MeenGreenAudio Posted September 23, 2014 Author Report Posted September 23, 2014 this thread makes me happy. OP, do you have a build thread for your current setup? Or any pictures you can post? I am keen to see it He does and it isn't a bad build at all. If I remember correctly his box is seriously pretty and very well built. Kid DOES have some skills, I'll give him that kudos. thanks man appreciate it Build Log 1996 chevy suburban 2 zv4 15 kenwood excelon mids and tweeters kenwood excelon deck mevhman 370 3 batts all different mechman avmb II 2 inch squat 33 inch muds straight pipes kixker zx series 4ch sundown amps memphis 0 gauge soon to be fu audio c pillar wall
MeenGreenAudio Posted September 23, 2014 Author Report Posted September 23, 2014 Just read the whole thread this is just my 2 cents 4 zv3s would be sick but so would 18 15s but deff dont go with an off brand that never works out what do you think about running a 21 or two in my opinion that would be more visually appealing most normal ppl have never seen subs larger than 12s or 15s if it was my choice i would get these http://store.soundsolutionsaudio.com/products/warden-21-incriminator-audio-21-3500w-warden-series.html idk your budget but a couple of those would impress alot of ppl if thats what your going for arnt the 21 inch wardens cursed or something heard that at sbn last year Build Log 1996 chevy suburban 2 zv4 15 kenwood excelon mids and tweeters kenwood excelon deck mevhman 370 3 batts all different mechman avmb II 2 inch squat 33 inch muds straight pipes kixker zx series 4ch sundown amps memphis 0 gauge soon to be fu audio c pillar wall
csermonet47 Posted September 24, 2014 Report Posted September 24, 2014 Just checked out your build thread, gotta say I was pleasantly surprised with it. Good job on the install and box build. If you want to get noticed, my advice is keep doing what you're doing. Ditch the quantity idea and go for quality. Less is more. I saw your pile of amps you were going to use for the mids/highs, how did those come about? Did you find someone selling them all as a group and get a good deal? Good job though all around. Box was impressive. Your install is cleaner than mine at the moment!
Deeznutz Posted September 24, 2014 Report Posted September 24, 2014 Not bad kid! Glanced at your other threads. It's a start for sure. I'm going to start building boxes for free locally to get better at wood working. (only the build is free, not the materials). Should be doing a box for my buddie's daughter's X5 soon. He just had a baby boy, so I will give it a few wks. Someone at work with a Scion wants a box redone so he has my #. Like everyone said, get your name out there. Do whatever it takes. My gf's daughter has a friend that wants a box build for his SUV. Motivation stories for you to chew on: 1. My buddy with the X5, he is a business owner. Yrs ago he was canned from a National Tire Store for something stupid. From that point on he wanted to own his own business so he "Would never have to answer to a boss again. I am the boss". A Decade later he now has 2 automotive shops. He pays others, he does not do the work. Something to keep in mind like someone else posted. 2. My other friend always said he wanted to own a night club. I always thought he was full of it. What the hell, we were teens, slammin' down beers and talking shit. Yrs after I take my gf out and , SHIT! I see my friend on Stage at the Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, FL, standing to and talking with Legendary singer STEVIE B. Yeah, he made it! Turns out, he's started out doing "Raves" in Ybor City, and in Open fields in and around Tampa since the Early 2000's. He's been doing promo's for yrs and has met alot of musicians and singers through the yrs! 3. Growing up, my old man's friend who was a NYC cabbie/automotive mechanic......always told me "Have No Shame!". I would always smile at him because he would say that shit randomly. lol. I thought he was weird for saying that. Never knew what it meant. lol. Well, he went from a cabbie, to making jewish pastries, he got his name out there and before you knew it he had a side business in the late 80's. Later he opened up a small pastry shop in Queens, NY. The business took ALOT OF WORK< and the whole family had to pitch in to keep it a float. It did take a toke on his marriage. But they pulled through. He made enough to take a few vacations to the Ft. Lauderdale,Sunrise, and the Miami, and found the same thing......."there are tons of NY'ers here, but very few Jewish Pastry shops in this town". He took the plunge and sold everything he had to move down to FL. His opened up a Jewish Pastry shop and BAM, he became a hell of alot wealthier in FL than in NYC!!! He is now retired, sold the business. Still does side pastries for the love of food. "Have no shame" meant doing whatever it takes, sleeping 2 hrs a night, borrowing $$ from shady people at a high interest rate. (The NY way). Pulling favors. What ever it takes to make it. Whatever your dream is, make it happen. Don't just talk it, do it! All 3 stories took ALOT OF SACRIFICE! And they were not an overnight success by any means. I on the other hand, went to college for the sure way to make money. But I get jealous when I tell these stories of wealth but they took the road less traveled, stuck to it, and made it. I have told these stories to my gf's son who has his head in the clouds at age 19, soon to be 20 to try to inspire him. He rather make $10.00 doing maintenance work somewhere, than to go to school or pursue something meaningful. lol Oh well. I wish I could do it all over again! -Frank
kirill007 Posted September 24, 2014 Report Posted September 24, 2014 You'll need atleast 5k to pull this off halfway decent... Starting up a business might work, there are a lot of people who don't know what a good install is, that's why so many shitty shops are still around. But you should try to be different. What is your business plan? Thinking is the root of all problems... You ALWAYS get what you pay for.
philrab Posted September 24, 2014 Report Posted September 24, 2014 Not bad kid! Glanced at your other threads. It's a start for sure. I'm going to start building boxes for free locally to get better at wood working. (only the build is free, not the materials). Should be doing a box for my buddie's daughter's X5 soon. He just had a baby boy, so I will give it a few wks. Someone at work with a Scion wants a box redone so he has my #. Like everyone said, get your name out there. Do whatever it takes. My gf's daughter has a friend that wants a box build for his SUV. Motivation stories for you to chew on: 1. My buddy with the X5, he is a business owner. Yrs ago he was canned from a National Tire Store for something stupid. From that point on he wanted to own his own business so he "Would never have to answer to a boss again. I am the boss". A Decade later he now has 2 automotive shops. He pays others, he does not do the work. Something to keep in mind like someone else posted. 2. My other friend always said he wanted to own a night club. I always thought he was full of it. What the hell, we were teens, slammin' down beers and talking shit. Yrs after I take my gf out and , SHIT! I see my friend on Stage at the Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, FL, standing to and talking with Legendary singer STEVIE B. Yeah, he made it! Turns out, he's started out doing "Raves" in Ybor City, and in Open fields in and around Tampa since the Early 2000's. He's been doing promo's for yrs and has met alot of musicians and singers through the yrs! 3. Growing up, my old man's friend who was a NYC cabbie/automotive mechanic......always told me "Have No Shame!". I would always smile at him because he would say that shit randomly. lol. I thought he was weird for saying that. Never knew what it meant. lol. Well, he went from a cabbie, to making jewish pastries, he got his name out there and before you knew it he had a side business in the late 80's. Later he opened up a small pastry shop in Queens, NY. The business took ALOT OF WORK< and the whole family had to pitch in to keep it a float. It did take a toke on his marriage. But they pulled through. He made enough to take a few vacations to the Ft. Lauderdale,Sunrise, and the Miami, and found the same thing......."there are tons of NY'ers here, but very few Jewish Pastry shops in this town". He took the plunge and sold everything he had to move down to FL. His opened up a Jewish Pastry shop and BAM, he became a hell of alot wealthier in FL than in NYC!!! He is now retired, sold the business. Still does side pastries for the love of food. "Have no shame" meant doing whatever it takes, sleeping 2 hrs a night, borrowing $$ from shady people at a high interest rate. (The NY way). Pulling favors. What ever it takes to make it. Whatever your dream is, make it happen. Don't just talk it, do it! All 3 stories took ALOT OF SACRIFICE! And they were not an overnight success by any means. I on the other hand, went to college for the sure way to make money. But I get jealous when I tell these stories of wealth but they took the road less traveled, stuck to it, and made it. I have told these stories to my gf's son who has his head in the clouds at age 19, soon to be 20 to try to inspire him. He rather make $10.00 doing maintenance work somewhere, than to go to school or pursue something meaningful. lol Oh well. I wish I could do it all over again! -Frank You'll need atleast 5k to pull this off halfway decent... Starting up a business might work, there are a lot of people who don't know what a good install is, that's why so many shitty shops are still around. But you should try to be different. What is your business plan? Lots of good advice above for the OP. I will say that sitting down and developing a business plan is a really good way to put this all into perspective, but I will also say you have a third option between a leap of faith and doing nothing. Find a job (if it's in the industry, cool, but not necessary) where you work a regular 9-5 and it pays the bills. Then, weekends and evenings, start YOUR business out of your home. Build it slow, build your rep, build on your skills, all of those things will happen over time and you're still plenty young that there's no real hurry. Then, if you see an opportunity to take that leap of faith, your name and your customer base is already floating out there, and you've done part of the work. Realize that most businesses fold in the first three years. The reasons are usually a lack of capital (didn't bring enough money/credit to the table), poorly developed business plan (didn't think shit through all the way), or "market factors" (another guy opened up down the street, and there wasn't enough revenue to go around.) If you start as a home based business, your costs are heavily mitigated (no shop, no utilities, no rent, ect.) and the remaining ones aren't fixed (materials can be billed per job.) Taking on too many fixed costs will bury a fledgling business faster than anything else, as your monthly obligations push you into a corner where if you have a bad month, you're halfway out the door, and bad months do happen. Like I said before, I'm not tooting my own horn. I've run businesses before in the aviation industry, and that's about as cutthroat and tightly margined as they get. The trick was always to work the customers like they were your best friend and take care of them (one pissed off customer will lose you ten potential ones/ten happy customers MIGHT bring you one more), and to be OCD as Hell about your costs and margins. 2015 Toyota Tacoma Build Thread 2007 Mazda 3; 5000K HID's, Kenwood Excelon KDC-X997, Infinity Reference 6.5 comps in front and coaxials in the rear doors, JL 320.4 four channel, Rab Designs built ported enclosure with an SA12, Kenwood monoblock, Redline Leater shift boot/e-brake boot/center console cover, JBR short shifter/shifter bushings/rear motor mount. Build Thread 1996 Mazda Miata: Kenwood Excelon HU, Alpine speaker in the doors, Clearwater (miata specific) headrest speakers. 1994 Mazda Protege: Kenwood Excelon HU, Infinity Reference 2 ways all around, 2x RF Punch 10's in ported boxes.
MeenGreenAudio Posted September 24, 2014 Author Report Posted September 24, 2014 Just checked out your build thread, gotta say I was pleasantly surprised with it. Good job on the install and box build. If you want to get noticed, my advice is keep doing what you're doing. Ditch the quantity idea and go for quality. Less is more. I saw your pile of amps you were going to use for the mids/highs, how did those come about? Did you find someone selling them all as a group and get a good deal? Good job though all around. Box was impressive. Your install is cleaner than mine at the moment! the mids and highs i put everything together from the hybrid cap to the jbl amp and i havnt wired it up yet still running on my kicker zx amps Build Log 1996 chevy suburban 2 zv4 15 kenwood excelon mids and tweeters kenwood excelon deck mevhman 370 3 batts all different mechman avmb II 2 inch squat 33 inch muds straight pipes kixker zx series 4ch sundown amps memphis 0 gauge soon to be fu audio c pillar wall
Chris Hammer Posted September 24, 2014 Report Posted September 24, 2014 How about the Tantric SHD 24" Two. People will go WTF and you can have enough airspace and do a beast demo truck. MY BUILD *****http://tinyurl.com/gmcbuild***** Vehicles 2005 GMC Canyon CB1000r - Currently where any future funds are going. (exhasut,bazzaz, ohlins shock, screen, etc.) crf250r - Used to be race bike..now I just trail ride..practice at the track on it. CH80 - Daily beater (when nice weather)best 150$ ever spent. 100+mpg Sold to: Skullz - pstone11 - Leo1103 - Volvo 63' - pavelpardo - imnew59585 Shower farts still piss me off.I think theyre pretty neat. When the water runs down your crack as you let one out... its like shitting in a crockpot.
MeenGreenAudio Posted September 25, 2014 Author Report Posted September 25, 2014 How about the Tantric SHD 24" Two. People will go WTF and you can have enough airspace and do a beast demo thought about some big ass woofers but do they have as good sound quality as a smaller more manageable sub Build Log 1996 chevy suburban 2 zv4 15 kenwood excelon mids and tweeters kenwood excelon deck mevhman 370 3 batts all different mechman avmb II 2 inch squat 33 inch muds straight pipes kixker zx series 4ch sundown amps memphis 0 gauge soon to be fu audio c pillar wall
MeenGreenAudio Posted September 25, 2014 Author Report Posted September 25, 2014 How about the Tantric SHD 24" Two. People will go WTF and you can have enough airspace and do a beast demo thought about some big ass woofers but do they have as good sound quality as a smaller more manageable sub Build Log 1996 chevy suburban 2 zv4 15 kenwood excelon mids and tweeters kenwood excelon deck mevhman 370 3 batts all different mechman avmb II 2 inch squat 33 inch muds straight pipes kixker zx series 4ch sundown amps memphis 0 gauge soon to be fu audio c pillar wall
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