Building my own monitors.

[DannyBlack]

Crazy behaviour.
It`s good to build your own things, but do you even have the equipment or know how to test what you havemade accurately.

Do you have a treated sound room to then test and possibly retune the cabinets you have made?

Microtuning of ports is notoriously difficult (that is if you decide on open cabinet design), and no offence, you aren`t even yet a pro level producer of the standard that would be required to understand the full process involved in making a flat response monitor.


There is littl epoint in fecking around with something as importnat as nearfield monitoring.

As an interesting side project it might be nice to spend a few years dicking around with monitor design, but to try to make something fully usefull for the studio in one go with no high end monitor design/manufacture/testing experience is a bit of a folly.

If you are dead serious it might be worth taking a 2 year course in accoustic design. There is a producer I know, Ahkoo, who used to build hifi speakers commercially and who did this course, who I could put you in touch with, she might be able to advise you, but then, even she uses professionally made studio monitors.

The only way I will learn is trial and error, it is as simple as that. Sure I could take classes but it would be a waste to be honest. I can literally only learn if I try it myself. I know that sounds strange, but I learn by trail and error and lots and lots of anally retentive reading.

@Baz, good call mate. The house is full of speakers broken and working so I have noted the designs and put down some rough drawings.

Tis going to be interesting and something to keep me occupied for a while.

Ye's are probably reading this and thinking "what a pleb" :lol: I probably am, but I have to do it.

Cheers for the feedback lads. :-) If it is a success I will post the designs for ye and some nude pics of me getting my hump on with the speakers.

[stjohn]

good project... although i can see what Laugh is getting at.. these are going to be your final point of reference, before your ears, so ideally, you would want them to be as decisive as possible. however, u do stand to learn alot in the process. might be best to do as much reading/learning as possible before u start the trial and error.


im starting to build one of these :)