Loudspeaker basics in under ten minutes!

Devin shows Anika the basics of loudspeaker technology using NEXO products as our guide.
Click here for the more advanced concepts in Part 2: • Things you didn't real...
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[@gregbrookman]

I think it was an awesome way to present this, educating your cousin instead of a plain old speaking to camera piece. Great video

[@forexstaters101]

this man is a legend explaining this like it is nothing

[@anamatva]

shes a legendary stoner hearing all this explanation like 'oh. wow.'

[@FVDaudio]

Well done. I also take the opportunity to see all these fabulous systems without their respective grilles and protective covers. ✨👌🏻

[@devinlsheets_alphasound]

It’s basically the first thing we do when we get new equipment!

[@kcleach9312]

she sounds thrilled to be there!! lol😆😂

[@devinlsheets_alphasound]

What else are cousins for?? She said it was actually really fun btw. Cameras are always intense though. She did great!

[@jamband4230]

I love these videos. I see all this technology put to use in the final product but I've never seen anyone explaine the thought process in such an easy to understand method. It's like if you aren't a sound engineer you really don't understand what these guys are talking about. You just know whatever they did made the sound better. It's almost like your giving away away proprietary secrets, but your not. Your just explaining how a lot of this proprietary technology is implemented. And I'm absolutely fascinated by it. Thanks for the video. Keep making them.

[@devinlsheets_alphasound]

Thanks!! That means a lot to us, we spend a great deal of time trying to make videos that people will want to watch

[@westelaudio943]

I found out by myself how a loudspeaker works when I was four years old... It's really intuitive when you have a basic idea of magnetism and that a coil can be used as a variable magnet. Which my dad explained to me very early on. Of course the coil will be attracted or repelled by a magnet when you push current through it, and I figured that's how it makes sound. That sound comes from vibrating surfaces is something you just instinctively know. So loudspeaker design is something that is extremely easy to get into, but it's hard to master - things like complex impedance, phase, resonance, directivity, those aren't so easy to digest (even though it still isn't rocket science).

[@eespecialeventsdj]

Love to see young ones getting educated by people who care! Real world knowledge

[@BGTech1]

I started collecting and powering speaker when I was 8 LOL

[@mantatrip9319]

she is not that one.

[@Nicosta]

This is a great video to show someone who doesn't know much about speakers, good job

[@MrWebbstudios]

It was so cool to use the concept of a young person that likes going to concerts and enjoy music but never even thought about how it all works. I could tell that she took away something from this experience that she will never forget and may even be considered among her friends the sound guru. We all love music and some of us love good sounding music, unfortunately only a few of us can tell the difference. A few more visits with you, she will be among the few who knows the difference and wouldn't settle for anything less. We all are benefitting from your expertise.

[@benedictcumberbatch4275]

Ok

[@duncanbrode381]

Great way of describing the concepts at work to new folks not familiar, and trying to understand! Well Done!

[@L3x4Pr0ne]

This was a really nice intro to how speakers work.

[@gildieuaffn]

Great concept

[@lcee6592]

Nicely done! Good explanation of different types of drivers and their basic application. I’ve always found it interesting that loudspeakers are one of the few devices that are electrical, mechanical and acoustical all in one device.

[@BlackHorseoftheHell]

Excellent video! As always! Congratulations!

[@Ricochetmex]

Grat series! I’m going through the speaker design rabbit hole right now 😅

[@stefanmauhart6318]

size matters

[@marlondelibasic]

Really nice approach to teaching, keep doing that great work.

[@neonhills]

great teacher and great student :)

[@TheSeeking2know]

This was a really cool video. Going slowly and repeating concepts to settle the understanding was good teaching technique. Learned some things.

[@NuclearPhysix]

Best explanation of a speaker i have ever seen. I would have started with Lenz's Law. Haha

[@shawnlefever3667]

I took a class years ago. It was an electronics class but speakers were discussed in part of it. I was taught that the actual speaker component is called a transducer and the speaker is the entire assembly. I took this class so long ago, it was long before the days of line arrays.

[@lifeguard8887]

Oh wow. I didn’t know that about the woofer/tweeter combo thing. That’s really cool

[@pindebraende]

I love how you used waves in a pool as analogy for how sound is air wiggling! You csn really understand how, if you make waves at one end of the pool, the waves can hit someone at rhe other end - but it doesn't mean the water is actually being moved away to the other end, it's just waving. Awesome video. Next, I'd like to understand how speaker cabinets work, and what design gets you better (or worse) sound!

[@Splarkszter]

Woah. So awesome entertaining and educational video. Thank you!!!!

[@alejo_mixes]

Amazing video!! Thanks for share

[@electric--blue]

Nicely explain how it works ..am much fascinated by speakers specially the loud once...awesome.

[@phototechchannel229]

Good job. I was a photography professor and taught lighting in a similar fashion. Not everyone can teach, but you've got the gift.

[@sjbechet1111]

A photography 'Professor' on a video channel, with no content. It's like Radiohead wrote a lyric that wished you into existence.

[@cutiebunnyamber3447]

​@@sjbechet1111lmf ..😂😂😂😂😂

[@DJFAYZE13]

Really awesome channel! Just stumbled onto your content last week and have been binging a lot of the videos. I would love to see a video in a similar vein to this one where you break down how line arrays work! I’ve read a million articles but I think you’d do the topic justice.

[@devinlsheets_alphasound]

Check out Part 3 of this series!

[@DJFAYZE13]

@@devinlsheets_alphasound will do, thanks!

[@patovega]

Great video!! Gotta love NEXO!

[@leeman2470]

Uk sound techs don't like Nexo but I still rock the t-shirts. Makes me laugh when they adore the big names when the home made subs my friends make kick the crap out of the big boy's kit. Loudest subs for size I've heard were the Fluke q18, can't buy them anymore. Tough times

[@darkslider802]

amazing analogies! i learned alot!

[@ThePwig]

really good and interesting explanation for all ages and levels. I'm a sound engineer and I was still very entertained.

[@emiliogiacomucci4659]

great video man, loved it!

[@viveksangare5260]

This was the best explanation of speakers ever❤

[@ProfLuisLeme]

thank you so much. very well explained!

[@simpletings4919]

well done..good vid with good explanation..keep up the good work..

[@luchilovesyou9260]

I learned so much, appreciated it

[@dck4113]

great work!

[@MrSteev-505]

I love your explanation.❤❤

[@lukekulak7165]

awesome video!!

[@erobos111]

I needed this. Making sense of the whole sound process

[@ifarotht5149]

Good explanation for a new beginner. This video teach me not about speakers but how to teach about speakers

[@SHORICHEMICALS]

Sir you are genius..awesome so much knowledge you have....thank u....

[@no_bull]

Very good explanation 👍

[@johnviera3884]

What a fantastic video

[@FirebrandVOCALS]

Dude this was so helpful. Cheers 🍻

[@craigfrancis9578]

Very accurate explanation

[@ex-genaumproject8533]

best explanation ever!

[@HeyYall398]

Well done, video!

[@mariothomas8051]

well done in needed this thanks good info thanks.

[@Doctormix]

AWESOME VIDEO!!!

[@sujipanicker]

woooowwwww you are an amazing teacher

[@irimiaflorian]

Very helpfull video!

[@siddeshredkar4699]

So informative ❤

[@Ohriel]

We are all Anika watching this video Don't know a single ass thing but you explain it so well that we're :O all the time

[@devinlsheets_alphasound]

This was the goal. She said she genuinely had fun, but she also got some Amazon gift cards for sitting there lol

[@russellrattys6581]

I worked at a nightclub years ago, and it was awful, yes, they had lots of speakers, lots of amplifiers, lots of crossovers, equalisers etc They had three banks of six 18inch subwoofers, i think they were in bandpass style boxes, they had three mid and tweeter arrays hanging from the ceiling But the best sound was downstairs near the subwoofers I went into the amplifier room, and counted 30,000 watts of power output The problem was, they had an upstairs, and the tweeter/mid arrays were pointing outwards from the centre, and they were aimed straight at the mezzanines, so whej you were upstairs, all you could hear was deafening high pitch sounds They could have done with extra subwoofers upstairs to balance the sound Then they could have done with turning the overall volume down, as upstairs it seemed like they were running full volume, and it sounded horrible and distorted They had a few 6 inch monitor speakers around some balconies, and even they were running full volume, so bad, you could see sparks coming out the casings and the bass drivers were flashing from the amount of power they were forcing into them Absolutely horrible experience I got my own sound system at home, 4kw going through eight 15inch subwoofers in full range cabinets, with horn tweeters, i never run them full volume, and that sounds a hell of a lot better than that nightclub did, no distortion whatsoever

[@TheViken1]

informative video!

[@TheJansensk]

Can you guys pleaaaase do more of those videos!?

[@ladjkaoz]

great student... 👍👏👏👏

[@blizzy78]

oh wow

[@7p7m7]

cool video :)

[@chrisskinner7859]

BRILLIANT!!!!!!

[@tejkarangehlot4741]

Hi bro I like ur videos very much .. ur doing great job.. I'm using pro audio drivers for home hifi. am I right ? As far as ur concerne if yes then which one brand I use for that? If not then what is the reason?? I want to use 18inch driver for bass one midrange & horn plz guide.. thank you 😊

[@DoNotEatPoo]

Hmmm, mmhumm, yeah, uhuh... And then at 6:45 she drops a hint of mad skillz of instrumental/acoustical knowledge. Reminds me the night when I was trying to explain quantum mechanics in a simplistic way to a girl, 10 mins later to find out she worked at Fermilab.

[@Chris-Weaver]

_Date gone bad_ ? 😏✌🏼

[@sagarchawla8145]

Oh wow

[@tylerlee7516]

“Oh wow”. Lmaoo

[@csselement]

"oh wow" - I concur

[@CajunReaper95]

I don’t have headphones but I do have a 5.1.2 system so I have the subwoofer that can reproduce what y’all are hearing.

[@justinlusignan8770]

You know when I’m in the studio with Chris we talk about how to make the snare sound the best in speakers

[@devinlsheets_alphasound]

was that the time you were in the studio?

[@b.powell3480]

Years ago, I went to a Pat Benatar concert!!, got to meet her as well !, very nice woman !, and very personable, but the comment I want to make is that I was able to talk with her audio crew and found out that each stack array was putting out over 35,000 watts of power, RMS !!, and the 8 stacks of subs, 4 stacks per side was putting out 10,000 watts rms of bass !, each stack!!, just thought you might like to know how much power is produced for a large concert!!

[@devinlsheets_alphasound]

It’s amazing though that today even large PA systems can take so little power and still get very loud! Sometimes we have had to run entire concerts one 20 amp circuit and we do without popping the breaker!

[@b.powell3480]

@@devinlsheets_alphasound that's true!!

[@rishicoco]

@@devinlsheets_alphasound that only seems awesome to us now because we have been kept in the dark about things like electromagnetic electricity. #freetesla

[@pihermoso11]

Bass always requires more power which is probably why it has longer range meaning it covers more distance.. As far as wattage is concerned, our teacher told us that a 100 watt amp is only twice as loud as a 10 watt amp, so basically the calculation is that if you want to double the volume/loudness, you have to multiply the wattage by 10 (not 2)

[@leonardleonard890]

I love her

[@shazam6274]

This is great! I can send this to my granddaughters. One day as a "roadie" will take care of those nails.😁

[@Damsama]

what an explanation..

[@PrinjPal]

so we can hear up to 20k hz. Anika: woow. :0

[@OMNI_INFINITY]

Where is part 2 of that?

[@Candrasound123]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@A-G-F-]

I would love to do one of these without the cameras tho, those things make me feel like i cannot do even a small mistake 😅

[@Chris-Weaver]

Life Lesson: from 0:00 to 9:16 ✌🏼💜

[@aphexish]

Wow,

[@jeantofte]

awesome explanation! do you do engineering work for anyone? do you offer your services for hire? how about christian music concerts ect? outreaches or festivals?

[@AstromotiveSpace]

now do rockets

[@devinlsheets_alphasound]

Ok bring one to the warehouse

[@nehemiahmordecai]

From now onwards when she goes to a concert, she wont enjoy the concert itself but rather admire the ingenuity of how all the sounds get to her ears

[@smamas114]

"How to choose speakers " will be a nice topic.......i know that i should choose it by SPL and not Watts

[@bouchoupapapapabouchou470]

Two major aspects are never addressed by manufacturers: the clarity and intelligibility of high power bass. The quality of the result is ensured by separate transducers for the bass drum and the bass guitar, possibly for the low frequencies of the keyboards. No matter how good the research, this fundamental aspect is overlooked, while it makes all the difference between a clean sound and a crap sound.

[@NoxmilesDe]

The Wuffer

[@str8gigachad124]

Annika a baddie lol

[@dongwarrenmusic]

hi cousin. 🥰

[@devinlsheets_alphasound]

We tried to say hi as awkwardly as possible

[@TheMazo02]

Lol..she is not amazed that much :D :D

[@devinlsheets_alphasound]

We’ll see… 10 years from now maybe she’s the FOH engineer lol

[@shazam6274]

@@devinlsheets_alphasound Maybe, but not with those nails! 🤣

[@silkroad1201]

She really couldn't give less of a shit. This felt like watching home footage of me explaining something to my girlfriend

[@zomer7101]

Exactly 😂😂😂 Me explaining my hobbies to my mom

[@silkroad1201]

@@zomer7101 lol! Same

[@tejkarangehlot4741]

Sir plz reply.. I'm waiting very eagerly for ur answer

[@barney6888]

Loudspeaker basics in under 10 seconds Go to store with the intention of spending a grand. Arrive home with very large, heavy speakers and boxes after spending 10 grand. Lie to wife. She points her elbows out. You sleep on couch, find lawyer, move out. She gets the speakers, you get the payments.

[@EddyTeetree]

She deserves a new pair of jeans for helping out hey.

[@devinlsheets_alphasound]

Can’t argue with style!

[@agit5270]

Lame

[@djwolffe_OG]

That wasn’t a very nice thing to say EddyTeetree

[@KnowOne111]

Time for bed grandpa

[@satyavratadas1640]

My socks have holes, em I currently in style?

[@hrvojebartulovic7870]

That's how I'd explain to my grandma. She died 30 years ago. Or to a 10 year old. But to a 20 year old fresh from the school? And she says Wooooaaaa! No, it's me who says: whooooooaaaaa; how ignorant can you get!? BTW it's explains very well, very plastic and descriptive.

[@crissnickers_frog6689]

u want to make full of myself?........because u don't put sound and the weight of the cabinet toghether,......why?

[@sebbosebbo9794]

the water doesn t move ? damed Im out ..

[@shinokami0076]

the water obviously moves but not along the wave

[@gtctv7000]

awesome video, awesome channel, but that conversation with yo cousin was cringe af in the beginning ngl

[@merakrut]

And now she can sit down and lock at her fingernails and forget about frequencies and other complicated stuff.

[@artysanmobile]

No music under dialog!!! Ever.

[@user-zq1to3gk7n]

Мне кажется эта девушка в динамиках лучше разбирается чем в сексе

[@joeybradford3614]

Is your cousin single? ❤

[@Artcore103]

those nails are ridiculous, her whole style is ridiculous, but she's kinda cute.

[@fabiandeleon8458]

She needs a new dryer I think that's what caused her jeans to rip

[@jaspindersingh7938]

A ton of double meaning in your lines 😂