[David Aurora]

Skwai said: "...we recorded it with Atmos in mind..."

Would I be right in thinking that Atmos - like any other format - works best when the project is tracked with that release format in mind?

Typically, it seems the record companies are jumping on the new craze in an effort to squeeze out some more revenue from their catalogues. I read recently - IIRC over at Terry Manning's place - that someone was working on an Atmos release of an old James Taylor record, and the instruction from the record company was to "just fly some stuff around" purely for the ooh-aah factor, and screw the original mix intent.

Cheers,
Tim

Come on man, you can't tell me it wouldn't be hilarious to hear Fire and Rain with rain/telephone/plane crash noises flying around in all known dimensions. Fuck the original mix intent!