We started in a one-bay garage building car audio for friends, and grew into a full home-theater and car-audio installation team. What never changed is the standard: measure everything, hide the wiring, and never call a system done until it is calibrated.
In 2009, Marcus Vale was building subwoofer enclosures in his garage for anyone who wanted their car to actually move air. The work was clean, the tuning was honest, and the phone kept ringing. When friends started asking him to wire up their living rooms too, Overtone became a real shop — one that treats a home theater and a car build as the same craft.
That craft is measurement, not guesswork. We take real readings of the room or the cabin, model where the sound is going to fight itself, and design around the problems before we ever hang a speaker. It is slower up front. It is the reason a Vale install still sounds dialed in years later.
Today the team runs a design showroom on South Lamar, a full fabrication bay for custom car work, and a calibrated demo theater so you can hear the difference before you commit. Same people, same standard, a lot more square footage.
These are not decorations. Each one is a standard we are trained and tested against — and the reason our work holds up.
We design to the standards of the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association, the body that certifies home-technology pros.
Mobile Electronics Certified Professional is the car-audio industry standard. Our lead installers hold the Master tier.
We are trained to tune picture and sound to reference standards, so movies and music play back the way they were mastered.
Fully insured for work in your home and vehicle, with a lifetime workmanship warranty on every install we complete.
Room dimensions, seating distance, cabin acoustics, and existing wiring get documented before a single product is chosen.
Clean, concealed cable runs and tidy fabrication. If you can see how it was installed, we did not finish the job.
Every system gets tuned by ear and by measurement mic. Levels, crossovers, time alignment, and room correction, dialed in.
Lifetime workmanship warranty and a real phone number. If something drifts, we come back and re-tune it.
Marcus Vale starts building custom subwoofer enclosures and wiring car systems for friends around Austin.
Overtone moves into a real storefront with a fabrication bay and its first calibrated listening room.
The team formalizes its home-theater practice, joins CEDIA, and starts building dedicated cinemas.
Calibration becomes a signature. Every theater now leaves reference-tuned for both picture and sound.
From daily-driver stereos to whole-home audio, the shop crosses three thousand completed installs.
Small team, deep bench. Every install is run by a certified lead, not handed off.
“They talked me out of the flashiest gear and into what actually fit my room. The theater sounds unreal and the bill was lower than I expected.”
“My truck build is clean — no rattles, no exposed wiring, and the tune is dialed. You can tell they measured instead of guessing.”
“Whole-home audio in six rooms, all controlled from my phone. They pre-wired during our remodel and it just works. Zero drama.”
Book a consult or stop by the South Lamar showroom. Bring your favorite track, sit in the calibrated theater, and hear what a properly tuned system actually does.