how to tell what a box is tuned to

[Hydrastas 10+ year member]

alright, after sleeping for 18 hours im starting to remember what i did yesterday. so the box isn't as sturdy as it could be. it still sounds pretty badass imo. i know with all the sealed boxes i've had i never knew what it truely felt like to be hit with 26-30 hz at a high volume. im never again going sealed thats for sure. perhaps i got lucky on the port size since it was totally random and the box is sized the way it is cause thats the biggest i could possibly fit.

 

[darkhunter139 10+ year member]

Start over dude

Get a box plan

Go over to home depot and have them cut you the size's you need

get wood glue and silicone

 

[Hydrastas 10+ year member]

next go around im gonna use non rained on pos old box wood and wood glue. perhaps even throw in some braces for the port instead of just the top and bottem boards for support. also lookin into some carpet, i suppose the bare wood and in this case nasty lookin used up rained on too many times plywood is somewhat unfasionable.

 

[MikeR. 10+ year member]

So I'm still wondering are you serious about those boxes? I mean did you honestly think you did a good job?

 

[darkhunter139 10+ year member]

So I'm still wondering are you serious about those boxes? I mean did you honestly think you did a good job?

At first I thought it had to be a joke but I dont think anyone would screw their car up that bad just for a joke....

 

[Hydrastas 10+ year member]

after i heard it i was at least glad it didn't sound like total crap

 

[btdickey99 5,000+ posts]

At first I thought it had to be a joke but I dont think anyone would screw their car up that bad just for a joke....

that is what is going thru my head....I dont think someone would ever take the time and effort to screw their car up that much just for a joke

 

[darkhunter139 10+ year member]

It sounds like crrap dude trust me

You are just so use to it you dont realize. Build a good box and it will sound much better

 

[Hydrastas 10+ year member]

It sounds like crrap dude trust me
You are just so use to it you dont realize. Build a good box and it will sound much better

maybe, it's hard to imagine sounding better than this though.

 

[darkhunter139 10+ year member]

maybe, it's hard to imagine sounding better than this though.

For you maybe //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[JCivicHb 10+ year member]

were you on a meth binge when you built this lol? anyway my friends dad showed me you can find tuning of the box by getting like 20-100 hz test tones, and play them while watching your sub, not too loud, just make the sub move. You want to watch for the frequency that moves your subs the least, and thats right around where your tuned. he even put a piece of paper on the cone for a better visual. Good luck man

 

[pr-festiva 10+ year member]

Bullshit. If he has a good design, and builds it moderately well, he'll be so impressed that he'll try again. If he keeps guessing and doesn't learn anything, he's not getting anything out of it.

He will not learn from some one else doing his design.It will just improve his wood working skills .He needs to start with the basics like math and what tuneing is to understand why a design is good in the first place. If not he will just be copying designs and he will never be able to make his own.When did it become a sin to read?

 

[MikeR. 10+ year member]

He will not learn from some one else doing his design.It will just improve his wood working skills .He needs to start with the basics like math and what tuneing is to understand why a design is good in the first place. If not he will just be copying designs and he will never be able to make his own.When did it become a sin to read?

Dude look at his pictures.....just look at them. Don't tell us he needs to keep trying to build specifically tuned subwoofer boxes, he needs to learn woodworking skills on birdhouses or some shit like that.

I see what your saying, but no. The kid needs to start off small before he jumps into this. The best he can hope for is somone to do all the cuts for him, and he can put it together.

 

[528hz 10+ year member]

If you have been on here since 2006 and have only got this far.....then either CA.com has failed as a forum or you need to get out of stereos and let someone else do it for you....

 

[pr-festiva 10+ year member]

A regular ported box is a small step,granted he should have started with a sealed box.So we give him a box design and he builds it.He still wont know why its good. This thread was about finding tuning not wood working.I dont care what his box looks like because he has no idea what Fb,Vb Or F3 or any of that means yet.He should draw up a box plan on his own,figure out all the measurements on it.Then come on here and get some problems fixed with out all the hassle.