Inexpensive transducers for simvibe

JeffL · Aug 20, 2014

Some of the guys in the club were asking about some affordable transducers for Simvibe.

I have $50 sub and the 4 pack 16 0hm minis ($44) drive in 2 zones by 2 - $20 lepai amps and not even close to using all the power. Actually just the large shaker and one amp would be sufficient but....

The company that makes the transducers is Dayton Audio but the best price is from Parts Express

http://www.parts-express.com/cat/tactile-transducers-exciters-bass-shakers/18
Have fun.

William Wester · Mar 28, 2015

Got it working... I assumed that the DLL would be put in the GSCE plug-ins folder (removed manually while trouble-shooting) by an install of SC4 or profile setup of GSCE in the software. I manually copied the DLL from my stand-alone install to the Steam version and now I feel the "vibe"!

I still have a question though on how the Simxperience.dll gets in the GSCE plugins folder to begin with....

iberacing · Mar 28, 2015

hey all i have a question about simvibe..i use simvibe seat only at the moment and i have two buttkickers one is under my pedals and one is under my seat and i use a two channel amp but i was wondering if i used sim vibe shifter could i make the buttkicker under my seat work independently from the one under my pedals so that i could give the buttkicker under my pedals a diifferent setting?

JeffL · Mar 28, 2015

iberacing · Mar 28, 2015

JeffL said:
yes

hi thanks for the reply..when i use sim vibe shifter it just goes to both buttkickers i only want it to go to the ones under my pedals how do i go about this then jeff?

JeffL · Mar 28, 2015

The shifter and the seat are the green left and right output, the pedals are the black out put right, and you need to put your sound card output as quad. Don't even bother with the chassis just turn it off. (untick)

iberacing · Mar 28, 2015

JeffL said:
The shifter and the seat are the green left and right output, the pedals are the black out put right, and you need to put your sound card output as quad. Don't even bother with the chassis just turn it off. (untick)

oh i see i suppose ill have to buy another amp then so i can plug it into the black socket on my soundcard.

JeffL · Mar 28, 2015

Yeah, for 2 signals you need at least 1 stereo (2 channel) amp. If you use the shifter and seat channels you only need 1 stereo cable coming out of the green port to the stereo amp.

JeffL · Mar 28, 2015

It doesn't matter what the label is(Seat,shifter,pedals) cause you can send whatever signal down each.

iberacing · Mar 28, 2015

JeffL said:
Yeah, for 2 signals you need at least 1 stereo (2 channel) amp. If you use the shifter and seat channels you only need 1 stereo cable coming out of the green port to the stereo amp.

yea i see what you are saying..i was trying to get simvibe shifter to work on my buttkicker that is under my pedals but i didnt see the point in using it because simvibe seat is already making them shake.. so i dont understand what simvibe shifter is for to be honest!!when i use sim vibe seat it shakes both of my buttkickers so why do we have shifter option also? i want to be able to have them separate so simvibe seat doesnt shake the ones under my pedals..so in order for me to do this i take it i will need another amp just so that i can control the shakers under my pedals with the black jack in i assume.

JeffL · Mar 28, 2015

Are you just running 2 Transducers.(buttkickers)?

iberacing · Mar 28, 2015

JeffL said:
Are you just running 2 Transducers.(buttkickers)?

yea sorry i call them buttkickers but they are actually pucks that i use in parallel i have four of them.

JeffL · Mar 28, 2015

Read the post 107 and see if that answers some of your questions.

JeffL said:
its really up to you, you only have 3 channels of "vibe" if you look at the chassis you really only have three channels. It is kind of a wierd routing system. Here is my config, it is a little weird because of how I paired them.

ch 1 -left stereo - green- seat 2 -16 ohm paralleled(for 8 ohms) mounted on pedals
ch 2 -right stereo -green- shifter 2 -16 ohm paralleled(for 8 ohms) one mounted on H-shifter and one mounted on steering column

ch 3 left stereo -black- pedal 1- 4ohm large transducer mounted on seat pushed by a second amp

Letters in red are the simvibe labels
This kind of gives you an idea of how you can be creative. Most of these lower priced amps are based on 8ohm it is the most efficient point of the amps.

Try avoid putting too many signals down a path. For instance road texture and engine vibe are similar and will basically cancel each other out, your transducers can only do one thing at a time.

One more thing the simcommander pairs the shifter and the seat and you can't change that.

iberacing · Mar 28, 2015

JeffL said:
Read the post 107 and see if that answers some of your questions.

ok thanks jeff that has helped me out alot now i see where ive been going wrong with my wiring ...can i ask what is your second amp that you use for your bigger transducer?

JeffL · Mar 28, 2015

just a car stereo amp, it was pricey but i use the other channels for other things its a little complicated and thats for another type thead lol

you can use one channel of one those cheap amps just fine.

iberacing · Mar 28, 2015

JeffL said:
just a car stereo amp, it was pricey but i use the other channels for other things its a little complicated and thats for another type thead lol you can use one channel of one those cheap amps just fine.

i was thinking of buying a bigger transducer for under my seat..i was going to maybe buy a Reckhorn BS-200 Bass Shaker here is the link for it http://shakercentre.co.uk/aspbite/p...uctsID=124&content=reckhorn_bs200_bass_shaker.. and i was wondering would the lepai tripath amp that is recommended on page one be sufficient enough for this shaker?

JeffL · Mar 29, 2015

yeah, probably, I just don't trust offbrand specs,100watt on a 3" trans,hmmm and what the fu** is impulse power lol

iberacing · Mar 29, 2015

JeffL said:
yeah, probably, I just don't trust offbrand specs,100watt on a 3" trans,hmmm and what the fu** is impulse power lol

HAHAHAH this is my problem too i dont know much about this stuff thats why im here lol..thing is i dont want to spend much on an amp so if the lepai is not good enough for the reckhorn bass shaker ill pass up on it for now untill i can afford something better.thanx for help jeff.