Home made sub kick mic

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So I have all the parts, I just need to know how to wire the mic cable to the speaker!
Two terminals on the speaker and three wires in a mic cord, anyone know how to do this the way Yamaha has theirs.
For I have not seen one in person for all I know it's just a 1/4" cord but then your missing the micpre.



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I just wired mine up to a 1/4 inch TS plug and run that into my mixer.

If you are using XLR...wire up the positive to pin 2 and negative to pin 3 and you should be good to go.
 
Wish14 said:
I just wired mine up to a 1/4 inch TS plug and run that into my mixer.

If you are using XLR...wire up the positive to pin 2 and negative to pin 3 and you should be good to go.
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Thanks Wish! but do I just leave the shield wire alone you think on the XLR?
How does yours sound? do you have to raise the gain up high b/c of the 1/4" hook up?
Do you think going into a DI first when using a 1/4" then to a micpre is going to be any better?



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I'm not really sure on the shield, other than you don't have anywhere to attach it to on the speaker side, so don't worry about that side. :D

Whether it impacts anything if you leave it connected on the preamp side, I doubt it, but maybe someone else can clarify that question. I'm not sure.

Yeah, you do have to crank the preamp a bit....level setting is pretty simple though...just make sure to test it out with the loudest sound you think you might have to make sure you won't clip the signal if you get a little rowdy during the recording.

I really use more of the sound of my regular bass drum mike and just add a little more low end with the subkick.
 
I made one and used an XLR cable, wired pos to neg (and vice versa) and then filed a place on the speaker chassis itself to get a nice clean ground. Twisted the shield wire nice n tight to the cleaned place.
The signal is gonna be hot so ya might consider an inline pad (attenuator) before it hits the pre you're using. I tried just dropping the 20 db that's on my pre but by then it was too late. Better to drop the gain before it gets there.

The pad I bought was a Shure and it's adjustable from -15, -20 and -25 and I think it was around $30. don't really remember now.

Peace-n-shit
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Here's a demo of my drums (faders up mix...no EQ, no compression, and just the tiniest bit of verb if I recall correctly).

drum demo


kick - Audix F14 with subkick made out of JBL nearfield monitor 5/14 inch driver
snare - radio shack drum mic
overheads - mxl 603

Pseudo-Recorderman setup in a small untreated room.

And a brick for the subkick mic stand! :laughings:
 

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Here's an old pic of mine that I found...

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Had an old snare stand layin around and that, with a couple of zip ties worked peachy. :D
 
Dogbreath said:
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wow...I get just the opposite. :confused:
I first tried it without the pad and was almost peggin my meters.

(shrugs)
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I just ran up to look at the mixer setting on the subkick...I take back my "crank the preamp" comment.

I've got it running into a line in on the mixer...and I've got the -10 pad engaged...
 
Alright thanks guys for all your help on this matter and I'll probably get to this project soon and I'll let you all know how it works out ....thanks again.



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This was discussed in a thread some time ago and I took Dogbreath's advice and it sounds real good. I keep promising him I'd post some sounds but I haven't done it yet.
 
Well it's never to late! Lets hear some of the results.



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Interestingly enough, I just did this last weekend. I just thought I'd chime in because I tried something slightly different...

I used a 4" speaker from an old car door I had lying around. I thought that it would require a larger speaker diameter to drop the resonant frequency, but it worked great. You never now unless you try it out! I wired it up just as Wish14 told you.

It captures a lot of 60-80Hz with roll off beginning around 100Hz I think. It didn't pick up anything above ~220Hz which I was satisfied with.

Good luck.
 
dodgeaspen said:
This was discussed in a thread some time ago and I took Dogbreath's advice and it sounds real good. I keep promising him I'd post some sounds but I haven't done it yet.
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Hey dude...I was wonderin if ya ever got it done. :) Kinda sounds like ass on its own, doesn't it? :p
Yeah, post a clip. Show off those mad skillz. Bring the thunder to my speakers baby!
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Sound & Vision said:
I used a 4" speaker from an old car door I had lying around. I thought that it would require a larger speaker diameter to drop the resonant frequency, but it worked great.
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Kooky isn't it.
When I was researchin mine I read that the diameter of the speaker doesn't matter so much. And that's because all you're capturing is the signal when the speaker moves. The air from the reso head pushes the speaker and...voila'....sub signal. Pretty cool idea to whoever thought that up. ;)
 
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