HiRez Poll Storm Corrosion - STORM CORROSION [Blu-Ray Audio (Dolby Atmos)]

[rtbluray]

Please post your thoughts and comments on this new Blu-Ray Audio edition of the album "Storm Corrosion", a project written and performed by Steven Wilson & Mikael Akerfeldt.
Originally released in 2012 with a 5.1 surround mix by Steven Wilson, the album has been newly reissued on Blu-Ray Audio disc with a new Dolby Atmos mix also mixed by Steven Wilson alongside his original 5.1 surround mix from 2012.

 

[madscot]

I wish I could give this more than 10, absolutely magnificent, if you have the original 5.1 blu ray and an atmos setup this is definitely worth buying again.
I have been listening to the original and imagining what i’d like to hear from above and as usual SW has knocked it out of the park.
If you’re not a Steven Wilson or Opeth fan i’d say this would be a very hard listening experience as it is so dark and different

 

[J. PUPSTER]

I'm only listening to it in the 7.1 floor down-mixed to 5.1, but it's fabulous; really sets a dark but lively mood at the same time!!!
10+++

 

[perzon57]

I've only listened to it once, but this one of my very rare 10's. What a mix for this fantastic album. Listened in 7.4.4.

 

[beerking]

It's not a release I've played very often.
But this updated version will get plenty of repeat plays.
Steve's Atmos treatment of his own music is exemplary.
As soon as the first track fires up, I'm enveloped in everything I crave from Atmos music.
It this is an example of what he can do with his previous releases then bring on Porcupine Trees classics.
Back in the day I might have baulked at paying twice for the same album. Not anymore.
Dolby Atmos rules, on my circa 2018 7.1.4 set up.
I too wish I could award this humdinger a score higher than 10.

 

[AdamBialy]

Definitely 10! As I wrote in another post about this release - Steven Wilson is in my opinion the number one Dolby Atmos mixing engineer. This is his next release, which can be a demo for Atmos systems. I really like his mixing philosophy.
However, the music on this album is not easy to listen to. It is not something between Opeth and Porcupine Tree. It is slow, dark and has a heavy, dense atmosphere, but it is fascinating and engaging.
I listened during the day - I have to listen at night.

 

[madscot]

Definitely 10! As I wrote in another post about this release - Steven Wilson is in my opinion the number one Dolby Atmos mixing engineer. This is his next release, which can be a demo for Atmos systems. I really like his mixing philosophy.
However, the music on this album is not easy to listen to. It is not something between Opeth and Porcupine Tree. It is slow, dark and has a heavy, dense atmosphere, but it is fascinating and engaging.
I listened during the day - I have to listen at night.

I played this last night with the lights off, my better half said it was like the soundtrack to a horror movie, she doesn’t like horrors but really enjoyed the album

 

[AdamBialy]

I played this last night with the lights off, my better half said it was like the soundtrack to a horror movie, she doesn’t like horrors but really enjoyed the album

A few years ago I listened to this (in 5.1) with my son, who was 5 at the time. He said he was afraid of this music.

 

[AdamBialy]

I played this last night with the lights off, my better half said it was like the soundtrack to a horror movie, she doesn’t like horrors but really enjoyed the album

A similarly interesting experience is listening to Boris Blank's album "Resonance" in the dark. The impression is extraordinary!

 

[marpow]

I voted 9.
If I closed my eyes and someone told me it was the new Steven Wilson, I would believe them. His influence is emenese. Includes Nick Beggs also.
I think a little Opeth prog and a little massage music.
The Atmos surround is very good.

 

[DrKlahn]

I bounced between a 9 and 10. Settled on a 10. It may not quite be up to The Harmony Codex, but from a use of the format and fidelity standpoint I really couldn't find myself putting it at a 9. It has some truly wonderful object placement and movement in the Atmos sound field. I know Wilson loves Tangerine Dream Zeit and I feel like this is influenced by it.

 

[AYanguas]

I’m very excited to see how the Steven Wilson Atmos mixing has evolved from Center only vocals, and 7.1.4 channels mix to the more extensive use of Objects at the Wides locations.

In a similar way as recent Bruce Soord Atmos mixes, Steven Wilson locate the Vocals just at the Wides Speakers. No vocals at the Front Speakers. There is no more vocals centric Isolated, but expanded to a fully immersive feeling. I don't know if in a 7.1.4 home rig the wides image effect would be as immersive, but I like to repeat that I am very happy with the amortization of my 9.1.4 that I am having in more and more mixes.

I already knew the previous 5.1 mix. But just listening the first minutes of ‘Drag Ropes’ in Atmos you really feel that it is a good step forward.

I give it a 10 cast.

 

[Thonolan]

In a similar way as recent Bruce Soord Atmos mixes, Steven Wilson locate the Vocals just at the Wides Speakers. No vocals at the Front Speakers. There is no more vocals centric Isolated, but expanded to a fully immersive feeling. I don't know if in a 7.1.4 home rig the wides image effect would be as immersive, but I like to repeat that I am very happy with the amortization of my 9.1.4 that I am having in more and more mixes.

You're lucky. I really, really wanted to have a system including Wides but I simply don't have the space to install those speakers at the proper locations, so I had to eventually settle for a 7.2.4, which isn't bad anyway because I could setup those really well.

My Blu-ray is on the way, will review the Atmos mix soon. I'm very familiar with the stereo and 5.1 mixes - it's one of my most listened to albums in the last few years (35 spins from start to finish according to my last.fm, plus a few more of some specific songs).

 

[AYanguas]

You're lucky. I really, really wanted to have a system including Wides ...

Yeah. I think so. I am lucky to have been able to place the Wides in the recommended locations. The Left correctly in a corner between the edge of a piece of furniture and the wall at the entrance to the living room. But I had to place the Right one right “on top” of the side table (for dinners with guests) in the living room, in its “just right” location. Here, obviously, the luck has been to have my wife's approval.

 

[dobyblue]

Wait, no lead vocals in any of the front speakers? If that’s the case I can cancel my preorder today!

 

[Thonolan]

Wait, no lead vocals in any of the front speakers? If that’s the case I can cancel my preorder today!

I'm pretty sure the lead vocals will appear there if you don't have Wides. Both @perzon57 and @beerking gave the album a 10, and they specified they listened to it on a 7.x.x system, not 9.x.x.

 

[AYanguas]

Wait, no lead vocals in any of the front speakers? If that’s the case I can cancel my preorder today!

I guess this is a joke.

Of course, no Atmos bed or sound object is lost when you have fewer speakers. They play from the nearer or adjacent speakers.

But I remember have listened some other mixes with no vocals on Front/Center speakers. Voice was coming only from sides or rears. I think It was something trying binaural for headphones and coming from 360RA. That were rare, and the mix sounded strange.

But main vocals only from Wides and no from Fronts is a recurring mix technique that I have found also in other albums like Traffic-The low spark of high heeled boys, Harry Styles-Harrys House, Van Morrison-Moondance. Others use the same with aditional sound copied also in Center channel.