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How to wire 6 Buttkickers into a 7.1 sound card for SimHub base shakers

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(@gorillajones)
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Hi everyone,

Here is my layout. 

4 ButtKicker LFEs in each corner for the tires.  

1 Buttkicker Mini on the shifter. 

1 Buttkicker mini on the pedals.

Sound card is a Sound Blaster 7.1 pci card.  

So I have six 3.5mm connectors for only 3 inputs on the sound card (Front, Back, Sides)

I bought three 3.5mm splitters that have not arrived yet.  Would this make this work? 

When I used two sound cards which was enough connections for all the 3.5mm all I could ever get to work was two buttkickers and they were never in the place I thought they would be.  I'm sure I haven't wired this correctly.  For the four corners I have a Sound Town 4 channel amp and for the minis I have two buttkicker amps.

What is the proper way to wire this type of setup?  

Thank you!


   
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(@admin5435)
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Hi !

That sounds perfect, each 3.5mm gives you 2 separare channels, so with 3 3.5mm it gives you 6separate channels (one per RCA plug) .. .Front left/front right etc... Even if the buttkicker amp has two RCA inputs you can route only one RCA on each, the buttkicker amps are mono amplifiers.

 

 

 


   
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(@gorillajones)
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@admin5435

Thank you for your response!  Oh man can't wait, hopefully I did the speaker wiring job correctly.  I'll update once it's up and running.  🙂


   
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(@gorillajones)
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Please help.  I've been trying for over 13 hours.  I have a 4 channel Sound Town amp.  I plug each channel into the 3.5 splitter and place them in the sound card inputs.  No matter which 4 corner option I test only the front left buttkicker will vibrate.  It doesn't matter which input or splitter I select.  Or multiple channels will light up on the amp even though it's only the front left thats vibrating.  Do I want the 4 channel Sound Town amp on (ground) or (lift)?  And there are (stereo) or (mono) for the 4 channels.

Basically, how do you wire this?  Gah, I want to take an axe to this setup.  Please help.

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(@boostedsetup22)
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@gorillajones I know this is old but if you see this message, please help me brother.  I'm having the same issue you had and I can't figure it out. I have days invested into this and I have tried everything.  There's clearly something I'm missing and if you could help me I'd appreciate it so much. 

You can email me directly if you'd like @ [email protected]

Thank you so much in advance 


   
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