-“I’m thrilled with mine,” quotes multi-platinum GRAMMY®-winning engineer/producer, Ed Seay who has recently tracked and mixed albums for Lee Brice, Mark Jordan, Blake Shelton, Diane Schuur and John Prine to name a few —

Nashville, TN: Journeyman recording engineer and four year Carl Tatz Design  PhantomFocusTM System (PFS) veteran, Ed Seay is revered as Nashville’s “engineer’s engineer” having mentored many up-and-coming young engineers during the course of his three decade professional career including Rascal Flatt’s engineer, Sean Neff and L.A. mega mixer, Dave Pensado.

Ed recently re-implemented his PFS at Cool Tools Audio in the Loud Recording complex on Nashville’s venerable Music Row after moving from the old Warner Brothers studio. Both rooms had their unique acoustic anomalies to tame – the former with too much low end ringing and the latter with over trapping and weak bass.  The PhantomFocus  System provided it’s signature frequency response curve in both instances, rendering the PFS performance that over sixty Nashville studios have come to trust and rely on. “I heard some of Carl’s systems and knew that that’s what I wanted to be listening to,” recalls Seay.

The PhantomFocus  System will be successful in any room with any brand of monitors. In Ed’s case, his monitor/amp selection of choice was a Dynaudio M1/Bryston 4B complement after experiencing that combination at Rascal Flatts’ Jay DeMarcus’ Studio, The Grip.

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  they may perceive it to be. The PhantomFocus System allows 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 and digital prossesing crossover points for pass  filtering, and finally parametric equalization.

Hardware can include  monitor stands, concrete, sorbothane and other isolation materials,  custom floating plenum mounts, subwoofer system and digital prossessor.   The 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: [email protected]  Web: www.carltatzdesign.com

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