About Subwoofer.Tools

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My name is Tim. I write code for a living. When I was in fifth grade, The Beastie Boys dropped "Licensed to Ill", and tracks like "Hold it now, Hit it" and "Brass Monkey" made extensive use of the 808 kick drum.

Those tracks were engineered to play loud in cars. It was basically free advertising for the music and so much fun for the occupants of the cars. Our boomboxes would turn to buzzsaw distortion when our batteries depleted. Those 55-60hz tones resonated in cars packed with speakers.

Bass in cars has since been a bit of a lifelong obsession of mine. I picked up a couple books on the subject and taught myself what I could through high school.

During "second college" I learned how to write code. And since then I've been learning how to write code for subwoofers.

In the early 2000s, I wrote my first iteration with some super basic html as a way to flex in forums. I wrote a revision with vbscript, and then a revision in vb.net and another in c#.

This version is written in nodejs. Yeah, it's nerdy.