Some US audio professionals without the budget for a full design and implementation of a Carl Tatz Design PhantomFocus MixRoom with PFM Master Reference Monitors are opting instead for a ‘do-it-yourself’ approach.
Purchasing a Carl Tatz Design PhantomFocus System (which enables monitors to perform to their potential in any room), allows access to ongoing consultation and advice from Tatz – which then enables them to acoustically treat their own listening space. Once completed, the Carl Tatz Design installation crew visits the facility and commissions the system onsite.
Guided by Carl Tatz Design’s suggestions for making his space acoustically PhantomFocus-ready after purchasing the company’s PhantomFocus System for studio monitoring, engineer/producer and studio owner Ron Flack is one such: ‘It’s been awesome demonstrating the PhantomFocus System for our engineers and clients as they’ve come by the studio. I keep hearing comments like, “immersive” and “I can’t get over the imaging” – and assorted curse words, usually when the vocal or bass drop happens.
‘Personally, I feel like I can properly edit reverb tails without the use of earphones,’ Flack continues. ‘In the short time I’ve adjusted mixes with the PFS, I’m getting much better translation from system to system. It was just a pleasure having Carl and Adam commission this amazing monitoring tool in our room. I’m so grateful for the level of attention they put into every detail.’
‘ Ron is a textbook example of someone who experienced the PFS at one of our PF MixRooms and instantly knew he had never heard anything like it before and then found a way to make it happen in his existing space within his budget,’ studio designer and PhantomFocus System creator Carl Tatz reflects. ‘As we’ve maintained, the PhantomFocus sweet spot is producible in a bedroom that has been made acoustically PFS-ready. Ron just went the extra mile for his commercial clients.’
Interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-RvWYDgMsY
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