At around 5pm last Thursday I finished getting Project Big Black ready so me and Lou took it out for a little test
Back in Black is the theme tune for the system and sounds fecking good on it.
Friday we packed up Big Black and headed off to Peterborough for Modified Nationals - about 6 months ago - Adam Rayner and Connects2 asked me if we could be ready for Modified Nationals and foolishly I said yes - on Friday morning I kept that promise and was pretty much the first person at the show!
Me and the wife decided to park up and relax for a bit
We then started some heavy HEAVY booming and it wasn't long before Big Black got its first official 'Turn It Down' from the organisers of the show, Apparently local factories were complaining about the noise - Thats when I knew we had done a good job - in Henry's words 'Don't underestimate the power of the long wave!'
We then moved round to the camping area where we started some more booming but again we had to keep it down until 5pm because I was annoying the factories again but as soon as 5pm rolled around we got back on the booming and I left a happy happy man
Saturday was a rainy day and I did a little tweaking of the system and found a few headunit settings that could have been interfering with my score from Friday so I ran through qualifying and retested my peak and found it at around 30hz!!
The rest of the day was spent booming and showing of Big Black - chatting to people about the build and also the blog (hello to all you followers!) I also spent a while going over Big Black with the guys from EMMA- basically going through best practices for a safe presentable system.
Sunday morning was spent booming over at the EMMA stand ready to have my ESPL reading taken - with ESPL you are told a track from the EMMA Test ESPL CD a short while before competition and everyone has to compete using that track - you have 30seconds to get as loud as possible with the doors closed up then again with them sealed - I managed 150.7 db @ 26hz as a peak hehe - Only managed a 4th overall due to a number of technicalities (main reason being fuses are not close enough to the battery).
After the ESPL testing I returned to the dB Drag area and was accosted by Mr Adam Rayner who had been trying to pin me down so he could do a video report on the build - here is that video
After this I ended up going head to head with Ed 'edhick' Hickling in his INSANE Jacked Chevy Bronco running 6 dc sounds 18s and 6 Sundown amps (build thread is HERE on Streetbassers) - Probably the only build in the UK to make Big Black look like Small Black!
I went up against Ed in both the Exterme 3+ final and 149.9 Bassrace final - I only just managed to beat Ed at bassrace as I was test driving a new tune (Great DJ by the Ting Tings with an epicenter )
It was a blinder of a weekend and my final results ended up like this
- 1st Place in db Drag Extreme 3+ class with 155.8db @ 33hz
- 1st Place in Bassrace 149.9 class with 149.9db (this is the class im hoping to become world champion in)
- 1st Place in Ground Pounders with a 153.8db on music at 26hz
- 2nd Place in Proper Droppers with a total average of 153.4 (peaking at 155.4@ 33hz)
- 4th Place in EMMA Enhanced SPL - lost points for the install (fuses are too far from the batteries) but totally ruled in the sound portion doing 150.7db @ 27hz
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