How to Hide Speakers in your Haunt or Halloween Display
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2024
- Hiding speakers and lights in your haunt can be a challenge. In this video, with the help of subscriber, Phil, I'll show you a way to turn any flat surface into a speaker - starting with a tombstone!
NOTE: I forgot to mention in the video that the exciter is connected to a small amplifier with an audio source.
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Love those things. Using them on my tombstone for about 3 years now. The bigger the tombstone the better love the hot glue for the wires. Nice and neat.
Great video, the possibilities are just about endless.
Super cool idea.
Excellent idea!
Sooo glad you mentioned to heat the wire/terminal first then let the solder melt into the wire! It makes the best connection!
Yeah, I don't know why more people don't make it a point to call that out.
I’m thinking these would be great to use for random sound FX around the haunt. You could have crickets for one exciter, maybe howling wind from another, etc. Different sounds coming from many different directions. These little exciters will amp up (no pun intended) your haunt. Very cool. Thanks Phil!
Any ideas on how to set this up to do this? I can’t seem to figure out how to connect multiple together and have each one play a different sound
Excellent application of an exciter. I have used these on astromechs before. Always great content on your channel!
Thank you!!
Every time I listen to your intro I'm brought back to Casey Kasem America's Top 40 and Scooby Doo :D People of a certain age will likely understand.
These are some of the coolest speakers. I have used them in Vader chest plate, Gonk droid, and a mouse droid just to name a few so seeing it used in this capacity is cool. I never got to this point... I wish I had more time for fun projects like building tomb stones. just need to water proof this now for outdoor use
Probably old hat for you but I love putting heat sharing tubing over the solder joint and connection. Gives external support to joint as well as short protection…. Just a beautiful build and fantastic idea! Thank you!
Thanks, Derek, and thank you, subscriber Phil!
It would be really awesome to mount to a thin sheet of plastic laminate that could be hidden in a compartment inside the tombstone itself... and hide the wiring in a channel or small hole drilled up from the bottom. As others have suggested, random haunt effect sounds could emanate from various items creating a really creepy overall vibe !
I swear whatever idea I have running through my head and trying to sort out ends up being your next video 😝 Thanks for all the help and great content
Mini bluetooth speakers also are great for placing around your haunt to add all sorts of ambient noise. Batteries should last one entire night between charges.
Derek’s the MANNNNNNNNN
Shout out to Mrs Van Oaks as well ✌🏼
Cool!!! Thanks Phil For The Project Idea!!!! Thanks for Sharing!!!!👍💯😎💀🎃
Never heard of these before, thanks for sharing! Might be a fun thing to play with for tabletop terrain as well.
Damn, Derek's fingernail game is on point.
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This is brilliant. I know just where to use it next Halloween. Thanks, Phil, for giving VanOaks the idea!
OMG....I've watch just about all your videos and I never could peg your voice until JUST NOW.😄😄.....CASEY KASEM AMERICAN TOP 40 !!!!!
Very cool and you could hide them almost anywhere. I was thinking what about if it rained and the plastic cup was an awesome fix great job. 🙂
Genius! That makes it easy for me to make my dragon roar
Very cool.
So im guessing you would connect it like any other speaker like to an amp correct?
That's correct. I realize as I'm replying to you that I failed to mention that in the video.
very interesting.
I like the overall concept but see a problem.
Did you notice that the transducer sounded better when you were holding it to the foam than it did when you screwed it to the foam? That's because the back of the transducer had a lot of mass (your hand) and it was free to move whatever was attached to (or touching) the front. When you mount the back of the transducer to the radiating surface, like you did with the screws, you reduce the coil movement between the front and back of the transducer. So your sound won't be as loud. I also wonder if that movement will pull the screws loose from the foam.
One possible solution would be to mount the back of the unit to a block of wood (mass) and mount the wood to the foam via some spindley legs 8 to 12 inches away from the transducer. Think of it as a spider. That will allow some flex between the mounting plane of the transducer to the plane of the radiating surface resulting in increased coil travel and louder sounds.
Of course, if you didn't lose any sound volume or loosened screws, then all I said was unnecessary,
I didn’t. I thought it was considerably better once firmly attached.
@@VanOaksProps I'm glad to be wrong then.
As a note, I've bought these very exciters for my vpin cabinet for one of the feedback mechanisms... the VHB tape ring has failed on pretty much every single one I've installed (I suspect it actually doesn't really provide enough surface area versus weight and vibrations), and I moved over to using screws anyway.
Good to know!
There´s an interesting idea about a LARP game running through my brain right as I´m seeing this video. xD
Cool
Freaking genius !
100% legit can replace your speakers. Back in my prior life we used margarine tubs and burned a small home for the wire to stick through. Tied a knot in the wire. You can use these for mid and lows, you still need a small tweeter.
Great idea! Is it Halloween yet?
That’s fantastic! Do you happen to know of a triggerable sound source? So like if someone passed by the tombstone it could moan or some such?
Check out Sprite media players.
Will do, thank you!
Love this idea!! What would you use to get the sound to the speaker though? Im new to sound and would love to add some good sound like this? if you wanted various sounds throughout the display as well how would that work?
A stereo amp is where I connected to it. If you wanted various sounds you could use multiple amps. What I like to do is have different sounds on the L and R so that I'm getting more sounds with the same amount of stereo equipment.
@@VanOaksProps How would you have two different sounds going out to R and L using one amp? Sorry for all the questions I'm new to this and quite curious about how to do this.
@@ryanashley6241 I would pan one sound to the left stereo channel only, and a different sound to the right stereo channel only. It's my experience in most home haunts that you don't need stereo sound for most audio effects. So with this method you get 2x the sounds with just 1 amp.
I own a set of vintage speakers that are very thin. They sound great, but I couldn't understand how the speakers fit. You can imagine my surprise when I open the cover and saw a piece of styrofoam....lol.
Can you supply any additional info on the amplifier and audio source? Can this easily be made stand-alone?
I like using these Pyle amps (model PDA7BU) that have a built in SD card reader because they automatically start playing when the power is turned on. So they can basically run on their own with the help of a smart outlet. As far as stand alone, I'm not sure what you mean but if you can give me a bit more context I'm happy to answer.
I like this. Now, need to find a nice MP3 player that is compact to run this system. Suggestions?
I’d get an amp that has an sd card reader instead. Lol
@@VanOaksProps Yes to that. I was thinking more in terms of how to compact the whole thing into one thing.
Curious if you have tied all these speakers back to a central multi-channel mixer. Seems like it would be best to have central control of all the soundFX right?
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You'll have to make a special tombstone in honor of Phil! "Here lies Phi. He never heard it coming…"
The channel Tech Ingredients had a great episode a few months ago all about flat speakers. There was a section covering the physical characteristics of the object to optimize sound. th-cam.com/video/GslJ8Hf4WwE/w-d-xo.html
Yes! That was the video Phil mentioned as the inspiration for emailing me.
How many watts is it?
They come in different wattages, but this one was 24w, I believe.
@@VanOaksProps Thanks Derek!
Do you run these on your 12 volt system?
No. They’re powered by a stand alone amp.
Will you tie these into you other speakers? Or run with just these?
@@gregoryleuelling3826 I’ll probably use them for specific effects, but will continue to use my other speakers as I have in the past.
How does adding the waterproof cup affect the sound?
Not at all since it's the foam that's acting as the speaker.
@@VanOaksProps Would using a harder material like wood vs. foam create a louder speaker?
@@ryanashley6241 not to my knowledge. Oddly enough, based on what I’ve read/seen, insulation foam is one of the most ideal materials for this technology.
I have considers those, but the sound comes across a bit flat and tinnie to me.....
They can be, for sure. A lot of that has to do with the material they're attached to.
@@VanOaksProps True, and since I don't have the time or inclination to try a bunch of materials,, I just hide speakers everywhere.....HA
Phil, can you make yourself known so we can show you some love, or likes, as it were?
Hello, this is Phil (Rufus on the tube). No thanks needed, just hope it helps. Hats off to Derek for taking this from an email notion to finished video in five days! I actually use 24X24 1" foam speakers as my main for music listening thanks to TechIngredients (overly) informative video. Seemed like a natural for haunts and knew Derek was the man to check it out!