Hi all, I picked up 2 Yamaha DBR10s to make a small PA for my mom and her acoustic performances, as well as to have something for jam nights, my helix, etc. I love the size and price of the DBR10s, but Im not too crazy with how they sound. I think I should have tried the QSC cp8 before buying these... But they're hard to find these days! I decided to test them outside in the backyard with my UMIK-1 and REW. I realize this isn't very scientific, but it gave me a decent idea of what they're doing.
The orange line is averaged from 5 tests, on the ground, on it's side, in monitor mode, and the hpf is set to 120hz. Red is the same but the hpf is set to 100hz. Blue is the same but the hpf is off. Green line is the same but no hpf and the speaker's DSP was set to off.
This is the speaker about 7' off the ground and about 7' away from the nearest wall... so I assume anything below around 180hz will be screwy if we're just testing the actual speaker. But I still think this info is useful since there will always be walls/ground where ill be using these!
I think it's kind of neat that my tests are pretty spot on to what Yamaha published:
Well it was a fun experiment. Hopefully someone finds it interesting/useful. I definitely had to EQ A LOT of lower mids out and boost some highs. I can see why I've seen a lot of complaints that this speaker can be muddy. Cheers
The orange line is averaged from 5 tests, on the ground, on it's side, in monitor mode, and the hpf is set to 120hz. Red is the same but the hpf is set to 100hz. Blue is the same but the hpf is off. Green line is the same but no hpf and the speaker's DSP was set to off.
This is the speaker about 7' off the ground and about 7' away from the nearest wall... so I assume anything below around 180hz will be screwy if we're just testing the actual speaker. But I still think this info is useful since there will always be walls/ground where ill be using these!
I think it's kind of neat that my tests are pretty spot on to what Yamaha published:
Well it was a fun experiment. Hopefully someone finds it interesting/useful. I definitely had to EQ A LOT of lower mids out and boost some highs. I can see why I've seen a lot of complaints that this speaker can be muddy. Cheers
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Unscientific?
They look quite scientific to me!!! 🙂
"Non Anechoic" for sure, but on the contrary quite realistic as of what they will do in a real venue.
Yes, very useful and thanks for posting it.
They look quite scientific to me!!! 🙂
"Non Anechoic" for sure, but on the contrary quite realistic as of what they will do in a real venue.
Yes, very useful and thanks for posting it.