The Definitive Guide to Tutorials

[The_spacemonkey]

I decided to put all of the turorials I can find on the internet all together here for anyone interested. PLEASE feel free to post any ones that I have not listed, or report any links that are no longer working so we can keep this list as current as possible.

Box Building Tutorials

• Download box building program WinISD for free here
• Box Design Tutorial by sandt38.
• Woofer Box Aiming - by Eddie Runner
  

Fiberglass Tutorials

• Bedtime for Bondo by JL Audio [pdf]
• Fiber Glass Tutorial Q&A by Justin & Jason Gelfand
• 98 Jeep Fiberglass Project by Mike
• Fiberglass Wheel Wells by Matt Borgardt
• FIBERGLASS for NEWBIES by Chris
• Fiberglass sub box in a Fiero
• Another Kick Pod Tutorial
• Kick pod fabrication
• Fiberglassing on a budget 101

Sound Damping

• Ultimate Sound Damper comparison/tech page
• sound dampning
• dynamat extreme speaker kit installation
• Mat installation guide
• Liquid installation guide
• step by step extreme second skin install

Unsorted

• Free test tones
• Calculating your own theil small parameters and other Hi-Fi design stuff.
• Passive crossover design. and choosing the right crossover
• Aperiodic Enclosures
• HORNS
• Amplifier Install Tutorial
• all kinds of great tutorials and articals..... should keep you busy for awhile...
• Headunit wiring/installation, antennnas, wiring, eliminating noise
• crossover, notch filter, and attenuation circuit designs along with assorted box building and other tutorials
• basic car audio
• Stephen Kephart's awesome Brahma 10" center console
• for information about making Radio Shack SPL meters more accurate
• Kick panels and trim rings
• Audio Calculators
• The ProCo Sound Guide for Speaker Wire Selection
• Articles, reviews, DIY Fabrication and more
• The Study Hall
• Syn-Aud-Con Tech Topics
• measure your own thiele-small parameters
• signal cable wiring (RCA cable from headunit to trunk)
• Complete Install Step by Step for Mitisubishi Mirage and Nissan Silvia
  
• Vent Dimensions Calculator

Here are great INFO sites

• everything from crossovers, to alignments, to anything you could want to know. If you are into audio, you SHOULD read this
• Why wire quality dosent matter
• Thiele/Small parameters-defined
• theil small parameters an other general audio
• DIY subwoofer page...
• more on "in car" sound quality theory
• What is sound quality and how is it judged?
• Music and the human ear
• all kinds of wiring, group delay, DUMAX and more info
• Physical and Acoustic problems affecting Sound Quality in a Car
• radio wiring for those with chopped off harnesses
• another great all around info site
• a pretty extensive list of places to buy audio products online
• How a speaker works
• free test tones
• speaker damping, and the pro's and cons to sealed vs ported
• lots of good info, even though it is geared for hometheater
• advice for choosing the right online place to buy from
• ripping good sounding MP3's
  
• great info on loudspeakers and DVC configuartion relationships
• sundownz's amp pics page
• acoustics, waves, phase
• big 3 upgrade 'tutorial'

[systempimp_1500]

Oh ****ing sweet.......

They should replace the search option with this thread

Looks good dude. I'm about to start reading........




Jeff

[LoN]

someone outta sticky this for los newbios, nice collection of information

[luvdeftonz]

Oh, and if you want to know what the hell Warbleed, Geolemon, Sir Dan Wiggins, et al, are talking about in their posts, go here for a dumbies guide to t/s parameters:

Thiele/Small parameters-defined

I took this off CAT, in the Tech section. I don't know if Michael is going to change it again, so I didn't give a direct link to his site.

[The_spacemonkey]

added to the list...thanks

[Jimi77]

Good job SpaceMonkey. They should pin this thread to the top. Let me add this valuable source of basic car audio knowledge.

http://www.eatel.net/~amptech/elecdisc/caraudio.htm

[The_spacemonkey]

its already on there but thanks anyways

[chickendud]

great list, thanks. I am interested inall the fiberglass stuff... gives me another good way to procrastinate from doing homework
-dan

[fugyaself]

cool now i have something to read at work today.

[sandt38]

Bump...

Good stuff here.

[deyton]

bump

[The_spacemonkey]

bump cause I added a speaker damping and sealed vs ported info page.

[winslow2]

Steve's horn tutorial isn't the best...it's a tad misleading and biased.

[sandt38]

This is the definative tutorial on subwoofer selection...

[The_spacemonkey]

Originally posted by winslow2 Steve's horn tutorial isn't the best...it's a tad misleading and biased.

Bah, Its just for information purposes. Hopefully nobody will take ANY of these as an absolute athority on any of the subjects.... they are all more like guidelines




added yours sandt..... thanks

[sandt38]

Originally posted by The_spacemonkey added yours sandt..... thanks

Uhhh, I suggest you read it first... You never read my love letters to you Spacey

[Gveto]

Is it just me, or did the comments in the Alpine demo page got out of sync with the pictures? That kinda sucked... I didn't know what was going on for the last 6+ pages...

[The_spacemonkey]

Originally posted by sandt38 Uhhh, I suggest you read it first... You never read my love letters to you Spacey

damn you and your tomfoolery

[The_spacemonkey]

Originally posted by Gveto Is it just me, or did the comments in the Alpine demo page got out of sync with the pictures? That kinda sucked... I didn't know what was going on for the last 6+ pages...

eh.... go to alpines page (http://www.alpine1.com ) and try it from there, could be because I took the link out of thier pretty frames.

[Gveto]

http://ecominet2.alpine-usa.com/html...tml?par=i7p7c1

http://ecominet2.alpine-usa.com/html...tml?par=i7p6c1

No, I think they just screwed up the comments...

[winslow2]

Spacemonkey....ah, but you would be suprised as to who takes what litterally.

[turbobeatz]

good work

[fugyaself]

bump.

need to bump this so i have something to read when i get back to work

[deyton]

yay!

[bassfreak]

top

[The_spacemonkey]

bump because I can

[The_spacemonkey]

[Drkodin]

new one for ya, http://www.diymobilesound.com/tutorials/tutorials.htm
a few odd tutorials but very helpful (how to fix broken rear view mirror, how to not get stuff stolen, etc), plus some good, well worded for new comers tutorials.

[The_spacemonkey]

all three have been added. thanks

[The_spacemonkey]

bump cause I added one and cause I can

[The_spacemonkey]

bump cause I added a couple

[H-13]

I love you

[The_spacemonkey]

thanks

[The_spacemonkey]

added two more fiberglass tutorials

[luvdeftonz]

Another "learn the basics" site, not all that dissimilar from a few of the previously mentioned...

Just click me!

[The_spacemonkey]

done

[Drkodin]

[Christos]

This rocks! TTT, and thank you.

[benasmith]

Now this site is aimed at pro audio, but audio_is_audio, so there is much invaluable information to be had:

The Study Hall

Linked off that page (but one might not notice it) is this index as well:

Syn-Aud-Con Tech Topics

which has some very, very good information especially regarding crest factors and amplifier headroom.

The only qualification I would give is to not take the information about clipping found in that first link seriously. To be blunt, the guy is just plain wrong.

[benasmith]

Oh, and don't forget Mabeita's definitive "Fiberglass anyone??" Termpro thread, which is different from that custom center console thread you've already got.

Here it is:Fiberglass anyone??