Ulan

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Name: Ulan McKnight
Date registered: June 7, 2017

Latest posts

LBH BSS – May 2025 — May 5, 2025
DJ Booth – 24-07-19 — July 19, 2024
Bracing: In two parts — July 15, 2024
24-06-14 – DJ Booth — June 14, 2024
The maths — May 26, 2024

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May 05 2025

LBH BSS – May 2025

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News

by Ulan

May 5, 2025

This post documents the May 2025, Little Bass Heads Big Sound System – The LBH BSS.

The BSS is designed by Michael Hatt and Ulan McKnight. In 2013, Mike designed a sound system for Ulan to bring up to Burning Man. In 2015, Ulan experienced a Klipch system deployed by Smashwolf Production and tuned by Mike …

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Jul 19 2024

DJ Booth – 24-07-19

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Fusion 360, Open Source

by Ulan

July 19, 2024

Scotty wanted a flat-pack DJ booth. He bought a design from playatech.com. I modified it. (Thank you Hanna for the help with tabs and dowels!) Here are the results.

24-07-19 – DJ Booth (Download link) 24-07-19 – DJ Booth (File download)

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Jul 15 2024

Bracing: In two parts

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Fusion 360, News, Open Source, Speaker Designs

by Ulan

July 15, 2024

TLDR: We got started with very large speakers. They weighed too much and were difficult to use. We now build smaller speakers with lots of bracing that are (relatively) light and easy to use.

When designing new speaker cabinets, we employ three engineering constraints for all of our boxes:

1) All cabinets must …

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Jun 14 2024

24-06-14 – DJ Booth

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Burning Man, Fusion 360, Infrastructure, Open Source

by Ulan

June 14, 2024

Scotty wants to build a Playatech DJ booth. I asked him to send me his plans so I can take a look. He gave me this file (DJ-Dope-Assy)

I spent a few hours in Fusion and came up with the following. I only needed 13 variables.

The DJ booth uses two sheets of 1/2″ …

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May 26 2024

The maths

Categories:

Fusion 360, Open Source, Speaker Designs

by Ulan

May 26, 2024

I sent Mike this link I got from Deon Brown about Friendly Pressure over in England. I included the following note:

“I would like to hear your thoughts on what he is building.

3D printing the tweeter waveguide is not something I had considered. There is no reason we can’t print our own horns! …

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Nov 13 2023

Imagination

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News

by Ulan

November 13, 2023

She’s got it.

What can we build?

And so does he.

Radical Thinker

Some things are always wrong. Always. Period.

Apartheid is wrong!

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Oct 30 2023

Oscar’s Backyard BBQ

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Fusion 360, Open Source, Speaker Designs

by Ulan

October 30, 2023

A major tenant of Little Bass Heads Sound Systems (LBH Sound) is education. We design and build custom sound systems for specific clients in specific situations. We are guided by a few core design ideas:

1) Everything should be easy to cut and assemble.

This means that we use standard sized and cheap plywood and …

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Jul 14 2023

New beginnings

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Burning Man, Juke Joint

by Ulan

July 14, 2023

The Juke Joint gets a new floor, new crew members join, tickets arrive, we build a new platform for the subs and she makes her first sound run of the year. The Burning Man push has truly begun. Great things are happening!

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Jul 11 2023

Drag Storytime – Saturday, July 22 2023

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News

by Ulan

July 11, 2023

What: Drag Storytime

Where: Freemont Main Library 2400 Stevenson Blvd Fremont, Ca. 94538

When: Saturday, July 22, 2023. 10:30am

Description Come join us for some songs, stories, and fabulous fun! Drag Storytime is an excellent way to introduce children to LGBTQ+ role models and help them learn about gender and inclusivity. We will have a …

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Jul 10 2023