{"id":2595,"date":"2014-02-13T15:21:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T15:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atc.audio\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2016-05-25T20:51:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T20:51:36","slug":"award-winning-alchemy-mastering-engineer-matt-colton-connects-with-atc-scm150asl-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atc.audio\/zh\/2014\/02\/award-winning-alchemy-mastering-engineer-matt-colton-connects-with-atc-scm150asl-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning Alchemy Mastering engineer Matt Colton connects with ATC SCM150ASL PRO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThey encourage me to work in a way that I like, and I\u2019m very happy to be supporting ATC \u2014 a British company that<\/em>
\n works hard to make good speakers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

– Matt Colton (MPG Mastering Engineer of the Year)<\/em><\/p>\n

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LONDON, UK: specialist British loudspeaker drive unit and complete sound reproduction system
\nmanufacturer ATC is proud to announce that MPG Mastering Engineer of the Year Award-winner
\nMatt Colton has installed a pair of SCM150ASL PRO three-way active loudspeakers for critical
\nlistening in his room at Alchemy Mastering in West London\u2026<\/p>\n

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Thanks to an always-widening array of ear-bending analogue and digital technologies, the mastering process is far from simple. Mastering means bringing well-honed listening skills to the table and for Matt Colton \u2014 named Mastering Engineer of the Year at last year\u2019s MPG Awards \u2014 mastering is where his heart has been for quite some time. Indeed, time well spent mastering his craft with several tenures across London \u2014 including Porky\u2019s Mastering, Optimum Mastering, Alchemy Mastering, and AIR Studios \u2014 led to the sought-after, award-winning mastering engineer relaunching Alchemy Mastering with original owners Barry Grint and Phil Kinrade at a new Hammersmith facility where he has succeeded in becoming a master of his own destiny with his own well-stocked mastering room to boot. Here he continues to build on his growing
\nreputation, mastering for the likes of Coldplay, James Blake, Gary Numan, and Metronomy. Like his career, Colton\u2019s mastering CV is a long and accomplished affair.<\/p>\n

For Colton, though, there\u2019s more to mastering than simply having access to the latest and greatest ear-bending analogue and digital technologies: \u201cThe thing about kit is that the things that are really important are the acoustics, speakers, amps, convertors, power supplies, and the wiring that connects them all together \u2014 anything that affects the sound in the room. You cannot get around that. So I would rather have a great-sounding room and a workstation with a couple of plug-ins than every piece of hardware ever made and a poor-sounding room, because \u2014 no matter how much you say you understand the room \u2014 we all react to what\u2019s coming out of the speakers and make our judgements based on how it sounds in the room. If the room is too bassy then the recording is going to be bass light \u2014 even if we know the room is too bassy, so that\u2019s fundamental.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fundamental to Colton\u2019s current way of working is a pair of SCM150ASL PRO three-way active loudspeakers: \u201cHaving worked at AIR on a really lovely pair of hi-fi speakers, I felt I wanted to go back to studio monitoring and have something that maybe sounded a bit less polished in terms of the actual sound that\u2019s coming out of the speaker. So I\u2019m working on a pair of SCM150ASL PROs. I\u2019d previously worked on a pair of SCM200s many years ago, which I loved, but I think the 150 is a great speaker.\u201d<\/p>\n

An unconventional demonstration convinced Colton that the SCM150ASL PRO patently met his critical listening criteria: \u201cI did a lecture at Westminster University in Harrow to over 100 people in a really big lecture hall with a massive ceiling height of 50 feet or so. Ben Lilly of ATC brought along a pair of SCM150s and I played some James Blake records with really low sub-bass \u2014 down at around 35Hz, and they just sounded glorious. It was a wonderful experience to hear those records played in that room only on a pair of speakers. So, on that basis, I\u2019ve got the 150s in my mastering room \u2014 sadly, not quite as big as that lecture hall!\u201d<\/p>\n

With well-honed listening skills par excellence, Colton is perfectly positioned to provide honest insight into the stunningsounding SCM150ASL PRO in action at Alchemy Mastering: \u201cThey\u2019re a direct and honest pair of speakers. If the mix sounds good, then it sounds good here; if it doesn\u2019t, then it doesn\u2019t. There\u2019s no flattery on the part of the speakers, though they can be wonderful to listen to when you get it right. I\u2019m enjoying working on them. They encourage me to work in a way that I like, and I\u2019m very happy to be supporting ATC \u2014 a British company that works hard to make good speakers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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