Chromatica in Dolby Atmos is incredible

[impeach92 243]

1 hour ago, itscyrusbabe said:

I think Chromatica is her worst album in Dolby Atmos. It was mixed really early by a different mixing engineer who completely ruined it. The rest of her albums sound absolutely ethereal, with the exceptions of some songs. I just wish they'd go back and do Chromatica again because it is an album where you would feel the difference. For example, I can see Alice and ARTPOP as two songs that both could have this "levitating" feeling, but only ARTPOP does it well.

Also the mixes have skips in them, like one of the songs got rendered with a skip, which is embarrassing because the engineer was like whatever, here you go, very lazy!   

[4BLAiNE 987]

What’s also weird is that Poker Face in DA has a full 8 count missing vocal line in the P-p-p pokerface outro - although I quite like it

[GagasLeftFoot 391]

20 hours ago, impeach92 said:

Also the mixes have skips in them, like one of the songs got rendered with a skip, which is embarrassing because the engineer was like whatever, here you go, very lazy!   

YES, there's no reason there's a 1 second pause between Chromatica II and 911. It completely ruins the song.

[Bowman 7,969]

I’ve never heard anything in Dolby Atmos, is it worth trying? How much is it and what’s the best platform to listen to it on?

[Benji 20,113]

21 minutes ago, Bowman said:

I’ve never heard anything in Dolby Atmos, is it worth trying? How much is it and what’s the best platform to listen to it on?

You get it for free with an Apple Music subscription.  I think the other streaming service offering it is TIDAL but you have to pay extra for their high-def streaming.

[Head Empty 24,313]

I'm going through my favorite songs from all her albums, but honestly I'm not convinced by any of these new versions. It's nice to hear some elements more clearly, but most songs become unbalanced.

Especially on Born This Way, I've noticed. I was most excited about hearing songs like Heavy Metal Lover in Atmos, but it just sounds like a mess . Random synths suddenly getting loud as f***, while other elements get completely ditched.

I feel like little to no attention was paid to mastering individual tracks. They just took an old folder full of stems, and copy/pasted them into some Dolby software.

[Joshie S 5,872]

On 7/31/2022 at 11:05 PM, 4BLAiNE said:

What’s also weird is that Poker Face in DA has a full 8 count missing vocal line in the P-p-p pokerface outro - although I quite like it

I noticed this too. I liked it also. I think it's their way of updating the song as it was quite repetitive.

They did the same thing to Joanne, by using a completely different vocal take on Million Reasons for the opening line. Instead of "you're giving me a million reasons", she sings "you've given me a million reasons"

I take it as their way of updating the song without changing it's core. That way we get both original version & a special dolby atmos version.