PA System (worklog)

[Death_blooms]

Recently I’ve got bored of my PC I couldn’t honestly think of anything new and exciting to do with it. Many people talk about large sound systems at around 500W. Personally I don’t think that 500W is much for a 5.1 sound system. The 500w is split between the 6 speakers giving only 82W per speaker. My idea is to build a system that seriously kicks ass. I am going to build a PA system. At the moment I don’t know how big it’s going to be it all depends on cash. I will be building the cabs for all of my speakers to cut down on cost and make things more interesting. The first driver I have ordered is a 150W tweeter. You may think this isn’t much and goes against my idea of a killer system but the high range speakers don’t need to be very powerful. Moving down to the bass bins I it be kicking out a huge 1000W.

Below is an image of the first tweeter. On Friday I will be ordering three more of these and then be building cabs for them.

[screwballl]

yes but..... why?

[Death_blooms]

To murder your ears of course. lol also im gonna take it to partys in the summer :P

[screwballl]

aha sounds like fun, keep us informed

[onebxr]

Blooms,
I am in the process of building my own subwoofer. I must say its a fun process! I am only building a 10" sub to start with but if this works out pretty well I may be building a couple more.
A great program to use is
SketchUp Home
This will save you alot of time and you can screw around with dimensions etc.
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p.s. get the free one no need for the pro version.

[Death_blooms]

Ok thanks Im building a 15" sub called a HD15 its a short horn what kinda enclosure are you building?

[onebxr]

I am building a ported enclosure. The only problem I am having right now is how long to make the port. Right now I have my amp and driver in a crap box and it sounds ok, my new box is almost complete just gotta cut circles and an amp hole. There is a great DIY speaker section at avs forums. They are very helpful, they can get you on the right track!
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[Death_blooms]

speakerplans.com has a good forum. btw I have 3D studio max its much better ;)

[onebxr]

Cool, now get to work, and I want to see pictures!
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[screwballl]

I have played around with the free gmax before