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<blockquote data-quote="gknudsen22" data-source="post: 8859460" data-attributes="member: 689987">So basically I got a 2003 corolla work beater and felt like installing a sub. I got a skar 800 amp wiring kit and 12 inch JL sub with my kicker 800 watt amp. Bought a Sony touch screen head unit. All hardware has been tested countless times and all work.I wired everything up and noticed the sub wasn’t playing as hard as it could. It took some serious volume increase on the head unit for the sub to start moving, obviously the speakers were too loud. I re checked the power wire, ground, rcas, speaker wire, got a head unit exchanged since I thought the rca outputs were bad… nothing fixed it. I played with the head unit settings, everything you could think of.I was just throwing ideas out there trying to figure it out so I got a remote bass control knob and plugged it in, got nothing…. Until I was messing with it and accidentally pulled the 2.5mm jack out of the control knob part and the subs instantly started panning like they should. So basically the only way I got my subs to play right was to have the male 2.5mm jack plugged into the amp and the other end just unplugged from the knob and dangling.Does anyone have any idea of what is going on and why this is happing? Never heard of an issue like this before. Thanks!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gknudsen22, post: 8859460, member: 689987"] So basically I got a 2003 corolla work beater and felt like installing a sub. I got a skar 800 amp wiring kit and 12 inch JL sub with my kicker 800 watt amp. Bought a Sony touch screen head unit. All hardware has been tested countless times and all work. I wired everything up and noticed the sub wasn’t playing as hard as it could. It took some serious volume increase on the head unit for the sub to start moving, obviously the speakers were too loud. I re checked the power wire, ground, rcas, speaker wire, got a head unit exchanged since I thought the rca outputs were bad… nothing fixed it. I played with the head unit settings, everything you could think of. I was just throwing ideas out there trying to figure it out so I got a remote bass control knob and plugged it in, got nothing…. Until I was messing with it and accidentally pulled the 2.5mm jack out of the control knob part and the subs instantly started panning like they should. So basically the only way I got my subs to play right was to have the male 2.5mm jack plugged into the amp and the other end just unplugged from the knob and dangling. Does anyone have any idea of what is going on and why this is happing? Never heard of an issue like this before. Thanks! [/QUOTE]

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