Martyr
i'm looking into building my own studio monitors and i was wondering if anyone has any tips for me or any schematics(anything really)?
thanks guys ?
Manfred-Klose
Well first of all you'll need to read a few books on music acoustics to design the speaker cabinet.
IF you haven't gone crazy by then, go and read a few books on how a speakers lives, the way it is breathing to turn mechanical energy into acoustic energy.
JUst save up for a krk monitor, or even a behringer monitor will do and its cheaper.
deanBailey
lol What Manfred said.
I've rarely heard of anybody building their own studio monitors.
AlanRatcliffe
I've looked into it in the past, and even for passive monitors, there is so much involved in designing them that it's not worth the effort.
I watched a PA speaker company design PA speakers and it's quite the process, fine if you're going into production, but not worth it for a single pair. The only reasonable way of doing it would be to get a speaker design program (+/-R10K), choose good drivers (couple of thousand), test their frequency response accurately with software and accurate testing mics (at least 20K for an accurate test system), and the software will design cabinets and crossovers. Build those then start testing and tweaking, testing damping materials and ports, building and rebuilding until you get good results. You'll also need a decent working knowledge of acoustics.
..Oh yeah, did I mention the need for an anechoic chamber for testing? ?
The only other way I can see of getting it right is to either copy an existing pair or finding someone who has already designed and built a pair and is willing to share (you never know - there's enough DIY HiFi speaker designs out there).
Manfred-Klose
..Oh yeah, did I mention the need for an anechoic chamber for testing?
I heard a myth that if you put a duck in a anechoic chamber, he will go nuts, is this true?
Sorry for the subject change, but now is the the time to find out if it is true.
FenderBender
Fane released a book on loudspeaker designs (I don't know what happened to my copy).
There is someone who makes and sells monitors. RMS Studios, in CT. Chap by the name of Mel. Don't have his number will will PM you if I can find it.
AlanRatcliffe
Myth. What is it with ducks and acoustic myth? There's another one that says a duck's quack does not echo...
Here's a happy duck in an AC:
http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_info/duck/ (if you're wondering why they have a duck in an anechoic chamber, it's to disprove the second myth I list above ?).
FenderBender
Haha! The reverb duck rounds just like one of the opening bars for the Psycho shower scene!
Manfred-Klose
Thanks alan.
Hopefully no ducks where harmed to prove the myth. ha ha
Renesongs
No, if you put a duck in a anechoic chamber it goes quackers. :-[
Martyr
that duck myth was on myth busters :-[
the reason i asked was because my friend made a pair of monitors(he said it cost him R500) so i wanted to see if it would really cost that much...
he got some afrikaans guy at his work to help him make 'em...
thanks anyway guys,i'll rather just save and buy a decent pair
Heath
there are some freeware box design programs that i played with a few years ago ..... the most costly bit is the speakers , cos you'll want come decent speakers ....
Martyr
there are some freeware box design programs that i played with a few years ago
you wouldn't by any chance happen to still have 'em would you? :-[
deanBailey
Martyr wrote:
that duck myth was on myth busters :-[
What was the conclusion?
AlanRatcliffe
Myth. The current thinking is that the duck's quack is so long that most people hear the quack and the echo as one long sound instead of being able to isolate the two.
Heath
and it's harder to get a duck to quack then you would think .... favourite quote "Quack Damn you"
facemelt
Hi
My Dad was and is still a Hi Fi enthusiast and is always designing new speaker systems to transmission lines, dipole electrotatics and he got me into it too yes it is deep reading and studying but well worth the effort. We test the loudspeaker outside away from any reflective surfaces and it works very well.. The best advise that I can give if you do wana try, is to get speakers that have a high Xmax and that the free to air resonance Fs (Hz) is as low as possible for the size of the speaker. Xmax is the distance that the cone can move up & down the greater the better cos there is less distortion at high db's. Scottronics, and PQ sound has very reasonable priced Hi Fi loudspeaker parts which do and can do the job..
anyway good luck.. It is easier buying monitors but it then takes the challenge away enjoy!!!!!!
FatBoy
I don't know hey, my personal feeling is that I'd probably try to build my own Hi Fi speakers and maybe even stage monitor, but studio monitors I believe is best left to the pros.
