Richard Whittaker IAA Interview

[sjcorne]

His recent Atmos work with Traffic, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Kiss, etc is discussed:
https://immersiveaudioalbum.com/qa-with-richard-whittaker-dolby-atmos-mix-engineer-audio-specialist/

 

[humprof]

Goldie's Timeless--wow. (Although I'd listen to any of the other albums on his wishlist, too.) Didn't realize he'd done the Doolittle remix.

 

[sjcorne]

Goldie's Timeless--wow. (Although I'd listen to any of the other albums on his wishlist, too.)

I let him know that Bitches Brew was done (quite well) in quad and is still available on SACD, it'll be interesting to see if he ends up seeking it out.

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Another great job Jonathan, thanks!

I'd be interested in knowing more about his de-mix techniques (but could be a KFC secret sauce affair IDK.)

I also noticed he dodged this question of yours-

"Do you believe there’s a significant difference in sound quality between the 768 kbps Dolby Digital Plus codec used by the streaming services for Atmos delivery and the ADM masters?"

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Here's a screen grab of his recent Dolby Atmos mixes from his web site, do we know if all these are up on Apple Music - spatial audio?

 

[Blackwood]

A lot of interesting things from this interview including:

Last year, I introduced Bob to Dolby Atmos and he absolutely loves it. In fact, we have a bunch of Atmos projects scheduled for release this year!

Some of the most beautiful words in the English language.

I also appreciated the answer to potential difficulties in matching effects/balances to the original stereo. It helps me better understand just how much effort goes into a really good Atmos mix.

 

[mandrix]

Thanks once again to Jonathon for feeding our music geek. Always interesting reading these interviews. I also was pleased with TLSOHHB. Kudos to Mr. Whittaker.
One thing is beginning to hold clear in the remixing in Atmos of the earlier works; staying true to the original stereo intent as much as possible. While I laud these efforts to be true to our cherished albums, I'm also not opposed to a tiny bit of adventurism if it improves the overall sound field for we listeners with actual Atmos speaker setups.

I don't care much for the "gimmicky" sounds, I'll call it, but sometimes moving/repositioning sounds can be done quite well. Out of respect for Mr. Whittaker I won't compare his work against others here.

These two examples of albums with some songs with a lot of "movement" are of course new works and not subjects of reworks of older albums, but two newer discs I find especially well done are the recent Tears For Fears and xPropaganda.

 

[TheGreatRamseythe2nd]

Stickmen in Atmos?

 

[sjcorne]

Here's a screen grab of his recent Dolby Atmos mixes from his web site, do we know if all these are up on Apple Music - spatial audio?

Not sure, I couldn't find the Lara Smogyi album on Apple Music.

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Not sure, I couldn't find the Lara Smogyi album on Apple Music.

So does that mean you did find all the rest?

I found her album but not sure if it's Atmos at this point, I'm on my Win. 10 computer. I've only tried out 20% of these on Apple Spatial so far that were previously known to me.