Crafting a Captivating Dolby Atmos Mix: Bob Clearmountain on 'Music From Big Pink'

[@iactaaleaesto]

Bob is a universal treasure! He can take any kind of music and turn it into pure gold: he's got magic in hands!

[@treetopvideo]

amazing! thanks to bob and all the folks preserving the integrity of the original recordings while bringing the mix into the current standards.

[@bobdhoffnar]

Atmos is not a current standard. It is an attempt at corporate control of music distribution.

[@treetopvideo]

@@bobdhoffnar i hadn't really thought about that when i watched the video. that makes sense. it requires certain hardware to make use of it. any good resources to learn more? thanks

[@TheSoundofU]

Thank you Bob, you made this music real for us, and this became a timeless treasure, that we will listen to over & over again. It is like sitting along side these legends as they perform(ed). 🎶💖

[@PaisleyPatchouli]

LEGENDS ALL.

[@SamHarrisonMusic]

it sounds incredible next to the vinyl copy I have. really keen to hear this!

[@Hammerjockeyrepair]

I cant believe this just popped up on my feed, I am so happy right now and thank heavens for bob!!

[@tomblaze2]

Love it 😮

[@SherileeTaylor]

Awesome Bob! You are an album surgeon ! 😅 Thx so much for sharing ❤

[@TroubadourMusic]

Never thought I would disagree with a single thing Clearmountain would ever say, but Atmos is a luxury that most people will never bother with.

[@KevinPierce81]

This misses the whole point of why Atmos took off. Nobody hence your comment is out here with Atmos speaker setups in their home. The whole reason it took off is because what they are doing with headphones now across the board which was ushered in when Apple said they were pushing Atmos and Spatial audio.

[@hepphepps8356]

@@KevinPierce81Atmos gor music took off? It didn’t, and it won’t, and even Bob C has said in an interview it’ll be gone in a year or two. Atmos isn’t what is remarkable in this video, though. Bob’s matter of factly approach to mixing, and Peter J’s isolation technology is what is remarkable.

[@tomst.antoine7742]

Very cool....sounds great....

[@laurel7570]

Wonderful! Would love to hear Rick Danko’s Sip the Wine from the live 1978 version be cleaned up.

[@lorddingle1277]

Please just make a compilation of isolated Richard vocals.

[@jaydrummer333]

02:41 amazing

[@SherileeTaylor]

Goosebumps around 410!

[@Robert.KeIIy.]

🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐

[@markwebster3205]

His guys in Australia? New Zealand sighs.

[@KieranRobinson-zz6ug]

Oh my ! What does the future hold for that album that was made in a pink house in upstate new york in the 60s

[@chrisledrew5091]

Actually it was made in New York City and LA with the finest studio equipment in the world. But myth wants us to believe it was recorded in a basement. It’s not possible to make a basement sound like A&R studios.

[@androsislandrox]

I don't know if others have heard this too but the organ is not audible at points on Chest Fever at the Royal Albert Hall for periods of time. I'm pretty sure that Garth didn't just stop playing. What's the deal with that?

[@RodProwse1]

Not Australia .......... New Zealand........and not too far from my house

[@CipherSerpico]

Richard Manuel’s voice is somehow “rural” _and_ “otherworldly”.

[@jennybleasdale1815]

I am deaf. NO captions! Really wanted to hear this.

[@chrisledrew5091]

Well there can’t be piano bleed into Richard’s vocal mix on “The Weight”because he didn’t play piano on that song; Garth did. There is so much myth-making around this album when in actuality they used world-class NY and LA studios to record it. Seems in this video that the “bleed” is actually from sub-mixes into the 8-track. At the very least we know that there can’t be piano bleed on Richard’s Weight vocal. That’s just historical fact.

[@noeraldinkabam]

Robbie is no more…😢

[@peterzang]

Heartbroken

[@bobdhoffnar]

WTF ? Let’s take an iconic and perfect piece of art and fix it with Al. That’s like making it so you can look at the Mona Lisa with 3D glasses. Clearmountain has done so many amazing things but this is a ridiculous and very expensive indulgence.

[@SamHocking]

Really the AI part of demixing is simply extracting the existing instruments already in stereo and separating them. If you know what you're doing, you do this non-destructively anyway, so no performance is removed or added to the original recording. In many ways you could argue multiband EQ is a kind of separation tool based on frequency, AI separation is simply approaching it spectrally instead and using AI & Deep Learning to better separate the stems.

[@rogerrobindore6163]

There's no doubt that using AI to remix classic tracks is a powerful tool that could be abused in the wrong hands, but I've heard Clearmountain's ATMOS mixes of The Band, and they enhance the emotional impact of the song while respecting the original intent of the recording. If you haven't had a chance to hear his mixes, I'd encourage reserving judgement.