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The Nest mix room with the PhantomFocus™ System featuring Dynaudio M1 monitors.

The Nest mix room – rear view

Pictured L-R: The Nest owner Ryan McFadden and Carl Tatz at the console with the Dynaudio M1 PhantomFocus™ System

 



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Former Bedroom Hatches World Class Control Room at The Nest


— Producer/Engineer Ryan McFadden transforms an unused bedroom into a stunning personal mix facility with the help of Carl Tatz Design and The PhantomFocus™ System —


Nashville, TN: “What's really crazy is that, in this little bedroom studio, I now have one of the best monitoring systems in the world – it's nuts. I have trouble believing it myself until every time I sit down in front of it – it hits me all over again,” waxes The Nest studio owner Ryan McFadden about his new PhantomFocus™ System (PFS).

“It’s a funny thing,” explains studio designer, Carl Tatz, principal of Carl Tatz Design LLC (CTD), “and I think it has to do with the fact that our aural memory is our shortest, but the same thing happens to me and that is that every time I sit down and listen to one of my systems it’s like I have forgotten how incredible it is. I have a repetition of the wow experience. This is probably why it is so difficult to explain in words to someone about how amazing the PFS performs without it sounding like hyperbole – you just have to experience it for yourself.”

Tired of suffering with inaccurate mixes, wasted time and loss of bookings in his bedroom control room, Nashville engineer/producer Ryan McFadden called on personal studio designer guru Carl Tatz to orchestrate a dramatic transformation from a bedroom of acoustic squalor into a control room of acoustic nirvana with CTD’s proprietary acoustic modules and the acclaimed PhantomFocus System monitor tuning protocol.

McFadden had a tight budget to work with but knew that the PhantomFocus System had to be the centerpiece based on the expert advice of teachers and friends, articles he read and ultimately his own PFS demo experience. What really helped his cost was the fact that he was not concerned about isolating the control room from the rest of the house and only required some extra glass in one window to the outside. This way the budget could be used primarily for the CTD acoustic modules and some custom application treatments along with the PFS.

McFadden goes on to say that since completing his CTD mix room, mixes happen much more quickly and are far more enjoyable, and his bookings have greatly increased. He notes that it is the best professional decision he has made.

Video URL: http://youtu.be/9ReNCAEWc5s

 


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Photo Caption 1: The Nest mix room with the PhantomFocus™ System featuring Dynaudio M1 monitors.

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Photo Caption 1: The Nest mix room – rear view

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Photo Caption 1: Pictured L-R: The Nest owner Ryan McFadden and Carl Tatz at the console with the Dynaudio M1 PhantomFocus™ System


About the PhantomFocus™ System
Carl Tatz Design’s proprietary PhantomFocus™ System monitor tuning protocol offers clients a unique opportunity to have a truly world-class monitoring experience in their room, no matter how modest. All speakers interact with the room they’re in, and the PhantomFocus System allows any monitors to perform at maximum accuracy – in any room – with a full 20Hz-to-20KHz frequency response and pinpoint imaging in what some owners have described as a “holographic sweet spot.” It is a new level of sonic accuracy that engenders easier, better and faster mixing that translates well in any environment.

There are approximately fifty steps in the proprietary PhantomFocus System implementation protocol, including phase alignment, system damping, speaker decoupling and isolation mounting, careful assessment of engineer/speaker placement relative to primary axial room modes, proprietary laser-calibrated speaker distancing and angle alignments, digitally-controlled crossover points and slopes for pass filtering, and, proprietary, multiband parametric equalization.

Hardware solutions can include monitor stands, concrete, Sorbothane™ and other isolation and damping materials, custom floating plenum mounts, subwoofer systems and custom digital processors. The PhantomFocus System 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 installs the PhantomFocus System in existing control rooms and in all 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 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


 

 

 


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