After scoring big last year with his stellar Atmos mix of The Beatles’ seminal August 1966 album Revolver, producer Giles Martin was more recently tasked with giving the Atmos treatment to The Beach Boys’ benchmark May 1966 release, Pet Sounds, which is now available for streaming via Apple Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, and Tidal.
In a recent Zoom interview, Martin and I discuss what his approach to dealing with all those infamous Beach Boys vocal stacks entailed, how he guaranteed Atmos mix stayed true to the music’s “real” intent, and how he made sure “God Only Knows” comes across as being nothing short of heavenly in its Atmos incarnation. (A longer version of this interview appears in my monthly Spatial Audio File column on the site.)
