Planning The Atmos Rig

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[kennethdaniels]

As cool as I think Atmos is and as hard as labels are pushing it, I haven’t talked to one normal music fan (or any friends family) that ever brings up Atmos or Spatial Audio. Now of course that’s a small sample size, maybe like 50 people total. I wish you the best and look forward to seeing how it pans out 🤘🏻

[JasonBuffin]

Your interview with Joshua was really informative on some of the tech specs for the room and speakers. I don't think I've seen anyone else on YT go that in depth. Thanks!

[AaronDaniels]

I’m an artist with Ginger Audio and it’s changed my life!!! I highly recommend!

[oliverkky]

We all want to have an Atmos rig, but we also know that none of us (with a few exceptions) could afford it one way or another. That's why I think Atmos will not get much bigger than it is right now, and it'll probably grow more in the film industry.

That said, I love seeing people explore new things and seeing where it leads them. My uneducated prediction is that we're going to see Colt working on a big movie.

[exes_official]

Completely unrelated to the video but I recently watched the Pensados Place interview with CLA from 11 years ago and was surprised when I heard your name come up during the Q&A. You asked what advise he had on making the move to only mixing in a saturated market. Look where you are now, crazy. Congrats to your success man!!

[DroptekOfficial]

THANK YOU for making this video. Regardless of what side of the argument you're on the fact that you shared your experience in such depth and detail is a blessing to other engineers who might find themselves in your position. There are barely any people who have done this, let alone shared their experience in such detail for others to learn from. Really well done 👏🏻

[loslobosjr]

Fantastic video, thanks for this series, Colt!

[ladanny]

Good stuff! I design Atmos mix rooms, screening rooms, and theaters. With Atmos, there’s the science, and there’s the art. The RLP concept is where art comes in.

[resington]

Everything involved with this seems like an absolute nightmare Colt! I truly hope you nail this.

[DanielBucknellau]

Audient Oria just dropped a couple days ago. It’s prob perfectly for you.
it includes integration with sonarworks, comes with a mic even! You can measure room and put the cal into the interface to correct right there.
it has monitor controller with multiple profiles on an iPad app or eucon enabled if you wana use your dock. You can also link the downmix tools to the Dolby Atmos renderer (better than integrated Atmos for now in my experience), network or thunderbolt/usb, goes up to 9.1.6 via db25 or aes and includes 2 sets of additional stereo outs for alternate stereo monitors as well as 2 independent headphones. 2 console pres as well on the front. It’s kind of perfect!!!

[loveMusic]

Studio One has built in Atmos as well and it is implemented well.

[kozadofficial]

THANK YOU FOR TAKING TIME TO MAKE THIS!

[nlgcomposer]

I use the Argosy stands for my ATC's They're fantastic! I especially love the tilt feature personally.

[planbrecords]

Colt! I am currently building my Atmos rig in my studio here at BrowneBarne Ranch, Outside of Palm Springs, California. I’m an old dog and I have racks of 2 inch tape demos from when we had publishing deals in Nashville many years ago. I’m telling you this because I used to be a hard ass analog dude. When we moved to California, I built an analog studio, and I was bound and determined to hold my ground and survive being an analog dude. Well surprise, everyone was embracing digital and everyone wanted it. I just remember hearing Steve Earle’s “Die Like An Aviator” record, which was one of the first digital recordings I had ever heard, and thinking “damn, this is tinny and harsh!” And I used to point at it and say see? You need to record analog! But then digital technology got so much better. And all of my heroes started putting their tape machines in mothballs and embracing the digital recording realm, and I was getting left in the dust. So when I finally embraced the digital recording world, it took me a while to catch up, but I did. I learned a very valuable lesson. You’re either making dust, or you’re eating dust. To that end, I was at the Namm show a couple years ago, and was introduced to Dolby Atmos. I realized at that point, if I don’t embrace this, I will be in the same position I was back when I was an analog dude. I’m here to tell you that the industry insiders that I know all realize that Atmos is the way of the future. And as you probably know all the big music distributors only want Atmos mixes now. Anyway Colt,
I’ve been following you for about six months, and you are, by far, the best YouTube content provider that I have seen when it comes to recording advice and experience. Your hands on demeanor and attitude to sharing your knowledge is unparalleled. At any rate, I knew you would be building a Dolby Atmos environment sooner or later because you also realize that it is now, in today’s recording world, a pure necessity. You are either making dust or eating dust and that’s the reality. Keep making that dust! Thank you Colt -you are awesome!

[bikesandbeats]

As someone who has owned an Atmos setup in my home theater for almost 5 years, never once have I sat in it to listen music nor plan to. I’ve used the Atmos/Spatial audio feature in my AirPods Pro and AirPods Max and always turn it off because it takes the punch out of the music. I’m always a person that embraces new tech but I don’t believe Atmos for music is going to catch on, not at least it’s available as a standard feature in automobiles. Besides myself, I only know one other person that has Atmos installed on their home.

[FishloreJimson]

As long as I have two ears, I'll continue consuming music in stereo. I don't care how many of my speakers are "atmos compatible" they'll never be used in that capacity. Put me down as someone who sees the future of this tech as similar to 5.1. I don't see the general public really embracing or even calling for this no matter how much its creators force us and push us to use it. The idea of a bunch of pop music fans sitting in the center of a room surrounded with speakers is so laugh out loud funny, I just can't take it serious.

[rapirelamusic]

Great video Colt. You can easily control volume, mute, Dim and switching the monitoring format (7.1.4, 7.1, 5.1, 2.0, and any other you want) inside the renderer via Stream Deck. It's like having a dedicated hardware control for the renderer because every function inside can be triggered by keyboard's key combinations. This is a very simple method in case the room has been calibrated in the renderer and the renderer itself is responsible for Mon fold down. All the best!!

[cornerliston]

Worth mentioning the new Audient Oria which solves a lot of the common issues, including room calibration via Sonarworks' Sound Id stored into the interface.

[Mr_A]

I follow both you and Andrew Masters. And i LOVE to see the very long vid's from you guys 😀Keep'em up!

[syap]

Well done, I can't wait see your video for you Atmos room being build.