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PhantomFocus™ and ATC – a match made in audio heaven at Canyon Studios East

Producer Don Miggs’ Canyon Studios East installs PhantomFocus Systems* in both Studios A & B featuring ATC SCM45A Pro monitors as part of the renovation of its Carl Tatz Design® MixRoom™ studio complex.

Nashville, TN: Don Miggs’ Canyon Studios East in Nashville has recently renovated its facility featuring the PhantomFocus™ System (PFS) monitor tuning protocol and ATC monitors in both its A & B PhantomFocus MixRooms. Studio B has a redesigned front wall to accommodate the soffit-mounted ATC SCM45A Pro monitors, while Studio A has a free-standing PFS/ATC SCM45A Pro system utilizing PhantomFocus Monitor Stands by Sound Anchors, both enhanced with a PFS implementation. A refurbished Electrodyne console with additional racks of gear and a spectacular dual-path stomp-box console array, new fabric, carpet, and a newly envisioned kitchenette and machine room round out the facility’s upgrades. PhantomFocus MixRoom Studio designer Carl Tatz remarks, “We’re delighted to help Don bump up his already stunning MixRoom Studio™ that we originally designed for Jay DeMarcus, founding member of country super group Rascal Flatts, over a decade ago. It’s always gratifying when you can over-deliver to a client, and The PhantomFocus System is a silver bullet when it comes to that goal. Although CTD is noted for its PFM line of near-field monitors, the larger ATC SCM45A Pro monitors are in a different class altogether and frankly one of my favorite speakers to implement in a PhantomFocus System which can be quite breathtaking.” Don Miggs, Canyon Studios East owner, musician, producer and artist, shares, “I loved my studio. I loved how it sounded. I was wrong. I couldn’t even imagine how much the audio performance could be bumped up until Carl installed his PhantomFocus System with my excellent existing ATC SCM45A Pro monitors.” Miggs continues, “What makes this system so special is that it’s transparent. It just makes what you’re recording sound like what you’re recording! It feels clean to my ears, for lack of a better description. And it’s consistent at higher or lower volumes, which is important to me. And I don’t experience ear fatigue for some reason. So whatever Carl does feels like a magic trick!" Mark Needham, a regular client and multi award-winning record producer and engineer who makes Canyon Studio B his second studio home in Nashville. Comments, “I want to sit down in front of my speakers and know that every choice I make is correct. Carl Tatz’s PhantomFocus System with the ATC SCM45A Pro monitors gives me that confidence.” Canyon Studios East’s long-time house engineer Nick Lane explains his PFS/ATC experience this way: “I’ve loved working on ATCs for years, but the PhantomFocus System has recently been a game changer at Canyon. All the neutral, revealing nature I’ve come to expect from ATC, but now perfected for the room. It’s not like other room tuning software or hardware that drastically changes how the speakers sound – none of the ‘too pretty’ or ‘too hyped’ thing that engineers dread. Everything just gets subtly more defined and more immersive. Getting sounds for the first time on the ATC SCM45A Pros with the PFS was the easiest it’s ever been in that space. Just crystal-clear audio that let me make engineering decisions instinctually instead of wondering how the room was impacting what I was hearing.” *Editors’ legend: PhantomFocus™ System: A monitor tuning protocol that greatly enhances any monitors in any room PhantomFocus MixRoom™: A room acoustically crafted, designed and built around a PhantomFocus System PhantomFocus™ Monitor System: Specifies the inclusion of the proprietary PFM Monitors PhantomFocus MixRoom™ Studio: A Carl Tatz designed recording studio that includes a MixRoom as well as tracking room, booths machine room, etc. Photo file 1: Don Miggs_CT.JPG Photo caption 1: L-R: Don Miggs, Canyon Studios owner/producer, with Carl Tatz, studio designer and PhantomFocus™ System (PFS) creator, in Studio A’s PF MixRoom, featuring a PFS/ATC Monitor System. Photo file 2: cronin_ernest_tatz.JPG Photo caption 2: L-R: Studio builder Michael Cronin of Michael Cronin Acoustic Construction, who specs ATC monitors in his studio builds; Stephen Ernest, ATC Southeastern Sales Manager; and Carl Tatz, studio designer and PhantomFocus™ System (PFS) creator, in Canyon Studios East Studio A, with the PFS ATC SCM45A Pro Monitor System. Photo file 3: carl_mark_needham_1.JPG Photo caption 3: L-R: Carl Tatz and multi-award-winning mixer/engineer/producer Mark Needham in Canyon Studio East’s Studio B PhantomFocus MixRoom featuring a soffit mounted PFS ATC SCM45A Pro Monitor System. Photo file 4: STUDIOAMIGGS.JPG Photo caption 4: Canyon Studios East Studio A. Photo file 5: Canyon_B_Room3.JPG Photo caption 5: Canyon Studios East Studio B foyer. Photo file 6: Canyon_B_Room1.JPG Photo caption 6: Canyon Studios East Studio B. PDF file: PhantomFocus_Brochure.PDF About Carl Tatz Design® Carl Tatz Design® (CTD) is an award-winning studio design firm offering design and consulting services to homeowners and entertainment industry professionals in areas of: Recording Studios, Monitor Systems, Home Screening Rooms, Dedicated Listening Rooms, Acoustic Analysis, Tuning, and Sound Isolation. Carl Tatz is also the inventor of the industry acclaimed proprietary PhantomFocus™ Monitor System (PFMS™). CTD’s many resources combine knowledge, experience and expertise in sound, picture and design to serve its clients worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.carltatzdesign.com.     About the PhantomFocus™ Monitor System  Carl Tatz Design’s proprietary PhantomFocus™ Monitor 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 Monitor 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 Monitor 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 Monitor 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 Monitor 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 HDTV. Once you experience a PhantomFocus Monitor System, you can’t go back.   About the Carl Tatz Signature Series™ by Auralex®  The Carl Tatz Signature Series™ by Auralex® family of control room acoustic modules (now featured in a dedicated section on the Auralex website), emulates the look and acoustics of Carl Tatz's custom designs at a fraction of the cost.   When paired with the acclaimed PhantomFocus Monitor System, it becomes the PhantomFocus MixRoom™, the sonic performance of which is unrivaled anywhere, defining a new standard for the audio professional. The Phantom Focus MixRoom can quickly and affordably transform a simple rectangular room into a world-class mixing environment without peer.  For more information about Carl Tatz Design LLC and 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 Store: www.phantomfocus.com

 

 

 

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