Draft:Carl Tatz
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Carl Tatz | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Studio designer, monitoring expert |
| Known for | Recording studio design and studio monitoring |
| Website | carltatzdesign |
Carl Tatz is an American audio professional who specializes in studio design and reference monitoring. He is the founder and principal of Nashville-based studio design firm Carl Tatz Design.
Biography[edit]
Tatz was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He attended Roger Williams Junior College (now Roger Williams University) in 1968 and earned an associate of arts degree in 1970.
Tatz was the maitre d’ of Julian’s, a four-star French restaurant in Nashville, TN, from 1975 to 1984. During these years, Tatz worked as a songwriter and musician, and he built a personal home studio to document his compositions, which eventually developed into a demo facility used by other local songwriters. In 1985 in Nashville, he founded Recording Arts, a commercial recording studio named one of the “Great Studios of the World” by Mix magazine in 1995. While running Recording Arts, Tatz worked as a musician, composer, recording engineer and record producer. The studio was purchased by recording artist Sheryl Crow in 2003.
Since 2002, Tatz has operated Carl Tatz Design, a firm offering studio design and consulting services drawing from Tatz’s personal expertise and proprietary techniques and protocols he has developed – notably the PhantomFocus Monitoring System and related Precision Monitoring Instruments. The company offers various services focusing on both the aesthetic and technical aspects of professional and residential facilities, including acoustic design, custom reference monitor implementation, home screening room design, room analysis and tuning, studio furniture, and sound isolation. Clients include prominent producers, recording engineers and artists in Tatz’s native Nashville and across the U.S.
Tatz has shared his studio design and monitoring expertise in lectures and on panels at various venues, including Berklee College of Music, Belmont University, Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), SAE Institute, the Art Institutes, Mix Nashville, Blackbird Academy, and events organized by the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and NAMM.
Tatz has been an AES member for over 30 years and was a Consumer Electronics Design and Installation Association (CEDIA) member for over ten years. Previously he served as vice president of the Nashville Association of Professional Recording Services (NAPRS).
Achievements[edit]
In 1999, Tatz served as producer of the album Jack Jones Paints a Tribute to Tony Bennett, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance. His company was featured in Mix magazine’s Year’s Hottest New Studios collection in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022 and 2023. Tatz has won one NAMM TEC Award with a total of seven nominations.
NAMM TEC Awards:
- Nominee, Creative Achievement Studio Design Project – Hermes Sound, Atlanta, GA (2023)
- Nominee, Creative Achievement Studio Design Project – Reaction Vessel, Loveland, CO (2021)
- Nominee, Technical Achievement Production Essentials – PhantomFocus Master Engineer eChair (2020)
- Nominee, Creative Achievement Studio Design Project – The Upper Deck, Nashville, TN (2019)
- Nominee, Creative Achievement Studio Design Project – Fly By West, Brentwood, TN (2015)
- Winner, Creative Achievement Studio Design Project – Vintage King, Nashville, TN (2014)
- Nominee, Creative Achievement Studio Design Project – The MontAnna MixRoom, Nashville, TN (2013)
Mix magazine “Class Of” Awards – Year’s Hottest New Studios:
- Jam Band, Gainesville, FL (2023)
- The Vesper Room, Franklin, TN (2023)
- Hermes Sound, Atlanta, GA (2022)
- O'Connor MixRoom, Olympia, WA (2020)
- The Upper Deck, Nashville, TN (2018)
- The News Room, Nashville, TN (2016)
- Cool Springs Mix, Franklin, TN (2015)
- Fly By West, Brentwood, TN (2014)
- Middle Tennessee State University Studios D and E, Murfreesboro, TN (2012)
- MontAnna MixRoom, Nashville, TN (2012)
- Red Door Studio, Murfreesboro, TN (2011)
- The Blue Grotto, Brentwood, TN (2011)
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