How to tune my amps?

[Pearson 10+ year member]

I have a Hifonics Hifi1000.1d for my dd 1008 and an old *** kenwood amp for my components (massive vk6's). I know how to set the gain, i've read all the post and stickies, but I don't understand how to set the other knobs.

The Hifonics- Bass EQ, Sub Sonic, and Low Pass. I think I know what they mean but I don't know how to set them. The dd is in a .75cuft ported box tuned to 35hz, I don't know if that has any effect or not.

The Kenwood- LPF or Off for a filter, it's a slider that i can push to one side or the other, Operation, another slider, stereo or mono(L ch), and Input Sensitivity( goes from Min, 1.0, 0.5, 0.3, Max). It's an old 2 channel amp that I got for free. lol

If I didn't explain it right thenI took pictures of the amps so let me know.

-Thanks

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[crownvic97 10+ year member]

turn everything up. until the amps make pretty colors

 

[Juicee 10+ year member]

^ Lol, just play with it until it sounds clear, if its loud that's cool but if it seriously sounds like a fart machine going full tilt all the time you may want to play with those settings some. As far as I know there's no code written in stone for those settings just make it sound good and you should get reasonable results so long as the install is decent.

 

[Pearson 10+ year member]

turn everything up. until the amps make pretty colors

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/nono.gif.eca61d170185779e0921b0faa9704973.gif I'm not that dumb.

 

[duanebro 10+ year member]

For the Kenwood - the lpf is for subs. so leave that off. You want stereo. and the last knob is the gain.

for the hifonics - bass eq is bass boost. turn it off. Ssf blocks/reduces frequencies below tuning to protect your sub. Set it around 25-30hz. Low pass filter (lpf) limits midrange from being sent to your sub. You can play with this to see what it does. 80hz is a good place to start.