I humbly submit my very multi-purpose battlestation!

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u/ImagoAdam 4d ago

👍

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u/sirlordcomic 7d ago

Love open baffles! Actually a great idea for many of the small offices and spaces. People use as they should play nicely with different room modes. nice rig.

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u/architectzero 7d ago

Everyone focused on the unusual speakers, but here’s me interested in your desktop rack. Approx how deep is it, and are you satisfied with it?

I can’t find a shallow (<7 inches deep) desktop rack for effects anywhere so I’ve been thinking about doing what you did. I noticed you used an inverted rack shelf as a topper too, which I think is damn clever, so I’ll probably be stealing that idea.

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u/Schematic_Sound 7d ago

Not sure why you got downvoted! The inverted rack shelf to make a bigger cavity in between the two shelves has honestly worked like a charm. Give it a go, might work for you too. The "enclosure" is just the two side panels with the rack ears, there's no base, but once you get a few units bolted in it holds its shape. Super simple and cheap. The whole thing is about 10" deep (plus a bit for some of the cabling), mainly because the shelves were 10" deep. If all of your equipment is shallower I'm sure you could get away with making it <7"

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u/architectzero 7d ago

Downvotes are random noise. No biggee. I’ll definitely be giving that a shot though.

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u/DinoDonkeyDoodle 7d ago

Fascinating speaker job! What are they?

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u/Schematic_Sound 7d ago

- Dayton DC300-8 12" subs

Dayton DC160-8 6.5" Midrange
Dayton DC28F-8 silk dome tweeters
Semi-DIY TPA3116-based 6-channel amplifier (right-hand side of the rack shelf, PSU in the middle)
DBX DriveRack PA2 for the active crossover and tuning

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u/Steven_1989NL 3d ago

Is that speaker setup even giving you an accurate/flat output?

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u/Schematic_Sound 1d ago edited 1d ago

A lot better than you might think! I want to re-measure it because some things have changed since the last measurement, but my measurement mic died. Gonna need to measure and put a graph up when I get my hands on a new mic.

At the end of the day though this project wasn't intended to be peak audiophile accuracy. I had a bunch of the parts already, I just wanted to see what I could slap together using what parts I already had, and minimal budget for the remaining parts. I was very surprised by how it turned out though, sounds way better than I ever expected it to.

Edit: Found a screenshot of the most recent measurement for reference. This is post-correction with the Driverack https://imgur.com/a/ysQJevH

Take it with a grain of salt, There's always much bigger peaks and dips than are visible with smoothing on the graph, but to my ears it sounds great.

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u/Steven_1989NL 1d ago

Ah, that's honestly really interesting, never would've imagined it to work that well without a resonance chamber and all. Mind you, I may be a producer but I am in no way an expert on studio monitor workings. How does it look without Driverack correcting things?

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u/Schematic_Sound 1d ago

Pretty rough lol. Most of that is the room, and it would probably be a bit better if I actually did proper math in spacing and shaping the drivers ideally in the baffle, and/or shaping the baffle, properly setting the rim of the drivers into the baffle instead of on the surface, things like that. But this was a quick and dirty job. Does just fine for my purposes

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u/Steven_1989NL 1d ago

I honestly think most rooms would give a pretty rough accuracy. I'd be curious to see the measurement before corrective software of a well built studio, one that has like a room-in-a-room setup or something. I bet even those need corrective EQ/software. I have a room in my house I built my studio in, and I have quite a few acoustic panels (mostly Vicoustic) on almost every surface, but I was surprised how the corrective software (SoundID Reference in my case) still does most of the heavy lifting. Without it there's a lot of resonance around 100-400hz making it very difficult to hear what I'm doing. With corrective software it's great and I can fully trust what I'm hearing. So I think not having a very flat line before correction does not say a whole bunch about your monitors. I use Genelec 8040bpm's btw.

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u/Schematic_Sound 1d ago edited 1d ago

For sure a lot pro studios are using room correction these days too. Even in a great room I still think corrective EQ can make a huge difference

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u/Steven_1989NL 1d ago

Exactly, I think so as well.