Microphones made from Speakers

[Stick_Player]

I know Yamaha has the SubKick, but from what I hear, it's really only good for capturing extra-low freq's.

Has anyone made one from a smaller speaker, like 3-4"? Any way to tune the frequency response of it, and use it for a bass cabinet, to capture more of the mids and lows of a bass?

The BEST way to do this is to mount a trigger on the kick (or any drum) and have it play some synth-like device - via MIDI triggers, CV input, etc.

I can "play" my Moog T-3 with a trigger impulse. Tune to ANY pitch, control the sound (i.e. samples of a cow mooing - anything), and on and on.

The "sub-kick" speaker concept is archaic.

 

[Thor]

You were there?



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Always wanted one of those Burns Nu-Sonics to go with my Bison.

The Complete Recordings Book is very interesting, but I found it really highlights how inconsistent a lot of the session info was. There is an interesting article on this particular session quoted on the Burns site.
From Bass Guitar magazine: http://www.burnsguitars.com/article12.php

 

[Stick_Player]

Always wanted one of those Burns Nu-Sonics to go with my Bison.

The Complete Recordings Book is very interesting, but I found it really highlights how inconsistent a lot of the session info was. There is an interesting article on this particular session quoted on the Burns site.
From Bass Guitar magazine: http://www.burnsguitars.com/article12.php

More mystery is always good!!!

Thanks!

 

[sonic assassin]

i made a DIY subkick out of some 5 dollar car speakers. it is effective. i would never use it on a bass cab because i like my bass to sit above the kick drum. i cut sub lows to keep it nice and clean. and this thing literally just makes things subby. on a kick drum, it is wonderful.

as previously stated, you can just as easy gate your drum, key it to an oscillator and put an 80hz sine wive through it, but that isn't as much fun.

 

[monkeyland]

But hey, if you have some speaker just lying around, and you can convert it for free, why wouldn't you do that even if it's just for fun.
If it turns out to work okay (to your ears), you just got around buying a microphone.

Thats what I did. It still won't stop my microphone buying habit.


What does it sound like? Boom Boom