The very first recording I ever made,
very first recording,
I had to do tricks to pull it off
because I came from a very serious jazz background.
And, of course, I want all my jazz friends on my record.
I hired this dude.
I'm not going to name him, but he couldn't hang with the funk dudes.
And it was not in the pocket.
And we wound up keying him off my guitar.
And when you listen to "Everybody Dance", he sounds so funky it's ridiculous.
But it ain't him being funky. He's stumbling over those parts.
But that was the first time I realized
that technology has a very important place
in making records.
There's something quite fulfilling about being better,
like doing something that's better
than you could have ever imagined it in the past.
When I put up my tapes and I listen, and I go,
"God, man, that sounds so good. Wow.
What if we could have done this?"
But we couldn't have done it because there were many reasons.
We didn't have the bandwidth. Things were on vinyl.
And as much as we loved the sound of vinyl, we had limited bandwidth.
We were handcuffed.
We could only do certain things.
Now Dolby Atmos and Spatial have given us a bit more freedom.
Dolby Atmos and Spatial Audio are
musically the gateway to the future.
This is a situation where, to me, more is more.
And the fact that we can now hear more,
we're going to get accustomed to hearing more.
And I think that what we're going to wind up doing
is eventually creating an audience of music lovers
that may appreciate music on multiple levels.
I think it's going to be interesting
for people to start analyzing the things that they love
or even the things that they like or maybe even the things they hate.
But that's what Dolby Atmos and Spatial do.
I think that emerging artists,
I think that the new people coming up
and the new engineers,
the people on the tech side,
it's just going to be fantastic
because they're just going to hear things in a different way
because they can.
Just think.
To be able to move audio around
and now increase the field,
decrease this audio dimension if you will,
where you can just start doing really cool stuff
that doesn't take away from the music, that it, in fact, adds to the music.
It becomes part of the composition.
What do you think people are going to think of now that they can do this?
It's going to be unbelievable.
And the fact that you can just put in earbuds
and walk down the street and hear it.
Not many things are spectacular.
Spatial is spectacular.
And that's no bull.