The T Box Pyrit 212 Sub a Twin 12” Sub bass Speaker Review

0:01 First of all my disclaimer is very simple

Right ladies and gentlemen, you may have recently seen a gig log from me where I had a set of new bass cabs. Now first of all my disclaimer is very simple. I'm not being sponsored by the company, they haven't asked me to do this video. I did a bit of a deal with a friend of mine and we swapped some kit and the guy was happy, he had what he's always wanted and I... I've got what I needed, which was a couple of small bass cabs. Now to put you in the picture first, in 2020 all of a sudden something happened around the world and a lot of people including the likes of you and I were sort of out of work, which meant that there was kit all over the place around the world sat there doing absolutely nothing, including

I had a van and it got to the stage where I thought, I'm paying a lot of money for this van. It sat there doing nothing. So I sold the van and I bought a car. I bought an estate car. It's a Ford Estate. And what I did then as well, I got rid of a load of kit simply because I wasn't using it. And I ended up having just a couple of sort of mid-top cabs. But of course, you know, if you're a kit junkie like me... You get itchy fingers and feet and itchy ears and you think, I need to have that extra bottom end. But because I only had an estate car, I was thinking, how am I going to get bass cabs in the back of an estate car? Well, these came along. And right, so to give you a bit of perspective here, I've got a light console DJ desk.

I have a couple of EV mid and tops, 12 and horn, plus the lighting, plus all of some effects like small lasers, smoke machine, like I said, the cables and whatnot, and two bass cabs. I can get all of that, and the controller as well, the Pioneer XZ. I can get all of that comfortably. In the back and at the laptop and all that, in the back of the car and still have room in the passenger seat to take an extra person if I need or stick me lunch there, stick a bottle of water and I can drive to the gig. And that's exactly what I did last Saturday. So if you haven't seen it yet, go and check out that short gig log because every single item I got in one journey. Now admittedly when I took the stuff up I was thinking I'm not going to have enough room.

2:46 I will take the camera off the stand at the moment

So I took the bass cabs and the mid-top, and then I came back and took more kit. But then I realised, well, I could have only done one journey. The only reason I did two to begin with is that the event was literally up the road anyway. Enough of that. Let's talk about this kit now. I will take the camera off the stand at the moment. I'm just using an iPhone 11, so it's so much easier because you just press a button and it's uploaded instead of plugging it into the computer, waiting for that, downloading, uploading, fixing. Anyway. All right. So they're called the T-Box and I think it's Pirate or it's actually P-Y-R-I-T. 1-2-1 Sub A. Now then, I will show you in a bit, but what these are is a couple of 12, that's it. So if I turn this one around, I will show you closer very shortly, but you've basically got a couple of 12 inch there, you've got two ports and they're powered.

Now, on the specifications it says that they are 4000 watts peak and 1000 watts RMS. Now, I'm not saying that's correct or not, but I have to admit after using them Saturday night, they didn't half pack a punch. And I use that word punch, not loosely, but quite prominently because that's what these do. If you're wanting a bass sound and you've got say a set of 8 and horn or 10 and horn or 12 and horn or 15 and horn and you just want that extra bottom end, then you do need to look at getting a set of subs. Now, the reason I say punch is because the 12-inch subs are definitely not as defined as your sort of 15s or 18s. Now, I've had loads of 18 subs in the past and they've got this warm kind of sub bass sound. You know, you walk two miles away and you just hear this grinding, rolling sound. It's like there's thunder.

5:07 Whereas the 12s are a bit more of a punch

You know, in the distance. Whereas the 12s are a bit more of a punch. They hit you in your chest instead of like your whole body is vibrating and shaking. So what I'll do now, let me just take the top off this because the cover, because I have got it stuck on. In fact, if I can't take it off, I don't think it matters that much. Right, there you go. Alright, so these have got wheels on them. Now, what I did at the event as well, I put one on top of the other. Very good reason for that is because when you've got bass calves together, you will actually get an extra few decibels. Now, it may not sound much, one or two decibels extra, but it's hell of a lot. You know, it's the equivalent of, let's say, if you've got the number 10.

And you want to get more, you don't just add one or two, you add another 10 and you get 20. So when you hear people saying, oh well you put that speaker next to that one, you'll get an extra 3 decibels. And say you've got 120 decibels and you want to add extra so you get 123. You're not adding a tiny percentage extra, you're adding a great deal more and that's what happens when you put subs together. So what I'll do now is I will take the camera off the stand and we'll have a closer look. Basically, absolute idiot proof. Okay, so mode. You have 10, 12 and 15. Now that's very simple. What that's for is if you've got a set of 10 inch and horn for your mid-top, you set it across to there, middle for 12 and across there for 15.

7:48 I have, because I always like doing this, opened one of these up

That comes on when the power's on. This will come on when you've got a signal running through, and that's your clip mode. So as soon as that goes red, you're clipping. And during my event Saturday night, I was ramming these and that didn't clip. So, ideally, turn it to zero dB. You can turn it up slightly if you want to. I generally sort of go around about the three o'clock-ish, but I admit I did turn it up a little bit Saturday night. I'm going to turn that down very quick. The idea for you here is, when you're turning any form of speaker on, make sure the volume, sometimes known as the attenuator, your gain control, is completely off. So once it's plugged in, you turn on and then you turn this up. Don't, if you can, just make sure that that isn't up first when you turn it on because you could get that sort of...

Click sound. Now I have, because I always like doing this, opened one of these up. This is the actual amplification unit. I've taken that off. There's a fan in the back of that and that tells me that there's got to be a bit of power there. Generally, rule of thumb again, is if you've got some kind of amplifier and there's no fan on it, I'm not saying it's not very powerful, but the fan is there. To move the heat away from the heat sinks and that generally tells me that it's got to have a little bit of poke. Now we've got line A in and line B in, line A out and B out. Now the reason for that is let's say you know you've only got room in your car for one bass cab and you've got two mid-tops and you're thinking well I don't really want you know bass to just be on the left side or the right side. Well

Don't panic because what you can do, you can actually go from your mixer in to line A from the right side and then into line B from the left side and then out of here into your mid-top cab right and out of here into left. So what you're doing is you're utilising the amplifier and this cab to run a sort of a mono stereo kind of... bass so what's happening is you're still running bass but you're able to go out a and out b so right or left or left or right so you've still got your mid top stereo but at the same time you've got a bass sound here uh through the speaker itself so aesthetically Really pleasing to the eye. Very big, very bold, but at the same time compact for its size. I've opened these up. The voice coils are amazing. Very simple inside. You've just got some wooden bracing. You've got sort of cushioning on the inside to stop any sort of vibration or anything like that.

10:21 You have a pole so high and then your mid-top on the top

But generally what I would do is I'd have one on top of the other. Now you can see what's known as a top hat there, so you can have it positioned like that. You have a pole so high and then your mid-top on the top. Alternatively, if you want to, you can have it on its side. So there you go, there's another pole mount there. Also you've got these indentations, that of course is for your feet. There, so you can put the one on the top there. Alternatively, if you want to, you can put another one on the top there. So you can in essence have, you know, your bass system up that high and then you could just put a mid-top on the top. So once you've done that, you're looking at about, you know, sort of over six foot high, which is ample height to reach over

And above people's heads, unless of course you're playing to people who like basketball. Hmm. All right, so there you go. The tee box here, I believe it's from the company called Thorn. And I'm really, really, really impressed with these. And again, my disclaimer, no one's asked me to do this video. The company hasn't. They haven't said, Jonathan, will you do this video and get something for free or whatever? All I'm interested in here is... Telling you what I think, and I am really, really impressed with these. And again, you know, last thing, if you're into low-end sub and shaking people's booties with loads of drum and bass, these probably aren't for you. But at the same time, if you're limited on space and you do still want that sub sound, then go for it. But if you've got, you know, a massive truck, transit van, you know, a long wheel base.

Then you're probably better off getting 15s or 18s. But for the mobile DJ who is limited on space, still wants a good bit of bottom end, a set of these on a set of 8s or 10s or 12s and they will do the job fantastically. Alright, so once again, thank you very much for watching. This is the T-Box and they are the PYRIT PRITE. 212 Sub A. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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