{"id":4298,"date":"2015-12-21T12:27:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T12:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atc.audio\/?p=4298"},"modified":"2016-05-25T20:36:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T20:36:22","slug":"omar-hakim-selects-scm50asl-pro-for-personal-studio-after-atc-factory-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atc.audio\/zh\/2015\/12\/omar-hakim-selects-scm50asl-pro-for-personal-studio-after-atc-factory-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar Hakim selects SCM50ASL Pro for personal studio after ATC factory visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTo finally be able to monitor music with this level of accuracy and detail is an incredible experience for me. The SCM50ASL Pros are definitely taking my work to the next level.\u201d<\/em>
\n– Omar Hakim, 2015 (musician\/producer\/arranger\/composer).<\/h3>\n

\"Omar<\/a><\/p>\n

NEW JERSEY, USA: specialist British loudspeaker drive unit and complete sound reproduction system manufacturer ATC is proud to announce that Omar Hakim has installed a pair of SCM50ASL Pro threeway active monitors in his personal studio \u2014 The OH-Zone \u2014 sited at his New Jersey home, having had a guided tour of the ATC factory facilities in Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK\u2026<\/h4>\n

According to his official website, Omar Hakim is: \u201cWidely acclaimed for his versatility, technical prowess, and groove [and] is one of the most successful session drummers of the past forty years.\u201d Yet the acclaimed American jazz, jazz fusion, and pop music drummer, producer, arranger, and composer certainly needs not blow his own trumpet too loudly, so-to-speak, for his association with top-tier acts as varied as Miles Davis, Marcus Miller, Weather Report, Sting, Daft Punk, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Kate Bush, Dire Straits, and Journey surely speaks louder than words.<\/p>\n

When ever-present US rock band Journey\u2019s longtime drummer, Dean Castronovo, was arrested during their 2015 North American summer tour they turned to Omar Hakim to capably walk in his percussive shoes at arguably the shortest notice in high-flying touring history \u2014 less than 24 hours! However, when reclusive English singer-songwriter, musician, composer, dancer, and record producer Kate Bush ventured out on stage as a headliner late last year for the first time in 35 years for a sold-out string of no fewer than 22 \u2018intimate\u2019 theatrical shows at London\u2019s Eventim Apollo theatre \u2014 the admired, albeit renamed venue where her only concert CD to date, Live At Hammersmith Odeon, was recorded way back in 1979, it was with Omar Hakim holding down the perfect beat throughout those career-spanning shows\u2026 shows that indirectly led the demonstrably in-demand drummer to ATC, as it happens.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t become aware of ATC until I began working with Kate Bush,\u201d begins Omar Hakim himself, before adding: \u201cHer engineer was the great producer\/engineer Greg Walsh, who set up a control room space at the rehearsal location during pre-production for the London shows. That\u2019s where I heard ATCs for the first time \u2014 SCM100ASL Pros, I believe. I was immediately blown away with
\nwhat I was hearing. That was the first time that I had ever heard a speaker reproduce audio like that! Then I had the pleasure of doing some show prep at Kate\u2019s personal studio, where I think she had SCM150ASL Pros \u2014 fantastic!\u201d<\/p>\n

So when it came to upgrading the main monitoring at The OH-Zone, his own personal studio back home across the pond in New Jersey, it was an ATC done deal as far as Omar Hakim was concerned: \u201cI was thinking of getting SCM25A Pros \u2014 until I heard the SCM50ASL Pros at the ATC factory, having had the pleasure of getting a factory tour and sitting with Managing Director Billy
\nWoodman to audition several ATC models. I decided to go with the SCM50ASL Pros because I could hear the difference in the low-end response. I also knew that for my purpose of tracking live drums and small rhythm sections they were the right choice for me! To finally be able to monitor music with this level of accuracy and detail is an incredible experience for me. The SCM50ASL
\nPros are definitely taking my work to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not that Omar Hakim has ever been short of session work, mind \u2014 most recently recording drums for the Grammy\u00ae award-winning Random Access Memories album by breakthrough French electronic duo Daft Punk, as well as recording, mixing, and producing his third critically-acclaimed solo album, We Are One, at The OH-Zone. The Trio of OZ, the band he formed with wife Rachel Z in 2010, are currently working on their second album, all set for release on his OZmosis Media Group label in 2016: \u201cI\u2019ve recorded and mixed three albums there, and I also do lots of sessions for clients around the world that send me tracks to put drums on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Omar Hakim has plans to build a new home and studio, so his beloved SCM50ASL Pros will definitely be making the move, too: \u201cI\u2019ve always had a deep appreciation for technology and the thought, ingenuity, and commitment needed to bring it to the world. Billy Woodman and the crew at ATC are craftsman of the highest order. From the beautiful wood cabinetry to the speaker components and electronics, ATC speakers are simply amazing!\u201d<\/p>\n

SCM50ASL Pro<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Omar Hakim<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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