In this week’s podcast, Mike Thornton is joined by Roger Guerin and Graham Kirkman to discuss their journey to Dolby Atmos as small one-man-band audio post-production facilities. We explore Dolby Atmos, why make the jump, what creative opportunities it gives, how workflows have changed, handling remote previews and more.

The Guests

Roger Guerin

Roger Guerin comes from the music recording world, after several platinum albums he brings his quest for quality sound to the pictures. With close to 200 entries on imdb.com, he is a rare member of both the Motion Picture Sound Editors and the Cinema Audio Society. Always working toward promoting the artistic and emotional impact of sound, he achieves the most creative use of technology in the storytelling process, he is a true sound designer, re-recording mixer.

Check out Roger’s article - Moving To Dolby Atmos - Tips On Products That Helped

Graham Kirkman

Graham Kirkman has been mixing, tracklaying and recording VOs for over 25 years now working on many projects ranging from Features to Advertising and everything in-between! Starting as an audio assistant and working his way up to senior dubbing mixer at Halo Post, in September 2016, Graham decided he wanted to be his own boss and started Luminol Audio Ltd. and he has been doing all things audio ever since.

Check out Graham’s article - Building A Dolby Atmos Equipped Garden Studio - A Complete Guide

Talking Point

In this week’s podcast, we explore Dolby Atmos, why make the jump, what creative opportunities it gives, how workflows have changed, handling remote previews and more.

• How did each of you come to work in Dolby Atmos?

• We understand that Dolby Atmos for the big multi-room facilities is likely to be a no brainer but you are both effectively one-man-band facilities. What made you decide to make a not-insignificant investment in hardware to be able to work in Dolby Atmos?

• How has working in Dolby Atmos inspired you?

• How have your workflows had to change, presumably you had to completely re-work your templates?

• How has the Co-VID Pandemic changed how you handle preview playbacks, especially when mixing in Dolby Atmos?

Check out Alan Sallabank’s series of 6 articles on setting up Dolby Atmos.

Find Of The Week

Mike - Room EQ Wizard or REW for short. It’s a free room acoustics and audio device measurement and analysis software for room, loudspeaker and device responses. It has a tool that suggests filter curves and settings to create the filter to match your measurements to enable me to set up the SPQ card on my Avid MTRX Studio.

Graham - Krotos Weaponiser - if like me, thinking that it’s only about weapons, it’s not. I have yet to use it on weapons, instead, I have used it for foley footsteps and sound design on some strange ambience on recent projects. I have already bought nearly all the libraries for it and plan to make my own as soon as I get some downtime.

Roger - Have you ever wanted to try mixing a Dolby Atmos production but don’t have access to any content? If so, Netflix has made an Anime production - Sol Levante to help the industry better understand 4K HDR and immersive audio. Check out our article - Netflix Release FREE Dolby Atmos Pro Tools Sessions Of Their Sol Levante Anime Production