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The Ultimate AutoTuba
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:31 pm
by cgsharp8
Hello All!!
I've been working on this AT with my dad for a couple of weeks now. We have completed constructing it, all thats left is to stain it.
This will all be one long line of images just so you know. Also, since the attachment limit for an individual post is 5, this will be separated into several posts/comments within this thread.
Hope you enjoy!

- 5X5 piece of Baltic Birch
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- Added initial lines for side walls
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- Most pieces cut
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- all the pieces cut
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- Let it begin
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Re: The Ultimate AutoTuba
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:07 pm
by cgsharp8

- hole cut and terminal plate added
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- driver all wired up
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- fully operational
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I have yet to glue in the final brace and stain the whole thing.
Final photos will be added in the next couple of days!
P.S. It sounds AMAZING!! Thank you to Bill for being such a genius.
Re: The Ultimate AutoTuba
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 10:59 am
by Gsharp9
Looks good Colt. BTW, Thanks to Bruce Weldy for some technical help. Way cool to find kind of personal help from people on this forum. Much appreciated.
Tested it in the house last night. Even with a setup that was not exactly right, this thing truly sounds amazing. I'm finding it hard to imagine the sonic impact inside a volvo 240 wagon. Colt, your getting' ear plugs for your birthday.
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Re: The Ultimate AutoTuba
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 3:24 pm
by shawn_g
Looks good!

Re: The Ultimate AutoTuba
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:42 am
by Tom Smit
Gsharp9 wrote:Looks good Colt. BTW, Thanks to Bruce Weldy for some technical help. Way cool to find kind of personal help from people on this forum. Much appreciated.
Tested it in the house last night. Even with a setup that was not exactly right, this thing truly sounds amazing. I'm finding it hard to imagine the sonic impact inside a volvo 240 wagon. Colt, your getting' ear plugs for your birthday.
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Ear plugs won't help with the 'sub' frequencies. I had a 740 with the AT, backed into the shop at work, and was almost overwhelmed by the low freqs when I was wearing ear muffs (_27db).
Re: The Ultimate AutoTuba
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 12:57 am
by caddylackn
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Ear plugs won't help with the 'sub' frequencies. I had a 740 with the AT, backed into the shop at work, and was almost overwhelmed by the low freqs when I was wearing ear muffs (_27db).[/quote]
The low frequencies don't have to go through your ear canal to get to your ear drum, since they can travel through your skull and brain and still get to the ear drum

. Not much can stop low frequencies from traveling where they want to go.
Re: The Ultimate AutoTuba
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 1:23 am
by Gsharp9
And we want them to travel anywhere they want to. So good !!!
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Re: The Ultimate AutoTuba
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 8:53 am
by Bill Fitzmaurice
caddylackn wrote:
The low frequencies don't have to go through your ear canal to get to your ear drum, since they can travel through your skull and brain and still get to the ear drum
+1. That's why low frequencies on an equal loudness chart rise so high. The low frequency waves hit both sides of the eardrum, resulting in cancellation. The lower you go the more than cancellation. It's one reason why we really don't hear below 15Hz or so. What is down that low we feel. Even elephants, who communicate over miles with ultra low frequencies that they can 'speak', don't actually hear what's being said. They feel it through their feet, with the low frequency waves being conducted through the ground.
Re: The Ultimate AutoTuba
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 10:50 am
by Gsharp9
Bill Fitzmaurice wrote: Even elephants, who communicate over miles with ultra low frequencies that they can 'speak', don't actually hear what's being said. They feel it through their feet, with the low frequency waves being conducted through the ground.
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Well there is something I never knew I'd learn on here.
Amazing. Thank you Yoda
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Re: The Ultimate AutoTuba
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 9:33 pm
by cgsharp8
Re: The Ultimate AutoTuba
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 9:36 pm
by Gsharp9
NICE! not bad for a first build by a teenager.
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