Dolby Atmos Mixing at Studio du Moulin
Running down a Pro Tools mix timeline to show routing and effects used in this Atmos binaural mix. My setup from mix-to-mix is pretty much the same, sources to the left, VCAs in the middle and returns on the right. This is from mixing on SSL 4000 with the VCAs in the middle and something I’ve kept doing, it just works for me. There is loads going on with the Dolby Atmos routing, this has evolved over a series of music mixes and I’ve also borrowed quite heavily from techniques I use in film and broadcast mixing. I return the Dolby Atmos Renderer live re-renders back into Pro Tools so I can monitor the 7.1, 5.1, Stereo and Binaural down-mixes directly from inside Pro Tools....
I also return the renderer main outputs back into Pro Tools and then on to the main monitor outputs (B chain). I also use the binaural settings plugin to set binaural metadata, this means you don’t have to keep switching to and from the renderer. As it sends metadata to the renderer when you open a session, it makes switching from one session to another much more straight-forward. The mix is actually a fully functional atmos 7.1.4 mix that translates from immersive speakers down to headphones.
