Business
Guitar Center Professional Opens Dolby Atmos Studio
GC Pro has opened a new Dolby Atmos mix studio inside its Hollywood flagship store, to be used for customer education and content creation.
Dolby
Music Production
A Matter of Trust: How Brad Leigh is Remixing Billy Joel for Dolby Atmos
Brad Leigh helped record half of Billy Joel’s discography; now the veteran engineer is carefully bringing it into Dolby Atmos.
Music Production
Focusrite Group Offers Immersive Audio Guide
The Focusrite Group’s Focusrite and ADAM Audio brands have teamed up to demystify immersive audio with a free guide.
Facilities
Jimmy Douglass Adds Atmos Room
Five-time Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer Jimmy Douglass has outfitted his private facility with a new Atmos mix room.
Music Production
Tom Petty: Creating The Atmos Mixes
Engineer Ryan Ulyate dives Into “Free Fallin’” and other Classic Tracks, bringing Tom Petty's best-known tracks into the Dolby Atmos immersive music realm.
Blog
Editor’s Note: You Gotta Push Some Air
A viewing of Dune: Part Two is a good time, but it also proves a point: You gotta push some air.
Post and Broadcast
Game Developer Capcom Upgrades for Atmos
Japanese games developer Capcom has renovated its bitMASTERstudio facility, upgrading the Dubbing Stage for Dolby Atmos projects.
Blog
Mix’s Pro Audio Companies to Watch in 2024, Part 2
Every year, we present Mix's take on which pro audio entities you should keep an eye on in the coming 12 months.
Blog
Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: The Atmos Trilogy, Book Three
Let's peek into the future—where’s Atmos going? Will it take over the world, or will it fizzle like previous efforts to market surround?
Post and Broadcast
Oklahoma’s Filmmakers Ranch to Add Dolby Atmos Mix Stage
Oklahoma's Filmmakers Ranch studio campus will add a Dolby Atmos mix stage, boosting the state’s near-$300M film sector.
New Products
Audeze Maxwell Now Compatible with Dolby Atmos Renderer
Audeze's Maxwell headset will be compatible with the Dolby Atmos Renderer for professional mixing.
Blog
Building The Last Beatles Song
Next week's release of The Beatles' final track, "Now And Then," completes a 30-year quest to finish a nearly 50-year-old song.
Facilities
Nashville’s Starstruck Studios Adds Atmos Room
Nashville’s Starstruck Studios has opted for an ATC 7.1.4 setup in its new Dolby Atmos room.
Facilities
Dolby Outfits Atmos Educational Space with PMC
Dolby has installed PMC monitors at its Soho Square premises in London, an educational space for music industry and recording professionals.
Blog
Blog: Moon-ing Over Pink Floyd in Atmos
Pink Floyd's artistic and commercial high point, The Dark Side of the Moon, continues to enthrall listeners in its new Dolby Atmos mix.
Post and Broadcast
How We Hear the World In ‘32 Sounds’
Documentary filmmaker Sam Green taps sound designer Mark Mangini to help explore and explain everyday audio perception—with binaural recording and playback—in ’32 Sounds.’
New Products
Fiedler Audio Debuts Dolby Atmos Composer Plug-Ins
Fiedler Audio has announced two new plug-in sets for working in spatial music: Dolby Atmos Composer and Dolby Atmos Composer Essential.
New Products
Ex Machina Soundworks Titan System for Atmos Rooms Debuts
Ex Machina Soundworks has unveiled Titan, a new speaker system for use in Dolby Atmos mixing and mastering rooms.
The Wire
PMC Monitoring Installed In Dolby’s Music Studio
Dolby’s studio in London’s Soho Square is equipped with a 9.1.4 PMC monitoring system featuring products for mixing in immersive sound Dolby Atmos.
Live Sound
On The Cover: Las Vegas Takes Immersive Live, Part 1
Immersive live sound has taken hold in Las Vegas, driven by artist residencies and cutting-edge technologies.
Facilities
Genelec in the Mix at MIX Center in Arizona
ASU's recently opened Media and Immersive eXperience Center has standardized its extensive facilities on Genelec monitors.
Music Production
Giving Snarky Puppy’s ‘Empire Central’ A Dolby Atmos Mix
Moving Snarky Puppy’s Grammy Award-winning album Empire Central to Dolby Atmos, producers and mixers Nic Hard and Fab Dupont aimed to stay true to...
Live Sound
NOLA’s 109-Year-Old Prytania Theatre Gets Atmos Update
NOLA’s 109-Year-Old Prytania Theatre recently got a big tech update with Meyer Sound speakers, Dolby Atmos and Barco projection.
New Products
Dolby Atmos Renderer Application Announced
The Dolby Atmos Renderer application combines the Dolby Atmos Production Suite and Dolby Atmos Mastering Suite into an all-in-one solution.
Music Production
Alan Parsons Master Class Records, Mixes Contest Winner in Atmos
The latest edition of Alan Parsons' ASSR Recording Master Classes saw the legendary engineer record and mix a prize-winning song in Dolby Atmos.
Music Production
Recording Academy P & E Wing Posts Immersive Webinars
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing is making "Inside the Mix" webinar episodes that it co-presented with Dolby available online
Facilities
Las Vegas’ Studio DMI Unveils Immersive Mix Room
Studio DMI in Las Vegas, NV has launched a new immersive mix room, Studio D, outfitted with a 7.1.4 speaker setup from Focal.
Facilities
Paul Massey Builds His Ultimate 9.1.6 Mixing Studio, Part 2
Three-time Oscar-winning film re-recording mixer Paul Massey has built his dream 9.1.6 mix studio—here's how he created it.
Facilities
Mixing Stormzy in Dolby Atmos
Producer Will Reeves recently visited PMC’s Dolby Atmos demo facility in London to mix the immersive version of UK rapper Stormzy’s third album.
Blog
Mix’s Top 20 Articles of 2022, Part 4
As 2022 comes to a close, we’re counting down our top 20 most popular articles of the year, as chosen by the readers of...
Facilities
Sydney’s Forbes Street Studios Adds Dolby Atmos Mixing
Forbes Street Studios in Sydney’s Woolloomooloo has created an immersive mixing environment in its main studio with a 9.1.4 Genelec Smart Active Monitoring system.
Facilities
Instrumentoz Promotes Affordable Immersive Music
Miami-based creation facility Instrumentoz has created a new Dolby Atmos mix room outfitted with KRK Rokit monitors.
Music Production
Inside Spotify At Mateo Studios
Spotify’s new campus in Los Angeles features a world-class studio, podcast bays, a performance hall and Dolby Atmos mixing.
Facilities
Spoon’s Jim Eno Dishes on Recording ‘Lucifer on the Sofa’
Jim Eno's studio, Public Hi-Fi, has hosted Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Roky Erikson, Arcade Fire and now his own band, Spoon, which recorded and...
Facilities
Inside the ‘Billy Joel: Live at Yankee Stadium’ Atmos Mix
The 1990 concert film, ‘Billy Joel: Live at Yankee Stadium,’ hits theaters this week, newly remixed for Dolby Atmos.
New Products
Waves Spherix Immersive Dynamics Control Ships
Waves is now shipping Spherix, a new suite of plug-ins for immersive mixing environments such as Dolby Atmos.
Facilities
The Village Taps Kali Audio for Atmos Upgrade
The Village has upgraded Studio F for Dolby Atmos work in response to the growing demand for the immersive format.
Blog
Building Paul Massey’s Dolby Atmos Mix Room—Part 7: Inside The Screen Wall
Bruce Black, project acoustic designer, documents the creation of Oscar-winning re-recording mixer Paul Massey's personal Dolby Atmos mix room.
Business
New at MixNYC: Atmos Mixing & Mastering—Maintain the Artist’s Vision Without Compromise
As part of MixNYC, IK Multimedia will host 4x Grammy-winning, Diamond and multi-platinum mastering engineer Alex Psaroudakis (Illenium, Rosalía, Gente De Zona) and 2x...
Business
F. Reid Shippen to Explain Immersive Mixing Workflows at MixNYC Event!
Grammy-winning producer/engineer F. Reid Shippen explains workflows for expanding a stereo mix to immersive at MixNYC, August 6, 2022 in New York City!
New Products
Dolby Atmos Album Assembler Mastering Tool Launched
Dolby Atmos Album Assembler is a new tool for sequencing multiple Dolby Atmos tracks for delivery.
Featured
Dolby and Dirac Collaborate on Immersive Automotive Audio
NIO ET 7, the first vehicles to feature Dirac audio optimization algorithms and Dolby Atmos, will enter the European market in 2022.