say hello to my little sub!

hate recordings · Post by **hate recordings** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:11 am

this is my x1. there are many like it, but this one is mine. my x1 is my best friend.

here's what the insides look like:

and to give you an idea of how big it really is:

i'm 6'4, 275 pounds. i can sit down inside it with the guts built in.

gonna run it from 30-80hz @ 1000w. all subs, no kick.

granted, there's a ton of subs out there that are alot bigger, but again :

this one is mine! and there's gonna be way more to come

sdf3 · Post by **sdf3** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:23 am

Nice one. . .

Planning on doing more singles or anything higher?

joenicedj · Post by **joenicedj** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:22 am

I know you've been talking about this for a while......that looks dangerous.

jeddere · Post by **jeddere** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:22 am

Just saw this over at speakerporn, looking good

What drivers have you got for them?

Can see that workshop filling up quick once you've made a few of them!

ramadanman · Post by **ramadanman** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:52 am

im going to be making one of those this summer, fingers crossed

i'll be in touch on AIM - would be great to chat to someone who's actually made one

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:57 am

I am jealous. That is some seriously heavy kit! Nice work mate.

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:08 pm

Can I fuck your neighbours in their dead ears?

oceanzen · Post by **oceanzen** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:31 pm

Man that looks heavy

j_j · Post by **j_j** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:33 pm

hate recordings · Post by **hate recordings** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:14 pm

jeddere wrote:Just saw this over at speakerporn, looking good

What drivers have you got for them?

Can see that workshop filling up quick once you've made a few of them!

stuck the standard p audio sd-18 in it. the fucking driver alone weighs about 35 pounds or so!

yeah, putting them somewhere isnt so much a problem as the fear of losing one of my digits on that dewalt table saw, lol!

musty dust · Post by **musty dust** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:30 pm

thats massive!

big mate, respect for that.

hate recordings · Post by **hate recordings** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:02 pm

sdf3 wrote:Nice one. . .

Planning on doing more singles or anything higher?

yeah of course

being in the states though, i have to settle for what i can make. unfortunately over here, we dont have access to the fantastic driver company called precision devices. probally the best drivers out there, totally uk company. i guess i could buy drivers from overseas but with your pound being much higher than our dollar and freighting it over via ship, it would come out to about $500-600 per driver, and i can't afford that.

i originally wanted to build a nice stack of 1850's. no dice though. cant get the components. gonna have to go with eminence drivers from over here for the time being. probally gonna use beyma compression drivers for the mid-tops when the time comes.

as it stands now though, id like to get a stack of 2 x1's, 4 hd-15's and a mid top of some sort. havent decided on the midtop though, i need to do more research. i might have that one stack done by the end of the year.

dushume · Post by **dushume** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:08 pm

nice work.

unlikely · Post by **unlikely** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:17 pm

all about keepin that crossover nice and low, the secret of good dubstep sound

spooKs · Post by **spooKs** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:28 pm

Corpsey wrote:Can I fuck your neighbours in their dead ears?

bad man.

jeddere · Post by **jeddere** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:08 pm

Hate Recordings wrote: yeah, putting them somewhere isnt so much a problem as the fear of losing one of my digits on that dewalt table saw, lol!

True, I've got strangely safety concious recently, even going as far as wearing safety glasses n' ear plugs when sawing/routering. Certainly ain't worth loosing them!

Hate Recordings wrote: stuck the standard p audio sd-18 in it. the fucking driver alone weighs about 35 pounds or so!

Mine weighs 85kg in total, probably why it hasn't got any further than my drive for a test! Sounded good though

misk · Post by **misk** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:50 pm

fuckin wow man. that looks really nice! what was your overall cost to make that beast?

hate recordings · Post by **hate recordings** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:14 pm

jeddere wrote:True, I've got strangely safety concious recently, even going as far as wearing safety glasses n' ear plugs when sawing/routering. Certainly ain't worth loosing them!

Mine weighs 85kg in total, probably why it hasn't got any further than my drive for a test! Sounded good though

nice! i dont wear earplugs so much, but glasses? absolutely!

havent gotten around to using the router to put the handles on it, but when i do, ima put 4 handles. 2 on both sides. the router is a fucking awesome tool!

i actually used a rotozip with a general purpose bit to cut the hole out. was easy breezy.

altogether for the build, roughly umm:

$350 for the speaker itself
$90 for the wood
$70 for the hardware

ive been workin on it on and off for about a month or so, a lil time here, a lil time there. the plans i had were off by quite a bit and i had to alter it some.

the most important thing i learned while building this box was the fact that the metric system rules, and the imperial system is for cigarettes.

4linehaiku · Post by **4linehaiku** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:04 am

Hate Recordings wrote:the most important thing i learned while building this box was the fact that the metric system rules, and the imperial system is for cigarettes.

Welcome to the future.

Actually, I have a serious question for you. How much experience do you have with woodwork and the like? I'm planning to build some stuff over summer and I'm wondering how tricky it's gonna be. I know people with all sorts of tools and stuff, but my skills are currently limited to sawing.

hate recordings · Post by **hate recordings** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:34 am

4linehaiku wrote:Actually, I have a serious question for you. How much experience do you have with woodwork and the like? I'm planning to build some stuff over summer and I'm wondering how tricky it's gonna be. I know people with all sorts of tools and stuff, but my skills are currently limited to sawing.

i have some experience with carpentry as i loosely worked as a carpenter when i was a laborer a few summers ago (my foreman was a carpenter). taught me a lil bit, have a small amount of hands on training with tools. however, id be wellin if i didnt say i had help building it.

this is a project i did with my pops. he also built bassbins in the mid 80s, front loaded horns with cv's as the drivers. he has a bit of experience as well with tools. some of these tools i wouldnt know how to operate properly if i wasnt with him, for example - i never used a router when i did carpentry.

my best bet is if you know people with these tools, ask them how to use them. let them show you how. a good friend will definately help you out through whatever step you need to do. ask em!

as far as it being tricky, some of the measurements i used had to be altered a lil. i read this plenty of times and if you paln to do a project, i CANNOT stress this enough:

cut once, measure TWICE

make sure whatever plans youre using measure out first. dont just start cutting wood and expect it to work out. plan everything out. you can get supplies and stuff first i guess, but make sure you have a plan and just go at it!

say hello to my little sub!

say hello to my little sub!

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