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also on the subject of flaming lips 'zaireeka', once i read a story on some forum about a young lad who bought it, set up four stereos in his living room to play it back... and his parents came home, walked in on him sat on the floor surrounded by the speakers and took him for a drug test lmao
― meaulnes, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
I'd love to hear further thoughts on the /Oranges & Lemons/ 5.1 mix, actually, because the stereo mix is notoriously crammed full of detail and it seems like the kind of record that would truly blossom with the addition of the extra channels.
I hadn’t listened intensely to it until this post, but now that I have it does sound really good (tho I have to turn down my center quite a bit so the vocals aren’t too loud).
Something like “Garden of Earthly Delights” or “Across These Antheaps” really does open up, with all the backwards guitars, trumpets flourishes, synth stabs and the like separated out. “King for a Day” possibly sounds more like “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” than it did before, with Mastelotto’s drum parts spread more widely across the stereo/multichannel field.
A lot of Gregory’s guitars have more bite and definition while Moulding’s bass sounds positively fabulous in tunes like “Poor Skeleton Steps Out.” Even some tracks that left me a little flat before (such as “Hold Me My Daddy”) just *sound* good here.
Worth noting that “Chalkhills and Children” has an absolutely incredible mix, placed mostly in the front all the way into the end of the second pre-chorus when Wilson pushes the the vocals in the first big “But I’m getting higherrrrrr-errr!”crescendo to the side and back. It’s a pretty thrilling moment, as the rest of the song is quite discrete from that point forward with lots of things bouncing around.
The problem with this record continues to be that it’s too damn long. But it sounds significantly better in this mix.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 03:59 (four years ago) link
three years pass...
Revive! Has anyone checked out Dolby Atmos? I just noticed that Wilson has remixed. The first three Chic records for it. I also realized that my basement TV sound bar will play it. I don’t have it set up with any rear channels or anything yet but maybe I don’t need to? I also see that Amazon music streams at least some stuff. Which is certainly easier than all the massive multi track files I have pirated onto my laptop.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 14:24 (one year ago) link
Jerry Harrison had some stuff to say in that TapeOp interview:
I just worked with Ed remixing all of the Talking Heads albums for Atmos.-You mixed everything in 5.1 before, right?
That was with Eric “ET” Thorngren. [See Eric’s interview this issue.] He did the bulk of the catalog. Ed did (Talking Heads:) 77, and he did about half of More Songs About Buildings and Food, and then Eric did the other half. Because Eric and I still had the sessions from the 5.1, we had a head start on thinking about this. When we were doing the 5.1, we listened to all of these different (surround) records. There were certain people who wanted to make mixes feel like you were on stage, with the musicians around you.
-Yeah, some strange placement of the listener, as if you’d joined the band.
We felt that was not a very successful way to look at it. The other thing is that we realized that people would have these stereo systems, and then who knew what the rest of the speakers would be. We used the faux center of stereo, as long as it was then reinforced with the center speaker. By the time that we’ve now reached with Atmos, people have more sophisticated systems. I think that surround audio could be wonderful, but the majority of people who are going to be listening to Atmos will probably be listening to it on headphones, to begin with.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link