Ernie Isley's daughter teams up with Terrace Martin. Nothing special, unfortunately--it ought to be better--but it's still decent chillout music.
Listening to in Dolby Atmos Streaming, via Tidal/Apple/Amazon
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How about some more Billy Joel!!
nice and laid back, with a good Atmos mix, i thought
I was excited at the speculation ‘Who By Numbers’ may see an Atmos release. It’s my favourite ‘Who’ album after ‘Who’s Next’ and ‘Tommy’, although sometimes it may be favorite. Disappointed!!
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Oh for f*ck's sake, AGAIN not on Tidal?! Hope it's coming.
It will likely show up on the 360RA format anyway (like the other albums).
had a flick through earlier, a great side effect was the nice reminder how good an album it is.. sadly wasn't knocked out by what i was hearing from a Surround pov..
felt too front-focussed for my tastes, with muted vocal refrains, some ambience, snatches of lower level horns (etc) popping up in the Rears/places other than upfront.. but ultimately too much was emanating from the Front, making the whole thing feel kinda flat
do we know who mixed this?
thinking maybe the same person who did the Atmos of "The Nylon Curtain"?
whoever it is, sorry i can't sugarcoat it, the effort's no comparison to the 5.1 SACDs of "52nd Street" & "The Stranger", nor the 3 old Quads; "Piano Man", "Streetlife Serenade" & "Turnstiles" (even though the Quads are far from perfect they're far superior in the Surround-y stakes to this!)
had a flick through earlier, a great side effect was the nice reminder how good an album it is.. sadly wasn't knocked out by what i was hearing from a Surround pov..
felt too front-focussed for my tastes, with muted vocal refrains, some ambience, snatches of lower level horns (etc) popping up in the Rears/places other than upfront.. but ultimately too much was emanating from the Front, making the whole thing feel kinda flat
do we know who mixed this?
thinking maybe the same person who did the Atmos of "The Nylon Curtain"?
whoever it is, sorry i can't sugarcoat it, the effort's no comparison to the 5.1 SACDs of "52nd Street" & "The Stranger", nor the 3 old Quads; "Piano Man", "Streetlife Serenade" & "Turnstiles" (even though the Quads are far from perfect they're far superior in the Surround-y stakes to this!)
bummer man.
I have never seen immersive mix engineer credits for 360 RA mixes on Tidal.
I think dynamic compression contributed to the 'flat' sound as well - I kept noticing a 'pinched' quality to the choruses in the title track, and other louder bits throughout the album.felt too front-focussed for my tastes, with muted vocal refrains, some ambience, snatches of lower level horns (etc) popping up in the Rears/places other than upfront.. but ultimately too much was emanating from the Front, making the whole thing feel kinda flat
"The Longest Time" sounds pretty nice though (not that it takes a rocket scientist to make an interesting surround mix of that song...)
This has a pretty decent Atmos mix for a live release and gets very active at times:
https://listen.tidal.com/album/310075588
https://listen.tidal.com/album/310075588
i guess "The Longest Time" was some sort of highlight, although there's not a great deal going on in the track at least some vocal bits were spread about a bit, although most of the time it was was all just subpar Surround.
the title track ("An Innocent Man") was so reverberant, it sounded like it was being played back in a cave
come to think of it, i don't remember any of the tracks from this timeframe on that Billy Joel video collection DVD being Thom Cadley's finest 5.1 work but i do remember it being more effective Surround sound than this
Listening to The Band in Atmos. I don’t know if there are plans for Atmos mixes of the albums that we don’t currently have, but an eventual box set of just the Atmos mixes of whatever they want to give us would not go unappreciated.
I think Cahoots is the only album in Atmos on disc with The Band and Music From Big Pink steaming-only.
Slightly related is an interview I saw with Wolfgang Van Halen saying A Different Kind of Truth isn’t available on streaming because one band member doesn’t like it. Wolfgang's comment was that he hopes people who like the album have a physical disc.
While that’s not a surround mix, it simply reminds me that what we have on streaming is somewhat at the mercy of any number of factors. In some cases, like The Band, it would be a shame to someday possibly lose what are very nice Atmos mixes.
I think Cahoots is the only album in Atmos on disc with The Band and Music From Big Pink steaming-only.
Slightly related is an interview I saw with Wolfgang Van Halen saying A Different Kind of Truth isn’t available on streaming because one band member doesn’t like it. Wolfgang's comment was that he hopes people who like the album have a physical disc.
While that’s not a surround mix, it simply reminds me that what we have on streaming is somewhat at the mercy of any number of factors. In some cases, like The Band, it would be a shame to someday possibly lose what are very nice Atmos mixes.
Totally agree, it's bland from an immersive mix POV. The 5.1 SACD's are way superior. I need to track down those quads at a reasonable $had a flick through earlier, a great side effect was the nice reminder how good an album it is.. sadly wasn't knocked out by what i was hearing from a Surround pov..
felt too front-focussed for my tastes, with muted vocal refrains, some ambience, snatches of lower level horns (etc) popping up in the Rears/places other than upfront.. but ultimately too much was emanating from the Front, making the whole thing feel kinda flat
do we know who mixed this?
thinking maybe the same person who did the Atmos of "The Nylon Curtain"?
whoever it is, sorry i can't sugarcoat it, the effort's no comparison to the 5.1 SACDs of "52nd Street" & "The Stranger", nor the 3 old Quads; "Piano Man", "Streetlife Serenade" & "Turnstiles" (even though the Quads are far from perfect they're far superior in the Surround-y stakes to this!)
Has no LFE channel -according to my subs not turning on- which doesn’t help.
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