Rolling Stones' "40 Licks" Premieres on Dolby Atmos
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So Ed Stasium did the Talking Heads 77 Atmos mix? I thought ET Thorgren & Jerry Harrison got the credit for all the Heads Atmos mixes...
Yeah, that's what I thought too...
Damn, that would be a sweet blu-ray.
I believe getting the whole article is helpful to see where "He (Niko)" is coming from in all of this. Personally I feel an album like Sticky Fingers could be mixed to be very discrete and immersive if done by someone else that really gets it... (Steven Wilson) perhaps
For the most part the Rolling Stones multichannel mixes have been weak shit IMO; of course I'm no professional mix engineer either, just a music lover.
Niko begins by saying:
āI spend quite a lot of time referencing binaural both in headphones and outā says producer/mixer Niko Bolas. āIām very much a ālowest common denominatorā person. I have my Auratones connected to the binaural outputs because when a punter hits Play on his phone, he just wants to hear the title. Realising that itās spatial is an afterthought. So, if you donāt mix for that person, theyāre going to hear something where the groove isnāt there if you didnāt balance the bottomāend correctly.
āWhen I first started doing immersive mixing, I was afraid to use it. I didnāt want anything behind me, but then you start getting into it. The back wall is something that really exists in in the real world: the guy sounding like heās playing āover thereā, really happens. In general, my choices are that I will go against the walls with rhythm, like percussion and drums, and sometimes Iāll put percussion behind me, whereas Iāll take the body of the music ā guitars and keyboards ā and move them in closer to you. My reference is Neil Young. He told me that he would only do Atmos if I could make him feel like he was āsitting in the middle of monoā."
Now, am I interpreting this incorrectly?
Fortunately, the Atmos mixes of Neil's catalog are a bit bolder than this
Great article on Atmos mixing, thanks for linking.
Yeah--just learning about this, myself. (After reading the good things @sjcorne had to say about it, I figured I should have another listen to the mix myself, and Amazon had a 30% off coupon last weekend, and I was already over budget for the holiday season, so I figured "what's another few bucks?"....)
Anyway: who's Ed Stasium when he's at home? Thanks to @AudiophileStyle, I know he did the Atmos mix of Tim, but what else? (Back in 2022, Jerry Harrison said only that Stasium had "contributed to the updated mixes" of the catalog. And on a 2023 Bobby Owsinski podcast, Stasium makes it sound like he, Harrison, and Thorngren were equal partners in the process--although later he also says in passing that he "did all of '77." [Start around 32:00.]) So what's the full story?)
So what is this article other than an advertisement for Kali speakers?
I hate being sucked into something I think I WANT to read only to find Iām being sold something.
I have not yet picked up the new T Heads 77, but given Ed Stasiumās resume as an engineer, mixer and producer, I am excited. The list of those with whom he has worked includes:
T Heads
Ramones
Peter Wolf
Living Colour
Smithereens
Jeff Healey
Hoodoo Gurus
Motorhead
The Tea Party
The Misfits
Loved his work with these artists and others, especially on āVividā by L Colour and ā11ā by the Smithereens. He is a rock and roll master, as was his contemporary, the late, great Vic Maile.
T Heads
Ramones
Peter Wolf
Living Colour
Smithereens
Jeff Healey
Hoodoo Gurus
Motorhead
The Tea Party
The Misfits
Loved his work with these artists and others, especially on āVividā by L Colour and ā11ā by the Smithereens. He is a rock and roll master, as was his contemporary, the late, great Vic Maile.
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