- Hi my name's Jordan,
I'm from Kettner Creative
and we put this video together to help you
choose the right speakers for your event.
So at Kettner Creative we carry two types of speakers,
by Yamaha.
We have the Yamaha DXR
and we have the Yamaha DSR.
On the DXR side we have an eight inch speaker
and a 12 inch speaker.
Now 99% of corporate events and events in general,
we rent out the Yamaha DXR 12 inch speaker,
this speaker's like I said good for any event,
it has full range two way speaker,
1,100 watts,
which is more than you'll ever need in an event
and generally we recommend having one of these speakers
for every 100 people
once you have two speakers,
so say you have 80 people at your event,
we recommend two speakers to get you started,
make sure the room is nice and even good coverage,
and then as soon as you hit 300 people
you add a third speaker,
or 400 people fourth speaker,
and that's a general rule of thumb that we use.
Sometimes if you're at a long and narrow golf course,
we'll recommend doing four speakers for 200 people
just to make sure there's even coverage
around the whole room.
Then we have this eight inch speaker.
The eight inch speaker in my mind,
we consider it to be very similar to the 12 inch speaker,
the only time that we recommend the eight inch speaker
is when you have space limitations.
In terms of actual volume it's close enough
to the 12 inch speaker,
it still has the same 1,100 watt amp
and everything like that.
It has a wider angle on it,
so that's nice when you're in a small space
that you just want one speaker on a stand to cover,
but other than that,
we generally only recommend the eight inch speaker
for things like a tradeshow booth
where you're just looking for something small
and out of the way that you can hide under a table
or under another piece of decor that you have in the room,
another reason we'd recommend the eight inch speaker,
is if we do a lot of religious events.
If there's a conference in the main auditorium
and you have volunteers that are in the kitchen
that want to hear what's going on,
it's really easy to pop one of these up pretty much anywhere
and just make sure that the kitchen or overflow room
or whatever can hear what they're trying to hear.
As soon as you go to a band or EDM,
electronic dance music,
we recommend moving up to the DSR series.
So if you look at the DXR,
it's a plastic body,
the DSR is a wood speaker box
and then it's covered in lynx to make it more durable,
so it can get beat up when it's used as a floor monitor
for a band or whatever.
But generally these things are about to my ear,
they sound about 15% louder,
and this is the 12 inch DXR
and this is the 12 inch DSR and this sounds better
and louder in my mind.
It's more focused sound
and the EQ pattern is a lot flatter,
it gives you better baseline to work
when you're mixing a full band.
So we have the 12 inch speaker which is good for,
I know we do a lot of Indie bands playing in skate shops
as a marketing event sponsored by shoe company
or that sort of thing.
And these work perfect for that.
If you're doing DJ or electronic dance music,
you really need a full presence,
we recommend the 15 inch speaker,
so and then for outdoor events,
I think on our website,
we have diagrams of various ways
that you can configure the speakers to blend together,
if you're on an SL100 mobile stage,
we'd do two of these per side with two 18 inch subs
per side underneath them,
we find that gives a pretty good volume
and presence and tone and everything that you need
for an outdoor audience of up to 500 people.
So that's where you are there.
A couple other things to notice.
On the DXR you get more inputs.
So the speaker has a mic or line input,
so you can either plug in a 10 channel mixer
or Q32 or whatever you want as a mixer into the speaker,
or you can switch it into mic mode
and then you can just plug a wireless mic
or an SM58 into it,
and use it that way,
that works good,
we do a lot of golf tournaments right,
you don't need a mixer,
you just pop up one of these,
you can link it to another speaker
if there's a lot of people outdoor,
there's five minutes of announcements
and you take it all down and you're done.
So by not having to set up a mixer,
it's ideal for events like that,
cause chances are you're running somewhere else
on the golf course for another part of their event
to set up quickly.
I could see this being a thing for DJ's and weddings right,
you have to setup the ceremony,
you don't wanna set up,
if it's just an officiant mic and an iPod for the walk-in
just mix it on the back of one of the speakers
and then quickly set it up for the reception,
that sort of thing.
As I mentioned we have an iPod cable
that goes headphone jack to quarter inch
so that works well there,
or you can do RCA input as well.
Cool thing about this is if you're bypassing the mixer,
you can pull out of here
and that'll take the right channel of each of these
to the next speaker,
most people don't know or care about that but it is helpful.
The DSR on the better sounding speaker,
there's less options.
It's making...
Way better components in the box
and they didn't want to spend more money
on all these inputs,
there's an assumption that you're using
a full proper mixer with this speaker.
That being said there's a couple features on here,
to help make it sound better,
but I don't want to get too technical in this video.
That's it.
If you have any questions,
feel free to email us events@kettnercreative.com,
or checkout more videos on our YouTube page,
or checkout our website,
and read your best to have good information
to help you choose the right speaker for your event.
Thanks.