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Did the installer set my amp up properly?
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<blockquote data-quote="BlackHawk99" data-source="post: 7705975" data-attributes="member: 640618"><p>Thanks for the reply! It's nice to get a constructive/helpful post. Much appreciated! Yes I am a novice, an old novice. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif Some of this I didn't know like the voltages. So the #'s around the gain dials on the amp are voltage indicator #'s? Since my HU is 4 volt that's about where both the front and rear gains should be set at? I'm just trying to understand this more. My amp gains go from 1 to 11. Right now the front gain is at about 5.5 and the The rear for sub (2 channels bridged) is at 7 or almost 7. The headunits volume goes up to 40 max. Most material I can get to the 30-35 range and some even to 40 with no distortion with these settings. I will lower them some and see how that is. The amp front channel is set to HP and the rear to LP. Both the front and rear frequency settings on the amp are at one extreme. Without being in front of it if I remember correctly the best I can tell you is if I take the fronts from that current setting and start to turn it to the other extreme the bass fades from the fronts. For the sub if I remember correctly if I take it and turn it the other way the bass gets stronger. My head unit does have adjustments. They are as follows...</p><p></p><p>Loudness: OFF</p><p></p><p>Sub: ON</p><p></p><p>Sub level: 0</p><p></p><p>Sub Frequency: 80Hz</p><p></p><p>Bass Booster: 0</p><p></p><p>High Pass Filter: 80Hz</p><p></p><p>Source Level: 0</p><p></p><p>So both the HU and the amp have duplicate settings? Does that mess things up? Maybe that is why the frequency settings in the amp are both at one extreme... so there's no fighting between the amp settings and the HU settings? Thank you very much for the help. I'm trying. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BlackHawk99, post: 7705975, member: 640618"] Thanks for the reply! It's nice to get a constructive/helpful post. Much appreciated! Yes I am a novice, an old novice. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] Some of this I didn't know like the voltages. So the #'s around the gain dials on the amp are voltage indicator #'s? Since my HU is 4 volt that's about where both the front and rear gains should be set at? I'm just trying to understand this more. My amp gains go from 1 to 11. Right now the front gain is at about 5.5 and the The rear for sub (2 channels bridged) is at 7 or almost 7. The headunits volume goes up to 40 max. Most material I can get to the 30-35 range and some even to 40 with no distortion with these settings. I will lower them some and see how that is. The amp front channel is set to HP and the rear to LP. Both the front and rear frequency settings on the amp are at one extreme. Without being in front of it if I remember correctly the best I can tell you is if I take the fronts from that current setting and start to turn it to the other extreme the bass fades from the fronts. For the sub if I remember correctly if I take it and turn it the other way the bass gets stronger. My head unit does have adjustments. They are as follows... Loudness: OFF Sub: ON Sub level: 0 Sub Frequency: 80Hz Bass Booster: 0 High Pass Filter: 80Hz Source Level: 0 So both the HU and the amp have duplicate settings? Does that mess things up? Maybe that is why the frequency settings in the amp are both at one extreme... so there's no fighting between the amp settings and the HU settings? Thank you very much for the help. I'm trying. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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