Help Tuning Eclipse 8445

[schism13 10+ year member]

Alright i just got my eclipse 8445 and installed and i love it, but i need help with all the settings..should i run it in normal or advanced mode? What should the SVC/Volume be at? The highest volume i should play it at? What are all these settings? Yes im reading the manual/ and have but i still am confused..help is appreciated.. thanksss

edit- Everything in my car is stock, except for my 15" XXX, on a Mark Antony 2500d..

(from not tuning it and just playing it, im not getting enough volume nor enough bass)

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[alphakenny1 10+ year member]

well since you have stock speakers just run the deck off of normal mode. you have no reason to work it off advanced mode.

I dunno about the SVC, i have mine at 1 right now.

As for volume i think thats i up to you. I'd look into upgrading the speakers as well //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif .

 

[schism13 10+ year member]

alright thx..

 

[alphakenny1 10+ year member]

i forgot to add that you'll find something new to toy with a lot. i've had my deck for more than a month and i find myself playing with something new each week.

 

[Youhearthat? 10+ year member]

I dont know if its me, my car or my speakers but my 8445 just installed last week (had stock hu earlier in a 04 accord) hurt my ears badly... I cant fine tune it... Time alignment does not sound very good and the SRS sound like crap too and hurts my ears even more.

Any advice

 

[schism13 10+ year member]

yeah i need some help tuning this **** too..=x

 

[alphakenny1 10+ year member]

did you turn on the loudness?

 

[Youhearthat? 10+ year member]

yes its on.

 

[alphakenny1 10+ year member]

yes its on.

lol sorry it was meant for schism cuz he complained he wasn't getting enough volume.

 

[3.5Max6spd 10+ year member]

I dont know if its me, my car or my speakers but my 8445 just installed last week (had stock hu earlier in a 04 accord) hurt my ears badly... I cant fine tune it... Time alignment does not sound very good and the SRS sound like crap too and hurts my ears even more.
Any advice

sounds like you are not too fond of your new speakers...

 

[Youhearthat? 10+ year member]

well yes I am, I actually had harsher tweets in my focals that I replaced... but I want some softer tweets that I can turn up louder and wont blow my head off. Sent you IM

 

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

I currently have a 8445. Not sure why you'd have trouble tuning. There aren't many adjustments it can make (for a high-end HU).

One thing's for sure -- the Eclipse owner's manuals are quite easily the most well-done manuals for any electronic component I have ever seen. You should take a flip through the few pages of tuning and see if that helps.

Generally, you just plug in your vehicle type and it "decides" for you (alignment).

X-over slopes and ranges are a little different. It selects a good one by default, but if you decide to adjust it, you're in luck 'cuz the low pass and high-pass are adjusted together (blech! for tweakers but yay for someone who doesn't want to fiddle too much).

As for SRS and ANY other digitally-enhanced sound garbage it's capable of mutilating your music with, I found that, all are horribly unnatural sounding and exaggerated. Leave them off.

After about an hour of initial tuning (20 minutes if you're familiar with the unit), you should, no joke, have one of the nicest sounding decks on the market there.

 

[schism13 10+ year member]

alright im going to go adjust with the settings some more..the only problem ive came across is (which isnt a big deal at all to me) when i change the colors of the display..only the solid ones will work..like green,red..but blue/red, etc wont work..only 1 solid color shows..but it worked before..

 

[alphakenny1 10+ year member]

alright im going to go adjust with the settings some more..the only problem ive came across is (which isnt a big deal at all to me) when i change the colors of the display..only the solid ones will work..like green,red..but blue/red, etc wont work..only 1 solid color shows..but it worked before..

so only the rotary knobs show color? the numbers dont show up?

 

[schism13 10+ year member]

no no, all that works fine just for the display colors like where u can customize it..like choose the color scheme such as green, blue, red all solid colors or blue/amber, or red/blue, etc... only the solid colors show up like green,blue,red.. it wont mix the lighting anymore..