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Mother Church
of Country Music Relies On Carl Tatz Design PhantomFocus™ System
and Dynaudio M1s With Bryston 4B SST2 Amplification for Control Room
Monitoring
— Ryman Auditorium
Chooses Carl Tatz Design’s Highly Praised Monitor Tuning Enhancement
Protocol For Critical Broadcast And Concert Recording Events —
Nashville,
TN: As one of the more iconic venues in the world, the Ryman Auditorium
stays consistently booked with concert acts ranging from the Grand Old
Opry broadcasts to top-name acts in multiple genres from pop to country
to jazz to stand-up comedy. “After auditioning a Carl Tatz Design
(CTD) PhantomFocus™ System at one of the Rascal Flatts studios
that Carl designed, Steve Gibson [musical director for the Grand Old
Opry] and I agreed that no speaker choice or acoustic design alone was
going to deliver that kind of performance, so it was a no-brainer decision
for us to go with the PFS for the Ryman control room,” says Ryman
chief broadcast engineer King Williams. “We also specified the
Dynaudio M1, Bryston 4B combination that we heard.” House engineer
Kevin Reinen states, “Everyone who uses the control room is blown
away by our PhantomFocus System’s amazingly detailed imaging and
accurate tight bottom down to 20Hz. They just don’t expect to
hear that kind of performance in such a small room.” Recent recorded
events include the Americana Awards and The Nashville Flood Relief Concert
featuring top country performers Vince Gill, Brad Paisley, Ricky Skaggs
and Keith Urban.
About
the PhantomFocus™ System
Once the basic acoustic treatment has been accomplished, Carl Tatz Design’s
proprietary PhantomFocus™ System offers clients a unique opportunity
to have a truly world class monitoring experience in their room, no
matter how modest they may perceive their room to be. The PhantomFocus
System enhances 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 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, granite, Sorbothane, closed cell
foam, and other isolation and decoupling materials, custom floating
plenum mounts, subwoofer system, custom crossover, parametric equalizers
and the existing monitors themselves (passive or active). The evaluation
and implementation is a full two-day process and can be applied to nearfields,
midfields, and large soffit mounted monitors, regardless of manufacturer.
Carl Tatz Design can install the PhantomFocus 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.
Photo
file: CTD_Ryman.JPG
Photo caption: Pictured L-R: Ryman Engineer Steve Marcantonio, Chief
Broadcast Engineer King Williams and Carl Tatz.
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 |