Neil Palfreyman
1K Club - QQ Shooting Star
I'm sure many of you are aware that Rob's been working on the third album in his solo "Sanctuary" series, and you can probably guess that being as he's a huge fan of 5.1 he's mixed it in surround as well as stereo.
I've been play testing the 5.1 mix over the past few days and Rob's given me permission to post my thoughts. It'll be no surprise that it's another "Mike Oldfield" influenced album, but in my opinion he's used a much broader sound palette on this one and is also drawing from a broader set of influences. He's also developed and refined his own way of doing these albums, so although it still has that "signature" sound this one is very much more "Rob" and it's even better for it.
The surround mix is huge. Rob tells me it was written and recorded with the surround mix in mind and it really shows! It's an immersive, dynamic, sweeping, majestic soundscape that really drives the listener on a journey as the tracks (just 2, "side 1" and "side 2") develop.
Keep an eye on Rob's shop/web page:
http://www.magentashopfront.com/index.htm
For info on release dates, formats etc. (and don't forget that you can get pretty much all of his back catalog as 5.1 FLAC from this site/shop.)
I've been play testing the 5.1 mix over the past few days and Rob's given me permission to post my thoughts. It'll be no surprise that it's another "Mike Oldfield" influenced album, but in my opinion he's used a much broader sound palette on this one and is also drawing from a broader set of influences. He's also developed and refined his own way of doing these albums, so although it still has that "signature" sound this one is very much more "Rob" and it's even better for it.
The surround mix is huge. Rob tells me it was written and recorded with the surround mix in mind and it really shows! It's an immersive, dynamic, sweeping, majestic soundscape that really drives the listener on a journey as the tracks (just 2, "side 1" and "side 2") develop.
Keep an eye on Rob's shop/web page:
http://www.magentashopfront.com/index.htm
For info on release dates, formats etc. (and don't forget that you can get pretty much all of his back catalog as 5.1 FLAC from this site/shop.)