Trak Starz
St. Louis-based recording studio, Trak Meet, home to the renowned hip-hop production duo of Alonzo “Zo” Lee Jr. and Shamar “Sham” Daugherty, better known as the Trak Starz, have taken delivery of an AWS 900 console.
The SSL AWS 900 will be the centerpiece of the newly designed recording studio, creating a world-class digital recording and mixing environment for The Trak Meet owners Zo and Sham.
Among their latest achievements, the Track Starz masterminded the multi-platinum debut for Chingy, writing and producing all the music for his album Jackpot (including the hit single “Right Thurr”), remixed the Britney Spears and Madonna collaboration “Me Against the Music,” as well as Ludacris’s “Splash Waterfalls.” The Trak Starz were also the driving force behind new Capital Records artist Houston’s hit single “I Like That,” which they wrote, produced and parlayed into a multi-million dollar advertising campaign.
The production team is now very excited about working in their own studio with the AWS 900 console. “The nature of our business, and the clients we record or mix, has us working on SSL boards all the time,” notes Zo. “Being able to offer our clients a new work environment designed to meet their specific recording requirements, including an SSL console that interfaces directly with Pro Tools, is a more cost-effective recording alternative to traveling to larger cities to do our work,” Zo concludes. Sham echoes Zo’s sentiments: “SSL is obviously an established world-standard and the new 900 takes their legendary sonic quality plus preeminent reputation and now makes it available to the high-end project studio environment. I think this board is going to revolutionize the market and the entire recording process. The 900 will enable facilities like ours to produce materials on par with the million dollar studios at a fraction of the cost — and that’s good for everyone.”