{"id":32976,"date":"2021-06-30T16:56:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32976"},"modified":"2021-07-09T14:04:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T18:04:45","slug":"remixing-old-tracks-in-spatial-audio-is-sacrilegious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/30\/remixing-old-tracks-in-spatial-audio-is-sacrilegious\/","title":{"rendered":"Remixing Old Tracks in Spatial Audio Is “Sacrilegious”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Lefsetz<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I got the following e-mail from a producer\/engineer:<\/p>\n

I just want to try and alert you to the potential seismic scam happening with this Atmos roll out. Atmos catalog remixing is being done by the truckload in a handful of Nashville, LA, and NYC rooms right now and has been for a couple of years, and almost none of it is being overseen or approved by the artist or original producer or mixer. And these versions- according to Apple- will be the new standard versions, superseding the original versions, now designated by Apple to the dustbin of history.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

In the rush to make content for Apple, labels are jamming this crap out with little QC and -again- almost no input from artists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

And what I’ve learned is…the Spatial Audio and stereo versions are not only different, the process affects the punch, the essence of the originals!<\/p>\n

I compared Spatial Audio tracks to their HD equivalents on Amazon Music and I found exactly what one writer said: the vocal gets lost. Instead of being up front and in your face, it’s buried more in the mix.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Via Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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No matter how good I thought<\/a> Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” sounded in Atmos, it is a bit like doing a 3D movie conversion on “2001: A Space Odyssey”. The person creating the remix, no matter how well-intentioned, has no idea what the original mixer or the artist would have wanted in this situation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n