Mixing Yes in Dolby Atmos at Curtis Schwartz Studio

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 an American composer, producer, sound engineer and multi-instrumentalist. Originally from Los Angeles (born in Vienna, schooled in UK and France), he is a music maker whose music blends Hip-hop, Rock, Pop, Dance and Jazz.

Curtis started his first rock band aged 14 as guitarist, vocalist and songwriter - and signed his first publishing deal aged 17.  This introduced Curtis to the world of London recording studios - the perfect environment for his passion for music-making and to work with much more experienced record producers from whom to learn his craft.

Aged 21 Curtis started his own recording studio devoting all his time to composing, producing and recording albums for a wide range of artists and record labels.  He is a master with all things related to Pro Tools and his beloved Apple computers.

Credits include:

Stacey Kent, The Beegees, Suede, Go West, Gwilym Simcock, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Steve Howe, Snowy White & The White Flames, ITV News Theme music, Bros, Cutting Crew, John Taylor, Evelyn Glennie, Matt Redman,  Jimmy Ruffin, Keith Mansfield, Dick Walter, The Studio Kings, Wop Bop Torledo, Lush, Vivienne Westwood, Nine Below Zero, Bushido, The Armoury Show, Attacco Decente, Asia, Dee C Lee, The Impossible Gentlemen, Trish Clowes, Christine Tobin and Julian Arguelles.

http://curtisschwartzstudio.com
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