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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

When you are this awesome, you have your own soundsystem

Well more specifically, you design your own soundsystem to convey your awesomeness to the audience, and in some cases render them deaf.



This is what Lemon D and Dillinja did. The reasoning? from their own interviews, they attribute the need for their creation to the fact that modern loudspeakers do not posess the capability to replicate the deep sub base frequencies commonly used in drum n bass and jungle production. It was this reason that motivated them to create one of the most scary, increadible and truly bad ass things of all time, The Valve....

What is the Valve? its a soundsystem designed by UK Dj's Lemon D and Dillinja and is loosely modeled after the old jamaican sound systems of the 60's and 70's that brought around the advent of reggae and dub music. The system itself features scooped bass bins and valve amplifiers. Valve vaccum tube amplifiers have a distinct rounded soft and full rich characteristic that you cannot replicate with modern tranistor amplifiers.

Now two low speed bass drivers and a nice amplifier can produce gorgeous lows in your home or studio... what dillinja and lemon D did was inject it with human growth hormone and steroids thus creating the valve sound system.....



Lets put it this way..... if you want to move the system around.... you need 3 full sized transport trucks, two massive 12 foot by 20 foot stacks of scooped sub bass bins, low bass bins, mid bass bins, high bass bins, mid range and tweeters. 75,000 watts of amplification, and the only sound system in the world that requires you to wear ear plugs...

for a taste, here is a test of the system... well only 8 of the speakers...... and they set off car alarms..


a quick documentary on the valve.

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