Having worked with the likes of Leon Russell, Shelley West, Roomful of Blues, 38 Special and Blues Traveler, Joe Bear is taking his Covid-19 quarantine as an opportunity to become fully acquainted with his new studio and its PhantomFocus Precision Monitoring.
Reaction Vessel came online just as the state of Colorado’s shelter-in-place directives came into effect and features the full palette of PhantomFocus Precision Monitoring Instruments. This includes a high-end bi-amped PFM UHD-1000 Reference Monitor System, a pair of PFM Ice Cube-12 Subwoofers, Argosy Dual 15-800 Carl Tatz Edition Workstation, PhantomFocus Monitor Stands by Sound Anchor, and two Raven Chrome eChairs. Aa with all PhantomFocus MixRoom installations, it also calls on Carl Tatz Signature Series custom acoustic modules by Auralex.
Bear accepted an invitation from studio designer and monitoring expert Carl Tatz to visit one of his PhantomFocus MixRoom studios in Nashville. ‘I’m glad I took Carl up on his offer,’ says Bear. ‘My first sitting in the hot seat [PhantomFocus eChair] in front of a PhantomFocus System was a literally stunning experience. It had me grinning ear-to-ear, and I knew I had to have that level of performance.’
After several decades of emphasis on live performance, Bear is refocusing his skills upon recorded material. In this reinvention, he is relying upon his PhantomFocus MixRoom to accelerate his transition.
‘Carl has taken this smallish underused room in my house, and transformed it into a top-flight mix room. When I sit down to work, I get the same jaw-dropping experience that I had upon first hearing a Phantom Focus System,’ he says. ‘The ability to truly hear what is happening in a mix has allowed me to leapfrog any previous results. All the parts of the system have yielded a room that looks – and most importantly sounds – impeccably inviting. It puts a smile on my face when I sit down to work every morning.’
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