My DIY Subkick - soundcloud fixed

[Enchilada]

Hey guys,

Thought I might share my subkick I put together for peanuts. The most expensive thing was the speaker. I actually shelled out a little there and spend $40 on an 8" woofer. I connected three resistors to attenuate the output, a 100ohm across the speaker and a 1Kohm on both wires (+ and - unbalanced). Connected those wires to an unbalanced 1/4 inch jack and straight into my preamp.

Below is a link to some photos and an mp3 sample. The first half is without the subkick and the second half is with the subkick. I'm really happy with it  ;D.

http://photobucket.com/enchiladasubkick
http://soundcloud.com/kris-osullivan/subkick-test soundcloud fixed

 

[dirtyhanfri]

Nice, thinking on recycling and old fender woofer I´ve got liying around.

The resistor values are for that cone or generic?

Thanks

 

[abbey road d enfer]

I connected three resistors to attenuate the output, a 100ohm across the speaker and a 1Kohm on both wires (+ and - unbalanced). Connected those wires to an unbalanced 1/4 inch jack and straight into my preamp.

Your description says A, but B it should be. Standard 20dB U pad.

 

[abbey road d enfer]

The resistor values are for that cone or generic?

Generic.

 

[Violinist]

it is one of the most original solutions I've seen
Initially I thought that the yellow box was the basket of a washing machine

Unfortunately the audio in the SoundCloud link there is not. It tells that the page there is not
Anyhow I'm really curious to listen to it

 

[Enchilada]

I connected three resistors to attenuate the output, a 100ohm across the speaker and a 1Kohm on both wires (+ and - unbalanced). Connected those wires to an unbalanced 1/4 inch jack and straight into my preamp.

Your description says A, but B it should be. Standard 20dB U pad.

You are correct, I have wired it as in A, not B. I wouldn't have thought it would make a difference. It works just fine and the signal is about on par with my kick microphone. I might de-solder the resistor from the speaker and then solder it to the jack input and see if it makes any difference.

I'm looking at soundcloud now to try and fix the problem. It says there was a problem transcoding.

 

[abbey road d enfer]

I wouldn't have thought it would make a difference.

It may or may not, depending on your mic pre, the position of the mic, the way the drummer plays,... It will make a difference of level, that's for sure.

It works just fine and the signal is about on par with my kick microphone.

Fine.

I might de-solder the resistor from the speaker and then solder it to the jack input and see if it makes any difference.

yes; experimentation is everything.

 

[Enchilada]

Anyone had a listen? Any thoughts?

 

[Violinist]

Anyone had a listen? Any thoughts?

It works very fine
What I hear is well defined and if it's possible to attenuate the little "boxy" tail of the sound, I think I hear, it will be excellent

 

[erikb1971]

Yellow is the new purple!

http://youtu.be/2JiJ5c0FTVg

Looks great and as soon as my GF is finished downloading whatever it is that blocks our connection I will have a listen!

 

[Enchilada]

Listening to the sub kick on it's own I wouldn't have said it's boxy sounding. I did compress it though so that would bring out some of the sustain and that could be the tail that you can hear. There's also compression on the mix. If I shortened the release that would reel in the subkick a little. I also wouldn't mix it that loud usually, just wanted to really show what it sounds like 

 

[Violinist]

Listening to the sub kick on it's own I wouldn't have said it's boxy sounding. I did compress it though so that would bring out some of the sustain and that could be the tail that you can hear. There's also compression on the mix. If I shortened the release that would reel in the subkick a little. I also wouldn't mix it that loud usually, just wanted to really show what it sounds like 

The tail is "boxed" indeed.  I don't give the resposnibility to the cormpression for that. I jsut expressed what I heard
I'm pritty sure that if you produce some record, no one will listen to the little "boxy"

 

[Violinist]

I got this article
http://www.ehow.com/how_7874318_make-low-frequency-drum-mic.html

 

[Enchilada]

The tail is "boxed" indeed.  I don't give the resposnibility to the cormpression for that. I jsut expressed what I heard
I'm pritty sure that if you produce some record, no one will listen to the little "boxy"

We may differ on what we consider to be boxy, I generally think of tone as boxy if the mids are particularly pronounced.

 

[Violinist]

We may differ on what we consider to be boxy, I generally think of tone as boxy if the mids are particularly pronounced.

Right. Indeed it's different than my interpretation. I define "boxy" when in the range of the mid tone, I hear like a little "environment" and in al the other frequency range not.