GRAMMY-nominated engineer Nick Rives is working with UK-based loudspeaker manufacturer PMC to deliver a series of seminars in which he will share his knowledge of mixing music in the Dolby Atmos immersive format at several locations in Europe and the Far East.
Rives, a staff engineer at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, was nominated a Grammy in the Best R&B Album category for his work on Gregory Porter’s All Rise. Capitol Studios has two PMC-equipped Atmos mixing studios, and Rives undertook his first Atmos project in 2017 when he mixed REM’s Automatic For The People. Since then, he has tackled Atmos mixes for artists such as Billie Eilish, Bob Marley, Pearl Jam, James Blake, Eminem, and several others.
During October and November, Rives will visit Europe and the Far East where invited artists, producers and engineers will be able to hear about his experiences of mixing Atmos music projects. The two-hour seminars will also include input from Maurice Patist, president of PMC USA and head of pro global, who’s Atmos mixes including the biggest-selling jazz album of all time, Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue.
“I’m very excited to share my experiences of working with Atmos Music and bringing it from a cool idea into a worldwide reality,” Rives says. “During these seminars we will talk about the philosophy of immersive mixes, share techniques and tools and explain how we interact with artists and A&Rs so that we maintain the artists’ intentions when taking a mix from stereo to Atmos.”
Patist adds, “Creating best practises for the Atmos mixing process and helping audio professionals improve their skills will ultimately benefit the entire audio industry. I’m delighted that an engineer of Nick’s calibre is joining us on this hugely important tour, which will help dispel a lot of the myths around immersive audio mixing and give newcomers to the format the opportunity to learn a great deal in a very short space of time.”
The PMC Dolby Atmos seminar tour will begin in Holland on October 17 when Rives and Patist will deliver a seminar at Best Studios, hosted by PMC’s distributor Joystick. It will then move to Zurich in Switzerland for two days (October 19 and 20) at distributor MGM’s recently opened PMC-equipped Dolby Atmos demo facility. On October 24, the seminar tour will visit PMC’s own demo facility in London, where Rives and Patist will be joined by PMC studio manager Heff Moraes, who works closely with producers and artists to introduce them to the Dolby Atmos mixing process.
In November, the tour moves to the Far East, first to Sound City Studios in Tokyo, Japan, where the seminars will be hosted by distributor Otaritech, and then to South Korea where the seminars will take place at Music Metro’s Dolby Atmos demo facility in Seoul. The Tokyo dates are November 10 and 11, while the Seoul dates are November 14 and 15.
Go to pmc-speakers.com for more information about the PMC Dolby Atmos seminar tour, or contact the specific PMC distributors taking part who can provide assistance with each event.
