Beatles producer says Spatial Audio album doesn't sound right, plans new mix

Legendary Beatles producer Giles Martin in an interview this week discussed the advent of Dolby Atmos, the technology on which Apple's Spatial Audio format is built, revealing that he intends to create a new mix of 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' because the current version 'doesn't sound quite right.'Speaking with Rolling Stone, Martin explained that 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' was among the first albums — perhaps the first — to receive a Dolby Atmos mix. While the result sounds 'good,' it doesn't sound 'right' in part because the mix was meant to be a theatrical presentation.'Sgt. Pepper's,' how it's being presented right now, I'm actually going to change it. It doesn't sound quite right to me. It's out in Apple Music right now. But I'm gonna replace it. It's good. But it's not right,' Martin said. 'Sgt. Pepper's was, I think, the first album ever mixed in Dolby Atmos. And we did that as a theatrical presentation. I liked the idea of the Beatles being the first to do something. It's cool that they can still be the first to do something. So Sgt. Pepper's is a theatrical mix that's then being converted into a smaller medium. Therefore, it's not quite right.' Read more...