Alex Lifeson was recently interviewed for Sound & Vision (thanks RushFanForever) to talk about mixing Envy of None's new Stygian Wavz album, Rush and more. Here he is discussing the Atmos mix of Stygian Wavz:
... Alex Gamble at Union Sound Company did the Atmos and the 5.1 mixes. He was so great to work with because we were kind of precious with our mixes. We didn't want anything kind of fancy and tricky with stuff whipping around, and things like that. So, I went in [the studio] initially with Alex, and we did a test on a couple of songs. He really got a sense of what we were after, from the beginning. He thought the mixes were quite good, but he just wanted to enhance them with some "spatial" stuff-and that's what he did. Once we were confident he was the right guy, he went ahead with the rest of it. We came in and we did a playback of everything, and did some tweaks. And we were really, really happy, because Atmos is really an interesting platform. ...
You can read the entire interview online here.