Testing the preamp and ….

… Annoying the neighbours!

This soundsystem has the same ported enclosure but to improve the output I have added an electronic cross over and Bi-amped the system to give a total of 40W of skateboard mounted noise! The system is powered from either a 12v internal battery (small and light with about 2 hours play time at full volume) or an external battery pack for longer skate session.

Here is a shot mid wiring that shows the two amps and the rear of the drivers. I have used spray foam to fill the backs of the top end pizeo horns to stop the heavy bass rattling the plastic. The enclosure is made from 15mm solid cedar, glued, screwed and filleted with epoxy to withstand the abuse it will see while skating. I have tuned the enclosure to have a little bit of a bass boost around 80-100 Hz to give this more punch when in an out door environment.

Currently I have a very basic preamp that has a line in, high and low gain, the ablitly to change the roll off of both the high and low outputs, a battry meter and very high quality volume pot. Over the next few weeks I want to add a few different line in jacks, audio source selector, Mic in, Headphone out, bass and treble control, mono/ stereo switch, about 6 light to show power to the amps and xover and to the fault warning from the amps and two very sexy blue vu panel meters!

June 6th, 2010

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Uglie Carnie Speaker Box

Lets bring the noise !!!!

I am trying to find time this weekend to try to wire a second amp into the mix and double the current wattage.

Many thanks to Bill for dropping some very yummy spray work on the little guy down below and listing as we swing from “its got to have noting on it, just clean lines and nothing extra” all the way to ” Hay man you know what this thing really needs?…. Lots of switches, dials, lights, spaces to plug things in and oh ya lots more switches”

May 19th, 2010

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