Yamaha Subkick

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Anybody ever used one of these? They look kind of cool.
 
Yes and no ...... I made my own. You can too! Just find a speaker that you no longer have a use for and wire a mic cable up to it. Then find a way to mount it to a make shift stand.
 
Is it worth it though? I usually use a d112 inside the drum. From what I understand you use the subkick along with a mic inside for attack.
 
$400. ? I would say no. You can make one a lot cheaper, just won't have all of the bling that Yamaha puts into their marketing.

Try a search on the subject in the DIY forum. I've seen a few threads about the construction a few years back.
Kinda cool seeing everyone's projects.
 
I meant sound wise. Is the sound good/different enough to even bother.
 
So THAT'S what that thing is!! Last summer, when we did the rock n roll summer camp, at the Boca Raton camp Scot Stapp's son and nephew attended the camp, and we ended up schlepping a drum kit from his house to the camp (they wanted to rent a kit at the last minute, and we were all out- so we charged them a very reasonable amount to transport their kit to the camp.) The kid wanted to bring that along, and I (mistakenly) thought it was a kick drum sub-woofer and told him we would not need it. Now I am wishing we had taken it along- time permitting, it would have been interesting to try it out.

I think I might make one. Sounds about as easy as it could be- anyone want to venture a guess as to:

What would be the best speaker design- Yammie uses a 6.5", would an 8" work well? I would guess you would want to use a speaker with a smaller voice coil and light-weight cone, so that the sound waves would more easily get the cone moving, the cone more easily create a current signal than a more heavy-duty speaker would do?

I am guessing the "heads" are really just circles of plywood? That the drum shell is used just for looks- you could house the "microphone" in just about anything? Heck, perhaps you could just put a car audio sub on a stack of books, in front of the kick, and wire it to an XLR connection?
 
Talldog said:
I meant sound wise. Is the sound good/different enough to even bother.
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It's worth it if your looking for sub bass response in your recordings, but if what your recordings doesn't require that I don't see a real need for it.

I get a good sound of a kick with the traditional microphone in the hole facing the beater, and if I want more, a LDC out in front of the kick about 3 feet of so. ;)
 
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So THAT'S what that thing is!! Last summer, when we did the rock n roll summer camp, at the Boca Raton camp Scot Stapp's son and nephew attended the camp, and we ended up schlepping a drum kit from his house to the camp (they wanted to rent a kit at the last minute, and we were all out- so we charged them a very reasonable amount to transport their kit to the camp.) The kid wanted to bring that along, and I (mistakenly) thought it was a kick drum sub-woofer and told him we would not need it. Now I am wishing we had taken it along- time permitting, it would have been interesting to try it out.

I think I might make one. Sounds about as easy as it could be- anyone want to venture a guess as to:

What would be the best speaker design- Yammie uses a 6.5", would an 8" work well? I would guess you would want to use a speaker with a smaller voice coil and light-weight cone, so that the sound waves would more easily get the cone moving, the cone more easily create a current signal than a more heavy-duty speaker would do?

I am guessing the "heads" are really just circles of plywood? That the drum shell is used just for looks- you could house the "microphone" in just about anything? Heck, perhaps you could just put a car audio sub on a stack of books, in front of the kick, and wire it to an XLR connection?
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Hey Stevie, were you able to find the old threads about the home made subkick microphone?
 
I think I'll skip it then. I'm pretty happy with the sound I get. I'll see if I can borrow one just for kicks.......get it? Kicks.....no really....
 
It's not hard to put one together at all ... give that a shot to end your curiosity Talldog.
 
Here is mine. An old subwoofer I had lying around. Sounds great though requires a 10db pad.
 

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You lost me, moresound. ONly thread I am aware of that addresses this is this one.
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Might not be here in the microphone forum try the DIY of drum forums. I can't remember where it is to be honest but there were 6 or 7 people posting their DIYs in the thread and how they made them.

Like Jimmy's! And I do remember now that just about everyone said that they had to pad them.
 
I'm thinkin' Jimmy pretty much has it nailed- press an old sub into "reverse signal direction" service. Gee, what could be easier?
 
Yeah, and when its not being used as a mic, it goes back on one of my reference stereos. Dual use. :)
 
if it's worth anything, i use a 10" 600watt pioneer car sub in an mdf box. Cost about £45 for both, and i wired a 10db attenuator on a cable.

Sounds outstanding :)
 
Steenamaroo said:
if it's worth anything, i use a 10" 600watt pioneer car sub in an mdf box. Cost about £45 for both, and i wired a 10db attenuator on a cable.

Sounds outstanding :)
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Nice! I have found my subkick to work best building a tunnel and placing the subkick at end about 6' from the kick. There is a kick shell at end with 2 1" PVC layed across with 2 sleeping bags and that foam bed thing draped over. Ghetto as hell but does the trick nicely. :)

Obviously the polarity needs to be flipped. Subs galore.
 

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