rear fill is too loud...
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rear fill is too loud...
I have some cheap pioneer 6x9 speakers in the back, which I just hooked up to my cd player to run them as rear fill. The thing is the speakers are too freaking loud. I'm running my front components with a 4 channel and they are bi-amped but those damn rears are louder, and they are only running from the head unit. Is there any way I can tone them down a bit?? Btw, 4 channel is a infinity 111x4 rms, head unit is alpine 9833 26x4 rms... It just doesn's seem right...LOL. Any suggestions are appreciated.
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Rep Power: 332 that's not gonna work man, I tried it. If I turn the fader towards the front I can only hear my front tweeters, if I turn the fader towards the rear, I can hear my front mids, and rear speakers...Weird..LOL
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Rep Power: 332 Ok, here's how I have my **** wired. My two preamps from the head unit go to my 4 channel amp, and from the amp to the crossovers, and my rear speakers are hooked up the regular way, directly to the wire harness from the head unit.
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Rep Power: 317 HU's that only have 2 pairs of preouts are usually rear and sub.....so if the fronts are amped, then I'd say you probably have the front midranges hooked up to the rear channel from the HU. Check into it.
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HU's that only have 2 pairs of preouts are usually rear and sub.....so if the fronts are amped, then I'd say you probably have the front midranges hooked up to the rear channel from the HU. Check into it.
I'd get that checked too.
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Originally Posted by evilone
HU's that only have 2 pairs of preouts are usually rear and sub.....so if the fronts are amped, then I'd say you probably have the front midranges hooked up to the rear channel from the HU. Check into it.
mine has 3 sets of preamps
front, rear and sub. forgot to add sub in diagram
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Rep Power: 0 since your bi-amping your fronts, your using the front and rear inputs to feed your amp. You need to buy one femail to two male rca splitters from here so the amp will only see a signal from the front rca's. Once those are installed, you'll be able to fade the rears out while still sending the full range of sound to your front components
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Originally Posted by evilone
HU's that only have 2 pairs of preouts are usually rear and sub.....so if the fronts are amped, then I'd say you probably have the front midranges hooked up to the rear channel from the HU. Check into it.
You should fade everything to the right front, check it. Then left front, check it, then rear left, rear right and check it that way.
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Rep Power: 328 Run a single set of RCA's off the HU off the pre-outs labeled Front (if there's 3 or more sets, you'll have 2 that are fading which are front and rear, and one that's non-fading or sub out, wit 2 pre-outs, there'll be fading adn non-fading). From there, do as everyone says and split them at the amp.
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Originally Posted by grenloch101056
since your bi-amping your fronts, your using the front and rear inputs to feed your amp. You need to buy one femail to two male rca splitters from here so the amp will only see a signal from the front rca's. Once those are installed, you'll be able to fade the rears out while still sending the full range of sound to your front components
would I sacrifice any sound quality by doing that?
and, what am I supposed to do with the rear rca's that I have? Just leave them unplugged, or what?
Your rear RCAs are just that, the outputs for the rear speakers. Since you're not amping them, leave them unplugged. You'll want to do what people already said, connect the same RCA for each channel.
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Rep Power: 328 Actually, depending on the amp, you won't need a splitter at all. I have a 4 channel running just my fronts, and only my front preouts run to it. The amp is set to split the signal to all 4 channels internally with a setting on the side of it. You will not lose any SQ.
That is your problem. You have the rear preouts on the rear input for the amp, which is hooked to your front mids; which is why when you fade front you are losing your mids.
That is your problem. You have the rear preouts on the rear input for the amp, which is hooked to your front mids; which is why when you fade front you are losing your mids.
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Originally Posted by Mystic3030
Actually, depending on the amp, you won't need a splitter at all. I have a 4 channel running just my fronts, and only my front preouts run to it. The amp is set to split the signal to all 4 channels internally with a setting on the side of it. You will not lose any SQ.
That is your problem. You have the rear preouts on the rear input for the amp, which is hooked to your front mids; which is why when you fade front you are losing your mids.
That is your problem. You have the rear preouts on the rear input for the amp, which is hooked to your front mids; which is why when you fade front you are losing your mids.
I don't think my amp has that feature Mystic. Its an Infinity 7541A...
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Rep Power: 328 Try hooking it up with just the fronts and see if your mids have sound, if not, and you dont have a switch, then get the splitter...my PPI has the feature, and JL 4 channels do, but I have no experience with Infinity.
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