ARTICLES & PAPERS

Mix Magazine Class of 2020 – The Year’s Hottest New Studios

Mix Magazine Class of 2020 – The Year’s Hottest New Studios

O’Connor Mixroom, Olympia, Wash. Carl Tatz out of Nashville designed this PhantomFocus MixRoom™ studio for John O’Connor. Incorporated in the new facility are Tatz’sproprietary PFM UHD-1000 monitors, bi-amped with a 4-channel ATI  4000 amplifier and two PFM ICE...

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PROSOUND NEWS – Carl Tatz Helps Jay DeMarcus Get a Grip

PROSOUND NEWS – Carl Tatz Helps Jay DeMarcus Get a Grip

BY STEVE HARVEY Nashville, TN (October 6, 2020)—The Grip II has been the home of countless recording projects and sessions since award-winning studio designer and monitoring expert Carl Tatz built the two-room facility for Jay DeMarcus, co-founder of country music...

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ProSound News – PhantomFocus System Studio Monitors Review

ProSound News – PhantomFocus System Studio Monitors Review

BY RUSS LONG MAR 27, 2020 The PhantomFocus System has evolved into a portfolio of physical studio designs and products that hold their ground against anything in the world today. You’d be hard pressed to find anyone more passionate about audio than Carl Tatz. Not only...

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PROSOUND NEWS – The Upper Deck Article

PROSOUND NEWS – The Upper Deck Article

Prosound News, December 2018 The Upper Deck (Nashville, Tenn.) In This Article –"He plays guitar and drums and is a fan of classic rock, but the owner of the Upper Deck – who wishes to remain anonymous – is a Major League Baseball player who spends his summer months...

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Sound on Sound Magazine – The Elephant in the Control Room

Sound on Sound Magazine – The Elephant in the Control Room

Sound on Sound, November 2015 In the Article – "In a typical small-studio control room, the height and position of the monitors means that reflections from floor, ceiling and side walls all arrive at the listening position at similar times, with the resultant...

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AUDIO MEDIA INTERNATIONAL – Tatz Helpful Article

AUDIO MEDIA INTERNATIONAL – Tatz Helpful Article

Audio Media International, September 2015 Vintage King(Nashville, Tenn.) In This Article –"As a follow-up to the 'How-To' article in the May issue of AMI, studio designer Carl Tatz explains why his Null Position Ensemble should be adhered to when arranging monitors in...

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Mix MAGAZINE Class of 2015 – World’s Coolest New Studios

Mix MAGAZINE Class of 2015 – World’s Coolest New Studios

Mix Magazine, June 2015 Fly By West (Nashville, Tenn.) Carl Tatz Design handled the design of this personal mixing studio for engineer/producer Bob Bullock, whose credits include Reba McEntire, George Strait, Kenny Chesney and others. The facility incorporates Tatz's...

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Mix MAGAZINE Class of 2014 – Hottest New Studios

Mix MAGAZINE Class of 2014 – Hottest New Studios

Mix Magazine, June 2014 Fly By West (Nashville, Tenn.) The second studio that Carl Tatz designed for engineer/producer Derek West, Fly by West, is built into a former boathouse. The CTD MixRoom includes Tatz's Signature Series acoustic modules by Auralex, and Dynaudio...

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MIX MAGAZINE – Carl Tatz-Designed Yellow Hammer Opens

MIX MAGAZINE – Carl Tatz-Designed Yellow Hammer Opens

Mix Magazine, May 2014 Opened in February of this year, Yellow Hammer is a 630-square-foot, full-tilt custom Carl Tatz Design studio built from the ground up for film composer Justin Miller in the back yard of his Nashville home. The studio encompasses a CTD MixRoom,...

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PROSOUND NEWS – From a Distance

PROSOUND NEWS – From a Distance

Prosound News, February 2014 by Jacques Sonyieux A few years ago, audio engineer Sean Spence wanted to settle down and build a studio in Brentwood, Tennessee, roughly 20 minutes from downtown Nashville. Sounds simple enough. But Sean was a South African and when his...

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MIX MAGAZINE – Soundscape Studios

MIX MAGAZINE – Soundscape Studios

Mix Magazine, June 2013 Soundscape Studios recently installed Carl Tatz’s PhantomFocus PFS3 monitoring system in Studio A, and also added a Pro Tools HDX system. Studio owner and chief engineer Michael Kolar has been busy working on a number of projects, including two...

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PAR MAGAZINE – Studio Review

PAR MAGAZINE – Studio Review

PAR Magazine, Oct 2011 Carl Tatz Design PhantomFocus™ System Monitor Optimization System (PFS™) PFS™ allows your speakers to sound how they are supposed to sound if your room "wasn't being so destructive," offers Tatz. Here, PAR's senior contributor enthusiastically...

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MIX MAGAZINE – Yes Master Rises Above

MIX MAGAZINE – Yes Master Rises Above

By Sarah Benzuly Mix Magazine May 2011 After 10 months, Nashville's Yes Master Studios is up and running. In the aftermath of the devastating flood that deluged most of Nashville last May, the studio had to be de-molded; carpet, drywall and insulation removed; and the...

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PROSOUND NEWS – Embracing Change

PROSOUND NEWS – Embracing Change

By Jeff Touzeau Pro Sound News April 2011 Jim DeMain and his high-end mastering facility, Yes Master Studios, are both no strangers to change. Just over a decade ago, DeMain began to reevaluate his role in the world of studio recording, having spent the better part of...

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MIX MAGAZINE – NASHVILLE SKYLINE

MIX MAGAZINE – NASHVILLE SKYLINE

By Peter CooperMix Magazine, October 2009 Carl Tatz's parents used to leave him in the house sometimes when they left for an evening out. That's when the speakers would get shifted around. "My father had a component stereo," says Tatz, the designer of the PhantomFocus...

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PROSOUND NEWS – Small Room Design

PROSOUND NEWS – Small Room Design

By Chris Walsh Prosound News Interview I do home theaters also, but as far as studios, home studios is my specialty. I’ve got a school coming up, but that’s what I like doing. I’m really good at small spaces. By background—I had a commercial studio for 18 years and...

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Notables of Nashville: 2009 Edition

Notables of Nashville: 2009 Edition

Whether designing breathtaking high-performance home screening rooms or stunningly accurate monitor systems and home recording studios, Carl Tatz is master of both audio and visual experiences. As owner of Carl Tatz Design in Nashville, Carl designs home theaters and...

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EQ Magazine – The Small Studio Workshop

EQ Magazine – The Small Studio Workshop

By Jeff Anderson EQ Magazine, June 2007 You've spent many restless nights dreaming about it, and now the time has finally come to build your own home studio. But how do you take a small space and turn it into a studio capable of turning out awesome sounding tracks?...

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Nashville Interiors – True Acoustic Design

Nashville Interiors – True Acoustic Design

By Paul Griffith Nashville Interiors, Vol. 6, 2006-2007 Carl Tatz is an acoustic designer, and when it comes to home theaters, nobody else in Nashville can say that. With a background in the recording arts and monitor system design, Carl is exceptional because he...

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Dark Acoustic Mythology

Dark Acoustic Mythology

By Carl Tatz I am presenting a list of some of the erroneous notions that have kept this technology from being as widely implemented, as it deserves. Hopefully they can be laid to rest. Accurate Monitors Cannot Sound Good The notion that in order to create good mixes,...

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PROSOUND NEWS – Getting A “Grip”

PROSOUND NEWS – Getting A “Grip”

By Frank Wells Prosound News, Oct. 2006 NASHVILLE, TN - The personal production studio has come of age, and "the Grip," the personal space created for songwriter, producer (Chicago XXX, most recently) and bass player for country stalwarts Rascal Flatts, Jay DeMarcus,...

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Nashville Lifestyles – Star Tech

Nashville Lifestyles – Star Tech

By Paul Griffith Nashville Lifestyles, June 2006 “I don't call them 'home theaters,''' says Nashville acoustic designer Carl Tatz. "I call them 'home screening rooms.' That's because we do it at a much higher level-it's not just a bunch of expensive gear that goes in...

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Tech Living – Silence Is Golden

Tech Living – Silence Is Golden

By Dan Daley Tech Living, May/June 2005 The proliferation of affordable home theater systems has created a conflict not unlike that of what happens when civilization encroaches upon the wilderness, except the bear might not limit his actions to banging on the wall....

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Electronic House – A Better View

Electronic House – A Better View

Electronic House, May 2005 There was nothing particularly wrong with Carl Tatz's living room. The Space already had a 5.1 surround-sound system that Carl used to listen to music. That same system could also have been used to play movie soundtracks, but not without a...

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Robb Report Home Entertainment Magazine – Serious Sound

Robb Report Home Entertainment Magazine – Serious Sound

By Nancy Theoret Robb Report Home Entertainment Magazine Vol. 6 March/April 2005 A wall bulging with multiple DVD players, assorted audio equipment and compact discs offers the first hints that this screening room of a Los Angeles music producer has a serious side....

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CEDIA Award Entry 2004: Best Home Theater

CEDIA Award Entry 2004: Best Home Theater

After having designed a 5.1 editing suite for his company in Nashville and media room in Beverly Hills, we were engaged to design a state of the art home screening / 5.1 critical listening room in his new home that was being totally renovated. The space was a former...

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SystemsContractor News – Calculated Home Screening Room

SystemsContractor News – Calculated Home Screening Room

by Dan Daley SystemsContractor News Music library Firstcom founder Jim Long is still a music business executive, as CEO of One Music. When he purchased beloved puppeteer Shari Lewis’ former residence in Malibu, north of Los Angeles, he needed a professional-level...

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Home Studio Epiphany: The PhantomFocus System™

Home Studio Epiphany: The PhantomFocus System™

By Carl Tatz Although there have been several good articles written recently on home studio acoustics, none have specifically addressed the monitoring system performance itself. At the risk of sounding overly dramatic, the information that is about to be conveyed to...

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