Yamaha DBR10 Powered Loudspeakers By Strother Bullins The DBR Series isn't necessarily built to compete with the current "1k W club" of PPA powered enclosures, yet it's powerful enough to offer what users need in many small-scale sound reinforcement applications. This DBR10 pair shines as rehearsal wedges/monitors, auxiliary instrument speakers, sole singer/songwriter amplification, and more. For under $400 each, I'd readily recommend the DBR10 as a solid PPA component to cover coffee shop-type gigs or musician-toting personal stage monitors; they're ideal for applications where light weight is a necessity yet both power and clarity are desired. Additionally, its RCA inputs allow the DBR10 to serve quite well as DJ/KJ PPA, too. More »
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The mid-1990s saw a migration of a significant number of music production professionals from Los Angeles to Nashville, a migration hastened by a literal shake upthe 1994 Northridge earthquake. Tom Davis, a post production audio specialist with stints at Post Logic Studios (a TEC Award-winning, six-room, 12,000 sq. ft. Hollywood post house that Davis designed and built) and 525 Post Production (where Davis oversaw the development of the formerly picture-only facility into an audio powerhouse and took home numerous awards over his tenure as Director Of Audio) joined that migration, bringing his ample experience into a town where post production audio was a minor part of the overall production scene. More »