Brandon Semenuk's Custom Stereo - Biggs does it Big
Aug 20, 2009
When we heard JBL was doing a custom stereo install with their sponsored rider Brandon Semenuk, we brought out the cameras and filmed the process from start to finish. Brandon recently purchased a new Subaru Impreza WRX with his earnings from his recent wins and was ready to get the thump put in the trunk.
Click here for the video of the Brandon Semenuk JBL Stereo install...
Click here for the video of the Brandon Semenuk JBL Stereo install...
Brandon Semenuk has made a big name for himself in the industry. Consistent slopestyle wins have been treating Brandon's bank account well and sponsors happy and with his recent film work done with Ant Hill films, Brandon's name is only growing. The Whistler rider has been around the world spreading his style, but managed to take some time off to get his new car all dialed in stereo wise.
Brandon's ride gets dialed:
Gary Biggs was flown in to do Brandon's custom stereo install. Biggs is a JBL man through and through, so he knew what he was getting himself into with this stereo install. He came prepared to lay it all down on a tight time line, and hopefully blow Brandon's mind with what he created. Here's a photo of what Gary Biggs had to work with.
Video by T-Sage from Antonym
In the end, Brandon was absolutely stoked with his stereo install. I had a chance to talk with him at Crankworx Whistler and he said the stereo sounds sick, and everything looks great.
Want your own setup? Check out JBL for the goods.
For all your audio needs around the Lower Mainland, check out the SoundWaves shop
Cheers Pinkbike.
Jordan
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| Gary Biggs - The man with the plan |
Gary Biggs was flown in to do Brandon's custom stereo install. Biggs is a JBL man through and through, so he knew what he was getting himself into with this stereo install. He came prepared to lay it all down on a tight time line, and hopefully blow Brandon's mind with what he created. Here's a photo of what Gary Biggs had to work with.
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| Starting the filming process |
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| More footage being taken |
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| All the stereo equipment |
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| In the Zone |
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| Brandon |
In the end, Brandon was absolutely stoked with his stereo install. I had a chance to talk with him at Crankworx Whistler and he said the stereo sounds sick, and everything looks great.
Want your own setup? Check out JBL for the goods.
For all your audio needs around the Lower Mainland, check out the SoundWaves shop
Cheers Pinkbike.
Jordan
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Kawasaki80
(Aug 18, 2009 at 15:23)
Brandon must be stokked, good write up.
thats cool and all, but everyone and there inbred cousin has a system in there car these days, some needs to teach this guy that "Boost gets your laid"
nice to see this on pinkbike, something else, great to watch. nothing is a waste of money as long as you like buying it and having fun of it. He will enjoy it for sure.
suicidedownhiller did you ever think maybe people like music? i know i do, i love the feeling of being at concerts, so i made my car to be just as loud as if i were at a concert, not trying to "compensate" for anything its just a rush some people like to get nuthing wrong with it
he's going to have to use the roof rack now. he pulled his bike from the boot, it aint gonna go back in!
wtf? i get negative props for wanting him to get rid of the gay roof rack? you're all retarded if your dream car comes with a roof rack and plain looking rims
or how about he gets a bike rack on the back that he can remove so it doesnt make his STI look like shit
fallen 55, you are right, a pinnacle rack or aa thule is the waay to go, on when needed, off when not.
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Umm, that's like saying, apart from the sick backflip the rider is doing, I don't get how todays POD is a legit pod on pinkbike. It's there ONLY BECAUSE of the rider. duh
I thought it was interesting seeing everything getting fitted on such a nice car.
I thought it was interesting seeing everything getting fitted on such a nice car.
Athlete lifestyle and insight into how these guys get hooked up and live. It's only there because it IS about Semenuk.
Plus, I thought it was amazing that this guy just built the whole box with epoxy/bondo right there and then.
Plus, I thought it was amazing that this guy just built the whole box with epoxy/bondo right there and then.
its there because we will obv find it interesting. Im now deffo gonna hook up our fiat 500 once its mine 
Just noticed... BAD BRANDON. You have your N you're not supposed to drive more than one person. tsk tsk. 
Seriously? With your N you can only drive yourself? That is so retarded. Way to promote excessive polluting BC.
You can drive yourself and one other individual.
It's graduated licensing, afaik similar to Ontario yes.
It's graduated licensing, afaik similar to Ontario yes.
I have a graduated license, here in Alberta. But there are no stupid rules like that. I just have half the demerits, zero alcohol tolerance, and I can't have more people than seatbelts. But I think that is a law in general, but I have a zero tolerance for it.
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Too bad its all power series and not the gti series gear. I was thinking mad money install.... but thats almost their bottom line gear. Whats with that? Sick install work though forsure.
I was thinking the same thing. Thats like a bike sponsor handing you a huffy and telling you to sell there product.
the deck was from kenwood. So yea I guess jbl would put top of the line in when its not there $ haha
Actually according to Gary the deck is a brand new Kenwood model that was just released and it retails for $1500 us pretty sweet deck. It has blue tooth usb, navigation, built in sirius reciever...lots of extra bells and whistles. Gary also originally wanted to put in the JBL anniversary speakers which are super sweet but they are to big and he would have had to modify the doors and the tweeter ports and do a bunch of custom work that he didn't have time for. He only had 3 days to do the install and building the box from scratch took up a bunch of time. Time was also a reason that he went with a wood bondo box aver fiberglass. He would not have had the time to build the fiberglass box and let it dry.It was pretty interesting seeing him build it live for sure.
Oh yea, the deck is ballin.
And yea, i guess i have heard stories about the amount of work it takes to get subarus systems pimped since the shallow mounting depth in the doors. So given that he had that little time and whatnot.... it makes sense. Minus the choice of to power series subs. Still think they cheaped out a little. 1 JBL gti mkII 15 woulda easily been more badass. The power series are like 75 dollar subs or something stupid. Cheaped out on subs without an excuse there.
And yea, i guess i have heard stories about the amount of work it takes to get subarus systems pimped since the shallow mounting depth in the doors. So given that he had that little time and whatnot.... it makes sense. Minus the choice of to power series subs. Still think they cheaped out a little. 1 JBL gti mkII 15 woulda easily been more badass. The power series are like 75 dollar subs or something stupid. Cheaped out on subs without an excuse there.
Gary Biggs very nice job . But nothing compare with JBL GTI series hand made in USA 10 years ago. I have in my ride . 6 speaker system and SUb.If i have JBL support i ask again GTI series nothing else. .
There isn't a song beginning at 10:15, there's the hip hop stuff I have no idea about, but two linkin park songs start at 10:35 and 10:42, if you mean those, the first one's place for my head, and the second is one step closer, or at least that's what I think they are.
looks like a pretty basic install i was expecting some mad install with shed loads of Fiberglas super smooth and couple of monitors, inverted subs the works now he needs to send it to crawford for some tuning 
Interesting process, but I'm not sure I see the point. Its not like the stock STI has bad speakers, so why add that much weight and kill all of your useful trunk space?
subaru is notorious for bad stock sound. maybe your not an audiophile, so its fine that you dont notice. Subaru took the money from the sound and invested it into the CAR. plus hes sponsored, so they wanted him rockin their shit.
Meh, I guess I am just an ignorant layman. I'd also guess he's not going to do anything with his scooby other than putter around on the streets.
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He has a roof rack he uses. He's instantly recognizable around whistler due to the neon orange bike being bolted to the roof half the time.
no dampening while the doors were open? I prefer a stealth setup but that install looks clean, clean, clean.
sick system but i have a full 4000$ system in my car and i have two(2) capasitor caps in my car so my battery doesnt die, i didnt see one in his system
That's because capacitors are crap for a stereo application. You would need an absolutly HUGE capacitor to be able to discharge enough power to do much of anything. A 1 farad capacitor can discharge 22 watts RMS for one second, whats that doing for your 500wrms sub? A cap also has nothing to do with keeping your battery from going dead, all it does is helps buffer the spikes in voltage so you get a smother delivery to your amp and less of a spike in voltage drops. But, like I said, you would need an absolutely HUGE cap to really help anything at all, and even then a cap won't do shit under constant load; once it discharges it takes time to recharge.
I agree with ManoMano, nice clean & simple system but no sound dampening? That thing is going to rattle like a tin can in a week.
ya becuase most people come back in a week or 2 and fix the rattling after it all rattles loose. you need to find whats gonna rattle before you can fix it.
i dont understand why people buy a 300 hp awd independant rear suspension car and then add 300 pounds of aftermarket stereo equipment to it. may as well put 20's on it while you are at it. i realize he prolly got it for free but that is the last thing i would do to a vehicle of that caliber. Gut it and put in a bigger turbo.
yeah but it still defeats the purpose of a sports car. If you're going to add a bunch crap in your car like that, get an escalade or hummer. I would rather get performance upgrades on a car like that.
agreed. no point in buying a sti if ure going to do that to it. super lame. the only good part of that setup was when he took the door panels off, but then he put them back on. so fail. gut it cage it and throw a fatter snail on it.
Stroke that ego, stroke it good and stroke it hard.
Yes, we know. Mr. Semenuk is so much better than the average biker. Look, and have your noses rubbed in it. Besides, I agree with FlyingFish. Just ruined a bitchen car with a bunch of dead weight.
Yes, we know. Mr. Semenuk is so much better than the average biker. Look, and have your noses rubbed in it. Besides, I agree with FlyingFish. Just ruined a bitchen car with a bunch of dead weight.
Dead weight??? He's not racing it, so why does the weight matter? He wanted the speakers, so he bought them, or got them free. If he wanted a race car, he would buy one.
It's his money he can do what he wants with it, and he's probably enjoying this investment a lot.
It's his money he can do what he wants with it, and he's probably enjoying this investment a lot.
im still struggling to see how he affords the insurance. whistler kid living standards are way too high imo.
A "pro" installer who doesn't deaden or even seal up a door on a sponsored vehicle.
Come on JBL, step up your game.
Come on JBL, step up your game.
i wonder how many db's that pounds..
my friend had a snigle 15 doing 145.6 db's with 4,000 watts
he is now building a wall of 4 15's and is hoping to get it too 150-160 db's on 8,000 watts or so
my friend had a snigle 15 doing 145.6 db's with 4,000 watts
he is now building a wall of 4 15's and is hoping to get it too 150-160 db's on 8,000 watts or so
do you have to yell in his face to get his attention?
he must be near deaf.
i have 8 loudspeakers in my house that does around 120 db +/- 3 db when the volume is halfway up and even that is too loud for me!
he must be near deaf.
i have 8 loudspeakers in my house that does around 120 db +/- 3 db when the volume is halfway up and even that is too loud for me!
no, he isn't even near deaf.
he has a crappy buick century, with an amazing system.
which he is scrappin for a 99 s-10 blazer more cone more boom.
he does this for competetion, bass race, db drags and so on..
he has a crappy buick century, with an amazing system.
which he is scrappin for a 99 s-10 blazer more cone more boom.
he does this for competetion, bass race, db drags and so on..
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JBL makes some pretty high quality stuff.
Love his car, '09 Subaru Impreza WRX STI in white, one of my dream cars
Love his car, '09 Subaru Impreza WRX STI in white, one of my dream cars
i saw semenuk driving in his new subaru on saturday i could tell beacuse of his orange frame and yellow rims
Thanks for deleting my well thought out and respectful comments twice, Pinkbike. My last one especially was pertinent with only constructive criticism.
I suppose you'd rather keep comments that agree with everything you post, even if they have terrible grammar and spelling and generally decrease the readability of your website.
Nice work.
I suppose you'd rather keep comments that agree with everything you post, even if they have terrible grammar and spelling and generally decrease the readability of your website.
Nice work.
who cares about semenuk's stereo? he's a great rider of course, but come on easy with all the advertising pinkbike.
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