SIGNAL :LIVE

SUBJECT :SOUND / MATTER / ROOM

LOG :YR. 12 — 047 EXPERIMENTS ON RECORD

Mad Lab Sound

We build the cabinet, tune the cabin, and run the wire that carries it — then we play the record. The whole signal chain dialed by one operator who never stopped experimenting.

FIG. 01 / FIELD NOTES
TRANSCRIBED BY HAND
SUBJECT — IN OBSERVATION

Enter The Lab 01 Book DJ TS 02 See The Work →

OSC. 01 — LIVE CH-1 / CH-2 / SUB DB +04.2

15" hits like 18" Box engineering SPL without distortion Rebassed for the cabin Full install, single source DJ TS — bookings open Production / Tuning / Performance 15" hits like 18" Box engineering SPL without distortion Rebassed for the cabin Full install, single source DJ TS — bookings open Production / Tuning / Performance

// 02 — TWO LANES

FIG. 02 — DIVERGENCE OF SUBJECT

One operator.
Two lanes of attack.

LANE / 01 HARDWARE × SOFTWARE

The Lab

Custom enclosures, full vehicle installs, and audio prepared for the system it will run through. The cabinet, the cabin, the source.

// Build: Enclosures, installs, electronics
// Sound: Production, tuning, rebass
// Output: SPL · clarity · the right kind of headache

LANE / 02 LIVE PERFORMANCE

DJ TS

The performance arm. Mixes, sets, beats, and the kind of dance-floor engineering that only happens when the builder is also the booker.

// Sets: Open-format · house · low-end heavy
// Bookings: Clubs, private, corporate, festival
// Output: Mixes · originals · beats · remix work

// 03 — SIGNATURE EXPERIMENT

We make a 15" 15" hit like an 18".

It isn't trick. It's box engineering — port geometry, internal volume, and load matched to the cone's actual best behavior, not its datasheet. The result is the kind of low-end that doesn't just play back, it moves air, and it moves you.

Every enclosure is modeled, cut, glued, sealed, and tested with the subwoofer that will live in it. No template builds. No "should work" math.

Commission An Experiment Walk-through 047 →

Driver15" / 4-Ω DVC

Vbox2.4 ft³ net

Port Tune32 Hz

Port Area52 in²

InternalBraced 2× layer

Power1.5 kW @ 2Ω

SPL Avg147.2 dB

SPL Peak149.6 dB

F3 -3dB28 Hz

Distortion< 4% @ 40Hz

Build hrs38 hrs

VerdictApproved

          20 Hz80 Hz200 Hz1 kHz5 kHz20 kHz
        

// 04 — END TO END

FIG. 04 — SIGNAL FLOW

The whole chain.
One pair of hands.

Most installs are touched by three or four people. A box guy, an install guy, a tuner, a DJ. We are all four — which means nothing gets lost in translation. Every node of the chain knows what the next one needs.

// NODE 01

Source

Tracks engineered or re-mastered for the system they're going into. Bass scaled to the cabin, not the studio monitors.

// NODE 02

Signal

Head-unit, processing, signal-path clean. Crossovers and EQ set per vehicle, not per template.

// NODE 03

Enclosure

Box and port modeled, cut, braced, sealed. Mounted with isolation that respects the chassis.

// NODE 04

Room

Final tuning done in the cabin — the actual listening environment. The car becomes the last instrument.

047

Experiments / Logged

149^dB

Loudest Build / SPL Peak

12^yr

Subject In Practice

Operator / End To End

// 05 — SELECTED EVIDENCE

FIG. 05 — RECENT FIELD WORK

From the bench.

A sample of recent builds, installs, sessions, and sets. Every project is documented end-to-end — schematics, build photos, before/after measurements, and the audio that came out of it.