• Amp as a sub-woofer?
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So, long story short (as possible, anyway), I have shitty speakers; they don't have terrible trebble, but the mid-range to bass is bad. I have a practice amp for my basses, and lots of old wire laying around. I wrapped one end of a wire to the end of the amp cord (with the cord plugged into the amp, obviously), and put the other end of the wire into the headphone plug on my speakers; I turned the low, and low-mid all the way up, and right now, it works as a sub-woofer for me. It actually sounds pretty damn good. As long as I keep the volume at about the same level on which I would normally play bass, is there a risk of damaging the speakers, or the amp? So far, I haven't had any problems, just a little hiss when I turn the high, or high-mid up pretty much at all.
Well thats a really fuckin' ghetto fab way of doing it, but it works. I interned at an audio engineering and acoustics research lab this summer and reading the description made me cringe. It's like seeing the shitton of adapters people use that make their music sound so awful. But yeah, if you cant get anything else it will work in a pinch. I don't recommend it though. Just find yourself a cheap powered sub.
[QUOTE=nubscaper;24554866]Well thats a really fuckin' ghetto fab way of doing it, but it works. I interned at an audio engineering and acoustics research lab this summer and reading the description made me cringe. It's like seeing the shitton of adapters people use that make their music sound so awful. But yeah, if you cant get anything else it will work in a pinch. I don't recommend it though. Just find yourself a cheap powered sub.[/QUOTE] It actually sounds better than I expected. It gives the sound more fidelity, and body, and the bass is pretty damn booming for being a practice-amp. I just wondered if there could be any potential for problems down the line.
Well lets not talk about fidelity when you're using that setup, pal. I doubt there would be any problems. Just try not to short anything out.
I only did it that way with a random wire because I didn't feel like killing a pair of earbuds just to be able to plug it in, instead of just putting the exposed wire in.
Reminds me of my ghetto 6.3 surround sound system I made with unwanted dell speakers (the kind where the two speakers and the subwoofer cables are connected and can't be seperated.)
Okay, well thanks for your time, then, bud. I'll try and be careful in my future endeavors. [editline]12:12AM[/editline] Everyone's breaking my automerge...
I do love collecting shittons of old speakers and recievers and amps and stockpiling them till I can make huge arrays. I've made a decent working 14.2 system before. :smug:
An Amp is pretty much a bigass speaker, treat it as so, and you are.
[QUOTE=jeimizu;24554979]Reminds me of my ghetto 6.3 surround sound system I made with unwanted dell speakers (the kind where the two speakers and the subwoofer cables are connected and can't be seperated.)[/QUOTE] Haha I still have one of those sitting in a closet. You've given me a brilliant idea.
[QUOTE=nubscaper;24554866]Well thats a really fuckin' ghetto fab way of doing it, but it works. I interned at an audio engineering and acoustics research lab this summer and reading the description made me cringe. It's like seeing the shitton of adapters people use that make their music sound so awful. But yeah, if you cant get anything else it will work in a pinch. I don't recommend it though. Just find yourself a cheap powered sub.[/QUOTE] Yo, how does one wire up a car subwoofer and 6x9s to a computer with power and etc
I don't know if I should just make a new thread, or if bumping this would piss someone off, but I have a problem to address directly related to this, so I figured I'd just post it here. So, at my mom's house, when I first did this, there was only a little buzz coming from the amp when plugged into my speakers, but now there's another problem. The amp is making a loud crackling sound. I've tried messing with the tuners, but that doesn't do much but change how it sounds. I've also found out that it has something to do with my laptop, because whenever I'm moving the mouse around with it plugged in, it sounds a bit different, and whenever my laptop is loading a picture in the picture/fax viewer, it doesn't crackle, until the picture's loaded that is; same for changing my desktop wallpaper- it doesn't crackle when loading it, but starts back up once the wallpaper's fully loaded. I don't have my camera with me, and won't have it for a few more days, so I can't really show you these things, I have to try and describe them.
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