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54 S U M M E R 2 0 2 5 I C A S Q U A R T E R L Y team and can really elevate each other. It goes back to the idea that anybody can excel in the technical craft, but the real synergy and creativity comes from having a group of people who can communicate on a creative level with the film's best interests at heart. What level of control did you have with the stems? Obviously, once you have the music tracks in and up against the effects, things change, right? We all met a couple times virtually to talk about the project; David, myself, Giles, and Phil. We were talking about what David would want, what the music would lend itself to. Because these tracks are being presented in a way that no one has seen or heard before, it's really the first time people are hearing these full renditions. David was very conscious of not pushing things too far, especially with the music. We did add a little bit of reverb to the surrounds. We did pan stuff so it would fit more in the 5.1 space. The one thing we did was enhance the sense of the crowd. The de-mixing process helped give us insight into what the crowd was doing during the performance. So we helped highlight the fans enveloping the band. If you listen to the David Lynch interview in the film, he was like, "It was so loud, you could barely hear the music!" Really interesting! Did you up-mix anything on your side? No, not really. We ended up doing a bit of creative panning. I pan stuff, I'll add an LFE, or I'll EQ things and send things to other places so that it's much more of a unique, immersive thing. If you're doing something that wants to be on the screen, you want to treat it a little bit differently. We really tried to keep a hard LCR across everything. Service the story, that's great. I listened in stereo and it still felt very immersive to me. Any closing thoughts or comments? All of the filmmakers, the producers, everybody who was involved gave us the right amount of time, gave us the right amount of support to help tell this story. This type of collaboration is what I'm always looking for. David and the team went through such great lengths to find all this material, to de-mix all this audio so that we could present this little snippet of history in an interesting way to the audience. The Beatles had such a huge impact on a generation of people and the trajectory of their lives. It was just a different time, and I think the film represents that. It was a great project to be a part of and a great group to collaborate with. These are the types of films and teams I love to support—hopefully, many more are to come!