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About Overtone

A shop built by people who hate bad sound.

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.

Since 2009 Austin, TX CEDIA member MECP-certified installers
A dedicated home cinema Overtone designed and installed, with tiered seating and cove lighting
Our story

From a garage subwoofer box to a full design studio.

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.

“A speaker is only as good as the room it plays into and the tune it gets. We do not sell boxes — we deliver a room that sounds right.” Marcus Vale · Founder

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.

Why trust us with it

Certified, insured, and accountable.

These are not decorations. Each one is a standard we are trained and tested against — and the reason our work holds up.

CEDIA member

We design to the standards of the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association, the body that certifies home-technology pros.

MECP Master installers

Mobile Electronics Certified Professional is the car-audio industry standard. Our lead installers hold the Master tier.

THX & ISF calibration

We are trained to tune picture and sound to reference standards, so movies and music play back the way they were mastered.

Insured & warrantied

Fully insured for work in your home and vehicle, with a lifetime workmanship warranty on every install we complete.

2009
Installing since
3400
Systems installed
40
Brands carried
500
Five-star reviews
How we work

Four rules we never skip.

Measure everything first

Room dimensions, seating distance, cabin acoustics, and existing wiring get documented before a single product is chosen.

Hide the wiring

Clean, concealed cable runs and tidy fabrication. If you can see how it was installed, we did not finish the job.

Calibrate before we call it done

Every system gets tuned by ear and by measurement mic. Levels, crossovers, time alignment, and room correction, dialed in.

Stand behind the work

Lifetime workmanship warranty and a real phone number. If something drifts, we come back and re-tune it.

The road here

Fifteen years, one obsession.

2009

A garage and a soldering iron

Marcus Vale starts building custom subwoofer enclosures and wiring car systems for friends around Austin.

2013

The South Lamar showroom opens

Overtone moves into a real storefront with a fabrication bay and its first calibrated listening room.

2016

CEDIA and the move into cinema

The team formalizes its home-theater practice, joins CEDIA, and starts building dedicated cinemas.

2019

THX & ISF certification

Calibration becomes a signature. Every theater now leaves reference-tuned for both picture and sound.

2024

3,000th system installed

From daily-driver stereos to whole-home audio, the shop crosses three thousand completed installs.

The team

The people who hold the tools.

Small team, deep bench. Every install is run by a certified lead, not handed off.

M

Marcus Vale

Founder · Lead Installer
J

Jordan Reyes

Car Audio Specialist · MECP
P

Priya Anand

Home Theater Designer · CEDIA
D

Devon Clarke

Calibration Tech · THX / ISF
In their words

What customers say after.

★★★★★

“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.”

Andre M.
Dedicated home cinema
★★★★★

“My truck build is clean — no rattles, no exposed wiring, and the tune is dialed. You can tell they measured instead of guessing.”

Reese T.
Full car SQ build
★★★★★

“Whole-home audio in six rooms, all controlled from my phone. They pre-wired during our remodel and it just works. Zero drama.”

The Okafor family
Whole-home audio
Come have a listen

Hear the difference for yourself.

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.