Mixing YES in Dolby Atmos at Curtis Schwartz Studio

Mixing
Written By Curtis Schwartz

I’ve just completed a week mixing the forthcoming YES album in Dolby Atmos at my residential studio in Sussex.

The studio is centred around a Steinway D Spirio and a fully calibrated Dolby Atmos monitoring system.

Working in immersive audio opens up a fundamentally different creative space. Rather than being confined to stereo’s left–right field, instruments and textures can exist anywhere within a three-dimensional environment — allowing arrangements to breathe and detail to emerge with greater clarity and depth.

The control room is configured for full Dolby Atmos monitoring with calibrated immersive playback, ensuring accurate translation from critical nearfield listening through to larger playback systems.

Here are a few recent views of the control room set up for Dolby Atmos mixing.

Dolby Atmos control room at Curtis Schwartz Studio, Sussex

Control room configured for Dolby Atmos mixing.

Listening position in Dolby Atmos mixing room, Curtis Schwartz Studio

Listening position in the immersive control room.

Dolby Atmos mixing is a central part of the studio’s work in 2026.

Spring & Summer 2026 dates are now booking.

Curtis Schwartz Studio is a residential recording studio in Sussex featuring a Steinway D Spirio concert grand piano and facilities for stereo and Dolby Atmos mixing.

Curtis Schwartz

Curtis Schwartz is a producer, mixer, recording engineer and composer based in Sussex, England. He runs Curtis Schwartz Studio, a private residential recording and mixing studio known for high-end production, stereo, 5.1 and Dolby Atmos mixing, mastering, and its 9-foot Hamburg Steinway D Spirio concert grand.

Curtis has worked across records, production music, television and film for more than four decades. His credits include YES, Steve Howe, Sezen Aksu, Stacey Kent, Bee Gees, Suede, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Go West, Cutting Crew, John Taylor, Gwilym Simcock and many others.

As a composer, Curtis has written extensively for KPM/EMI and West One Music, with work used internationally across television, advertising and broadcast media. His studio continues to attract artists, labels and composers looking for a calm, highly musical environment where records can be recorded, mixed, mastered and properly finished.

https://www.curtisschwartzstudio.com
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