10" Sub Kick?

thegeek · Post by **thegeek** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 10:28 pm

I have an old 10" driver that has been in my garage for about 2 years. I was going to make a BFM stage monitor with it but I've since changed my mind (don't do much live sound work anymore)...

So I was thinking I might want to make a Sub Kick. The only question I have is whether or not 10" is too big. Most of the ones I've seen are 6.5" - 8".

Thanks!

Snarl 12/8 · Post by **Snarl 12/8** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 11:53 pm

You can try it pretty quickly and non-destructively. It took me about 20 minutes to make my subkick once I got the driver. My guess is that a 10" is too big. It'll capture something, but maybe too sub-low to be very desireable sounding. It'll totally depend on what mic sound you're mixing it with, obviously. I got my subkick driver at Goodwill. I bought a computer speaker subwoofer that had a 6" woofer in there and I think it works great wired straight up to an XLR, someday I want to build a little DI for it.

strdsk · Post by **strdsk** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:40 am

I actually use a 12 inch subkick I built housed in a floor tom and it's my favorite kick mic of all time. In fact, I find the smaller drivers like 8s to be too small. The 12 is much more mighty sounding and it's output will be just as high as an 8. Bigger than 12 is another story. I went 15 once and yes...it was unusable as far as mud goes...

Snarl 12/8 · Post by **Snarl 12/8** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 11:40 am

strdsk wrote:I actually use a 12 inch subkick I built housed in a floor tom and it's my favorite kick mic of all time. In fact, I find the smaller drivers like 8s to be too small. The 12 is much more mighty sounding and it's output will be just as high as an 8. Bigger than 12 is another story. I went 15 once and yes...it was unusable as far as mud goes...

Damn, I've got a 12 hanging around that I'll have to try now.

strdsk · Post by **strdsk** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 1:54 pm

You won't regret it! Yes...the cone does have more mass to move, but it also has a bigger gatherer of air pressure! Also. high pitch sounds don't have enough force to move it so it acts as a low pass filter. At only 4 to 16 ohms this driver will have tons of output! You may have to pad it at close range to kicks even. Put it in a drum to tune the resonant pitch and love it even more. Just be sure to wire pin 2 to - and you'll be all good! I've built gobs of these things www.myspace.com/tonaleclipsestudio to see pics.

thegeek · Post by **thegeek** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 8:57 pm

strdsk wrote:You won't regret it! Yes...the cone does have more mass to move, but it also has a bigger gatherer of air pressure! Also. high pitch sounds don't have to force to move it so it acts as a low pass filter. At only 4 to 16 ohms this driver will have tons of output! You may have to pad it at close range to kicks even. Put it in a drum to tune the resonant pitch and love it even more. Just be sure to wire pin 2 to - and you'll be all good! I've built gobs of these things www.myspace.com/tonaleclipsestudio to see pics.

Great pics... any build pics?

Snarl 12/8 · Post by **Snarl 12/8** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 9:51 pm

You're using a 2-way, coaxial speaker as a subkick? That's a killer idea.

strdsk · Post by **strdsk** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:10 pm

Thanks guys! No real build in progress pics though. The coax mics had two outs...one for lows and one for highs. Each of these mics I built are one off pieces of art in a strange way. I have built many more since these pics were taken...one model stranger than the next. Almost all of them killed the Yamaha model...

rolandk · Post by **rolandk** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 2:31 pm

I use a 10" car subwoofer and it puts out some serious chest-thumping low end.

strdsk · Post by **strdsk** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 2:32 pm

I bet it did!

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