Mix engineer and producer Cian Riordan as wells as mix engineer Matt Cerritos join guest host Ben Givarz to discuss their work on St. Vincent’s seventh studio album, “All Born Screaming,” which garnered critical acclaim and four GRAMMY® nominations, and is now available in stunning Dolby Atmos®. Cian and Matt discuss the recording and mixing process, how they collaborated to re-mix the album in Dolby Atmos, and the unique opportunities this immersive audio format provided to elevate the experience of the album and give it new dimensionality, while maintaining its emotional and sonic integrity.

“Going in, being extremely happy with the stereo mixes, I didn’t want Atmos to be something that was drastically different. I still wanted to have it play the same ‘tricks’ on the listener [and] hit people the same way. With Atmos, it’s a little bit more difficult because you can’t really rely on having a heavy-handed mix bus. Loudness all has to be perceived because of the headroom requirements for the Atmos format. So it’s a different way of wrapping your head around it. And Matt, from doing this day-in and day-out, knew how to approach a lot of these concepts that we were bringing, creatively. And he really helped technically execute. It was a really fun process.”

—Cian Riordan, Mix Engineer and Producer, “All Born Screaming” by St. Vincent

You can listen to St. Vincent’s “All Born Screaming,” as well as many other classic and contemporary artists in Dolby Atmos, on enabled streaming services.

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