For those with dedicated midbass....

[`pr0digy 10+ year member]

I was thinking about taking my comps out of the doors, putting them into pods, and mounting midbass drivers in the doors.

My question is, how should I hook it all up ? Four channel amp for comps/mids, one channel for subs ? Should I run a third set of RCA's from the decks rear output so I can better control the mids ? Just wondering what everyone else did...

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[noob with an RS 10+ year member]

im not experienced with dedicated mids. i was just reading your sig and thought you have a sicc setup. i have an idMAX myself and you have better components than me so i would imagine your setup sounds Very nice. is there a certain reason in particular why you want to run dedicated mids? those HD62's arent cutting it for you? when i plan to upgrade from my infinity perfect comps i plan to go with HD 62's. so yea, just curious to know why you wanna run dedicated mids.

 

[jacko 10+ year member]

go to cardomain and under the "signal processors" tab on the left, look for active crossovers, then either 2/3 way crossovers. Hope this helps.

 

[foreman 10+ year member]

The best way is to go active and get a good 3 way crossover with a bandpass filter....This way you run the midbass at say 60hz to 500, and then run your comps with the passives just for the tweets, and run the midrange from 500ish up and the tweet takes care of the rest. Thats using a 4 channel amp, 2ch for the midbass and the other 2 for the comps... Thats one way to do it. You could always have custom passives made and use a 2 channel or have them set up for biamp and use a 4 channel, but that can get pricey, and you don't have much room if you want to change speakers, passives are made to that particular speaker....Anyway, hope that helps a little.....

 

[johnecon2001 5,000+ posts]

You can buy a good set of passive three ways or you can get an active crossover.

Take the front signal from the deck and split it and then cross it over at the xover. use the same signal that your comps are getting, just shape it sonically different.

 

[`pr0digy 10+ year member]

I guess I will go with active x-overs... Wasn't thinking it through, obviously

im not experienced with dedicated mids. i was just reading your sig and thought you have a sicc setup. i have an idMAX myself and you have better components than me so i would imagine your setup sounds Very nice. is there a certain reason in particular why you want to run dedicated mids? those HD62's arent cutting it for you? when i plan to upgrade from my infinity perfect comps i plan to go with HD 62's. so yea, just curious to know why you wanna run dedicated mids.

I love my setup atm, but it just seems like the midbass is lacking... I know I'm asking for a bit much, but when the music goes from a note in the subs range to a note in the mid range, there's a bigggg drop in volume. I know I should really just turn my comps up some (they are set pretty low gain-wise), but I just can't stand having the highs that loud.

 

[johnecon2001 5,000+ posts]

A good EQ could be in your future.

That would be a better alternative than more drivers.

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

Yea prodigy, your setup is a lot like mine....and what I want it to be...throwing some dedicated midbass in the doors cause kick panel midbass ain't cutting it for me. I'm just gonna go active.