‘With the PhantomFocus system, mixes open in width like never before,’ states Playground Recording owner, Daniel Scamman. ‘When you pan something from the centre at 0 to the left or to the right at 100, you can pretty much hear every single panning position discretely.’
His comments follow the recent installation of a high-performance Carl Tatz Design PhantomFocus MixRoom for producer/engineer Scamman in Olympia, Washington, at his Playground Recording studio. This is the fifth MixRoom installation in the tightly-knit local recording community, and the first personal facility for Scamman.
The MixRoom is completely isolated from the rest of the house, including a separate foundation, floating walls, floor and ceiling. All ‘noisy’ equipment is housed in a separate IDF room so the MixRoom remains perfectly quiet. The studio is equipped with Pro Tools HDX and the Avid MTRX Studio for I/O, and uses Dante-networked audio for connectivity between several of the rooms. The rear of the MixRoom has extra seating to accommodate recording classes. Proprietary CTD acoustic modules by Auralex are used throughout.
‘Mixes translate perfectly to other systems, which makes mixing much more efficient and enjoyable, not having to compensate in your head for an improperly balanced system,’ Scamman notes. ‘You also start hearing things in tracks you’ve never heard before, because of the clarity of the sound.’
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