floor tom 1x15"cab

[burt_toast]

yep!

i had a junky old 15" collecting dust, resting on a junky old 16" floor tom (just sitting up on a shelf at work for ages!), when the dreaded idea took hold: make a junky, unusual, and MUCH lighter 1x15" for my junky, unusual one-man-band, Amish Drum Machine. I traced the inside of the shell on paper, then made 4 curved pieces of hardwood (each one 90 degrees of the inside radius - about 3/4" thick), and glued them to the inside about 1" down from the top. there's only about a 1/8" extra space around the speaker. then i removed the little vent rivet and mounted the 1/4" jack there. lastly, i thought of gluing regular, white grill cloth to the top head (w/a big hole cut out), but settled on punching loads of 1/4" holes, so it also resembles a giant pepper shaker. there's little sonic difference with or without top head.

the red circles you see on the cone are little thin leather patches (to cover rips) - i did say junky - hope to replace it. but the sound is good, both for guitar and my pseudo-bass (boss oc3). it points straight up, of course, but that's not such an issue with low end anyway. all in all, a good tradeoff since i lug all this gear myself.

oh yeah, tried it first with insulation glued to inside bottom head - very stifled. ended up cutting about a 6" hole in it - much better. and unbelievably, no rattles!

[John]

That is cool, definitely thinking outside the box!

[burt_toast]

thank you, sir.

[Willabe]

Very cool idea.

Burnt Toast aren't you the one man band guy who built your back up band? It's in the 2'nd photo in the plexi glass box?


                   Brad      

[burt_toast]

yep.
Amish Drum Machine - Scott Gorsuch - @ Rumba Cafe 7-29-11

the floor tom cab is for that project. next i want to get a e-h 44 magnum for the bass (44w guitar head in a stompbox!) instead of my old Conn organ tube amp. the conn sounds great, but jesus it's heavy - HUGE transformers.
scott

[burt_toast]

crap, i just wanted the vid as a quiet little link. oh well...

[burt_toast]

one thing i haven't tried yet is a 2x15" floor tom cab! since the speakers would oppose each other, it'd be interesting to hear them in/out of phase. maybe it'd suck *shrug*

[JayB]

That's really cool and I dig the tune. How you do all that is beyond me. I can play guitar and sing the occasional harmony. But any more than that, I'm lost.