Dub siren project finished!

Yeehaw! I finished soldering together my first dub siren some time ago, so now it’s time to share! I made a quick video with me playing it, and took some pictures while I made it. A heapload(nice word, no?) of thanks to Dave from superset sounds for helping me out with it, i built it based on his original schematics.
The box is an old shaving box from the early 1900’s, and yes, i soldered the whole thing myself from scratch. Thankyouverymuch.

I’m planning on streamlining the production a bit (this one took me ages to make) and making some more, with custom built wooden casings, hopefully laser engraved. Give me a holler in the comments of what you think, or if the new ones i’m making sounds worth bying. I’ll post about them too of course, when i get them made that is.

Dub siren v1.1 from Jacob Fantastisk on Vimeo.

EDIT: the complete rubdown of my dub siren project is now live, check it out here!

7 Comments

MP on July 14, 2009 at 18:36

Hey there,

Just curious did you use the exact same values for the resistors, caps and pots as the schematic from dave @ super set?

I’m having a hard time getting it sounding like yours

thanks!

Jacob on July 14, 2009 at 22:58

yes, excactly the same. What’s the problem?
I think dave have some audio samples on his site as well, if you wanna listen to his version. Recently, i have rebuilt the entire siren from scratch, to make a more solid build, but with the same schematic. I’ll blog about that soon, showing some video/audio.

MP on July 15, 2009 at 05:24

I hooked my bread boarded version up to a delay and played around with it tonight and it sounds a lot better..

I also had a couple 50K pots that had some dead space on them, so I swapped them out with ones much closer to an accurate 50K OHMs range, seems to be better

Fer-Jazz on March 27, 2010 at 19:32

NICE DUB SIREN!! Im going to try to build one by myself.
Im curious, what song is it that u play along with?? I see u like dub music, its great!!
Peace!

Jacob on March 28, 2010 at 16:49

Thanks! I’m playing an artist called Scientist, a true dub master. Good luck!

Jahsciple on June 4, 2010 at 10:57

Nice work, do you have any ready to sell ?
Walk in peace and keep steppin to Jah riddims heavy.
Jahsciple

Jacob on June 4, 2010 at 13:00

Thanks!
To sell them I would have to simplify the schematic a bit, it takes too long to make, so it would cost you too much. But there are plenty of other places on the web that sells them ready made, so just have a look around.