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OK guys, seen as there is talk of DIY BBP boxes here’s a quick one I made for someone 18 months ago.
I started with a cheap £40 3U rack mount bare chassis. Marked up with tape on the front where I wanted the VU meters, power button and Power LED.
Then to fit the 700 watt PSU
Then make sure the Asus PSKPL-AM motherboard goes in nicely and mark up where the Quick-boot 80gb HDD goes!
HDD is now in place and now to mark up where Air Intake and Air Outtake fans will go
Now everything comes out again for me to cut holes for fans, VU meters, power Button and for XLR/BNC sockets to go in.
Everything goes back in…including the Stereo Input and Output VU meters that I made
Fans go in with nice shiny Chrome Alein Style fan guards along with M-Audio 192 Sound card and custom patch lead
(buy sadly I can’t find the photo..sorry!)
And now out with the old kit (can you guess what it was??)…and in with the new! Sounds much better!
There you have a quick BBP hardware box costing around £600.
Full spec:
3U Chassis Enclosure
Asus P5KPL-AM Mother board
4Gb Samsung RAM
Pentium Dual Core 2.6GB Processor with Artic Pro Cooler Master 7 CPU Heatsink & Fan Cooler (these are very good! get one!)
80Gb 8000Rpm HDD I think!
700 Watt PSU
2x 90cm Fans – one blowing in, one blowing out. With Chrome Gaurds
M-Audio 192 Card with Custom Patch cable
Home Made Stereo Input & Output VU meters
2x Female & 2x Male XLR’s, 2 BNC’s and one soft-start Push to make Power switch.
Software: Runs on XP with BBP with Airomate & Logmein.Processor runs cool, doesn’t even break a sweat!!! Never seen CPU over 20% and will boot up with Audio in 18 seconds!
My next one will be so much more sophisticated and a bit more advanced with 2 chassis mounted screens, one being an LED screen to display the BBP Meter & Scopes and the other being a Control Touch Screen to control the settings, it will also boot from a flash drive!
Hope you like! 😀 😀
[quote author=”brazil”]Nice job here man
how you put the inputs and outputs on audiophile?thanks!![/quote]
Ah, quite easy. Don’t use the patch lead it comes with, Just buy yourself a DB25 D-sub cable from any computer store and cut one end off it to terminate to your inputs and outputs.
The pins are as follows:
Pin 1 Right Monitor – high
Pin 2 Right Monitor – shield
Pin 3 Left Monitor – low
Pin 4 Right Output – high
Pin 5 Right Output – shield
Pin 6 Left Output – low
Pin 7 Right Input – high
Pin 8 Right Input – shield
Pin 9 Left Input – low
Pin 10 n/c
Pin 11 Midi Out – + 5
Pin 12 Midi Out – shield
Pin 13 Midi Input – IN +
Pin 14 Right Monitor – low
Pin 15 Left Monitor – high
Pin 16 Left Monitor – shield
Pin 17 Right Output – low
Pin 18 Left Output – high
Pin 19 Left Output – shield
Pin 20 Right Input – low
Pin 21 Left Input – high
Pin 22 Left Input – shield
Pin 23 n/c
Pin 24 Midi Out – IN
Pin 25 Midi Input – IN –You’ll need a multimeter to work out which colour wire corresponds to which pin.
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