Long time no see.

It has been while since the blog has seen any changes, not because I have not left the house but because I do not seem to have spent much time in it to let you know what has been going on. Weekend of the 16/17th was spent in Stoke catching up with friends over there and a day’s biking in Cannock Chase with my brother.The last week I decided it was time to run a week long course and worked with a Princes Trust team taking them climbing, up in the mountains and teaching them bushcraft plus plenty of emphasis on team work.

The water on to boil during a bushcraft session.

This weekend has been spent in the Fricsan running the sound system for two different nights. Saturday was the busiest of these with Byd Mawr and their global grooves with guest DJ Bethan Elfyn from Radio 1. I tried to take a picture but the camera was too cold and the lens suffered from condensation. After collecting all the remaining sound system I have been lucky enough to spend the rest of Sunday afternoon in the workshop cutting the panels for my new speaker build.

Using the router to cut the front baffle.

Depar Sounds, X1 build.

After Tom from the local climbing wall manufactures had CNC’ed the ply for me, this weekend just gone is the first opportunity I have had to build my new sub bass speakers, speakerplans.com, X1's.

To get prepared Friday meant a visit to Definitions night in Bangor was in order for some beer and drum and bass. This meant Saturday was the day to get going and I spent 11 hours in the workshop with 8 hours from Michael. Sunday was the longest day with 15 hours spent at it, another 4 from Michael and 2 hours from Tom. Thanks Tom I hate all the sanding and preparing. Below are some pictures from the project at different stages for the two different cabinets. All the ply is top quality 18mm birch ply and they are now loaded with Void V18 1000’s.

The pictures are all very good but what you really what is to hear these monsters, I hope to see you out when they are playing soon.

The internals of cabinet number 1.

The internals of cabinet number 2 during construction.

Cabinet number 1 awaiting at paint job.

Number 1 after a couple of coats of paint.

Number 2 all ready for painting, with the removable speaker access panel showing.

The finished articles.

Depar Sounds, improvements underway.

As a drum and bass DJ a good sounding system that can handle the bass lines, especially as the modern ones that are getting heavier is important. I have recently decided make my own (read, with the help of few others) subs to increase the output of the current Depar Sounds system. I decided to make a pair of X1’s and today most of the parts arrived from Pro Audio Parts, the most impressive being the 20Kg Void V18 1000 driver which will sit in the heart of the cabinet.

The Void V18 1000 and complimentary mouse mat.