Building a Sub box I designed for two JL Audio 12w6v3's
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.พ. 2023
- I barely ever even post pictures let alone video of my builds so here's a timelapse with an amazingly terrible voice-over for the maybe two people interested of me building the box to go under the bed in the sleeper of a semi truck that I did a whole build in. Might get around to posting more about the build but did 2 12w6's on an rd1500/1 and a 3way set of Ground Zero Uranium's on a vx800/8i.
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Glad there are more than 2 people who watched this! Very cool.
Haha I'm amazed more than 4 watched and thank you!!!!
Box turned out looking AMAZING! Nice job
Thank you!!!
That came out pretty sick!! Awesome Job! I looking forward to building a box for a 12" Kick R Series
That is a dope box bro!!!
I’ve been rocking and loving the w6v3 a for a while now. I’ve had single HO for 10” and 12” and I’ve paired them in custom ported to spec but tuned to about 32 or 31hz. I’ve recently built a sealed for a single 12”. The sealed is 10% over spec and I absolutely love it. I’ve never liked sealed but the w6v3 is a different animal. Now I’m adding the second 12” sealed 10% over spec. It’s the only sub I’d recommend sealed. Best SQ I’ve ever owned and I’ve been playing with all this since 90s
The most "reasonable" recommended sub in a sealed enclosure haha. W7's go wild in sealed setups but they are just too expensive and need too much airspace to really be worth it 95% of the time compared to w6's
Great looking box. Great job I'll wait for the next one 👍👍
Great job 👌👍
You can clearly see the passion you on what you do! 💯
I got the same truck and I would love to do that same style box in the truck 💪🔥
Dude that means a lot thank you for saying that!
Great job man looks nice
Good job man 👍looks badass!
Hey thanks man!!! I appreciate it!
Sick looking box 👍👍
Thanks!!!
Very nice! Keep it up 👍🏽
Nice work!
Thanks!
I like the fact that there's no parallel wall behind the subs to muddy everything
Most people never figure that out
Efficientcy is everything in boxes and amplifier and speakers
The best boxes I've had were never a mindless square box
Good job
Sometimes your stock doing a flat wall behind a subwoofer but yes, if you have the room, making sure that you are not diving into a flat wall will always help even if just a little
Nice design Bro.... You got alot more than just four people watching it....👍
I know I'm just in a daze about it at this point
You did a great job mate great thing having a Truck having two Bad Boys in there I bet it sounds amazing when it's wired up. Nice one great video too 👍
Thanks!!!!!
Well done!
Thank you!!
Personally, I enjoyed the self reflective nature of the voice over. The box looks great too!
Fucking rock on brother!
Hey I appreciate the shit out of that man thank you!
Dope build
Thanks!!!
Nice work brother
Thanks man!!!!
Sick build
Thank you!!!
Thanks for doing this! Time lapse is so helpful watching people build things.
Hey thanks! I've always thought so as well
I want one!
Hey bro im new to ur channel but from what I c it very informative 👌 👍 👏 😎
Hey thanks man! And welcome haha, considering I figured maybe 4 people would watch this and apparently a lot more than that did I'm definitely going to be putting up more stuff as time allows haha
Cool box for an excellent subs. Let’s have a video of them playing!
I'll get one one of these days hopefully but thanknyou!!!
VERY very nice thanks for sharing!
Thank you for enjoying it!
Nice bro
Dustin can you share your cut list ? I really like the looks of that box and would like to make one
Bad dude love it bro
Thanks man!!!
Nice box. Kind of reminds me of the factory JL HO boxes. Love that you were able to make such a complex box with simple, everyday shop tools. No high dollar CNC laser cutters or routers. Did you get a chance to hear it once it was built?
Thanks!!!! And yeah i definitely took inspiration from the ho boxes and even thought about just setting two top to top to get the same idea but the height constraint with the sleeper and the depth constraint from the customer meant I needed to stretch it out a bit width wise, also thank you for noticing the lack of fancy tool use :). And yep had a chance to fully tune the system on a JL Max and it was pretty darn impressive considering the airspace in the cabin. Wish I could post a video of that but it's all copyright music so untill I see the truck again I don't have one
sick man
Thanks!!!!
I like it.
The way the subs were turned back in 45ﾟYou could have made a nice screen cover to bolt right to the front of that box. I would have used so metal screen mesh and bolted it right to the front of the box,but it being in a semi, the subs would be safer that way. Nothing gets smashed up against them. Those speakers are too expensive to be busting one by letting something get smashed into it... awesome box build tho props on the attention to detail an design
Yeah, for sure would have been nice to protect them more but the truck goes to a lot of semi truck shows and the customer wanted it to be seen so I figured doing them facing in like that would help protect them a bit but level them viewable for people looking in the cab. I did give him a couple grills to slip on if he was going to have a bunch of stuff in the cab though haha
I'm assuming that's a blow-through enclosure, since you mentioned it's going in a truck. Nice job man, it looks great. I always wanted to do a blow-through, but just couldn't bring myself to cut up my truck.
While you could definitely do something similar to this as a blow through, it went under the bed in the sleeper if a semi-truck. I'm the same way with blow throughs, idk if I could bring myself to do it. But I did bolt a box with 2 12w1's vented to the back wall of a tiny Ford ranger one time and that was hilarious enough
Welp all for(teen thousand) of us saw it! If this is something you regularly maybe film them all and post them! Box looks lovely by the way!
Thank you and yeah I'm still confused about this. I'm going to slap together another one from an old install that I have but just haven't had the time. Not a time lapse box build but its got some interesting stuff in it
3 w 6 with a 1200 precision power art series amp boy did that knock
hahaha i bet it did, 10's or 12's?
@@dustinsonger851 12s I still have now 2 1200.2 art series Dclass 1996
@Dustin Songer how ur box sound
Good vid and the box is very nice would you build another to sale?
Thank you!! And I'm not sure, I'm trying to figure out how things will go this summer and I might start doing minimal orders but currently I only do them in shop for in shop builds
super fucking nice build bro
Thank you so much!
As soon as you said you did all that sanding etc just to cover it with carpet I thought "that's what my girlfriend does after she applies lotion all over her beautiful self and then puts close on. Damn you polyester!!🤨 Awesome build brother. You've got skills.
Hahahahahaha
Not gonna lie, I've seen many videos with MUCH worse layouts, build quality, and less thought through the whole process. If I had one suggestion, it would be to buy or build a circle jig for the router. You can get better results easier with the speaker cut outs and recesses once you get used to using them. Otherwise a nice box and clean build.
Haha thank you! And yeah, you'll have to get in line with my distributor, installer friends, woodworking buddies, and everyone else who tells me I should do things the correct way hahaha, I'm just stubborn I guess haha
Amazing job Dustin. I have a question: Have you not considered putting the ducts on the side ends? With the acoustic center closer, one woofer to the other, we gain more sound coherence. Anyway, it must be amazing.
Technically the acoustic source of a vented enclosure IS the port, and accounting for driver based soundwaves this box design compresses all of that in the center
@@dustinsonger851 Makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the explanation.
@@dustinsonger851 I've been thinking about your statement these days and considering that there is an interaction between the port and the face of the woofer, wouldn't it be correct to say that the acoustic center in such a box will vary depending on the measured frequency? That is, at lower frequencies it would be the port, and at higher frequencies it would move to the center of the woofer.
please consider my question for purely educational purposes.
Haha I love educational purpose only questions :p. And yes you would be correct there, but don't get too caught up in that, subs don't play very high in the frequency range and for the most part, especially in a small area like a car, sub bass is pretty non-localized, and your brain has a hard time telling exactly where it's coming from. Also in a car in particular, if your going with a vented enclosure your probably much more focused on the pressure waves themselves rather than the acoustic properties of your sub bass, if your primary goal is that, you should be looking at sealed enclosures
Do you have any plans for this box I really like it
The last couple minutes has pictures of it in the customers semi truck sleeper :)
Do you have full detailed design dimensions on hand? i know this video is over a year old, but i'd like to recreate this build if you would have the blueprint of this box.
That is cool. Make a cat video next😂
You sir just made my effin day hahaha
6037th viewer!! Nice work!
Hahaha thanks and yeah it still doesn't make sense to me haha
Can this box fit in a trailblazer
I'm sure it would be able to, although I would probably use a different style of box for something like that and take advantage of the ability to load the port off the rear wall instead of this particular design
if you reverse loaded the speakers you would gain some box volume
How to long did this take to put together?
I had other stuff going on in the daytime while I was building that so it ended up being like 4 nights a few hours each I think. Nothing crazy, I'm a pretty slow builder though haha
do you make/sell your boxes?
So,so far they have only been for in store customers installs and builds but im thinking about maybe expanding that a bit if things work out a certain way
And how much would sum like this cost g
So cost is always going to be different depending on the shop, the region, the cost of wood and other things that can differ quite a bit but this one in particular I think I did $500 plus whatever the mdf cost at that time. I'd have to dig through my stuff since it was a few months ago that I did this. But generally a relatively simple vented enclosure is gonna cost somewhere in the 450-600 dollar range
How much same build
caixa top parabens , porem so faltou a pintura laqueada automotiva q fazemos no brazil
Haha yeah I have painted a few boxes, but the main reason I didn't on this is because of where it's located, having carpet is much more robust
@@dustinsonger851 yes yes anyway congratulations for your work just a question is the automotive sound business there good? or is very restricted by the authorities
@Judeon Oliveira it's not bad, they do not "restrict" us as a business, it's more up to the customer to not be an asshole in neighborhoods and whatnot
@@dustinsonger851 positivo sempre tem us para estragar
vc conheçe a categoria q predomina aqui no brasil
sistemas de som de 4 vias ou seja ( paredao)
You were not wrong about the voiceover, its really bad 😂 But the box turned out nice, good job on that.
haha its pretty bad thats for sure, but thank you!
Hater!!! The voice over was perfectly fine
@@itsjustavi you did not read the video description, did you. The Video Creator himself stated him doing an: quote: "amazingly terrible voice-over" in the descrition. So dont call me a hater for you being unable to read two sentences.
Bro, You take request??
In what way? Like for a video? I barely have enough time to pull out my phone and take pictures of builds half the time so sadly at the moment not really but I'd like to work on this video thing to get to a point where I could focus more on it than the day to day grind
Bagus sekali tapi saya mau praktek butuh dana 100 Dollar,tak punya....semoga bisa terlaksana
можно чертеж ?
коли повернуся, перевірю
5.8xxk viewer!!
Dude I know it's honestly freaking me out, I thought maybe 4 or 5 people would watch this hahahaha
👌🤘💯💥💥😛
You should give the specs and seize of the box bud
Once I'm back I'll get what numbers I have and put them up in a community post for everyone.
Thanks bud
Yo dude, make that for me for 1 infinity reference 860watt with max overall height of 9.5" 01 ram1500 xtracab. It's going under the bench seat so figure a plexitop that I'll get later
So half that box figured for plexi but sent birch everything
I also need on the other half a retuned jl bass wedge slot port. And I'm seeing variances in the boxes for 2 6.5" infinity subs off eBay
Do a demo
I think I took some video of testing it, I'll see if I still have all of those. I was worried about putting any of that in the video because it's more a test of the microphone than a show of what the setup sounds like. Plus I have no idea how the copyright stuff will work out haha but I'll try to put one of those up
@@dustinsonger851 Please do it. Even without music, if you make a video with RTA readings in an open field and/or inside the car. Any kind of information produced in a project like this would be very welcome. And also, of course, your subjective impressions.Thanks!
dope box, but why do people like JL? Ive had so much better results with Skar and sundowns. Guess its all preference. Really nice box tho.
Thanks and honestly, your comparing 3 completely different companies... There is zero connection between them other than the very loose definition of "they make subwoofers"... In my experience, sundown is an spl company through and through, just create pressure. Skar, no offense, but is off the shelf slapped together assemblies that sell for cheap and give you results that equal the price tag, not necessarily a bad thing per second, they kick the crap out of most cheap brands but there excursion numbers are a joke compared to power requirements and subwoofer sizes. JL is an SQL company, main focus being audio quality which is not necessarily what everyone is looking for but when you are, they are next to impossible to beat especially considering they have a ton more excursion than any sub that's purely focused on sq, as well as running on significantly lower power levels. But price is the main reason people don't use them, they are a premium product that comes with a premium price tag
I should add though, I'm personally a ground zero audio guy haha. Beats all three of them on output per dollar, and some of there subs can directly out compete jl's w6 line in output and damn near out compete in sq at 2/3's the price, only downside is they need 3 times the power but that's why soundigital exists
1.3 per sub? That box to small, it would be ok if it was sealed, but ported, it's not gonna hit any of the low notes and have a high peak making it sound punchy like a bass drum. If you listen to rock and heavy metal it would prolly sound decent.
I would normally totally agree with you, most boxes I build for 12's are in the 2-2.5 cube range per sub but W6's are optimized for much smaller air space's than most subs, port tuned at 34 and it has plenty of response below 30hz and not peaky at all. If you ever get a chance to mess around with a w6 do it, they will shock you haha.
@Dustin Songer Yea I had W6 12's and 15's when I was younger, back in the mid- late 90's. The old school version one's were some of the best sounding subs ever imo. Yes there designed for smaller boxes but not that little, the JL enclosures for them are bigger and manufacturers usually build there boxes to the lowest airspace recommend so there compact.
@@amanteapasionado6836 www.jlaudio.com/collections/car-audio-subwoofers-w6v3/products/12w6v3-d4-car-audio-w6v3-subwoofers-92141
definitely not trying to come off as confrontational or anything, just informative, the v3's are wild compared to most stuff out there and jl's direct recommended size for a vented enclosure minus the port is 1.3 plus a port tuned to 33hz, I've built more than a few boxes for them and they all have responded well, and that's not just my ear nor my customers, but I also use a JL MAX to help tune my systems with dsp's so i see the frequency response in actual measurement on that as well. Now, i will give you that the h.o. box does seem to be different than the specs they recommend, but I've never stuffed the port and measured the airspace of the chamber in an h.o box but my guess is its probably somewhere around 1.5ish cube, why, i cant without any certainty or real studying of it say why but in any case in my experience I've had good enough luck with the recommended size in all sorts of vehicles and didn't want to push my luck trying something new in a vehicle like a semi that i had only seen once in person as well as having little experience building systems in them. and in the end this system was using a vxi800/8 to power the front stage and control the 1500/1 on the subs and what i saw in measurements and heard in person was definitely a good response from them. sorry for anyone who actually reads this whole book of a response but i love positive discourse haha
@@dustinsonger851 classy and informative response 👏
That’s a small amount of airspace bruh🤣
Haha sure is, w6's are amazing haha
What you couldn't afford 13w7's
Well technically my customer could have afforded one for the price of two w6's hahaha
Strange design. Kind of a too short transmission line mixed with a too long bassreflex port.
Not really honestly, in no way, shape, or form is it a transmission line box even slightly, it's just a standard vented enclosure, the only reason it probably wierd looking is because you have been most likely dealing with "prefab" enclosures or guys who haven't done 18+ inch long ports. There is a lot of guys including myself who prefer the sound of a port that is longer than 18 inches and that is all you are seeing here
Igor bore in the first minute sorry you talk to much!
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I want one!