Recording program certified Pro Tools trainer Gloria Hicks sits in the PhantomFocus eChair at the Carl Tatz Edition Argosy Console in Gospel Outreach Tacoma's PhantomFocus MixRoom.
Carl Tatz Design LLC, inventor of the proprietary PhantomFocus System (PFS) monitor tuning protocol, reports the recent installation of its PhantomFocus MixRooms in Tacoma, Wash., for Gospel Outreach (GO). Housed in GO’s newly completed facility, the TEC Award-winning PhantomFocus MixRoom will play an important role in instructing the church's students in the recording arts and various media projects.
"The PhantomFocus Mixroom ... will be a great place to train new students for years to come.” Gloria Hicks, Certified Pro Tools Instructor, Gospel Outreach, Tacoma, WA
GO Tacoma's certified Pro Tools instructor Gloria Hicks comments, “The PhantomFocus MixRoom that Carl designed for us was way beyond our expectations. It will be a great place to train new students ... for years to come.”
GO Tacoma will be collaborating with GO Media in Olympia, Wash., via cloud-based Pro Tools sessions, as well as with affiliated facilities involved with the church.
“Carl and his team did a great job of designing and installing our PhantomFocus MixRoom. It looks and sounds amazing,” states Joel Hicks, GO Tacoma Recording Department Head.
More about the system
Carl Tatz Design’s proprietary PhantomFocus System monitor tuning protocol offers clients an 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 System allows any monitors to perform at maximum accuracy--in any room, Tatz reports--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 50 steps in the proprietary PhantomFocus 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, multi-band 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 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 System in existing control rooms and in all studios that are designed and built from the ground up by CTD. The result is akin to the aural equivalent of HD TV, the company reports.
