no bass from my mids, cdt comps. why?

[reed dollaz 10+ year member]

when i first installed my comp set, before i hooked up everything i tested just the mid driver off of HU power. it had alot of bass, even being free aired. now after ive hooked up the crossover and the tweeter, there is little to no bass. when i turn off the HPF on my HU, and put the bass up a little bit, theres bass but it sounds like complete shit. my stock stereo in my s10 has better bass from its 6 1/2's. why is this? i cant understand why its doing this. i mean, even with the mids being free aired before i hooked the rest up, it almost sounded like i had a 10" hooked up to about 150w of power. it got freakin loud. but now, nothing. any ideas? i have them amped now, the amp in my sig. but even then, still no bass. these are midrange drivers, not midbass. right? the ones with the little cone sticking out thru the middle of the cone. i dont understand why it has bass without the xover hooked up, but no bass/shitty bass with it hooked up. ANY ideas. please help. looks like i wont have my subs back and running for quite some time and im sick of not having any bass.

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[pinkfloydms 10+ year member]

Are you sure you have it hooked up right?

 

[reed dollaz 10+ year member]

um. yeah. its not to hard to set them up. i dont see how i could have it hooked up wrong. amp to the input on the xover, mid to the mid on the xover, and the tweeter to the tweeter on the xover. not to complicated.

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

sounds like a phase issue

 

[reed dollaz 10+ year member]

sounds like a phase issue

could you clarify this? what do u mean?

 

[jellyfish420 10+ year member]

could you clarify this? what do u mean?

one of your mids hooked up backwards

 

[pinkfloydms 10+ year member]

Thats what I was saying when I said hooked up right. Make sure you don't have hooked up backwards.

 

[reed dollaz 10+ year member]

one of your mids hooked up backwards

well if one of them is hooked up backwards, than if i fade it all the way to the left, or right, one of them should get louder. ive done this. and it doesnt get any more bass response.

 

[jellyfish420 10+ year member]

well if one of them is hooked up backwards, than if i fade it all the way to the left, or right, one of them should get louder. ive done this. and it doesnt get any more bass response.

not necissarily.

try switching one of them. whats it gonna take, 2 minutes? do you have rear speakers? try unhooking them, maybe its out of phase w/ the rear...

 

[jellyfish420 10+ year member]

do you have them highpassed? w/ the amp or hu maybe?

 

[troy_audi0 10+ year member]

By backwords they meen +/- not tweeter & mid..

Inphaze would make the speaker move Out

out Of Phaze it will move in..

make sure the +'s are all hooked to +

& All - Are hooked to -'s

Good luck..

troy

 

[reed dollaz 10+ year member]

*update* went outside, messed with it. i switched the +/- on my input around, and my +/- on my woofer terminal on the xover. got more bass. turned the hpf off on the HU, doesnt sound bad anymore. mustve just had them crossed. thanks for the help.. if anything else occurs ill let u know. ive done this before on the same comp set, but only switched the +/- on one of the inputs, and after 5 mins or so of play time i smelt burnt electronics. so i switched it back. we'll se how this goes. its not nearly as much bass as i was hoping for but it should do the trick until i get my subs back up again. i just ordered a new eclipse 2way 6.5" set tonight, so when i do those ill double and triple check all wiring. thx for the help guys.

 

[jellyfish420 10+ year member]

but only switched the +/- on one of the inputs, and after 5 mins or so of play time i smelt burnt electronics. so i switched it back.

hooking them up backwards will do NOTHING to hurt electronics. it doesn't care, a signal is a signal.....as long as its a clean one. you were probably smelling voice coil //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[reed dollaz 10+ year member]

hooking them up backwards will do NOTHING to hurt electronics. it doesn't care, a signal is a signal.....as long as its a clean one. you were probably smelling voice coil //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

as in, they were breakin themselves in? it happend only the first few hours of play time, havent smelt it since.