Was I wrong about DOLBY ATMOS?

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🎥 Cameras: Jörg Schiele, Volker Pigors, Julian Schiele & John Darko
🎬 Editor: Jörg Schiele & John Darko
🕺🏻 Motion GFX: John Darko
💰 Ad segment: Jana Dagdagan

0:00 Intro & background
3:10 Steven Wilson interview
25:54 Further thoughts

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The Madness of Dolby Atmos for music fans

Suede Atmos Blu-Ray

ABC Atmos Blu-Ray

Momus on YouTube

Momus' The Poison Boyfriend on Discogs

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Room treatment by Vicoustic

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[ItsMeRando]

Good job it's two men talking rather than two Women as there would have been hell to pay for the almost identical clothing :)

[kinguiscoming]

One of my favorite episodes yet. 2 gentlemen with eclectic musical tastes, speaking intelligently about music and for those unfamiliar, Steven is one of the most talented and original musicians/engineers of our time.

[jameslevine]

Great interview - and another string to your bow.. Really like the face-to-face format and proper conversation, both interviewer and interviewee given time to speak at length. If you enjoyed it too, I hope it's the start of another rich seam of music-first..!

[solarrobot]

The camera work on this interview is absolute perfection. The timing of the cuts back and forth is what makes the dialogue immersive! Darko, you have got to do more of these types of interviews!

[MD-gqxl]

Steven Wilson is one of my favorite artists! I discovered his work by finding a discarded CD wallet with several Porcupine Tree albums in it. Being a Prog Rock fan since first hearing Rush in 1977, this was right up my alley, and down the rabbit hole I went. Great interview, and thanks for your music-first approach to Hi-Fi gear.

[FoxTick]

23:46 - David Bowie's estate is utterly bonkers.

Steven Wilson: "Can I do an Atmos remix of Ziggy Stardust?"

DBE: "No, lol"

*Meanwhile....*

Chris Young: "Can I use the guitar riff from 'Rebel Rebel' for my cheesy-ass generic bro-country song?"

DBE: "Sure, just give us songwriting credit, rofl"

[lewismenzies]

Quite possibly the best interview I’ve watched, ever.

I’m a huge fan of Steven’s work.

Hearing his views on Dolby Atmos/Spatial Audio and his approach is quite something. Refreshing to hear the honesty about it.

[chairthrower]

Wilson is by far the best spatial mixer. It's hilarious to think the secret apparently is he does what sounds musical, in contrast with other engineers. He also seems to have great knowledge of the original mixes so his spatial ones honor the original mixes.

[fakeklg]

Love love love this format!
Really nice interview as well.

[NoQualmsTheArtist]

I was once an Atmos sceptic, now I own an Atmos recording studio. I built it for under $5, 000. Only audiophiles think they need to spend $300k that's crazy. If the equipment is good enough to mix stereo it's good enough for Atmos fr 💯

[git]

I could watch this for hours, Steven knows what he’s talking about and there’s no bs. Being a prog fan I have almost all his mixes. What really convinced me was hearing a Yes album probably Fragile in 5.1 at home and just wandering around the room and you can hear Chris Squire’s backing vocals clearly in the rear speaker and all the little details which you miss with a stereo mix. Steve’s own albums are created with a spatial mix in mind from the start and sound amazing even in 5.1. When you separate out the different instruments into different speakers, the speakers themselves react different than when you have the whole band coming from a single speaker. It’s definitely here the stay and the selling point about atom is that you can have 13 speakers in your room or you can have a sound bar or anything in between and the atmos algorithm will work out how best to play the music with the equipment you have.
Another YouTube channel that talks about atmos a lot is Present Day Productions who are a mixing/mastering studio but are now mixing everting in their dedicated atmos studio which is probably one of the best studios for atmos in the country, they even make their own speakers, I’d love these guys to get together with Steven.
Thanks for the video and more interviews would be awesome

[rendart]

I could listen to you guys for hours...

[bulloguin]

I own quite a few Wilson’s mixes on 5.1. Many YES mixes, a couple of XTC, also two from Tears For Fears, and two I really love from Emerson Lake and Palmer the debut album and the amazing Tarkus. So sad that he stopped doing ELP 5.1 albums mixes. I admire his work on these remixes. I only hope from the deepest corner in my heart, he could remix the first two albums from Wetton’s Asia, Asia and Alpha boy that could be a dream come true. Congratulations for his genius in remastering and mixing and big cheers for this awesome interview.

[Ambient_Audiophile]

Really great talk, Mr Darko. Hearing you and Mr. Wilson volley about great music is a wonder. Appreciate the matching outfits as well.

[escapeintokhd]

Mr Wilson’s work on Jethro Tull classics has been a revelation to this die hard Tull fan since 1972

[computerfreakch]

No wonder that all the big labels jump on Dolby Atmos, giving them the opportunity to sell the same music once more, having sold it to Spotify.

[Jameseyiom]

Steven Wilson's been my favourite artist since first hearing Porcupine Tree in 2006 and I had the pleasure of telling him that 'Hand. Cannot. Erase.' is my favourite album of all time when i met him at a signing a number of years ago. Great interview and I can't wait to hear Frankie...in the autumn!!!

[spda]

Very interesting interview, still not sold on spacial audio but I do enjoy Steven Wilsons job with Manic Street Preachers and Ultravox.

[GutekZ]

Steven Wilson made a surprisingly good case for Dolby Atmos, despite tough questions from Darko. Kudos.

[lazarosnikolaidis]

Thank you very much John & Steve for providing us such wonderful material.
Really worthy interview, every minute count.
To both of you - as ABBA said - "Thank you for the MUSIC" !!