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Alan Star
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#1 Post by Alan Star »

Great little sub ! Perfect for my home set up. I built this to replace a krk rp10s and it's done that job nicely.

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My studio/shack is in a remote location where I am on solar power only, so I wanted something I could run directly off a 12v amp so that i don't need to run the inverter all the time and is more efficient on the battery storage.

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The sub is great indoors, plenty of nice clean bass. I am using a Jbl 4 channel 12volt amp with built in variable crossover, bridging 2 channels for the sub and using the other 2 channels to run the tops which at the moment are some jbl control 25 monitors I found cheaply on ebay. At some point I plan to replace these with SLA's. It sounds good just flat without any eq once i adjusted the crossover points, but for studio purposes I am thinking to get a deq2496 to use with it as well, and for my bigger pa. Is hard (impossible) to see the sub is in the corner, sorry about picture quality but you can get an idea of the set up.

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My idea for this little set up is that it can also double as a mini portable battery powered pa for small street theater, but its main purpose is for at home.

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Thank you Bill !

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... and thank you also to Lawrence Langford for getting the driver to me.

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#2 Post by loaferz »

nice job, good looking cab.

may I ask why you live like such a badass?

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#3 Post by Alan Star »

Sure you can ask that. If you would like an answer, could you please define your meaning of badass for me so i'm sure I know what you mean ? Cheers :wink:

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#4 Post by horst »

alanstar wrote:Sure you can ask that. If you would like an answer, could you please define your meaning of badass for me so i'm sure I know what you mean ? Cheers :wink:
badass means a bottom of nefarious circumstance

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#5 Post by Alan Star »

ne·far·i·ous [ni-fair-ee-uhs]
–adjective
extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
[Origin: 1595–1605; < L nefārius wicked, vile, equiv. to nefās offense against divine or moral law (ne- negative prefix + fās law, right) + -ius -ious, with intervocalic s > r]

Hmm, well I think it could easily be desribed as an extremely wikid situation, not really villainous tho...that i know of :shock:

I am probably your typical struggling muso, would rather spend my money on my sound system and freeze my ass off in winter, than save up and build a proper house :roll:

Nice in the summer tho :D

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#6 Post by Christian »

Looks like easy living to me!

Sweet spot, Alan!

Sydney

#7 Post by Sydney »

Congrats: alanstar
Are you going to build another T18 for the 6db coupling?
BTW: I know several here in WV that are "off the grid". Some because of a lifestyle choice, others because they live too far from power lines.

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#8 Post by Alan Star »

Sydney wrote: Are you going to build another T18 for the 6db coupling?
Well, I reckon it's plenty for indoors as is at the moment with one loaded into the corner, in the space that I'm in.

Outdoors however ... I think if I wanted to expand on the battery powered idea, I would build either one big dual driver (or pair of single driver) T24 or T39 and a pair of DR200's. I think would just be a much bigger sound with same sort of input power. This could also then be the basis of a portable mains powered rig as well, adding more cabs as required.

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#9 Post by Dave Non-Zero »

I love the wee PA! no massive engineering problems hanging that!. :D
-1 for thought terminating cliches.

Built and/or own:
8 x T48 24" 3015LF
6 x DR280
2 x DR250 old style beta10
2 x T36s 20" delta15L
1 x TAT
1 x dual Lab12 30" T60

In Progress:
2 x DR280

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