Approaching its 50th year, LA’s famed The Village recording studio has installed a pair of ATC SCM25A compact close-filed monitors.
Spanning sessions from the Rolling Stones, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd and Bob Dylan to Lady Gaga, Coldplay and John Mayer, the studio continues to track, mix and master for the highest profile artists: ‘ATC monitors were a common request from our clients,’ says Studio Manager, Tina Morris. ‘ATC has a ruthlessly transparent sound that doesn’t colour the work at all. Other loudspeaker manufacturers tend to emphasise different components of the frequency range, whereas ATC is flat and clean. ATCs reveal the good as well as the bad so that our clients can be confident moving forward that the work they’ve done will translate in the later stages of production.’
The three-way SCM25As are sufficiently small that engineers at The Village are able to transport them from studio to studio to meet the needs of various projects, though Morris reports that they’ve been spending most of their time in Studios A and D.
