from a respected "influencer"?

Or was there truly an earlier flawed mix withdrawn and replaced last week when the entire album came out?

Just wondering.

The latter.

 

[sjcorne]

Or was there truly an earlier flawed mix withdrawn and replaced last week when the entire album came out?

The latter.

Yes, the prior version was the original stereo mix copy/pasted at varying levels across all 11 channels.

 

[~dave~~wave~]

Yes, the prior version was the original stereo mix copy/pasted at varying levels across all 11 channels.

That's great news.

Is this the first and only time a quality Atmos mix replaced a mediocre one on Apple as far as we know?
Rather than reverting to stereo as at least 200-odd tracks did last year?

 

[humprof]

That's great news.

Is this the first and only time a quality Atmos mix replaced a mediocre one on Apple as far as we know?
Rather than reverting to stereo as at least 200-odd tracks did last year?

Good question. We can only hope it's not the last time! Most--all?--of those 200-odd "disappeared" tracks were from WEA. In the end it was inference and speculation, but circumstantial evidence seemed to point to one rogue guy, using some kind of batch process, being responsible for all of them. (Last time I checked, some of the newer Nonesuch albums he/they did were still up.) Would love to see all those tracks, and more old WEA stuff besides, return with mixes on par with the new ones from Filipetti.

 

[LennonCobain]

Good question. We can only hope it's not the last time! Most--all?--of those 200-odd "disappeared" tracks were from WEA. In the end it was inference and speculation, but circumstantial evidence seemed to point to one rogue guy, using some kind of batch process, being responsible for all of them. (Last time I checked, some of the newer Nonesuch albums he/they did were still up.) Would love to see all those tracks, and more old WEA stuff besides, return with mixes on par with the new ones from Filipetti.

These 200 or so tracks are still on Tidal I believe.

 

[fredblue]

So what's happened?
Did a lone listener get a false impression back in September that the Apple Atmos mix for this song was not up to snuff?



Nobody bothered to listen closely enough to confirm or dispute that opinion at the time because it came from a respected "influencer"?

Or was there truly an earlier flawed mix withdrawn and replaced last week when the entire album came out?

Just wondering.

"here lies F. Blue, ignored for f-ing years and proud of it!" 🕊

ps. don't forget to pad my coffin with as many copies of Winelight as possible!