frontstage advice

[ameuba10 10+ year member]

i plan on building my own 3way setup with cdt speakers. i have M6+ as my midbass in the doors (still needs to be sealed and deadened). then i also have CL-4 midranges paired up with TW-26 tweets in my kick panels. i have a jl audio 450/4 that will power the whole system. the M6+ will be connected straight to the amp for 150W each, and the other 2 channels will send 75W each to the cdt xovers (forgot which model) and then to the midranges and tweets.

1) is that enough power for those components?

2) will my M6+ sound bad until i seal and deaden the doors?

3) my kick panels arent sealed. can the CL-4 be ran semi IB? the reason i say semi is because the edges of the kicks meet to the carpet but there isnt a "back" or a "bottom" to the kick panels. i was thinking of just stuffing some polyfill in there.

4) how should i set the amp and xover? at what points?

thanks for all the help!

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[silenkiller 10+ year member]

well, 1: sounds like it.

2: well, it will prolly rattle like hell and you wont have a lot of bass.

3: it should be ok in those kicks

4: dunno i run passive

 

[ameuba10 10+ year member]

this will be passive as well...

 

[ameuba10 10+ year member]

well, i hooked everything up today and everything sounds awesome! the only problem i have is that the mids and highs bang as they should be the midbass has a low output...btw everything is hooked up into the xovers on channels 1 and 2. i think tomorrow im going to switch the xovers to channels 3 and 4 and remove the midbass' from them. i will bridge the midbass' on channels 1 and 2 to hopefully get 300W total, 150W each to the midbass'. does this seem right? can anyone shine their experience light on me? thanks

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

well, i hooked everything up today and everything sounds awesome! the only problem i have is that the mids and highs bang as they should be the midbass has a low output ...btw everything is hooked up into the xovers on channels 1 and 2. i think tomorrow im going to switch the xovers to channels 3 and 4 and remove the midbass' from them. i will bridge the midbass' on channels 1 and 2 to hopefully get 300W total, 150W each to the midbass'. does this seem right? can anyone shine their experience light on me? thanks

Midbass takes some power to get good output. But it sounds too me like sealing and deadening your doors will make a humongous stride towards better sound //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif