I am able to control my subwoofer with my stereo, as far as the volume control and crossover settings. Where should the gain and other "dials" for crossover be set to on the back/side of the subwoofer. In the middle, or near the low end???
If you’re running crossovers through the stereo, you technically don’t need to use the crossovers on your amplifier. The gain needs to be set to match your volume on your stereo. There won’t be a specific place to set it.I am able to control my subwoofer with my stereo, as far as the volume control and crossover settings. Where should the gain and other "dials" for crossover be set to on the back/side of the subwoofer. In the middle, or near the low end???
Yah thanks. I am not that patient/skilled to set things like that. If there were a general area to leave all of them, I could follow. I like how my eq sound sounds for the most part on a pre-set, but I would not know how to achieve it on my own. It sounds pretty good , with all dials a little less than half. My subwoofer volume is usually at that place too using 63hz mostly, it is a huge amount. For bass music its perfect, but for rock it can be a bit much.I would leave the bass boosts all the way down when setting the gain. You can adjust those after your amplifier gains are set correctly if you’d like a little extra bass.
So ignore the "HZ" dials, or turn them all the way up?I would set the crossover on its highest setting and the bass boosts on the lowest setting and just adjust the gain. Use the crossovers in your stereo and the EQ and just ignore the settings on the amp except the gain.
The gain matches the volume on your head unit. That needs adjusted. Turn the gain on your amp down all the way, set the volume on your stereo at the highest level you would actually listen to it at (usually 75% of max volume on the stereo), go back to the amp and slowly turn your gain up until you hear it distorts then back it off just a little. Now you know the max volume you can turn your stereo up to before your sub starts sounding bad. The bass boost and bass boost frequency turned all the way down. The crossover knob turned all the way up.Ok so then my gain on the sub should reflect where it sounds best on volume control? Turn the bass boost almost all the way down? The other 2 don't matter?
When I do the first part where should the subwoofer volume control be set? Stereo volume to 90%, adjust gain on the sub, but what about the volume control under stereo?Max out the crossover on the amp, like Slug said.
Bring head unit control to 90%, crank the gain on amp until it distorts, then back it down.
The crossover point and slope will take experimentation, but 80Hz with an 18dB/octave slope is a good place to start