I'd love to put, like, a string sample though a drum via this thing and make it into a sample library! Or put a sinewave though a drum, record that, put THAT through the drum, record that, rince and repeat... until you get DRUM MADNESS.
I need to tell you my experience with this. My brother won one of these from a fundraiser in elementary school. We rediscovered it a couple years ago and started sticking it all over the house. Discovered that the shower surround made a great sound. So I bought a more legit style of this. Just got a separate Amp thing and used command strips to stick it to the shower wall. Now my shower is my shower speaker!
This would actually be pretty neat for a music teacher to be able to explain and show younger kids exactly how vibrations can create the noise as we hear every day🙌
Yeah I thought this would be better marketed as a educational toy with like discovery branding or something. Crap listening device, really cool edutainment toy imo
The biggest problem that things like this had was that the adhesive played a bigger role than you'd expect. Without it, the driver just cancels itself out just vibrating free-air. They're essentially a one time use kind of thing, if you wanted to get the most out of it. (or replace the double sided tape each time you use it)
And as anyone who watches Tech Ingredients already knows, making a good speaker with one of these involves a lot more math than you'd think. The material of the panel and precise placement of the exciter matters a lot.
@watsgoinonhere1 the ones I owned were single use, the adhesive was an actual adhesive, and it stuck pretty fast. The product was "Sonic Impact (brand) SoundPad (thing) " feel free to go look those ones up.
seeing you test it on various musical instruments and large containers makes it seem like a really really fun toy more than a genuine audio enjoying experience. I would 100% get something like this just to mess around with it once in a blue moon.
As i understand, it's called a vibro speaker. And you can get one, that much more powerful, for about 10$. It's actually neat, but the biggest problem is that you need a really good pressure to the surface.
If you're gonna get something like this, I personally recommend the Rock-It, it's something I used to own. It's basically this little nugget that'd easily fit in the palm of your hand, runs off internal bat power (mini usb if memory serves) and is considerably easier to find a place to stash than the shitdisk we saw today. I used to carry it around in the same pocket I carried my old clip nugget MP3 player I snagged from Goodwill and half the time I forgot it was even there
@@im1fadedRob well, yes, this particular one is garbage. But overall it's intended purpose is more about the commercial use. Like adding a sound for a glass display. Or as a haptic feedback on various simulators. I've seen one of those, plugged through subwoofer and under the table, adding a tactile feedback to the mouse and keyboard, while playing shooters)
Oh man trying this on Fiat 126p! As a polish woman I thank you. I remember to this day the days where people were riding around town in this tiny little cars playing music so loud you could see the car bouncing sometimes along to the song. I know for a fact a guy on the street I lived at put the music inside that car so loud from custom speakers his car windows broke down. All of them. Great video as always.
I remember seeing a wireless one that was actually really heavy and on most hard surfaces actually would produce decent sound. The thing is right after that a lot companies like monster and JBL started coming out with devices that felt like they had the driver from that thing but attached to an actual membrane. They were just as loud just as clear and you didn't need to find a good surface to set it on.
There is actually some cool variations of this, had one when I was younger that was probably 2.5x the size vertically and almost anything I put it on sounded pretty great, particularly glass surfaces like windows and tables. Search vibration or resinance speakers
There's a version of a similar product going around on TikTok that's Bluetooth and a much smaller form factor, mostly being advertised as a shower speaker (IE stick it on a glass shower door) and novelty toy, which is fair enough.
My favorites were the drum and snare drum. They made especially the lower tones in the track sound somehow drum-like, and of course the snare rattled along with it all. Now I wonder how this would sound with other instruments since they're designed to sound a certain way, unlike Coke cans and cardboard boxes. And yeah it's obviously meant as a toy, not for actually listening to and enjoying music.
Not gonna lie I'd actually love just playing with this and seeing how things sound whenever I'm bored, I could be entertained by this for at least a week, and for 10 minutes at a party once every year or 2
Check out tech ingredients video "world's best speakers", they use a similar device (just of much higher quality) to make amazing speakers from some panels of different materials
For those interested, here's the video in question: ua-cam.com/video/zdkyGDqU7xA/v-deo.html They did a few follow up vids too with various improvements but I linked the original since the journey is just as interesting as the end results
Acoustic ceiling tiles are made to cancel sound… they would not amplify this type of speaker… acoustic ceiling tiles can help absorb sound and reduce echo while also preventing sound from traveling to adjacent rooms.
I had a chinese knockoff version of this thing when I was growing up. It was great fun slapping it on various empty things around the farm like empty metal drums and feed troughs. I remember that the more hollow space was in the thing, the better. Wonderfully useful during halloween as well, made for great "where the fuck is that noise coming from" moments.
When I was 16 I had a construction job doing electrical, I tried using this on all kinds of things around the job site. 2x4s, boxes, windows. Haha I think I ended up bringing it back to the kiosk at the mall.
When I’m sick I can’t watch your videos because they make me laugh too much. You are so funny that it literally hurts to watch some times. Keep making video mate
I remember back in high school (like 2011) a kid had another version of this. It wasn't a cheap "as seen on TV" one, but an actually decent product (i think it even had Bluetooth, which was rare for the time). Unlike the one shown here, it was a box with a much larger contact area (maybe 4" x 2"?) and it actually worked pretty well. I recall him putting it on a window and it sounded very good, clear, loud, and some decent base. So though this product may have been cheap garbage, the concept actually works well if the product is larger, stronger and just not cheap trash.
This thing would honestly be pretty cool to use to make analog resonators, when you place it up to the cymbal I could honestly see it being used with some ambient sounds tuned to the same note to make some ethereal type pads.
There are indeed much better versions - usually called “surface transducers”. literally just a voice coil without a cone basically. Some are geared toward making flat panel speakers, others are more “bass shakers” which, you can build a silent subwoofer into furniture. Fun fact, you can hear bass by feeling it through your body. Weird.
I have one of these called a “Vibe-Tribe” and I mostly use it to mess with my friends. I’ll put it on windows or under tables we are sitting at mostly. Usually just pull up a tone generator and play really low notes. My school has these huge windows and they can play some extremely low notes very loudly… on both sides of the glass. The table is fun tho bc the silverware starts to vibrate and make an absolute racket. Love mine
This an audio exciter. They're often used to make distributed mode loudspeakers, which typically use some type of stiff foam to get a good frequency response. I've built a set and while they're not my ideal speaker, they sound incredible for how cheap you can make them and can make really good hidden speakers
I've made a microphone that way. Zepplin Labs makes a piezo amplifier board kit you can assemble and yeah, it's pretty trebly, but with the right EQ it's much better than you'd expect.
Yep, I've used them in a bunch of interactive audio installations for kids - they're great as they're completely hidden and can't be damaged by prying fingers
Remember having one of those to create an impulse response of an acoustic guitar body (stuck it to the body and ran a sweep), worked surprisingly well!
If you had one of those hybrid plug-in acoustic guitars, could you use the Boom Tunes™ to make your acoustic guitar body into a speaker that plays your guitar sound? Absolutely genius!
What's funny is when real companies got in on this, some of the speakers were actually very good. You couldn't barely hear anything coming out of the speaker itself, but once you plopped it onto a desk or similar surface, it filled the whole room with sound and they were loud. Of course, you had to pay a premium for it. I almost bought one. Almost.
they have new versions of these and then they also have something very similar that can be connected to hanging wall panels, Styrofoam sheets, glass, plexiglass and other objects to turn them into large room speakers which are actually acoustically amazing. these devices also double as tactile feedback when placed under seats for full immersion in games and watching movies. when using wall boards, plastic sheets and other types of materials, they change its richness and tone based on material, thickness, shape, and size. I've witnessed multiple speaker sets that literally fill the room with crystal clear and full range music.
i have a few of these type of “anything speaker” but they’re heavy, half size a coke can, and with a suction cup bottom. and they work surprisingly well. I put one on my glass hatchback and it was pretty good. the whole rear of car was now loud “as a speaker”
contact speakers are actually a super useful tool in the studio! get some really interesting sounds when putting things like drums through them and recording the output!
I’ve seen a different implementation of this: bass shakers. I thought of buying a few and sticking them to the frame of my couch/bed or something. Hooking them up to a home theater system or something, and setting them to cut off anything above a certain frequency.
Those little speakers are known as DMLs (distributed mode loudspeaker). They can actually sound "decent" if paired with the right surface and if placed correctly on the surface as depending on where you place the speaker you will excite (or not) certain resonances of the surface (known as modes) which is generally not ideal if you're looking to achieve a flat response. how ever if you're looking for a fun project to build over the summer and have some cool speakers you can pick them up pretty cheap online along with a few different surfaces, foam, metal, wood etc thay you can mess around with and enjoy the weird effects you'll get (metal is spooky)
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
I remember walking past a stall at my local shopping centre selling a version of these years ago. It was the same colour as the iconic DankPods iPod case, and the salesman convinced young me and my parents to purchase them, they were marketed as ‘Scandinavian audio technology’. They were a fun thing to play around with, and i actually recall a few situations where it was actually useful. I’m sure it helped that at the time, my friends and i didn’t really care about audio quality. Hell, i remember it working quite well on my garage door one time when we were hanging out the front of my house.
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
There's Bluetooth versions of this. Transducers are pretty neat, have you ever seen the YT vid by Tech Ingredients where they make some speakers with foam panels?
I remember seeing ads for this little thing on disney channel as a kid and really wanting one, so it's wild to see it reviewed all these years later! awesome as always dank
I had something like this as a kid and it was amazing. Really got me into the physics behind sound and probably is a major reason that I watch this channel. It may not sound great, but is a fantastic gift for a young kid to play with.
Daytona audio makes these for anyone wanting to play with these. I have 2 of them mounted to 4x8 sheets of poly foam board and they do sound fantastic for what they are.
years ago i bought a JAM storm witch has a toggleable vibration pad underneath and it really makes the sound louder if put on a good resonating surface
I remember someone bringing something like this into the band room in high school. We used it on a drum as well. Never saw it again after that specific day.
Cheers from Maryland m8! I wanted to share my experience with my speakers resonating in my desk. I used to use the foam supports like you showed. One day I tried using the rubber washing machine vibration feet as speaker isolators. And I was blown away. The clarity was instantly apparent. I decided to try adhesive rubber bumper feet from Amazon as a permanent solution. They work beautifully. I highly recommend everyone try putting their speakers on some thick-ish rubber feet.
Stick a contact mic on the object you're attaching that driver to. It'll function as a mechanical reverb. Audio Engineers have done that for decades. It's exactly what spring and plate reverbs are.
No joke these things are incredible little studio toys for experimental sound design. Played a drum loop through a wine glass with mine once and it sounded fucking crazy.
Pre-vid comment: I can't wait to hear Dankpods say "Boom Tyoons" Post-vid: I can't believe this has happened, the word 'Boom Tyoons' was not spoken once.
They're actually called audio exciters. Check out Tech Ingredients and their videos about cheap DIY speakers if you want to know more. Also, I know this comment is old, but there might be other people seeing this wondering the same thing.
They're called vibrational exciters. Tech Ingredients (great youtube channel, look it up) has a couple videos about using them to make excellent (and cheap) speakers using similar ones attached to foam insulation panels. He tests a bunch of different materials, pretty neat.
The studio where I did my apprenticeship had those barefoot sound MM27 Gen2 speakers. I have never heard better sound in my entire life before or since working in that studio. Truly mind blowing sound capabilities on those things.
There was something similar at a book fair in elementary many moons ago. Showed a picture of using a single serve milk carton as a speaker. I wanted it bad but even as a 10 year old I knew it was land fill junk, thank you for unlocking that memory and at the same time taking care of that curiosity for me!
I have zero ideas why UA-cam showed me this video but that consumer “device” is essentially a cheaper version of a piezo electric inducer we use in the music industry. We use the same piezo inducers with slightly better amps and usually coupled with an EQ to filter low sounds. We place those inductors on metal plates and run sound to create what we call metal plate reverb! You have heard it on countless recordings.
This is genuinely really cool! I'd love to see somebody done like this done today with something bluetooth, wireless, and a better speaker it has potential!
This half reminds me of when my manager at a store had a "speaker bucket" that no one was allowed to touch. She just dropped her phone into the bottom of it to play music while she worked, lol. And also similar, but iirc some people will play audio into a piano bc it reverbs off the strings in a fun way, yeh?
You can get two just by getting a pair of bone conducting earphones :P Sometimes I put mine over a box or something to make a really, really bad speaker. It's funny.
Reminds me of the DIY speakers tech ingredients made(youtube) where he experimented and attach exciters to foam boards / wood to make some pretty good speakers on the cheap.
I've always been fascinated doing this with music box mechanisms and seeing different things with different densities when the mechanism was placed on it and how it reverberated. This little thing in the very least is a neat little science project to show how audio travels.
LG did this same sort of thing with the LG G7, you set it on a resonant surface like wood or a cardboard box and it would use that to amplify the bass, it was pretty freaking cool and actually worked.
This just feels like something fun to get weird sounds out of instruments. I’d love it on like, a water drum. That would be funky.
I'd love to put, like, a string sample though a drum via this thing and make it into a sample library!
Or put a sinewave though a drum, record that, put THAT through the drum, record that, rince and repeat... until you get DRUM MADNESS.
oi mate what about a water bed
@@pixelcat_yt *aphex twin has entered the room*
It's very interesting tbh
@@pixelcat_yt ooh yeah
Keep this thing around for headphone reviews. That way we will know which sounds better, headphones or a literal musical bin
Lmao
Me - "man my headphones sound like trash"
My friend - "Nah mate, this is literally singing trash your grand"
@UCrudN_QHVKHbSEzFiyx1MHw I just had a stroke trying to read that, come on bots, we know you can do better
So in a sense it litterally and figuratively sounds like garbage
Like the great Alphaville once sing "the crackling of your speakers, it sounds like a melody"
I need to tell you my experience with this. My brother won one of these from a fundraiser in elementary school. We rediscovered it a couple years ago and started sticking it all over the house. Discovered that the shower surround made a great sound. So I bought a more legit style of this. Just got a separate Amp thing and used command strips to stick it to the shower wall. Now my shower is my shower speaker!
Do you know the brand of the legit one?
F
Name the brand
@@--M2-- My best guess would be that he used a sound exciter
Dayton makes some pretty good bass shakers and exciters for their price
loved the cymbal's resonance, sounded like a weird synth filter
There was the reason why Ondes Martenot speaker system had one with a suspended gong resonator.
what if scarlet fire but plate reverb
Yeah, I'd absolutely fuck with that as a new reverb type
This is all that is good for
@@colinbanning9416 honestly, first thing i thought when i heard it: "i'd LOVE to use that as a plate reverb"
That’s actually pretty neat- it’ll probably stop working in like a week and isn’t practical but I’m surprised it actually worked
This would actually be pretty neat for a music teacher to be able to explain and show younger kids exactly how vibrations can create the noise as we hear every day🙌
Ooh yeah didn't think about that
Solder a small brushed motor onto a 3.5mm jack cable. Easiest vibration speaker.
@@Mediamarked I didn’t know that would work, it would make for another great demonstration.
They do that in school. Also every vibrations is "audio" it just need to not be too fast or too slow in frequency.
Yeah I thought this would be better marketed as a educational toy with like discovery branding or something. Crap listening device, really cool edutainment toy imo
This legit looks like a really good thing for a science teacher or professor trying to teach sound and resonance.
Honestly… third graders would be amazed by this
@@LiamTolentino thanks for blessing me with more content
When you put it on the cymbal, you got frighteningly close to reinventing plate reverb
you enlightened me
I am actually tempted to make cheap plate reverb this way
My thoughts exactly hahaha
The biggest problem that things like this had was that the adhesive played a bigger role than you'd expect. Without it, the driver just cancels itself out just vibrating free-air. They're essentially a one time use kind of thing, if you wanted to get the most out of it. (or replace the double sided tape each time you use it)
And as anyone who watches Tech Ingredients already knows, making a good speaker with one of these involves a lot more math than you'd think. The material of the panel and precise placement of the exciter matters a lot.
gotta be honest, never heard of Tech Ingredients until now lol @@Hendlton
they're not one-time use. The adhesive is microsuction cups that you can just wipe clean with a wet finger. (Source: I own 2 of these)
@watsgoinonhere1 the ones I owned were single use, the adhesive was an actual adhesive, and it stuck pretty fast.
The product was "Sonic Impact (brand) SoundPad (thing) " feel free to go look those ones up.
I love that this device clearly needs the tape to stick onto it to resonate properly, essentially making this a single-use product. Amazing.
seeing you test it on various musical instruments and large containers makes it seem like a really really fun toy more than a genuine audio enjoying experience. I would 100% get something like this just to mess around with it once in a blue moon.
Totally. It's garbage for its intended purpose, but spending an afternoon playing around with random household objects? Sounds like a blast.
As i understand, it's called a vibro speaker. And you can get one, that much more powerful, for about 10$. It's actually neat, but the biggest problem is that you need a really good pressure to the surface.
@@im1fadedRobthat sounds like so much fun fr
If you're gonna get something like this, I personally recommend the Rock-It, it's something I used to own. It's basically this little nugget that'd easily fit in the palm of your hand, runs off internal bat power (mini usb if memory serves) and is considerably easier to find a place to stash than the shitdisk we saw today. I used to carry it around in the same pocket I carried my old clip nugget MP3 player I snagged from Goodwill and half the time I forgot it was even there
@@im1fadedRob well, yes, this particular one is garbage. But overall it's intended purpose is more about the commercial use. Like adding a sound for a glass display. Or as a haptic feedback on various simulators. I've seen one of those, plugged through subwoofer and under the table, adding a tactile feedback to the mouse and keyboard, while playing shooters)
I can finally turn my dad into a speaker and find him easily, thank you BoomTunes
Lmao
there always gettin away
xD
f a t h e r l e s s
Bro 💀
This looks exactly like something I'd see during commercials at 1 in the morning
Cursed commercials be like
@@Alexthetechie ikr fr
it is one of those “as seen on tv” products after all lol
_Girls Gone Wild memories with steel drum music intensifies_
This actually was, at one point.
Oh man trying this on Fiat 126p! As a polish woman I thank you. I remember to this day the days where people were riding around town in this tiny little cars playing music so loud you could see the car bouncing sometimes along to the song. I know for a fact a guy on the street I lived at put the music inside that car so loud from custom speakers his car windows broke down. All of them. Great video as always.
I remember seeing a wireless one that was actually really heavy and on most hard surfaces actually would produce decent sound. The thing is right after that a lot companies like monster and JBL started coming out with devices that felt like they had the driver from that thing but attached to an actual membrane. They were just as loud just as clear and you didn't need to find a good surface to set it on.
Yep I had a friend who had one. It actually sounded pretty good depending on what you put it on.
I love the surprise at 5:09 when it, against all odds, performed at least amusingly well
I love hearing his evil cackling when he uses the diablo to mess with things.
His laugh is so damn Hilarious, you could have terminal cancer and still laugh at this 😁😂😂
Lmao me too
Honestly as far as things shown on this channel go, this one's achieved its function pretty well. Pure dumb fun.
Indeed 🤣🤣🤣
Indubitably.
K!!
Came back to watch this episode because my store just got some sort of these things in ( $30 lol).
@@TheCommanderTaco 30?! I wouldn't pay a tenner!
Would be interesting to have a sine wave sweep to see at what frequencies the object resonates
There is actually some cool variations of this, had one when I was younger that was probably 2.5x the size vertically and almost anything I put it on sounded pretty great, particularly glass surfaces like windows and tables. Search vibration or resinance speakers
i feel like this could actually be successfully advertised as a cool gimmick instead of an actual audio device
There's a version of a similar product going around on TikTok that's Bluetooth and a much smaller form factor, mostly being advertised as a shower speaker (IE stick it on a glass shower door) and novelty toy, which is fair enough.
@@kabobawsome tiktok is banned in certain areas
@@cessposter thankfully
@@cessposter the sky is blue
There is an extremely similar product called bass egg
Half of Scarlet Fire's plays on UA-cam were just from DankPods playing it so many times in creating this video.
Actually he played it on the craig
@@thegolfernment ☝🤓
My favorites were the drum and snare drum. They made especially the lower tones in the track sound somehow drum-like, and of course the snare rattled along with it all. Now I wonder how this would sound with other instruments since they're designed to sound a certain way, unlike Coke cans and cardboard boxes.
And yeah it's obviously meant as a toy, not for actually listening to and enjoying music.
I'm curious about a guitar, banjo & a violin.
I find it funny that dank putting it on a cymbal was basically inventing a strange plate reverb as that's how they work!
I love how the beat actually sounded like the drum and cymbal
Not gonna lie I'd actually love just playing with this and seeing how things sound whenever I'm bored, I could be entertained by this for at least a week, and for 10 minutes at a party once every year or 2
It's a transducer speaker you can get you something much better on Amazon
@@abdelkaderelbachir3817 that’s cool but I just want it as a toy, not really as an audio device
@@Zeequals exactly you can get a Bluetooth one
Check out tech ingredients video "world's best speakers", they use a similar device (just of much higher quality) to make amazing speakers from some panels of different materials
@@Warutteri I know I've seen it before and you can also get you a Bluetooth speaker called the Bass egg it works quite good actually
Put it on an acoustic ceiling tile it's literally the best medium for this speaker and will actually sound great,
Define ‘great’
@@Alexander_l322 I forget the name of the YT channel but pretty great.
ua-cam.com/video/zdkyGDqU7xA/v-deo.html
For those interested, here's the video in question:
ua-cam.com/video/zdkyGDqU7xA/v-deo.html
They did a few follow up vids too with various improvements but I linked the original since the journey is just as interesting as the end results
Acoustic ceiling tiles are made to cancel sound… they would not amplify this type of speaker… acoustic ceiling tiles can help absorb sound and reduce echo while also preventing sound from traveling to adjacent rooms.
I had a chinese knockoff version of this thing when I was growing up. It was great fun slapping it on various empty things around the farm like empty metal drums and feed troughs. I remember that the more hollow space was in the thing, the better. Wonderfully useful during halloween as well, made for great "where the fuck is that noise coming from" moments.
When I was 16 I had a construction job doing electrical, I tried using this on all kinds of things around the job site. 2x4s, boxes, windows. Haha I think I ended up bringing it back to the kiosk at the mall.
I had one of these and would slap it on buckets at job sites when I would work with my dad over summer building houses
🙂
Hmm. Maybe you could use it for a haunted house hoax! 😊
When I’m sick I can’t watch your videos because they make me laugh too much.
You are so funny that it literally hurts to watch some times.
Keep making video mate
I remember back in high school (like 2011) a kid had another version of this. It wasn't a cheap "as seen on TV" one, but an actually decent product (i think it even had Bluetooth, which was rare for the time).
Unlike the one shown here, it was a box with a much larger contact area (maybe 4" x 2"?) and it actually worked pretty well. I recall him putting it on a window and it sounded very good, clear, loud, and some decent base.
So though this product may have been cheap garbage, the concept actually works well if the product is larger, stronger and just not cheap trash.
You can get decent ones for pretty cheap these days. This was cheap and old at the same time, which is a bad combo for anything audio related.
@@Hendlton Meh I could list a few nice set of speakers for the cheap coming from older times. I see what you mean though haha
This thing would honestly be pretty cool to use to make analog resonators, when you place it up to the cymbal I could honestly see it being used with some ambient sounds tuned to the same note to make some ethereal type pads.
I bet if someone made their own better version it could do some really cool stuff like that 🤔
It's kind of like how the old plate reverbs work.
@@TrenierTrombone Exactly
There are indeed much better versions - usually called “surface transducers”. literally just a voice coil without a cone basically. Some are geared toward making flat panel speakers, others are more “bass shakers” which, you can build a silent subwoofer into furniture. Fun fact, you can hear bass by feeling it through your body. Weird.
@@mmmmmmmtoast there are rechargeable bluetooth versions that are the size of just the driver in this vid
I have one of these called a “Vibe-Tribe” and I mostly use it to mess with my friends. I’ll put it on windows or under tables we are sitting at mostly. Usually just pull up a tone generator and play really low notes. My school has these huge windows and they can play some extremely low notes very loudly… on both sides of the glass. The table is fun tho bc the silverware starts to vibrate and make an absolute racket. Love mine
That’s hilarious and genius. You used the thing to it’s fullest potential.
Just pulling the Inception *BWOOOOOM* anywhere, at any time.
use it to rickroll
I just realized this would be amazing for dnd or like any other table top for ambience.
This an audio exciter. They're often used to make distributed mode loudspeakers, which typically use some type of stiff foam to get a good frequency response. I've built a set and while they're not my ideal speaker, they sound incredible for how cheap you can make them and can make really good hidden speakers
I've made a microphone that way. Zepplin Labs makes a piezo amplifier board kit you can assemble and yeah, it's pretty trebly, but with the right EQ it's much better than you'd expect.
Yep, I've used them in a bunch of interactive audio installations for kids - they're great as they're completely hidden and can't be damaged by prying fingers
the channel Tech Ingredients has two videos on how they work and how to make them. Look up the title "World's Second Best Speakers!"
y'know, some people refer to headphones as "a set of cans"
imagine if you used this to make actual can headphones!
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Boom Tunes: " Anything can be a speaker if you are brave enough"
Remember having one of those to create an impulse response of an acoustic guitar body (stuck it to the body and ran a sweep), worked surprisingly well!
If you had one of those hybrid plug-in acoustic guitars, could you use the Boom Tunes™ to make your acoustic guitar body into a speaker that plays your guitar sound?
Absolutely genius!
What's funny is when real companies got in on this, some of the speakers were actually very good. You couldn't barely hear anything coming out of the speaker itself, but once you plopped it onto a desk or similar surface, it filled the whole room with sound and they were loud. Of course, you had to pay a premium for it.
I almost bought one. Almost.
Thank you for inviting us to the floor. That was very kind of you, and incredibly brave to be so open.
hi there
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they have new versions of these and then they also have something very similar that can be connected to hanging wall panels, Styrofoam sheets, glass, plexiglass and other objects to turn them into large room speakers which are actually acoustically amazing. these devices also double as tactile feedback when placed under seats for full immersion in games and watching movies.
when using wall boards, plastic sheets and other types of materials, they change its richness and tone based on material, thickness, shape, and size. I've witnessed multiple speaker sets that literally fill the room with crystal clear and full range music.
i have a few of these type of “anything speaker” but they’re heavy, half size a coke can, and with a suction cup bottom. and they work surprisingly well. I put one on my glass hatchback and it was pretty good. the whole rear of car was now loud “as a speaker”
This actually looks like a ton of fun and I would play with it now as an adult let alone as a child.
DP's unhinged laughter is what gets me through my days sometimes
really? and 1.3 million ppl agree - we are screwed!
You’re just being ironic, right? Right? RIGHT?!
Dude Perfect's laughter also gets me
@@blindlemon9 Local human being finds another human being who enjoys different things than they do. More at 6.
contact speakers are actually a super useful tool in the studio! get some really interesting sounds when putting things like drums through them and recording the output!
I’ve seen a different implementation of this: bass shakers. I thought of buying a few and sticking them to the frame of my couch/bed or something. Hooking them up to a home theater system or something, and setting them to cut off anything above a certain frequency.
I had one of these. I stuck it to a large metal thin door and it worked pretty great
Those little speakers are known as DMLs (distributed mode loudspeaker). They can actually sound "decent" if paired with the right surface and if placed correctly on the surface as depending on where you place the speaker you will excite (or not) certain resonances of the surface (known as modes) which is generally not ideal if you're looking to achieve a flat response. how ever if you're looking for a fun project to build over the summer and have some cool speakers you can pick them up pretty cheap online along with a few different surfaces, foam, metal, wood etc thay you can mess around with and enjoy the weird effects you'll get (metal is spooky)
finding a way to get a clean audio signal from whatever object you're using could make for some interesting sound design tbh
What if it sounded more like a cardboard box? A tin can? Literal garbage bin?
The possibilities of bargain bin cashies sound design is endless!
@@PixyEm THE ALL NATURAL SOUNDS
These have been done and are really cheap. Watch some distributed mode loud speaker videos.
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20.
Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God.
Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
You know what? I kind of love it. I could see myself having got a big kick out of this thing as a kid.
I love what using a drum or a cymbal as a speaker does to the music
My friend threw two of these above his drop ceiling. Didn’t sound perfect, but it was a very clean setup!
I remember walking past a stall at my local shopping centre selling a version of these years ago.
It was the same colour as the iconic DankPods iPod case, and the salesman convinced young me and my parents to purchase them, they were marketed as ‘Scandinavian audio technology’.
They were a fun thing to play around with, and i actually recall a few situations where it was actually useful. I’m sure it helped that at the time, my friends and i didn’t really care about audio quality.
Hell, i remember it working quite well on my garage door one time when we were hanging out the front of my house.
That actually makes a lot of sense - exciters sound best on rigid foam, which is probably what your garage door was insulated with
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20.
Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God.
Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
2:33 some nice relaxing content
Is that so relaxing I'm almost falling asleep
Him and lgr are polar opposites.
Lgrs chill relaxing and not constanly screaming
That made me rolling on floor
Lol
This feels like something that would be good for a noise musician to play with
Yes I really want one
My first thought. I gotta get one and start recording lmao
That's admitedly kinda neat. It sounds horrible but as a novelty and a way to teach people about resonance, it's kinda cool.
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" and I'm gonna use the *cocaine* "
I love how the package clearly shows it being used on an UNOPENED soda can 😆
you're saying that like it'd make it sound good
hey, keeping it closed gets you some really explosive sound!
@@coten but, does a soda can speaker have that pop we're looking for?
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20.
Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 over the course of 1260+ years. Revelation 17 confirms that the beast is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God.
Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
There's Bluetooth versions of this. Transducers are pretty neat, have you ever seen the YT vid by Tech Ingredients where they make some speakers with foam panels?
I remember seeing ads for this little thing on disney channel as a kid and really wanting one, so it's wild to see it reviewed all these years later! awesome as always dank
Two minutes in and I'm already planning my funeral, "the *BIGGER* the object the *LOUDER* the sound" killed me
This gave me the idea-which someone must have already done by now-to make a plate reverb out of an old cymbal. Adding that to the list...
I had something like this as a kid and it was amazing. Really got me into the physics behind sound and probably is a major reason that I watch this channel. It may not sound great, but is a fantastic gift for a young kid to play with.
5:57 - my favorite part
Daytona audio makes these for anyone wanting to play with these. I have 2 of them mounted to 4x8 sheets of poly foam board and they do sound fantastic for what they are.
years ago i bought a JAM storm witch has a toggleable vibration pad underneath and it really makes the sound louder if put on a good resonating surface
You actually got some cool sounds out of the drum and cymbal. I kind of want one of these just as an audio production tool.
Everytime DankPods uploads a video, it feels like Friday
well in austrailia, it probably is friday!
@@Dog1818YT you’re not gonna believe this but
Finally, I can turn the immaterial concept of love into a speaker
5:48 you in the bathroom while dankpods is doing dankpods things
I remember someone bringing something like this into the band room in high school. We used it on a drum as well. Never saw it again after that specific day.
Cheers from Maryland m8! I wanted to share my experience with my speakers resonating in my desk.
I used to use the foam supports like you showed. One day I tried using the rubber washing machine vibration feet as speaker isolators. And I was blown away. The clarity was instantly apparent. I decided to try adhesive rubber bumper feet from Amazon as a permanent solution. They work beautifully.
I highly recommend everyone try putting their speakers on some thick-ish rubber feet.
I just wanna plug this into the earth and rickroll the entire world.
Same lol
The definition of "my goals are beyond your understanding".
You're gonna need more than a Diablo to get enough power for that
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6:15 the Scarlet Church
Stick a contact mic on the object you're attaching that driver to. It'll function as a mechanical reverb. Audio Engineers have done that for decades. It's exactly what spring and plate reverbs are.
Pay attention kids, this is what peak performance looks like.
No joke these things are incredible little studio toys for experimental sound design. Played a drum loop through a wine glass with mine once and it sounded fucking crazy.
Pre-vid comment: I can't wait to hear Dankpods say "Boom Tyoons"
Post-vid: I can't believe this has happened, the word 'Boom Tyoons' was not spoken once.
That device with the coke can “definitely” defines “Sound Science”.
I actually unironically love this thing. Do they still make ‘em?
They're actually called audio exciters. Check out Tech Ingredients and their videos about cheap DIY speakers if you want to know more.
Also, I know this comment is old, but there might be other people seeing this wondering the same thing.
6:10 dankpods discovers plate reverb
Your reaction to the dust pan being a banger was legit the best. Gotta watch more of your videos now, there goes my night bwahahaha.
They're called vibrational exciters. Tech Ingredients (great youtube channel, look it up) has a couple videos about using them to make excellent (and cheap) speakers using similar ones attached to foam insulation panels. He tests a bunch of different materials, pretty neat.
Thanks for the channel recommendation and what they are called
Im a dutch drummer!! Amazing to see you using a dutch snare! They are amazing🙏🏻
The studio where I did my apprenticeship had those barefoot sound MM27 Gen2 speakers. I have never heard better sound in my entire life before or since working in that studio. Truly mind blowing sound capabilities on those things.
There was something similar at a book fair in elementary many moons ago. Showed a picture of using a single serve milk carton as a speaker. I wanted it bad but even as a 10 year old I knew it was land fill junk, thank you for unlocking that memory and at the same time taking care of that curiosity for me!
I have zero ideas why UA-cam showed me this video but that consumer “device” is essentially a cheaper version of a piezo electric inducer we use in the music industry. We use the same piezo inducers with slightly better amps and usually coupled with an EQ to filter low sounds. We place those inductors on metal plates and run sound to create what we call metal plate reverb! You have heard it on countless recordings.
I had one of these when I was a kid, it was a fun little gadget to fuck around with for about a week.
This is genuinely really cool! I'd love to see somebody done like this done today with something bluetooth, wireless, and a better speaker it has potential!
That's a real awful idea...
Lets blow them up 😏
Dank laughing so loud as the speakers literally burn
This gives me 'putting my phone into a large cup to use as a speaker' vibes haha
This half reminds me of when my manager at a store had a "speaker bucket" that no one was allowed to touch. She just dropped her phone into the bottom of it to play music while she worked, lol.
And also similar, but iirc some people will play audio into a piano bc it reverbs off the strings in a fun way, yeh?
6:25 "Dust me up, woman!" "Okie-dokie."
Shitty small resonators that can be attached to anything to "turn them" into speakers?
I want 10!
You can get two just by getting a pair of bone conducting earphones :P
Sometimes I put mine over a box or something to make a really, really bad speaker. It's funny.
@@estherstreet4582 yeah, I guess that makes sense
Reminds me of the DIY speakers tech ingredients made(youtube) where he experimented and attach exciters to foam boards / wood to make some pretty good speakers on the cheap.
Thank you! I was waiting on a new one, you’re my favorite content creator on here
He's a lot of people's favorite
@Tinder 🅥 lol a bot named tinder, that's a new one
@Tinder 🅥 Bot
When I was younger, I wanted one of these. I realize now that this thing would be the worst in a public location
I've always been fascinated doing this with music box mechanisms and seeing different things with different densities when the mechanism was placed on it and how it reverberated. This little thing in the very least is a neat little science project to show how audio travels.
LOOK AT THAT DR PEPPER SPEAKER! The greatest softdrink ever made can also be a speaker! How dare they try to hide its logo. 1:16
Finally a man of culture. I love dr pepper
*crap-cola and pepsi wants a word with y'all*
This thing feels like something you use to prank your mates after they get high. Making them believe in talking coke cans and boxes.
Perfect idea lol!
“It sounds like a bin being a speaker” I have no idea why I laughed so hard at that
This seems really cool for noise music like sample a song and run it through a bunch of effects and then a can
LG did this same sort of thing with the LG G7, you set it on a resonant surface like wood or a cardboard box and it would use that to amplify the bass, it was pretty freaking cool and actually worked.