splinter7
1K Club - QQ Shooting Star
I don't like:
It's basically a 5.1 mix, heights are practically not used, and when they're are they don't change the game
No issue with your 8 score but are you sure - maybe you didn’t actually select the 5.1 mix?
Hit play on track 1 and the wave sound and cymbals are up in the heights right after the initial vocal lines. And as @sjcorne observed ( At around 2:41), the insect sounding guitar solo is 100% in the heights. The heights are in use the entire disc.
I don’t get your 1 song split into 12 thing either. It’s a band that has a signature sound and style. There is still plenty of diversity across the tracks. But you gotta take the project for what it is - a glimpse of songs that Gavin gave a stab at reworking. From Gavin’s liner notes: “ this isn’t a compilation album, or any kind of selected best of record, but rather the tunes that gave me inspiration to rearrange, rework, rewire”.
And i gotta say that “I Build World For You” comes pretty close to having that earworm chorus you are looking for.
If anything, I feel that there might be a tad too much bleed over from the fronts into the heights. But it is one of Bruce’s early Atmos early mixes. Not that I feel this a bad mix but it is insane how far Bruce has leveled up with Atmos in 2 years time.