Signal Processors

[DeepMag1c 10+ year member]

What is the point of buying a seperate signal processor? Are they a good thing to have and what makes one good. Like the number of bands and stuff. Are Eqs and Crossovers the same thing?

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[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

eq and crossover are diff.

they fine tune the signal

 

[DeepMag1c 10+ year member]

so u mean I could send a cleaner signal to my speakers and subs for better sound?

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

yeah, it takes out all the bad stuff.

 

[DeepMag1c 10+ year member]

ok lets say I have 4 (6.5) 2 way speakers, 2 Amps and 2 subs... what kind of Eq do I need to get? What does the number of bands have to do with anything?

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

3 way crossover.

front/rear/sub

 

[DeepMag1c 10+ year member]

any brands u recommend or dont recommend?

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

audiocontrol epicenter is the bad boy of them all.

ive never used one so i cant really help you

 

[DeepMag1c 10+ year member]

is that just for the bass?

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

maby, i have no idea.

just wait until someone can list some.

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

1st off.....if your amp's or headunit's built in crossovers can handle highpassing the four 6.5s and lowpassing the sub, then I wouldn't worry about getting an external crossover. The less things in the signal chain, the better //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif So that's what you need to decide first. 2nd of all, an EQ isn't a fix-it-all, it is the "icing on the cake" to a stereo. Work on speaker positioning, phasing, sound deadening, killing reflections, level matching, finding the right crossover points, and other areas of the install before worrying about an EQ. Then, after you get the install set up properly should you worry about an EQ if the sound is still not quite right. Putting an EQ in a unproperly setup install is like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound.......not very effective //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif So, if you have all of the above figured out and set up appropriately, you need to decide if you need a parametric EQ (smaller # of bands, and adjustable freq) or a graphic EQ (usually higher # of bands, frequencies are fixed).

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

so an eq is like a cap, its only needed in some installations and in most cases its not

KISS

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

You'd be amazed at how many IASCA sound quality cars use very little equalization //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif (or atleast, a lot less than you'd think). Many of them get away with only using a few bands on a parametric EQ. As the saying goes, it's all about the install baby //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

you are a "know it all" and i dont mean that in a bad way.