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Pictured L-R: Carl Tatz, Ken Scott, Bob Bullock and Bobby Owsinski at the award-winning Blue Grotto Control Room in Nashville, TN.

The award-winning Blue Grotto Control Room, featuring a Dual PhantomFocus™ System with Dynaudio M1 and M3 Professional Monitors.



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Legendary Engineer/Producer Ken Scott Enveloped by the PhantomFocus™ System


— Engineer for The Beatles and producer/engineer for Jeff Beck, David Bowie and Supertramp has monitoring epiphany with Carl Tatz Design’s PhantomFocus™ System tuning protocol —


Nashville, TN: “For the longest time I would espouse the use of the 7-foot-tall, half-ton behemoths, known as Cadac speakers. I had doubts whether I would ever again hear the clarity and power from those speakers that I used to mix albums like Supertramp’s Crime of the Century or Stanley Clarke’s Journey to Love et al. Those doubts have finally been erased after hearing the near field PhantomFocus™ System (PFS)  from Carl Tatz Design. At last, something new that compares to the best of the past,” comments engineer/producer Ken Scott about the new-generation PFS.

Engineer and prolific author Bobby Owsinski , who was also on hand and who is co-writing the soon-to-be-released book Abbey Road to Ziggy Stardust with Scott, explains, “This is high praise indeed. Ken is not impressed with ANY speaker system. He always uses the main soffit monitors in any room he works in and NEVER uses near fields. To have him so satisfied with the PFS is significant.”

“The PhantomFocus System is a new genre in monitoring where near fields become mains. In other words, you have the intimacy of your choice of near fields but the frequency response of mains – the best of both worlds,” says Carl Tatz, principal of Carl Tatz Design LLC and creator of the PhantomFocus System. “It was a real thrill for me to throw up the Beatles’ ‘Blackbird,’ which Ken had mixed and I had downloaded for the occasion, and be able to listen to it microscopically with him on the PhantomFocus System – hard to explain what that was like.”

Both Ken And Bobby had lots of questions about the system that longtime PFS user and iconic Nashville engineer Bob Bullock , who was also in attendance, was happy to answer. “Carl’s work is clearly beyond what anyone else has done or is doing. I’ve been spoiled for a long time, and I’m looking forward to upgrading to the latest PFS technology in my home mix room soon.”

Owsinski sums up his experience by admitting, “After hearing so much about the PFS from people whose ears I trust, I was eager to hear the system for myself. Sure enough, the PFS was so far beyond my expectations that it's difficult to express. It has unparalleled pinpoint stereo imagery and a depth of field that has to be heard to be believed in both the near field and mid field PFSs. Finally, it’s now possible to really hear all those sonic layers that you take so much time building.”

In related news, Ken Scott has recently released EpiK DrumS EDU, a double DVD set of instructional videos and world-class drum samples from some of the world’s top rock and jazz drummers.

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Photo Caption 1: Pictured L-R: Carl Tatz, Ken Scott, Bob Bullock and Bobby Owsinski at the award-winning Blue Grotto Control Room in Nashville, TN.

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Photo Caption 2: The award-winning Blue Grotto Control Room, featuring a Dual PhantomFocus™ System with Dynaudio M1 and M3 Professional Monitors.


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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