72" Bass Cannon- Built by University of Wisconsin PhD students

[jrdnhsnbrg 10+ year member]

Alright everyone, prepare yourselves. This thing is ******. Leave it to some fellow Wisconsinites to make a 6 foot "bass cannon" and find the resonant frequency of the building they were in. According to the article, peak power draw was somewhere around 6000W. Who wants to make one with me and put it in a semi trailer? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

article: http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2012/03/07/university-of-wisconsin-engineering-students-build-absurdly-huge-bass-cannon-let-it-kick-it/

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[basswiigee]

lol, mtx did it before too....

 

[jrdnhsnbrg 10+ year member]

How big was it?

 

[basswiigee]

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thats perfect for your truck!!!

 

[basswiigee]

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[jrdnhsnbrg 10+ year member]

Ah, yes, the jackhammer. Cool stuff //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif I just like the fact that some college students from Wisconsin built that. I wanna take a road trip down to see it, if I had the time I totally would. It's a good 3 hour drive one way to get to Madison.

 

[Spooney 10+ year member]

Mtx made a woofer much larger than the jack hammer. Wasn't so much mtx made as it was sponsored. The second pic posted is the back of it but the first one posted is something different. I believe it was 60 inches and was a lot tougher than the one those students built. Would have never fit into a box only two feet deep. The first time they used it the vehicle it was in was severely damaged. It was built into another truck and was never really used much after that. I actually had the pleasure of seeing it in action one year at db drag finals and well I have never seen anything like that. I thought the cab was going to explode. I know Richard Clark had a hand in building that beast.

 

[basswiigee]

Mtx made a woofer much larger than the jack hammer. Wasn't so much mtx made as it was sponsored. The second pic posted is the back of it but the first one posted is something different. I believe it was 60 inches and was a lot tougher than the one those students built. Would have never fit into a box only two feet deep. The first time they used it the vehicle it was in was severely damaged. It was built into another truck and was never really used much after that. I actually had the pleasure of seeing it in action one year at db drag finals and well I have never seen anything like that. I thought the cab was going to explode. I know Richard Clark had a hand in building that beast.

yeah i know the pics are different, i like the first one though cuz its a modern install and its still huge....

 

[jrdnhsnbrg 10+ year member]

That's pretty impressive, I wish I could see some stuff like that. It says they were working with a limited budget, I'd be interested to see what they could build with more money.

 

[Spooney 10+ year member]

yeah i know the pics are different, i like the first one though cuz its a modern install and its still huge....

I am not even sure that is really a sub. If you look along the sides of it you will see it is lined with amplifiers. That thing would obviously have to go inside that enclosure for that hatch to shut as well. I think its just a bad *** amp rack.

 

[basswiigee]

I am not even sure that is really a sub. If you look along the sides of it you will see it is lined with amplifiers. That thing would obviously have to go inside that enclosure for that hatch to shut as well. I think its just a bad *** amp rack.

yeah i seen that... and its way bigger than the 22in jack hammer... they did a huge square on as well...

 

[Sub Woofin 10+ year member]

that speaker reminds me of back to the future, where Marty Mcfly tries it out with his guitar and blows it

 

[jrdnhsnbrg 10+ year member]

that speaker reminds me of back to the future, where Marty Mcfly tries it out with his guitar and blows it

They have a reference to that in the article!

 

[CaptainMaximus 10+ year member]

That's impressive, especially on a limited budget. 5 hz!!!

 

[jrdnhsnbrg 10+ year member]

That's impressive, especially on a limited budget. 5 hz!!!

6kW //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif