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i feel like an idiot..

the other day i was working on hiding the wires on the amp i installed behind my back seat. i unplug the battery n start to unscrew all the terminals...when i get to the ground wire it sparks....and i figure no big deal cus my battery does the same thing when i disconnect the negative...but just to be sure i checked to see if the battery was still disconnected. lo and behold...the ground wire was touching the negative terminal on the battery. i assumed very bad. when I turned everything back on....there was distortion in the speakers and im pretty sure it sounded like clipping. nothing sounded the same as before. the gains and everything were set exactly the same as before....

can anyone help explain what i did to my amp/speakers? can i fix it?? or am i just hearing things.

 
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Chances are, you didn't fry anything in your amp.. is the fuse under your hood for your power cable still good or did that blow?

Clipping - Driving an amplifier into saturation.. Saturation occurs when an input signal is greater than the output signal causing flat spots in an audio signal.

I doubt it's clipping. You might you have a short to ground somewhere.. in other words, one of your +/- for your speakers might be touching metal somewhere in the car. Check that.

 
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no all the fuses are fine. The amp still works, but the sound is more distorted than before. I left all the same settings on the HU and the amp, so I'm assuming that I did something when I was disconnecting the wires from the amp. I'm going to check all the grounds today and see if that's the problem. Could it just be my speakers too? BTW, I have an eclipse amp 4x50/2x140 powering my fronts (40 RMS) and one oooold pyle driver (yes!).

 
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well, the fuses are in place theoretically for exactly the situation which occurred, and should have blown before damage was one. That said, I'd replace any fuses involved just to be sure. If you're still noticing distortion, then it sounds like the amp was damaged. I'm not a pro - but went through a similar situation with a deck, blowing a channel and it never blew a fuse.

 
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Test your fuses. They could be blown in a nonvisible spot or just barely so you can even notice. IMO, I still think you have a short to ground issue in a speaker wire somewhere

 
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thanks for the replies. I'm going to check the speaker wires this weekend and check for any shorts. Could anything else possibly be wrong? I posted on another message board and one guy told me that one of the amp outputs may have been fried...is that possible? fixable?

 
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No because they wouldn't work at all.. at least in my experiences. But yes it is fixable