The springs are called “floor mount spring isolators” they are used to keep vibrations from equipment from transferring through the floor and are made in all shapes and sizes.
Yup they are the kind made for industrial grade applications to isolate heavy duty vibrations and keep decibels within certain safety limits and stop vibrations to or from other equipment. They can allow it vibrate more freely as well so they can enhance the effect of bass transducers.
What about the “shelves” - anyone find what can be used to replicate this? Edit: never mind. These are custom brackets, I couldn’t find similar, and they’re now selling just the brackets, springs and hardware.
The springs are a genius idea. I have the same exact transducers and they’re great. If they sold a package with just the springs, legs, and mounts I’d be interested.
Came here to say the same, if they sell a package of the springs with the ability to choose different mounting options (I would like to attach to a Next Level F-GT if possible) then I will be getting it ASAP!
Yeah, same here. I already have four transducers like in thr vid and USB amps. Just need trh mounts and springs. This is an amazing idea. Definitely going to princess auto later today to look for heavy duty springs. Maybe a light duty coil over or something. Great video as always man!!!
I have to apologize firstly as i couldn't bring myself to watch the video through the full way yet because its ridiculous, they you have moving parts through a ridged setup the movement from one part will be moved through the non moving part to the next moving part, this is a absolutely terrible idea! ok i will now go and watch the rest of this video
Great review. I’ve wanted to add motion to my aluminum rig but didn’t want to spend that much. This looks like a great compromise. Glad you’re feeling better.
Interesting! this all the exact same gear I had individually sourced for my rig during the pandemic to create my own “buttkicker” system. It works great btw. Super immersive for flight and driving. I wasn’t trying to make a motion system though, just to be a better neighbor and damp the vibrations for apartment life.
Nice video, I’ve had spring isolator’s for a few years now, and they also do great job of keeping the vibration with in the rig. Acting like a shield between the rig and the floor.
This looks like a pseudo motion system for the rig. It would be great if you make another video going in depth on how it feels and how is this different from just using transducers without springs, it would really help because this looks like something that can somewhat substitute a motion rig for those who cant run one because of budget or space constraints. Either way good review. Looking forward to a follow up after more testing.
Thanks so much. It’s not a replacement for my motion, but for $500 it seems like a great way to dip your toes into feeling sim racing through more than your wheel.
I was going to ask the same questions. I'm going to do a full motion rig in the future and I'm trying to determine the best set up for my space and budget. I'd like to do a combo set up for racing and flight. Was intrigued by the Yaw VR system. Glad you're feeling better Mike! I've had Covid twice in the past 3 years. No fun either time. God bless and race on 👍😎🏁
Fantastic!!! I already have the exact same 4 transducers and even the same cheap usb-sound adapter. They are very smart to also sell the mounts and springs for those who already have most of the pieces . I would have not even considered it . Since, I already had the transducers. But just offering the springs and mounts for $210 + $32 Shipping!! That's a good deal. Even just sourcing the springs and mounts would have cost me nearly the same maybe even more? Not to mention the hours and days of researching trying to find the correct springs. Good job Slip-Angle !!
Mike, thanks for doing the review, I appreciate it. I'll post answers here to some of the questions below for convenience. 1. Spring+Mounts only kit? I wasn't expecting this, but it makes sense. I'm working on it and will post it as an option in the store as soon as it's sorted. 2. Supported rig weight? The springs used here support 220lbs/100kg front and 330lb/150kg rear, so 550lb/250kg total. We're testing some stronger rear springs, but I've met Mike and he's a big guy, so if they hold him they will hold most. 3. Why not isolate each transducer from the rig with dampers? Cars have rigid chassis, so the vibrations permeate the entire chassis while also giving feedback on their origin. This system accurately replicates that. A few limited types of feedback, like abs pedal pulsing, can be very localized but that's quite distinct from the broad range of engine, road, transmission, and curb vibrations that travel through the entire car and bring a rig to life. 4. Will it work with non-8020 rigs? Only if you're MacGyver (even then, no). There are too many variations in non-8020 style rigs to create a bracket for all of them. The brackets support the weight of the rig and transmit the vibrations, so a solid mounting is a must. 5. Total kit weight? 36lbs/16kg 6. What if I don't like the posted tunings? You can send us yours and we'll post it on the site. Everyone likes different settings so it's good to have a place to share them. If there are any more questions I'll reply here or in a faq on the site, or just email me. Cheers. btw I too would love to see a back to back comparison of this kit and the Buttkicker Mike reviewed a few weeks ago.
I tried the kit and loved it. It makes the whole rig feels alive. Next to a full motion rig (add a couple zeros to the price of this), it is the best system I have seen so far. Everyone can buy a couple transducers and an amp but the value proposition of this kit is the engineering that went into the legs, mounts and springs. The price is incredible compared to what I would pay to have custom made legs & mounts and sourcing the right grade of industrial springs. The guy that put this thing together must have spent an enormous amount of time tweaking it to make the rig feel alive like this. Much better than a buttkickers; keeps vibration down, wife happy and children sleeping.
Agreed on the value proposition, just breaking down the costing of individual shakers, amps and 4 channel usb sound card already exceeds the cost of this whole kit using common sourcing like Amazon. Definitely could DIY this if you could come up with suitable mounts (which they've done) but definitely not cheaper. Currently I just have a couple of smaller pucks mounted to my seat and that's pretty amazing as it is, I can appreciate how much more this would add. Definitely will be considering this when my new profile rig arrives.
Could you elaborate on exactly what this kit does? In regards to the springs. Is it just to isolate the vibrations so it doesn't disperse to the floor?
To those wondering regarding my previous comment - The springs will isolate noise and vibrations throughout the environment. As you're isolating the vibrations to just the rig, this can increase the feel of the transducers. That being said, is it a necessity? Absolutely not. Is it nice to have? Absolutely is. Will there be a drastic difference if you were to isolate or not in regards to experience? Not at all but of course depending on the strength of the transducers used. Who will benefit from this? Those living in an environment in which the day-to-day use of your rig annoys/affects the others around you.
Sounds like the company read into some stuff me and a few mates were getting into a decade ago already, some might remember me and MrLatte, HoiHman, Carson79 and ilonioum from over at GTplanet way back discussing matters with Berney Villers from SimXperience Simvibe. At the time we were still trying to pioneer dampers, delay to change the seating position relative to the 4 tyres of your virtual car. Which really added an extra dimension in feeling the size of a car, which aided in judging distances to a curb or how far you are onto a curb or the gras. This delay use is something I could never seem to get across in writing to people around the globe though. Basically you use a DSP (I had a Behringer iNuke amp with built-in DSP) and use the function that you in essence also have on a 5.1 to 7.2 AV Receiver, the function to set the distance of your speakers relative to your seating position in the room. It's the same thing with tactile speakers. You just have to get the wheel base measurements of the car you are driving and measure out the relative position of your seat in relation to the tyre positions. Than set the delay/distance according for each transducer that respresents that one tyre, and done! Now your rig has been virtually positioned inside the haptic virtual space of the car instead of you basically sitting on top of your tyres. The thing is that whilst yes virtually the car has dimensions and so there is a natural delay for each relative transducer already build into it due the physics engine already doing that work for you... BUT!!! Your rig is made off of certain materials and different densities of material have different transfer rates of the vibration through the material, vibrations take time to travel after all. Since your rig however isn't the size of the virtual car you are driving and has those transducers placed in exactly the same distances as the wheelbase of that car, but much closer to your seat instead, you end up with less material that the vibration has to transfer through. In other words the vibrations almost instantly go to your but. For that you need that delay to virtually match up the speaker to the relative position of that virtual car's wheelbase that you are driving.
I bought a 4 channel inuke after reading a post by mrlatte some time ago along with the same 4 transducers in this kit and now just ordered the mounting kit. I’d be interested if any of you wrote up a guide on how to do what you’re talking about.
@@chrisc3825 Can't do anything with that iNuke amp in this regard, using a delay to properly size the car, as it doesn't have a DSP (Digital Sound Processor). Even the other guys never comprehend the thing I was talking about, hence they said "go for the 4 channel amp without DSP as it'll save you quite a few bucks". 🤦♂ Let's take just the rear right tyre on an BMW E46 as an example with transducers on a Sim-Lab P1 rig as an example which has 4 transducers at all extreme corners. The Sim-Lab P`1 is 1.350 meters long and has a with of 0.680 meters. So just over half a meter wide. The seating position on the rig is at the furthest rear posiion on the rig and 0.500 meters further to the front is the crossmember for the front mounts of a seat slider. The E46 has a wheel base of 2.725 meters with a width of 1.740 meters. The seating position is with your feet almost directly behind the front left tyre. Which means that you are roughly 1 meter apart from the right hand side tyres (1.740 - 0.680 = 1.060 meters). Where your rig is also sitting virtually closer to the front tyres, so that means if you were to match up the front of your Sim-Lab P1 with the left front tyre you'd be shy 1.375 meters from the back of the P1 rig to the left rear on the E46 (2.725 - 1.350 = 1.375 meters). Now since your transducers are mounted on each extreme end of the P1 rig they are vibrating much closer to your butt than a real E46 it's tyres would as it picks up road noise. So you need to virtually spread out the transducers by telling the amplifier's DSP that your speakers are an X amount of meters away from you. Which will add a delay so that it seems as if the transducers is further away by mimicing the extra time it would take for the vibration to travel through the material and finally to your butt. Now to know the distance between your butt and the rear left tyre you can just apply Pythagoras his A² = B² + C². So A² = diagonal line from butt to the E46 rear right. B² = remaining distance to the rear axle at 1.060 meters. C² = width from seat to the right side tyres at 1.375 meters. So we need to calculate: A² = 1.060² + 1.375² = 3,014225. So for the rear right transducer we need to dial in a delay of roughly 3 meters. The rear left transducer can be set to 1 meter The front right transducer to 1.3 meters The front left transducer can remain at 0 meters. That is how you setup the delay of a DSP for a BMW E46 3-series car whilst using a Sim-Lab P1 rig with 4 transducers mounted at its 4 corners.
@@LogiForce86 a bit of work, but not exactly complicated. I actually got an Behringer NX4-6000. I think this replaced some of the older iNukes but can still use the same software, but I don’t remember what the benefit of that was tbh but there was a discussion about that software being used to dial in the transducers. What you’re saying just sounds like speaker placement on a regular receiver. I don’t much about sound processing, but I’d assume a sound engineer would enter in the placement of microphones relative to each other when recording, then you as the listener can enter in the speaker placement relative to you, and the DSP (?) would calculate the differences and play the sound accordingly, or in the case where the amount of speakers doesn’t match up the with the amount of microphones, it does some smart processing to figure out what everything should sound like. With that said, 1) I don’t know why what I was reading guided me to get this amp and use the iNuke software (for something) as opposed to a regular receiver that would have some onboard DSP, and 2) that sims would relay the information used for tactile feedback in a way that already considers the wheel and driver placement and then you can just enter in speaker placement essentially for your transducers and not have to make manual calculations or adjustments, but that might be hopeful thinking.
Man Mike So glad to hear and see you doing better. Thanks for this great review and SlipAngle's approach seems like an affordable and effective alternative for quality haptic feedback.
It would be interesting to see the Transducers remain in each corner, but move the front springs rearward so your weight is evenly distributed over the springs
Damn the COVID’s, this is the same concept as a floor mount isolators. Depending on weight application is the size you would buy. Great video. I use 6 Buttkickers with the SimVibe software.
Nice idea with the springs. What I really want to know is how well the springs prevent the vibration from traveling through the floor as this is my biggest issue with running transducers. My rig is on the 2nd floor and the vibration travels through the floor even with rubber isolators.
I didnt think I needed springs, setup Simhub to have the RPM idle in game. Went down 1 floor to the kitchen and it felt like there was a lobed cam race car upstairs.
Would love to see how you feel this compares to the SRS shakekit seat pad, I believe the new version has 6 transducers, and seems to be a lot easier to install. I have the old version with 4 transducers, and I love it, but I've never tried anything else
Were you able to test it with the shakers disabled? So just the springs passively doing their thing. The majority of the deflection/displacement of the springs seems to be coming from your body mecanics of driving like fighting a DD wheel or working the pedals and leaning around in the seat. I wonder if you still get the motion effect with the shakers disabled.
What a nice idea! I thought to buy transducers to my Rseat RS1 rig recently, and now I know how to improve it, I will DIY something like that. And the price is reasonable, I would definitely like to buy that if I lived in US.
@@chrisc3825 you probably need to mount them directly onto your rig somehow. I doubt your current setup (if I understood it correctly your rig is standing on an MDF panels?) will transit enough vibrations since the RS1 standing on a tiny bolts with feet on it which will not let pass that vibrations through it. The more contact area you have the better feel you'll get. I have a direct drive wheel now and it shakes the whole rig pretty impressive, so I expect proper shakers/transducers should do the same.
@@mattspeed yeah ideally they would need to be mounted directly to the rig but I have the same Dayton’s in this package and they’re too big to mount anywhere on the rig, plus I want to go 8020 regardless and don’t want to start making modifications to this one. Right now I have the rig sitting directly on the MDF boards and the feet going into holes I drilled just to keep the rig from sliding around. It’s a bit of a mess. I can tell front from rear because it’s two different boards, front and rear, that the shakers are mounted to, but left to right is difficult to tell. I honestly don’t even use it right now because I know I’m not getting what I want or can out of it. Hopefully this new setup will change that. GL if you stick with the RS1. Most people use the smaller Dayton pucks mounted directly to the pedal plate, seat, and gear shifter sometimes.
I did buy the springset as I already had transducers on my rig. So I can't tell anything about the transducer-set. I have to say I'm not sad I bought them. The difference between the transducers bolted vertically on the the rig itself and now horizontally on the springset is there., be it a small. I can feel the difference a little more between right and left. Next to that, the noise it makes to the room beneath me has reduced a bit. Don't get me wrong, it won't take the noise away, but it helpes. So if it's worth the amount to pay for it? For me it was, but don't think it can compare with a motion set-up. If you have no budget for a motion set-up (like me), I can really recommend the complete set.
Man that's kinda cool. My rig is way to heavy to be putting on springs tho. I am and have been interested in the rest of the kit tho. Having the feedback from those would be great even without the springs.
Atom, the springs are an integral part of it, without the springs your rig isn't free to move. You might feel some of the higher frequencies, but you miss out on the lower ones, and you need that variation to get the effect.
@@SlipAngleRacing my rig ways 800 to 900 pounds. I get it. As in why they are there. But... Being so beefy. I feel the vibration from my wheel in my pedals. Why I said just having the feedback without movement for me. Would be great. The only motion I would bother with or want is a D box system. But the rest of this kit is way better then one butt kicker.
I like the idea with the mounting brackets and the springs! But I have doubts a 50W 50$ Dayton shaker would perform close to even the smallest buttkickers. 4 Buttkicker LFE with the spring mounts would be nice! Allthough that would be a slightly different pricepoint.
I have a Dayton under my pedal deck with noobsound, and a buttkicker plus under the seat. They perform next to identical but actually I prefer the vibration from the Dayton setup and it was less expensive as well. Great job of letting me know of any brake lock up.
The buttkickers are more powerful, but it's not just the power of the transducer, it's the freedom of the rig to move. With the springs the Daytons are plenty powerful and provide a lot of variation. Cheers.
@@slip-angle2400 do you ship to the Netherlands and at what rate? I'm looking at sizable customs import taxing, so it's important for me to know what I'll be paying in the end. Hopefully you can give me some indications. Tia.
@@frankvanderheide Hi, yes, just go to the website, add the item to cart, add email and select your country and it'll show the costs. Email me if you have any other questions. Cheers.
Is there going to be a AMS 2 update 1.4 review? They added new aero packages for the 90s F1 cars and V10 F1 cars, a Low down force wing and high down force package. They also added oval aero for all the indycars and added 3 new oval tracks with road courses too, and they also added manual grid option for custom championships, new FFB and physics and AI. A new Gt3 car, and new mini Cooper and couple other cars I think. Etc. It's a big update, you should review it.
Fascinating product - definitely seems like a neat niche below seat movers but above a single buttkicker. I'm a huge fan of haptics for Sim Rigs - once my Buttkicker stopped working I couldn't go back to nothing (I replaced with a cheap chinese Amp and small Dayton transducers) Great review as always Mike and hope you're feeling back to full health soon :)
equivalent, I'd say - as long as you get similar power outputs to the BK's@@dvc1867 - and you can more easily achieve stereo/quad effects with smaller transducers than the bulkier BK 'arms'. It's just about taking a breath and being a little brave with DIY, but worth it. the software (SimHub or SimXPeriences Sim Commander for example) adds cost though, but is essential
Can you distinguish left/right vibrations on this setup? When shakers mounted to the sides of the rig people say left/right is indistinguishable since vibrations travel through the rig, but mounting shakers directly onto springs is interesting. Note that you need a blind test for this since vision and audio from the car tricks our mind.
This is resolved in tuning. I have a four corners shaker setup on an aluminum rig. I 3d printed shaker mounts ( a lot of trial and error) so they can induce more force. Tweaking frequency snd power can have dramatic effect on source recognition. TLDR: frequencies too low become muddled within the chassis.
@@slip-angle2400 The spring mounting system looks different on the kit without transducers. Is it a better version? I also already have 4 transducers and I'm interested in the kit. Do you have a dealer in Europe?
Interesting idea using springs. However, proper implementation of tactile feedback must do two things that this system fails to do: 1: use isolators between each transducer of set of transducers and the rig frame so as not to effects and have them spread throughout the whole rig which makes positioning of complex/layered effects more difficult. 2: the transducers should not target corners of the rig but rather the specific body parts through which the effects will be felt. This,is why isolated transducers are better positions on the seat itself (under the seat and/or in the back) or on the heel rest or pedal frame. Proper isolation of the transducers and proper positioning improves the quality and distinctiveness of complex and simultaneous effects many orders of magnitude. This is the difference between eating each element of a four course meal separately and putting everything in a blender.
Fair point, but that’s also the difference between authentically translating information and more cleanly transmitting information. You can argue from both perspectives. The same applies to force feedback through the wheel.
Bro get well soon bud the beginning of July I caught covid and I'm still having some issues, but we're getting there. This looks like a great option for ppl that don't want to go full motion!
Couldn't see clearly in the vides where exactly you mounted the front transducers/springs. There a way you can send a link to a side view photo to see where they are exactly at the front? I have the same NLR GT Elite rig and don't have much space, so might have to move back the vertical wheelbase bar and the pedal support forward.
Hi. I use a t300 on a rig. Is it better to upgrade with a tactile system? Or should i spent my money to buy a better wheel (example moza r12 / r16 or simagic alpha / alpha mini
I absolutely love the springs, and may even go back to tranducers after seeing these. Setup headache aside, the one issue that I had with the buttkickers was the vibration through the floor. You know how bad recording can be with all that vibration, so you could imagine how much my wife loved hearing the dresser rattle all night 🤣🤣 The price is a little high to just jump on, but certainly fair and worth saving for, thanks for the great review!
Can someone please explain if due to the springs and the bassshaker mounted above / ontop does it bring moving / feeling to that spring? Or is the whole thing that the whole rig moves a little bit because of your body movement and the springs are more to hold all the vibration in the rig? Thx in advance 🫶
It's vibration at a certain frequency, which you can feel when you are sitting in your rig. The rig does not move, just vibrates when required. For instance, when your front left tyre runs over a kerb, you will feel vibration in your rig from the front bass shaker going off. It's a great feedback sensation, but it won't move the rig like a proper motion system. Setup right in SimHub, and the system is great.
why won't it be designed to put under seat rather under rig. I started simracing with ikea POANG armchair what would rock/vibrate a bit when force feedback from steering wheel would go down my arms and body. Since I have simrig I am dreaming about DIY'ing springs between seat and rig for similar effects. and here you go the upgraded version of my idea with haptics. Thanks for sharing.
@@MrJr1976 Thanks for the suggestion, we'll look into it, but remember the clamp doesn't just have to hold the transducer, but the entire weight of the rig/person/stuff.
@@slip-angle2400 That's why the thicker non-adjustable part of the C-clamp should be on the bottom and attached to the modified plate the transducer sits on. That way, the shear strength will be enough to prevent failure. Or even have an adapter that screws onto the side plate.
@@MrJr1976 I'm not really following you, partly because I'm not sure of the rig you're thinking of, but I like the idea. Can you email me with a bit more detail?
I have same prolem withrear shakers. Seems like they don´t vibrate :( And also Channel 5 and 6 doesn´t work for me ) Seems like front shakers vibrate on channel 1 / 2 / 3 and then slowly on channel 5 and 6. can´t work it out :(
The guys at Butt Kicker are fantastically nice people, but tbh their older-generation-(Gamer2) amplifier was frequently blowing, costing many people much money to repair. I hope Butt Kicker and Slip Angle had choosing an amp that doesn't break easily in mind.
I bought this thing and the amp keeps shutting down on me. I've spent most of the night dialing the effects down but it's still happening. The amp seems under powered.
Thanks for this information and review on this kind of motion system. Going out to their website it looks like they have a more expensive system for 650 dollars which also has more power to provide for the motion effects. I don't have any kind of Racing Rig right now, but just learning what and how things work with a Rig. Take care.
I just received the kit after waiting a month and opened it to find out there was no transducers sent. I want to give an update. About a month later now and I still have not received all my conducers. They have sent 3 of 4 now. The first 2 arrived about a week later after the initial box. About a week later I received the 3rd conducer. None of the boxes have had tracking numbers. I'm currently waiting to see if I get my 4th conducer. I placed my order on February 17. This is by far the worse customer service I have had with any Sim stuff.
i bet you, with somewhat lighter springs and stronger haptic transducers like the 300watt dayton audio bst -3 's or the earthquakes 350watt bass shakers, we 'd be discussing on another level about the outcome and real value of this setup..
The gear itself is way above my pay-grade, Mike. But sorry to hear you had such a hard time with Covid. But good to see your at least somewhat on the mend now....... As we need more SimRacing604 in our Sim Racing lives.
Curious about when he said he used the default profile in simhub? Then found the slip angle profile? Where do you find profile in simhub and how do you use them. I have a small transducer on my throttle and brake.wondering about a profile already in simhub?
I got a reply from slip angle " Thank you for your interest, and my apologies for the delay, it’s been hectic since Mike’s review. The springs will hold a total of 250kg, so you’re close but should be okay. And if they weren’t strong enough we would be able to get some heavier ones. I always advise removing any delicate electronics due to the constant vibrations. I haven’t seen anything fail, but for both weight and durability it’s good to have them off the rig. We don’t have international shipping set up yet, but we’re working on it. I’ll keep you posted as things develop."
Great innovation, And looks like with some further development it will only get better. Would definitely purchase if I didn't have a motion rig. I paid almost as much just for a single buttkicker and amp.
To be fair, I saw a comparison between buttkickers, Dayton and some others. Buttkickers design allows for more dynamic range and more identifiable individual frequencies. In other words when assigning effects to the transducer, you'd get better feedback, definition and clarity, if you have multiple effects assigned to a single transducer. So you've got very good equipment, I'm going with the simracing 4 BK package I saw on their website, or if I can't get the package, I'll have to source them individually.
@@torbinzix1 In all honesty, I don't bother with my buttkicker at all. I found having the feedback coming in from one spot to be immersion breaking, and with more then a couple signals being processed it just becomes noise to filter out rather then to respond to. I had limited it to the gear change and the rev limiter but my motion rig does that job now.
That tv is absolutely reddit r/tvtoohigh material. Cool product, thanks for sharing it with us. The spring isolators are a fantastic innovation for a haptic system.
Looks good. However I think I would prefer the springs to be separate to the rig that you could wheel you rig onto, otherwise moving the rig looks too difficult.
Oh. Great point. I think wheels may negate some of the “floating” effects that make this system work, but you’re right, having the ability to keep your rig mobile is a consideration.
@@SimRacing604 maybe they could integrate caster wheels into there bracket/spring mount. I currently use the sim labs casters on my rig so it can be moved to one side when not in use. I’m not interested in a full motion rig, I have the next level racing seat mover which I think does everything I need perfect but this looks like a great idea. By the way a have some vibration pucks in my seat and had a similar issue with a usb sound card and sim hub. In the end I enabled all ports for 7.1 and then just moved one of the audio cables to another socket. It is a strange windows issue that comes up every so often for me.
the fact that you feel less is not because of the spring , the spring are there to isolate the vibration, you feel less because you seat is absorbing while you feet are directly in contact with
Hi! I watched one of your video featuring the NLR ES1 seat some time ago and I wanted to ask if it hold up good over time since I'm a bigger guy myself. I see you don't use it anymore, anything wrong with it?? thanks
Nice review. How are you liking the Fanatec universal hub with the Flat steering wheel? I have the McClaren GT3 V2 but thinking of maybe getting the Flat too for a secondary.
Is that way of mounting better than attached to the back and under a fibre baquet? If anyone has tried bouth and wants to share the experience i'd be gratefull. Mounting them on springs seems interesting.
I am wondering your thoughts if it would matter if I installed the 4 transducers in the front and back of the rig instead of the sides. I am tight on space and would be able to install the transducers on front and back left and right sides but not on the actual sides of the rig. do you think I would still get appropriate feedback?
So I decided to order this yesterday and was order number 2. Come today they are "sold out" and my money was refunded. I have no idea what the deal is but I'm super confused.
Is there any movement whatsoever? Is there any real difference compared to using 4 transducers without the isolators other than isolating the vibrations from the floor?
So black cable would not stand out against natural colour alloy extrusion ? Can you not put a wrap over the cable to match your particular colour taste.
Awesome, Mike. Like you, I love my ButtKicker. In fact, it waned my wish for movement. Slip Angle might be the silver bullet for movement on a budget. Thanks for the review.
Are you comfortable on giving us a "ballpark figure" regarding your size? Judging off the compression on the rear springs, you + the rig seem to be close to the weight limit of the solution. (It's not a problem, if you don't want to share that information online :) )
The springs in the video are 330lb rear, 220lb front for a total of 550lb. And having met Mike I can confirm he's a big guy. The higher the spring rate the less the rig is free to move, so it's a balance.
Can these be used with motion if you mount them to each corner of your rig still using the springs to dampen vibration. Spring side mounted to the top side or side of the rig, not touching the floor?
I am impressed at the price. I may have to take Slip-Angle up on this system. When I got a wheel stand and was able to feel the steering wheel shake on the pedal deck (with a Fanatec CSR), that added a lot more immersion to the Sims I was playing. When I upgrade to an aluminum profile rig, I'll get this kit. First, being on springs would help on an uneven floor, and second, the idea makes sense.
Hopefully you can get springs with a higher load rating for the front. With a rig that has integrated triple or quad screens and an attached PC shelf that is a lot of extra weight on the front springs. Possibly just a kit with 4 rear springs.
The software is the limiting factor, and the type/quality of feedback the sim outputs (they're all different). If a certain sim doesn't work with SimHub, there's Sim Racing Studio and others.
Hi Ron. The good news with wood is that you have a lot of customization options. I would think this product would work for you, but without seeing your rig I can’t guarantee it. I’m thinking that the L-brackets could be affixed to your rig base with bolts and nuts, potentially. And the wood should nicely transfer the vibration effects. Perhaps you could send them some pics of your rig and ask if they think it’ll work.
I was just logging on to order a buttkicker setup for my gt-omega prime when I saw this video. Looks like it may be just what I need. Really helpful seeing that it works for you since I'm about your size.
I'm already running a home made 4 corner haptic system on my old NLR f gt. The springs are a really great idea and some thing I had considered myself but hadn't been able to visualise how to suspend the rig.
I wish something like this existed as a replacement for office chair castors, Most bell glides are too short to replace the stock castors on rolling chairs.
An absolute bargain, I've ran 4 haptic bk2's in the past, they call it poor mans motion.... works well and should sell well. Motion is still way out of many peoples price range.
Yeah, I totally agree. I love my motion setup, but the only reason I have it is because it was sent to me for review. If I were responsible for the costs I doubt I could justify the purchase price. So hopefully Slip Angle is a good middle-ground for people in financial situations similar to mine.
Hi. Thanks for this interesting review. Do these four DaytonAudio BassShakers installed in this way really give a better experience than screwed directly to the simrig frame at four points? I understand that they perfectly eliminate vibrations towards the floor, but don't the springs reduce the transfer of their power to the rig a bit? Have you tested these BassShakers without springs as well? I wonder if there wouldn't be a better effect if springs or rubber or some other type of damping from the rig to the floor were actually used, but the BassShakers should be screwed with their entire surface to the rig's frame and not through a metal angle bar. I am interested in your opinion or experience.
The theory is that yes, they do give a better output. Think about if you had to shake the rig with your hands. It would be easier to shake if it sat on springs. So in this case, the transducers have to do less work.
What the maximum height I can set these springs? The screws on my simlab p1x is set to the max (+-15cm?). So getting into my bucket seat is easier. Without these feet's getting in and out would be quite hard for me. (Back issues)
