Alright. HOW DO YOU ALL TUNE YOUR SYSTEM!

[The Camry]

i have a two way component system. tweeters are both on axis.

I can not for the like of me get this thing to sound good. I dont know whats missing exactly. it just doesnt sound right...blah blah blah

Point is. In steps how do you tune your stuff? Give me a link or seriously break down some details for me. Im at a total lost and frusteration is building.

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[LosIsATool 5,000+ posts]

Step one. Make sure everything is in phase.

Step two. Set crossovers.

Step three. Find a RTA and tune it. Cut peaks don't boost. Build a curve.

Did you auto tune?

 

[bradl79 10+ year member]

JBL MS-8

Lol never mind u have one of the best hu

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

i have a two way component system. tweeters are both on axis.
I can not for the like of me get this thing to sound good. I dont know whats missing exactly. it just doesnt sound right...blah blah blah

Point is. In steps how do you tune your stuff? Give me a link or seriously break down some details for me. Im at a total lost and frusteration is building.

you gotta know what you are missing. are you missing airy highs, clear male vocals, clear female vocals, detail and soundstage, lower midbass, upper midbass, harsh sounding tweeters with heavy SSSS sounds? Gotta play around more with the system and choose songs with different dynamics to see whats missing.

 

[The Camry]

Step one. Make sure everything is in phase. Step two. Set crossovers.

Step three. Find a RTA and tune it. Cut peaks don't boost. Build a curve.

Did you auto tune?

How do i make sure everything is in phase? Just by having them set on norm on everything or what?

Crossovers are set though i couldnt tell you if they are set well. Been playing with the 4-5k overlapping with 12/24 db slopes. Sound exactly the ******* same to me.. I understand that you have to reverse phase if you run 12db slope

Yea i ran auto-tune. It does alright. im not impressed though.

my problem is that i dont even know where to start.

Everything before this HU was just. Plug in, Set gains. Run active with amp controls. Sounded really good.

Now im like...uhh. Do i set gains first? Do i match the sub/mid/tweeter to zero. I have this amazing HU and i have absolutely no idea how to use it. i dont have a access to an RTA nor would i have any idea how to use it. Ive been using the RTA on my phone but i got told thats a terrible idea.

Should i just give up and go with an ms8.... >.> or God forbid...take it to a shop and have them tune it.

 

[The Camry]

spent awhile today and the last few days tweaking with settings and Ive got kind of an idea for different things that has worked

i used the tape measure method to set time alignments. Works pretty well.

Ive got a tone generator on my ipod so i just generate a tone for the specific bands and use the l/r +/- of the bands to center the image.

Ive got great imaging.

So heres a question.

Ive been told to never boost a freq band....Well if it sounds better and more detailed boosted then what do i do. i was thinking what if i start all bands at say -2. That way i could boost the ones i want by 2 if needed and the rest of the bands still stay flat. Is that a good way to go about it? ORRR say i boost a band in the freq range the my midrange driver plays. +4 at 3khz for example. Now if i got into the what i essentially see as the Bass-mid-treble section and drop my mids by -4. Would that be a way of avoiding clipping and still keeping everything level?

i would of course have to level off my tweeter area as well to keep drivers in the same output levels.

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

Id say gain up on the mids a lot more, then at high volumes start cutting where its necessary.

 

[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

It's YOUR system, tune it so it sounds good you....so if boosting a certain freq sounds better then do it....