Bob Marley in Atmos

[lexpo]

Catch A Fire has a Dolby Atmos release. Unfortunately several tracks are upmixes.

True Atmos Mixes

• Concrete Jungle
• Baby We’ve Got A Date
• No More Trouble
• All Day All Night
• Stir It Up
  • (I’m actually unsure on this one. It could be an upmix or an unimaginative Atmos mix. The irony being multitrack tapes exist and it was mixed for 5.1 by Clearmount a few years ago)

Upmixes

• Slave Driver
• 400 Years
• Stop That Train
• Kinky Reggae
• Midnight Ravers
• High Tide or Low Tide

The upmixes lack spacial movement. Where those backgrounds vocals sit is where they’ll remain until fadeout. Kinky Reggae’s lead vocal is a few milliseconds behind the beat (strange).

Heads up for the reggae fans. The bonafide mixes are worth a listen.

 

[Albert Dagger]

Interesting analysis. Thanks.
Have you checked the other Bob Marley's albums in Atmos? There are at least three more, including Legend.
I must admit I haven't listened to them very closely, but I was a big fan of the 5.1 mix of Legend.

 

[Sashaaa]

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Catch A Fire has a Dolby Atmos release. Unfortunately several tracks are upmixes.

True Atmos Mixes

• Concrete Jungle
• Baby We’ve Got A Date
• No More Trouble
• All Day All Night
• Stir It Up
  • (I’m actually unsure on this one. It could be an upmix or an unimaginative Atmos mix. The irony being multitrack tapes exist and it was mixed for 5.1 by Clearmount a few years ago)

Upmixes

• Slave Driver
• 400 Years
• Stop That Train
• Kinky Reggae
• Midnight Ravers
• High Tide or Low Tide

The upmixes lack spacial movement. Where those backgrounds vocals sit is where they’ll remain until fadeout. Kinky Reggae’s lead vocal is a few milliseconds behind the beat (strange).

Heads up for the reggae fans. The bonafide mixes are worth a listen.

None of the tracks on this are upmixes and I am very sure of that. I have soloed out the channel and there is definitely discrete information in the rears on all of the listed upmixes. I find all of the tracks on this to have really nice atmos mixes.