Tom Petty always, always knew how to ensure the music he made over the course of his long and storied career would sound the absolute best it could during playback in any format. Petty's longtime engineer and production partner Ryan Ulyate continues to carry that torch - and up the ante, as evidenced by his stellar mixing of all 18 tracks found on Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' November 1993 Greatest Hits collection in Dolby Atmos (available on Apple Music Unlimited, Amazon Music, and Tidal).
Recently, Ulyate and I got on Zoom together to discuss how he created the stems for these Atmos mixes by accessing the original masters, which songs on Greatest Hits are the most immersive and why, and what Tom Petty himself would have said upon hearing his music in Atmos. (A longer version of this interview appears in my monthly Spatial Audio File column on the S&V site.)
Mike Mettler: What's your overall philosophy for how you mixed Tom Petty's music for Atmos?
This story is from the February - March 2023 edition of Sound & Vision.
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