question on gain setting
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question on gain setting
i have 2 older rockford punch 55 amps for my component sets and a kicker kx 1200.1 for my 12L7s. now this may be a dumb question but i'll try it anyway... if the gains on the punch amps are not set correctly could it in anyway cause the SUBS to sound muddy or distorted?
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Heres how I would set the gains.
1) Set the deck flat. No EQ, Bass boost, Loud, and no Bass or treble.
2) Turn the gains down all the way on all the amps.
3) Now unhook all the speakers from the amps, except the fronts. Remember to have it off when hooking and unhooking the speakers.
4) Turn the deck up to about 85% of the max volume. This should be a good point that gives a lot of volume control and also is close the the output potential of the deck. This will be your new max volume that you don't wanna go past.
5) Turn up the front gain until the speakers just start to distort and back off just a tad.
6) Now unhook the fronts and hook the rears back up.
7) Turn up the rear gain until the speakers just start to distort and back off just a tad.
8) Now unhook the rears and hook the subs back up.
9) Turn up the sub gain until the speakers just start to distort and back off just a tad.
10) Now hook all the speakers back up.
The key to understand is now every speaker in the car should be maxing out, be undistorted, and getting as loud as it can at the 85% volume mark. Think of this as the new max volume.
Now the next thing to do is to tune the system. Everything maxes out at the same time and is as loud as it can be, but that might not be the best. Whatever speaker is drowning others out, turn that gain down. For example, say the rears are overpowering the fronts. Then you need to turn the rear gain down so that it isn't as loud as compared w/ the fronts. Any tuning here should be by turning the gains DOWN only since they should already be as high as they can go.
From here you can add in bass or treble, but +2 at the most. Preferably none at all. And no on the bass boost, loud, etc. Those are just bad news.
Good luck.
Heres how I would set the gains.
1) Set the deck flat. No EQ, Bass boost, Loud, and no Bass or treble.
2) Turn the gains down all the way on all the amps.
3) Now unhook all the speakers from the amps, except the fronts. Remember to have it off when hooking and unhooking the speakers.
4) Turn the deck up to about 85% of the max volume. This should be a good point that gives a lot of volume control and also is close the the output potential of the deck. This will be your new max volume that you don't wanna go past.
5) Turn up the front gain until the speakers just start to distort and back off just a tad.
6) Now unhook the fronts and hook the rears back up.
7) Turn up the rear gain until the speakers just start to distort and back off just a tad.
8) Now unhook the rears and hook the subs back up.
9) Turn up the sub gain until the speakers just start to distort and back off just a tad.
10) Now hook all the speakers back up.
The key to understand is now every speaker in the car should be maxing out, be undistorted, and getting as loud as it can at the 85% volume mark. Think of this as the new max volume.
Now the next thing to do is to tune the system. Everything maxes out at the same time and is as loud as it can be, but that might not be the best. Whatever speaker is drowning others out, turn that gain down. For example, say the rears are overpowering the fronts. Then you need to turn the rear gain down so that it isn't as loud as compared w/ the fronts. Any tuning here should be by turning the gains DOWN only since they should already be as high as they can go.
From here you can add in bass or treble, but +2 at the most. Preferably none at all. And no on the bass boost, loud, etc. Those are just bad news.
Good luck.
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