Building Bicycle Sound Systems Orlando

By Kevin King


Bicycle Sound Systems (BSS) are growing in popularity. Anyone who has gone to a festival, seen or participated in a Critical Mass ride or watched the Skyride events will have seen a BSS in operation. The following is a description of what I have learnt over the years in the art of building sound systems Orlando attached to a bicycle.

Experience shows that the owner/manager of the nightclub needs to be proactive in dealing with the Architects, Acoustic Consultants and AV Consultants/Integrators so as to get the best nightclub system design for their venue. And it makes sense too, as investment in good systems alone can range anywhere between INR 50 lacs-1.5 crores depending on the size of the venue. Huge investment costs coupled with the time investment makes it very important to do it right the first time.

Now, let's put all this into perspective with what the human ear can hear: the name "tweeter' and "woofer" originated from sounds that we so commonly hear on a daily basis emanating from birds (tweet) and dogs (woof). The human ear is capable of hearing frequencies in the audible range from 20 Hz (Hertz) to 20,000 Hz. A subwoofer has a range of 20 Hz to 200 Hz, thus starting at the low end of human listening. The large subwoofer size permits it to move air more freely during the sound process while maintaining that deep rich low bass sound that we can literally feel in the air.

How the music interacts with the enclosed space of your venue? Which material inside the venue is acoustically opaque or transparent and how does it affect the low, mid and high frequencies? Is your venue suppressing some frequencies? How will the acoustic material used inside the venue age with time and how it will affect music?

The majority of the flat panel TVs being sold are limited in space allocation for their speakers thus affecting the quality of sound coming from the unit and, furthermore, are challenged by the manufacturer's design efforts to produce a television as thin as possible. The quality emanating from those units often leaves a lot to be desired and purchasing a good system adds significantly to the quality being produced without having to spend a fortune.

There has to be a balance between what is audible, the fidelity of the reproduction, what can be afforded, and what is practical. A super loud system can not only annoy the neighborhood and attract the police but it becomes really heavy and is impossible to move. Remember there is not just the weight of the speakers, there are also batteries and amplifiers that have to be carried.

Recently, with the advent of flat panel TVs, manufacturers have developed a new concept design called the sound bar or soundbar that plug into the back or side of your current HD flat panel TV via a single cable that is HDMI (high definition multimedia interface) compliant. It contains all the frequency range speakers and amplifier necessary to nearly give you that rich Dolby sound system that one hears in theaters, and at a very affordable price.

Critically the amplifier must not be overdriven. This usually happens when the output of the amplifier is not enough for the situation. Everything is turned to max to compensate and there is distortion. We have all heard it, in cars, clueless DJ's, PA systems... The crazy thing is that turning it down just a bit will reduce the volume very slightly but everything can now be heard properly without distortion.




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