Elliot Scheiner is a man who has real perspective on audio, having had a long and successful career as a producer and mix engineer for the likes of the Eagles, Foo Fighter and Toto. Multiple Grammy awards and a career spanning over half a century suggest that his opinion is worth listening to.
Scheiner has received 27 Grammy Award nominations, eight of which he won, and he has been awarded four Emmy nominations, two Emmy Awards for his work with the Eagles on their farewell tour broadcast, and the documentary film History of the Eagles, three TEC Awards nominations, a TEC Hall of Fame inductee, and recipient of the Surround Pioneer Award.*
In this extract from a longer interview with Having A GAS With… Elliot shares his opinion that Atmos for music has a fundamental problem.
Elliot isn’t a fan of Dolby Atmos. He definitely isn’t an old stick in the mud who resists anything beyond stereo on principle, a consderable amount of his work has been in 5.1 but while he thinks Atmos works really well in cinemas, he’s concerned that the push for Atmos for music is being driven by the wrong people, and that Immersive mixes are detrimental to the stereo renderings which so many listeners will end up listening to.
What do you think? Does he have a point?