  dbx, inc. is an american producer of professional audio recording equipment. it was founded by david e. blackmer in 1971. the original company goal was: "to get closer to the realism of a live performance." its early products were based on the concept of using decibel expansion which gave the company its name.http://mixonline.com/tecnology-hall-of-fame/1976_dbx_160vu_complimiter/index.html 1976 dbx 160 (vu) compressor/limiter dbx is best known for the dbx noise reduction system.http://www.audioinvest.no/dbx/dbx_hist.htm dbx history the dbx noise reduction system used compression while recording an audio track and symmetric expansion when playing it back. they also manufactured the model 700, a unique but short-lived studio recording system, briefly popular in some circles as a mastering format. another early product was the expanded range decibel meter, a little solid-state meter that measured audio voltages both weaker and stronger than other bigger contemporary voltmeters, built into an aluminum extrusion that was about the size of the meter itself, which was an earlier source of the company initials. original dbx logo|thumb|original dbx logo. == the dbx voltage controlled amplifier == the most important inventions of david blackmer and dbx are the dbx voltage controlled amplifier or vca and the dbx rms detector. the original dbx 202 vca was based on the blackmer gain cell and was referred to as the dbx 202 "black can" vca. they were built using discrete transistors that were hand matched while running at an elevated temperature in an oven. while noisy and having significant distortion, they exceeded by far the performance of other vcas of the time.http://www.thatcorp.com/history_of_vcas.shtml a brief history of vca development these vcas were used in most early automated mixing boards.http://www.stereophile.com/news/11303/index.html dbx founder david blackmer dies == dbx compressors == in 1976 dbx introduced the dbx 160 [[dynamic range co
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