FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MUSIC CITY EMBRACES PhantomFocus™
AS THE SYSTEM OF CHOICE FOR CRITICAL MONITORING
— From commercial recording and mastering houses to personal
home studios, Nashville’s leading audio facilities are turning
to the PhantomFocus™ Monitor System
as the platform for critical listening —
NASHVILLE, TN — A clear pattern has emerged
showing that one of the recording capitals of the world, Nashville,
Tennessee, is increasingly choosing the Carl Tatz Design (CTD) PhantomFocus™
Monitor System as the audio reference solution for critical listening.
The most recent expression of this trend is its implementation by several
of Nashville’s leading commercial facilities and personal home
studios that allows their speakers of choice to perform beyond the manufacturer’s
specifications, correcting boundary and room mode effects and rendering
a truly accurate reference monitoring system with near holographic imaging.
The PhantomFocus Monitor System, which can be employed in any acoustic
environment in either stereo or 5.1 configuration, is an unprecedented
tool for attaining consistent, accurate monitoring with a higher level
of professional confidence.
Indeed, many Nashville studios have begun to employ the
PhantomFocus Monitor System. The Grip, a state-of-the-art, home recording
studio owned by Rascal Flatts bass player and producer of Chicago
XXX, Jay DeMarcus, who last year engaged CTD to design and build
his studio from the ground up featuring two PhantomFocus™ Monitor
Systems as the centerpieces of both the control room and editing suite.
Commenting on his monitoring environment Jay DeMarcus stated, “The
PhantomFocus Monitor System is incredibly transparent. When you sit
in the sweet spot you can almost reach out and touch the individual
tracks. Carl Tatz has perfected the art of designing a professional,
accurate listening environment. That’s why I’ve asked him
to design and build another new room.”
Platinum Lab is one of Music City’s top commercial
recording studios. With a range of clients that include Randy Jackson,
Tommy Sims, Rascal Flatts and India.Arie, Platinum Lab Recording is
home to artists from all genres of music. When it came time to take
their monitoring system to the next level, studio owners Michael and
Laura Morena turned to Carl Tatz Design and the PhantomFocus Monitor
System. Commenting on their new monitoring system, Michael Morena stated,
“After installing our PhantomFocus Mid-Field Monitor System, Platinum
Lab has graduated from being primarily a tracking room to a sought after
mix room as well. Now our clients “stick around” and they
all say the same thing – We’ve never heard anything like
this before. Thank you Carl!”
That sentiment is echoed by leading mastering engineer
Jim Demain of Yes Master Studios, one of Nashville’s foremost
mastering houses who’s clients include Jimmy Buffett, Marty Stuart
and Steve Earle. Jim Demain stated, "Once we engaged Carl Tatz
Design to design our new mastering suite and PhantomFocus Monitor System,
we felt very confident that the results would be superb and boy are
they ever."
The PhantomFocus Monitor System is available exclusively
from Carl Tatz Design and can be employed in any monitoring environment
regardless of current monitoring configuration.
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Photo File: High_Point_Manor.JPG
Photo Caption: Nashville’s High Point Manor is
another example of a studio that has recently hired Carl Tatz Design
to design its new studio and implement the PhantomFocus Monitor System
- in this case a dual system using Dynaudio M3P 3 way main-monitors
and Dynaudio BM6A 2-way Active near-field monitors sharing the dual
Dynaudio BM12S subwoofer system.
About the PhantomFocus™
Monitor System
Once the basic acoustic treatment has been accomplished, Carl Tatz Design’s
proprietary PhantomFocus™ Monitor System offers clients a unique
opportunity to have a truly world class monitoring experience in their
room, no matter how modest they may perceive it to be. The PhantomFocus
Monitor System allows their monitors of choice to perform accurately
at a full 20Hz to 20KHz frequency response with pinpoint imaging in
an almost holographic sweet spot — this enables their mixes to
travel anywhere with a new level of sonic accuracy. There are approximately
fifty steps in the proprietary PhantomFocus Monitor System implementation
protocol, some of which may include phase and laser alignment, damping,
isolation mounts, careful assessment of engineer/speaker placement relative
to their room’s primary axial modes, proprietary speaker distance
and angle, crossover points for pass filtering, and finally parametric
equalization. Hardware can include, monitor stands, concrete, sorbothane
and other isolation materials, custom floating plenum mounts, subwoofer
system, custom crossover, parametric equalizers and the monitors themselves
(passive or active). The evaluation and implementation is a full two-day
process and can be applied to near-fields, mid-fields, and large soffit
mounted monitors, regardless of manufacturer. Carl Tatz Design can install
the PhantomFocus Monitor System in existing control rooms or in studios
that are designed and built from the ground up by CTD. The result is
like the aural equivalent of HD TV. Once you experience a PhantomFocus
Monitor System you can’t go back.
For more information about the PhantomFocus Monitor System, please
contact Carl Tatz Design, 6666 Brookmont Terrace, Suite #1109, Nashville,
TN 37205 Office: 615.354.6242, Direct: 615.400.5479 Email: carl@carltatzdesign.com
Web: www.carltatzdesign.com