Car audio SPL · workshop

SPL/GARAGE

Four tools for a car audio subwoofer build. One prepares the music for your enclosure: it shows where the bass actually sits, cuts out the sub band, and retunes it down to where your box hits hardest. The rest handle the hardware: how to wire the subs, what LTO pack you need underneath, and where to set the gain.

SubCut/SPL

Load a track, see where the bass energy really is, cut out the sub band — then retune it down to your enclosure's tuning frequency.

  • Bass analysis: dominant frequency, band share, peak level
  • Linkwitz-Riley band-pass, 12–48 dB/octave
  • Rebass with a phase vocoder — tempo stays put
  • WAV export, 16 or 24 bit
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Wiring/guide

Tell it how many subs you have, single or dual voice coil, and what impedance — it works out every possible wiring, the final load, and which wire goes where.

  • 1–4 subs, SVC or DVC, 1/2/4/8 Ω coils
  • Series, parallel and mixed — each with its impedance
  • Drawn wiring diagram plus a step-by-step wire list
  • Warns if you would go below your amp's stable load
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Test tone/generator

A sine for setting gain, a slow sweep for hunting rattles and cabin resonance, and burp bursts for measuring — saved as WAV too.

  • Steady sine, exponential sweep, burp bursts
  • Rattle hunter: mark the frequency where the trim buzzed
  • Stereo check with the left channel inverted
  • WAV export in 16 or 24 bit, ready for a USB stick
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Time/alignment

For SQ: measure how far each speaker is from your head and get the delay needed to bring the stereo image back to the centre.

  • Tweeters, mids, rears and sub handled separately
  • Delay in ms and in cm — whichever your DSP wants
  • Speed of sound corrected for temperature
  • Top-down diagram drawn to the real distances
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LTO pack/calculator

How many cells, what voltage, how much internal resistance — and how far the voltage drops once the amplifier pulls on it.

  • Series and parallel cells, any pack layout
  • Voltage sag and current draw solved together
  • C-rate, runtime, weight, cell count
  • Tells you what one more parallel string would buy
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Amp/setup

What voltage to set the gain to, how thick the power cable needs to be, and what fuse belongs in front of it. Calculated, not guessed.

  • Gain target voltage for a multimeter, step by step
  • Cable size worked out from voltage drop
  • OFC and CCA handled separately — they are not the same
  • Fuse rating and where it goes
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What this is. A few small tools I put together for car audio SPL builds. Everything runs in your browser, there is no sign-up, and the music you load never leaves your machine — decoding, analysis and WAV writing all happen locally.

Worth keeping in mind. The sub cutter tells the truth about the recording, not about the inside of your car: enclosure tuning, trunk resonance and cabin gain will redraw all of it. The wiring guide works with nominal impedance — a multimeter will always read less than that, and that is exactly as it should be.

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