The World of Wogg

SuperNova Minimus, a vintage Realistic Nova 15 re-design. Why build this? The main purpose of this build was to revitalize a pair of Realistic Nova 15 cabinets from the mid 80’s.  The cabinets have been in my family… Read More

This tune started out as a riff on the fretless acoustic that I played with for a while before deciding to turn it into a completed song. The bass is the main feature here, with the guitar tracks… Read More

Compact 2 way satellite speakers for use with a subwoofer. Design Goals The primary goal for this design is to provide accurate +-3dB response from 20kHz down to 100Hz. The primary purpose was not to be a stand… Read More

A self-powered 2.1 system contained in a compact 8” subwoofer enclosure.  With the addition of a signal source and a pair of small satellites a fully independent full range system can be setup.   Design Goals For the subwoofer,… Read More

An inexpensive Isobaric loaded subwoofer when the most bass is required for the smallest amount of money in a small enclosure.  This was an upgrade for an older cabinet that had used Pyle 10” woofers.  The old woofers… Read More

A Portable Practice Amplifier for bass guitar, designed to have a far more accurate frequency response than the typical commercial offerings.  This design goal makes it suitable for a mono music blaster, a keyboard amplifier, or whatever needs… Read More

Before you start making sawdust in the shop, there are a whole host of tools available to the DIY speaker enthusiast that can help you estimate and design your speaker on your computer.  For engineering nerds like myself,… Read More

Here’s another basement funk tune produced with a video.  This tune was created on Father’s day 2016, and produced in a single afternoon.  The camera was rolling as I tracked, and it took me a while longer to… Read More

After 10 years of creating and collecting basement funk tunes, I’ve thinned out the herd and gathered 15 tracks that were deemed acceptable.  The tunes range from kicking funk, straight rock, acoustic jams, to mellow out semi electronica…. Read More

I had the crazy idea of taking video of a basement creation and editing it together. This jam was started with some old Acid rock loops for percussion, then written and arranged on bass with the drums added… Read More

After deciding there weren’t enough upright bass tunes on my next collection, I gave birth to this little groove and dubbed it Phat Groove.  Everything is cooler with a PH.

Even before I was a bass player, I’ve been obsessed with the bottom couple octaves of the audible spectrum. At some point, I decided that subwoofers were expensive and I should design and build my own. With a… Read More

The term Gain Staging refers to setting the levels between stages of an audio system.  The real root of the term lies before digital recording and the ubiquitous computer based Digital Audio Workstation, but the concept is still… Read More

The term Decibel gets thrown around a lot in the audio world like it’s an actual value, but in reality it is not.  A decibel is actually a ratio and only means something relative to the value it… Read More

When you begin electronics classes, you will be faced with the most basic of circuit analysis, series and parallel resistor networks.  Using Ohm’s law we can determine just how much voltage can be seen and current is flowing… Read More